Reading 5X5

Five stories, five times



Five science fiction and fantasy themes, each explored five times by five different authors.



Twenty-five great authors demonstrating just how varied and interesting SF&F can be, and how each author's style and approach make all the difference.



This special Writers' Edition has all the above, plus two extra stories, the original story briefs, and extensive author notes for each story and each brief.



100 pages of extra material specifically intended for writers!
Contents

Contemporary Fantasy

Dreaming in Other Colours - Meryl Stenhouse

Letters to the Earth - Caleb Warner

The Fourth Pillar Says No - L. Chan

Howl at the Moon - T.R. North

Kitchen - Vanessa Fogg

The Simple Task - Michael Gardner





Soft Science Fiction

Time, The Ever-Rolling Stream - Juliet Kemp

Patience - K. G. Anderson

Petri Viventum - James Ross

The Great Scientist Rivalry on Sourdough - Beth Goder

The Visible Spectrum - Matt Thompson





Other

The Fragments of Others - Suzanne J. Willis

Between Ashes and Wings - Chanel Earl

1001 - Y. X. Acs

Where Art Thou, My Love? - Filip Wiltgren

Deus ex Noir - Rhoads Brazos

Maps in Our Footsteps, Legend in Our Dreams - Jason Baltazar





Hard Science Fiction

T-Minus - Ian Rennie

Countdown - David Hammond

One of the Cities - Damien Krsteski

In the Absence of Time - Pauline Yates

The Long View - Karl Dandenell





High Fantasy

Blood Feud - Paul A. Hamilton

Child of Flowers - Sean R. Robinson

Tongue of the Chimera - Sandi Leibowitz

Song and Sacrifice - Rob Francis

The Gentlest River - Karolina Fedyk





The briefs

Contemporary Fantasy - Meryl Stenhouse

Soft SF - Beth Goder

Other - Y.X.Acs

Hard SF - Karl Dandenell

High Fantasy - Sean R. Robinson

Sample brief - B. Morris Allen