Opening a new fantasy trilogy from Hugo award winner Resnick, this novel offers an adventure through space and time as Eddie Raven tries to outrun the dark forces pursuing him.Eddie Raven isn't quite sure what's happening to him—and he's in a race to find out before it kills him.His adventures begin with a shooting in a very strange shop in Manhattan—but soon he finds himself the owner of a very familiar bar in Casablanca. By the time he adjusts to that reality, he's suddenly become one of several undersized people helping a young woman search for a wizard. And after confronting the wizard, he somehow finds himself in Camelot.But as he rushes to solve the mystery of his many appearances, a larger threat looms. Because someone or something is stalking him through time and space with deadly intent....

BIRTHRIGHT: THE BOOK OF MAN covers the history of the human race for the next 18 000 years showing its good its bad and its ugly sides as it follows us through our galactic expansion. Told as a series of interconnected demonstrations this massive undertaking is the novel that created the future in which 5-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick has set more than 30 of his novels and over two dozen of his shorter works. "Thought-provoking imaginative mordantly funny and - above all - galactically grand." — Los Angeles Times "Ironic inventive and very readable." — Publisher's Weekly " Birthright is a kind of magicked mirror where we find our own image among strange scenes with alien companions. It's well worth your attention." — Locus " Birthright is the only book I've ever recommended for the Nebula. This is a book that provokes thought and will have you remembering things about it for years." — New York Times bestseller Raymond E. Feist

Seventeen of the funniest science fiction stories published in the past decade (2005-2015), featuring alien invasions, global conspiracies, time travel and even animal uprisings. Fiction by Hugo and Nebula award winners and nominees as well as talented newcomers. Stories were selected by the Unidentified Funny Objects series curator Alex Shvartsman.

Fantasy/Mystery. 77215 words long. First published in Stalking the Unicorn: A Fable of Tonight, 1987

The Chronicles of Lucifer Jones 1926 - 1931

Salvador Dali is the most famous of all the surrealist artists and he himself is better-known than any of his paintings. If you ever wondered where he got all those strange occasionally crazed always surreal images this fantasy by 5-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick tells you of the secret world behind the door of his closet a world where cause follows effect where nothing is quite as it seems and where Dali's paintings would pass for absolute realism. It is also the world where a young girl named Jinx shows Dali how to achieve the notoriety that has thus far eluded him.

The year is 1881. The United States of America ends at the Mississippi River. Beyond lies the Indian nations, where the magic of powerful Medicine Men has halted the advance of the Americans east of the river.An American government desperate to expand its territory sends Thomas Alva Edison out West to the town of Tombstone, Arizona, on a mission to discover a scientific means of counteracting magic. Hired to protect this great genius, Wyatt Earp and his brothers.But there are plenty who would like to see the Earps and Edison dead. Riding to their aid are old friends Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson. Against them stand the Apache wizard Geronimo and the Clanton gang. Battle lines are drawn, and the Clanton gang, which has its own reasons for wanting Edison dead, sends for Johnny Ringo, the one man who might be Doc Holliday's equal in a gunfight. But what shows up instead is The Thing That Was Once Johnny Ringo, returned from the dead and come to Tombstone looking for a fight.Welcome to a West like you've never seen before, where "Bat Masterson" hails from the ranks of the undead, where electric lights shine down on the streets of Tombstone, while horseless stagecoaches carry passengers to and fro, and where death is no obstacle to The Thing That Was Once Johnny Ringo. Think you know the story of the O.K. Corral? Think again, as five-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick takes on his first steampunk western tale, and the West will never be the same.From Publishers WeeklyIn this lusterless steampunk western, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are outfitted with superhard brass body armor and Gatling-style handguns; Thomas Edison is a cyborg working with Ned Buntline on motorized stagecoaches and other wonders; lawman Bat Masterson has vampiric tendencies; gunslinger Johnny Ringo is a zombie bent on besting Holliday in a gunfight; and Geronimo is a successful shaman and general making sure the United States stops at the Mississippi. Five-time Hugo winner Resnick brings a sparse, dialogue-centric writing style to the classic story of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, twisting it ever so slightly to blend magic and mechanism into its narrative weave. The larger story of the feud is untouched, making Resnick's rendition feel like a copycat of Tombstone with gears glued on. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. From BooklistTombstone, Arizona, 1881. Thomas Alva Edison, sent by the American government to devise a scientific way to combat the magic of the Apache, who have stalled U.S. expansion past the Mississippi, has been viciously attacked. Hired to protect him and to find out the identity of the attempted assassin are Wyatt Earp and his brothers. Earp reaches out to his old friend, Doc Holliday, and to gunslinger-turned-newspaperman Bat Masterson. Resnick's spirited retelling of the Gunfight at the OK Corral is, like Mark Hodder's recent Burton & Swinburne in the Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (2010), an imaginative and thrilling blend of historical fact and science fiction. In Resnick's version of the Wild West, science and magic are poised for a showdown. Real-life American publisher and dime novelist Ned Buntline constructs wondrous, futuristic devices out of brass. Tombstone is lit by Edison's electric lights. Gunfighter Johnny Ringo returns from the dead to join the Clanton brothers against the Earps. And Bat Masterson'well, let's just say there's a good reason why he's called Bat. Sf veteran Resnick's skillful storytelling makes it difficult to separate real characters and events from his wild imaginings, and that's just part of the fun. --David Pitt

Some empires never die, but are reborn eternally... In the early nineteenth century, the famous and infamous Shaka carved a mighty Zulu kingdom out of the patchwork tribes in Southern Africa. Before his death, he organised vast armies of warriors whose assegais brought terror to an entire subcontinent, expanded his patrimony from a tiny principality to a broad and fertile domain. Then he was cut down, and his empire, under inferior leadership, eventually fell to the Boers and the British. But for how long?

The greatest heroes in the galaxy gather in a very special tavern at the outskirts of civilization to swap tall tales about their heroic deeds until they are confronted by a war and actually have to perform acts of heroism.

The greatest attraction of the Ahasuerus and Flint Traveling Carnival and Sideshow is their sharpshooter Billybuck Dancer who hates his life and wishes he lived thousands of years earlier when he could test his skills against legendary gunfighters like Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid. The carnival arranges more and more difficult tasks for him many of them putting his life in jeopardy but he breezes through them with no discernable effort and finally Thaddeus Flint agrees to let his sharpshooter fight a duel to the death against a perfect facsimile of Doc Holliday. And the day the fascimile is completed they time it and realize it's faster on the draw than their star performer. What happens next brings the 4-book Tales of the Galactic Midway series to an thrilling and memorable conclusion.