Shapers of Worlds Volume II : Science Fiction and Fantasy by Authors Featured on the Aurora Award-winning Podcast the Worldshapers

Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.

A woman seeking the power to see the evil hiding within others regrets receiving it. Letters written by a wizard in the past threaten a queen’s reign in the present. Competing for Earth, a human wrestler faces an alien shapeshifter in an interstellar tournament. A guide in Tibet must weigh the good of his people when asked to lead a westerner to the fabled realm of Shangri. An activist imprisoned for illegal genetic modification works with the materials at hand and the threads of the multiverse to make the world—a world, at least—a better place. A demonic agent sent to help a human turns the tables on his summoner.

Like the “cabinets of curiosities” created by collectors of the sixteenth century, Shapers of Worlds Volume II displays a varied array of thought-provoking delights: tales of humour and sorrow, darkness and light, and hope and despair that are full of adventure, full of life, and sometimes full of regret. There are stories set in alternate histories, in possible futures, near and far, and in the here-and-now, taking place on Earth, on distant planets, or in fantastic realms. All arise from the innate need of human beings to create, to imagine . . . to shape worlds.

Praise for Shapers of Worlds Volume I:

“One of the most wide-ranging volumes I’ve encountered in terms of sub-genre. It’s rather like a speculative fiction buffet, offering steampunk, fantasy, military fiction, magic, space opera, post-apocalyptic, hard science fiction, and others . . . Inventive and varied, the collection has a lot to offer for those seeking an interesting, entertaining, and thought-provoking read.” – Lisa Timpf, The Future Fire

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  1. Round the Sofa

    Elizabeth Gaskell

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  2. Echoes : The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

    Ellen Datlow, Dale Bailey, Nathan Ballingrud, Aliette de Bodard, Richard Bowes, Pat Cadigan, Siobhan Carroll, F. Marion Crawford, Indrapramit Das, Terry Dowling, Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Ford Madox Ford, Jeffrey Ford, Alice Hoffman, Carole Johnstone, Stephen Graham Jones, Richard Kadrey, John Langan, Alison Littlewood, Bracken Macleod, Nick Mamatas, Vincent J. Masterson, Seanan McGuire, Garth Nix, Joyce Carol Oates, M. Rickert, M. L. Siemienowicz, Lee Thomas, Paul Tremblay, A. C. Wise

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  3. Songs of Love and Darkness

    Mary Jo Putney, Carrie Vaughn, Yasmine Galenorn, M.L.N. Hanover, Lisa Tuttle

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  4. Good Guys

    Steven Brust

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  5. Seize the Night : New Tales of Vampiric Terror

    Kelley Armstrong, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Laird Barron, Gary A. Braunbeck, Dana Cameron, Dan Chaon, Lynda Barry, Charlaine Harris, Brian Keene, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Michael Koryta, John Langan, Tim Lebbon, Seanan McGuire, Joe McKinney, Leigh Perry, Robert Shearman, Scott Smith, Lucy A. Snyder, David Wellington, Rio Youers

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  6. Songs of Love and Death : All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

    George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois

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  7. Dark Divide & Badlands Witch

    Carrie Vaughn

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  8. Songs of Love Lost and Found

    Jo Beverley, Robin Hobb, Jacqueline Carey, Tanith Lee, Cecilia Holland

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  9. The Mythic Dream

    John Chu, Leah Cypess, Indrapramit Das, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, Sarah Gailey, Carlos Hernandez, Kat Howard, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher, Ann Leckie, Carmen Maria Machado, Arkady Martine, Seanan McGuire, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, Alyssa Wong, JY Yang

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  10. An Accidental Goddess

    Linnea Sinclair

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  11. Native Tongue

    Suzette Haden Elgin

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  12. The Burning Stone

    Kate Elliott

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