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An illustration of a fierce labradoodle facing the giant maw of a menacing hellhound-like creature.

An illustrated featuring a shirtless man playing guitar like a rock star, surrounded by a montage of images including a contract being signed, a person singing, a VW van, and the silhouette of a three person rock band.

I Spin Records Into Gold

Amid the glitz and glamor of the 1970s American rock scene, a mysterious music exec promises an...

An illustration of a woman in a stylized spacesuit riding a bear-like creature across the night sky, beneath a particularly radiant star.

The Day-Blind Stars

An Earth explorer in search of something new and strange in the up and out ends up traveling thr...

An abstract illustration of a human figure surrounded by a wall of eyes.

Let’s Go to the Zoo

Equipped with two sandwiches, a couple sets out to the zoo to see the one totally sane human bei...

An illustration of a billowing white cloth hovering above the ocean as a wave crashes against a sea stack below and lightning flashes across the night sky.

Tatterdemalion

In a traditional folktale from Alak, a dreamy good-for-nothing young woman seeking excitement di...

An illustration: An assortment of spaceships engaged in heated battle around an orbiting space station.

Cutting Corners

A team of pilots is trained to fly ships in a war where it's become cheaper to send humans inste...

An abstract illustration of a colorful humanoid, chest bursting with light, against a backdrop of space, several planets, and the ghostly forms of four other figures.

Blade Through the Heart

Graff and his crew face a particularly nasty challenge – an opponent so low-tech they might just...

An illustration of a man and a woman clutching each other either in battle or an embrace. Blood trickles from her bottom lip, as wisps of red snake out of his eyes and mouth.

Deathcap

Two space marines trapped in a doomed spaceship confront the desires that will destroy them both...

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