You’re a dedicated ebook reader. Good on you. It saves money. It spares shelf space. But you can’t get everything for your Kindle, can you? When Written Backwards released the sci-fi/horror anthology QUALIA NOUS on August 31st, 2014, it was only available in trade paperback. But if you’ve been holding out for this lovely for Kindle, it’s now available as an ebook for just $1.99 through February 8, 2019.
QUALIA NOUS, nominated for a 2014 Stoker Award®.
The anthology, edited by the Bram Stoker Award®-winner Michael Bailey, collects some of the best established and emerging talent in science-fiction and horror today:
- “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman Tanveer Malik
- “The Shaking Man” by Gene O’Neill
- “Dyscrasia” by Ashlee Scheuerman
- “The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseille” by Emily Cataneo
- “The Angel Chaser” by Erik T. Johnson
- “Psychic Shock” by Ian Shoebridge
- “Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” by D.J. Cockburn
- “Second Chance” by John R. Little
- “The Effigies of Tamber Square” by Jon Michael Kelley
- “Shades of Naught” by Lori Michelle
- “The Price of Faces” by James Chambers
- “Simulacrum” by Jason V. Brock
- “Shutdown” & “Tomorrow’s Femme” (poetry) by Marge Simon
- “Lead Me to Multiplicity” by Peter Hagelslag
- “Cataldo’s Copy” by Christian A. Larsen
- “The Neighborhood Has a Barbecue” by Max Booth III
- “The Jenny Store” by Richard Thomas
- “Night Guard” by Erinn L. Kemper
- “A New Man” by William F. Nolan
- “Voyeur” by John Everson
- “Kilroy Wasn’t There” by Pat R. Steiner
- “In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” by Paul Anderson
- “Dura Matter” by Lucy A. Snyder
- “Ruminations” by Rena Mason
- “Good and Faithful Servant” by Thomas F. Monteleone
- “Twelve Kilos” by Patrick Freivald
- “Breathe You In Me” by Mason Ian Bundschuh
- “18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” by Elizabeth Massie
- “No Fixed Address” by Gary A. Braunbeck
Usman Tanveer Malik’s “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” and Rena Mason’s “Ruminations” both took home 2014 Bram Stoker Awards® for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. And if you don’t yet own a physical copy, it includes a paperback-exclusive story from Stephen King himself.
So if you don’t own either edition, now’s a good time to get both!
