Margins
Silo Saga Universe book cover 1
Silo Saga Universe book cover 2
Silo Saga Universe book cover 3
Silo Saga Universe
Series · 30
books · 2013-2021

Books in series

FANG book cover
#4

FANG

A Silo Story

2013

From Hugh Howey's world of WOOL. Sheriff Nathan Parker knows something isn't right within the silo. On days like this, when the air feels stale and constricting, it has a way of making even the mundane seem suspicious. Things happen...unnatural things. A young, reliable farmer doesn't report for work. Some daring soul smuggles a metal file out of Mechanical. A strange message, left in blood: six letters that are as unthinkable as they are ominous... V A M P I R
Silo 42 book cover
#5

Silo 42

Deception - Book 1 in the Silo 42 series

2013

Silo 42 has a secret. There are 50 Silos in total. None know the others exist. They live in isolation, under the illusion they are the only humans still alive on Earth, protected by their sophisticated underground micro-universe for centuries, while they wait for the harsh outside conditions and aftermath of the Great War to subside. However, life in Silo 42 is more sustainable than the others. Energy resources have been updated. Creativity, freedom, and transparency have created the conditions for its people to thrive. All positive indicators for Silo health. But that was never the true intention of the Silo project. The Pact, written by the original builders, requires absolute conformity to the original plan. Silo 1 Head, Donald Keene, is growing increasingly concerned about the data he is receiving from Silo 42. They are either…dying or flourishing. Either way, it’s not acceptable. The time is quickly approaching when Silo 42 may be forced to save itself from the overly controlling rules of the Pact or face extinction. Ahotay Lathrop, Silo 42 Head, knows that Silo 1 is watching its every move. The time will come when he must make the decision to protect the future of their Silo and the 10,000 souls who call it home. Can they outwit Donald Keene and Silo 1, and avoid certain erasure from the Silo grid? "Silo 42 Deception is a gripping page-turner combining a riveting mystery, a budding romance, and a Protopian future where decisions are made with the seventh generation in mind. This sci-fi thriller shows the positive nature of the human spirit to thrive even under the most oppressive of circumstances—solutions we can apply right now to create a more sustainable future on Earth." - Kay Everett “The tempo and scene-setting carry the reader along from level to level, sitting in on suspenseful conversations as a fly on the wall, and the story moves swiftly to bring everything to a head perfectly. I recommend Silo 42: Deception for the reader who wants to dive into a book and be pulled along on a thrilling roller coaster ride that concludes in a fireworks display.” – reader review Silo 42: Deception is set in the world of Wool created by Hugh Howey and now a popular television series on Apple+ TV. It is not just a fast-paced thriller. It contains a variety of practical real-world solutions for some of the most pressing issues facing our planet around energy use, food production, mental and physical health, and more.
Recoil book cover
#6

Recoil

A Silo Story: From Hugh Howey's World of Wool

2014

Recoil: A Silo Story is a short story written in Hugh Howey’s world of Wool. In a silo where cleanings are a cause for celebration and are handled by a crew of teenage boys, a hazing initiation goes horribly wrong. The silo leadership hunts for the boys to clean – this time without the safety of the silo waiting for them when they finish. The story is told through the eyes of two teenage girls: Petra and Tavi. Enamored with the cleaning crew, they find themselves on the wrong side of an extravagant manhunt. Unfortunately, they don’t find out what’s really happening in the silo until the final, deadly confrontation.
They Feed book cover
#9

They Feed

A Wool Universe Story

2013

In a story spun off from Hugh Howey's World of WOOL, life in the silo turns into a nightmare. Ben Logan never wanted to be a deputy—and he certainly didn’t want to be chief deputy. He reluctantly accepted the job believing his days would be full of paperwork, breaking up fist fights and searching for lost dogs. Then his second-in-command came to him and said, “We’ve got a body in the mines.” A body that’s been shredded by something with claws, and has had its heart torn out. With the aid of the victim’s best friend, Ben has to step into a role he never envisioned, tracking the killer as it leaves a trail of blood throughout the silo.
Hoarder in the Down Deep book cover
#11

Hoarder in the Down Deep

2015

It’s against the law to have children without winning the lottery. Implanted with a birth control device as required by law, Evangeline Hubbard, a dirt farmer in the down deep, discovers that implants sometimes fail. But in a world strictly controlled by the authorities, one pays a terrible price for tampering with the established order. Consumed by fear and madness after things go horribly wrong, Evangeline hoards in order to hang onto things. She adds them to the nest she’s building in the down deep. Hoarder in the Down Deep is a novelette based on the best-selling Wool series by Hugh Howey, and was written with his permission. It’s set in the time when Sheriff Holston and his wife Allison had won the lottery, giving them one year to conceive a child. Investigating the case of Evangeline Hubbard, Sheriff Holston and Mayor Jahns are unprepared for what they find. Hoarder in the Down Deep explores how psychological issues and emotional pain can lead to hoarding. It also explores the mental strain placed on women who have lost control over their own reproductive processes.
Underworld book cover
#13

Underworld

2014

Out of print.
Concessions book cover
#16

Concessions

A Silo Story

2014

Both comedy and tragedy, Jane's life is anything but ordinary. She's lived her life in the spotlight, given more than she's received, and is sacrificing everything for the people she loves. Her only request: a few concessions. Set in the World of WOOL and in the same Silo that Grace (from VISIONS of WOOL) has overseen for eighty years, comes a story of love, passion, sacrifice, and above all else, hope for the future.
Lottery book cover
#19

Lottery

2013

Description Lottery is a 17k word novella taking place in Hugh Howey's World of Wool. In the world of the silo, falling in love comes with its own set of rules. As young Tabitha and Justin begin their lives together, they know what they can and cannot do. Then the impossible happens and Tabitha finds out she is with child. With no lottery ticket to redeem, the consequences for pregnancy are harsh: every addition requires a subtraction. From the Down Deep to the Up Top, there is nowhere to hide. It won't be long before the truth comes out and her husband is sent outside and put to cleaning. There is just one way to save his life—but to save him, Tabitha will have to do the unspeakable.
June book cover
#26

June

2014

There are worse things that can happen to a silo than going dark. A story in the world of High Howey's Wool.
Silo 40 Episode 3 book cover
#27

Silo 40 Episode 3

2014

Episode three takes up where Silo 39 (The Aftermath) ends. In Silo 40 (The early days), we find the silo on the crossroads between good and evil. There is but one man destined to choose the right path. A man who knows that even in death, his legacy will shape the future of those in Silo 40.
Silo 40 Episode 4 book cover
#29

Silo 40 Episode 4

2014

George and Gayle struggle for control of Silo 40's IT department. George has his hands full with the prospect of going to battle against 35 heavily armed IT security forces. Sadly the only members of his defense team are a college student, an old farmer, a billy goat and two young office clerks; one of which is a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair. But there are forces unknown to George that may come to his aid, but will they make it in time? George has learned from Gayle that the outside world will kill you. Welcome to the the experiment of establishing a working biosphere inside a silo.Welcome to the horrors of warfare inside a silo and a mad man that won't give up.
Angels of the Earth book cover
#30

Angels of the Earth

A Silo Story

2013

Uriel Brown sits in a prison cell accused of murder and sentenced to the ultimate punishment for those in the silo. When his confession raises the suspicion of the silo's sheriff, an investigation begins and the story of Uriel's life and love unfolds in an emotional race against the clock. Fredric Shernoff, author of the bestselling Atlantic Island series and the #1 time travel adventure, The Traveler, returns you to Hugh Howey's beloved world of Wool in a story that proves love can exist in the darkest corners of the silo. Please note: Angels of the Earth contains plot elements found in Hugh Howey's Wool Omnibus (Wool 1 - 5).
Escape Silo Forty book cover
#32

Escape Silo Forty

2016

A communications loss with Mr. Parker of Silo 17 has put Silo 40 in state of alert. Technology has provided the avenue to escape, but first important preparations must be completed. It's a race against time and only one person knows the potential of Silo 1 to figure a way to drop Silo 40. Will the fear of going outside end up destroying Silo 40 and its inhabitants?
Forty-Five book cover
#36

Forty-Five

2014

Oleg Thomson's curiosity carries him all the way from the Deep to the Up Top and beyond. In a silo cut off from the rest for over a hundred years, culture has drifted away from The Order's strict set of rules. Is it far enough to save a man's life?
Silo in Blue book cover
#38

Silo in Blue

2018

Years have gone by since the Silo Times. Two boys, Grey and Florence, explore lore from the old Silo Complex, and their interest takes them much further than the Silo Museum. They discover for themselves how terrible the silos can really be.
Greatfall book cover
#39

Greatfall

2018

Greatfall: A Silo Novel is a dark new tale in the world of Wool, Hugh Howey’s beloved post-apocalyptic novel. What happens when a silo goes dark? Maya has been sent to Silo 23 to investigate. Disconnected from the grid, Silo 23 appears to be dead, rotted from within. But what Maya finds when she opens the hatch is a silo that is anything but deceased. Unplugged from the outside world and its sister silos, Silo 23 has mutated into something unexpected and far more horrifying than Maya could have anticipated.
Thaw book cover
#40

Thaw

2015

Some Secrets are Necessary. Hal discovers secrets in Silo 1 that lead to him being deep-frozen. Carlton's role in Operation Fifty is revealed. Author's Republished with permission from Hugh Howey. It is recommended that you read WOOL and SHIFT prior to this story to avoid potential spoilers. While I tried to remain within the current series canon of WOOL, SHIFT, and DUST, characters and other story elements may be developed differently in the future.
Injustice book cover
#48

Injustice

2016

Fight or die. This is the most primal expression of existence. From the lowest bacteria to the largest land mammal, everything struggles. Everything fights. In every fight someone wins and someone loses. What would you do when facing down defeat? Some men stand against Nguyen and Wade. Some women cooperate with them. There now are 3,xxx men remaining, but they are down to 8 women… and only one has the strength to stand against them. This isn’t a fairy tale.
Rebel State book cover
#49

Rebel State

Hidden

2018

Spin off from Hugh Howey's World of WOOL... Seventeen years ago, the California delegates to the National Convention were herded underground and locked into a silo while bombs exploded overhead. They’ve all done their best to survive since then—some of them with the help of mind-numbing drugs pumped into the water supply. Now, the head of IT is dying, and the people around her believe they should have a say in who her replacement will be. They aren’t aware that this isn’t a democracy, that they’re all being watched from somewhere else, and that Laura Wayne has already chosen her successor. She’s picked 24-year-old Connor Brownell, the stepson of the mayor—but Connor has secrets of his own, hidden deep inside the silo. There’s someone else down below, a man who’s carefully bided his time for all these years. He’s made himself essential to those around him, and when he finally decides to head upstairs with all those followers at his heels, he may not only discover a painful truth, he may destroy everything.
Rebel State book cover
#50

Rebel State

Forgotten Hero

2021

Spin off from Hugh Howey's World of WOOL... Before the world came crashing down, Kurt Houser was a hero… at least to his fans. You can’t become a fighter pilot with a congenitally damaged eardrum, so Kurt turned to acting and won his wings that as First Officer of the UGSS Adventure, the starship centerpiece of a hugely popular series of movies. Fans the world over see him as Commander Evan Race, the handsome, rakish guy with all the right answers. Then, during some downtime, a friend helps him sneak into the invitation-only National Convention in Atlanta, where everything goes wrong. Several days later, he wakes up in a place his rattled mind insists is Sickbay… aboard the UGSS Adventure . That’s the only way he can make sense of what’s happened. He’s aboard ship, and he’s Commander Evan Race. The guy with all the answers.
Rebel State book cover
#51

Rebel State

Silo Dwellers

2018

A collection of stories spin off from Hugh Howey's World of WOOL... They came to Atlanta to attend the national convention: a retired college professor, an insurance saleswoman, a young couple whose marriage is in trouble, and thousands of others. To their horror, bombs began to fall on the city, and they were herded into an underground silo to protect them from the cataclysm outside. But the silo isn't just a temporary shelter. It's their home now, forever, and surviving there means adapting to the loss of almost everything they knew and loved. The professor becomes a farmer, the insurance saleswoman a teacher. It's going to be a good life, they're told—but is that true, if they'll never see the sun again?
The Bishop book cover
#52

The Bishop

2013

The silo has strict population control policies. Robert discovers the reality, and heartache, of what happens when mandatory birth control fails. Follow Robert's journey to the silo's underground resistance as he aims to help those who discover they are pregnant without a license in this book set in Hugh Howey's world of Wool. The Underground books are individual stories about silo citizens finding themselves participating in the resistance movement. The Bishop takes place many years before the events in The Pawn. This story uses plot elements from Wool, parts one through five (i.e., Wool Omnibus).
The Rook book cover
#53

The Rook

2013

The Order of the Free Silo was organized, hidden, and in control. At least, they had been. Joseph, the new head of IT, is determined to flush out his silo's long-standing secret organization to prove himself worthy of his new title.
The End is Night book cover
#54

The End is Night

2016

After a narrow escape from the Movers, Linda Varner travels up the stairs, the only way left for her to go. She is waylaid on a farm level, meets a girl who cannot walk, masquerades as a member of IT, and learns a lot more about her world and who made it. Eventually she gets to the very top and meets The Builder himself.
Uplift book cover
#55

Uplift

2018

After visiting Mechanical and getting in big trouble with Officer Long of IT, Linda Varner and her friend Frank head toward home. They discover a secret in the deep that could change their world, then try to return to their normal lives. Officer Long is still mad, and has every Mover looking out for them. Linda and her father Big Gene realize that she can't go home so she goes the only direction left to up.
Smuggler's Deep book cover
#56

Smuggler's Deep

2014

Linda Varner and her father Big Gene run a smuggling operation in a world with many levels and a spiral staircase as the only way to move between them. If you want something, they can get it, if anyone can. They also make shine, a drink that is illegal but very popular. One evening the world shakes, just for a few seconds, and soon everything that Linda thought she knew about her world is challenged. She sets out on a journey to the bottom of the world, where she grew up and where she might find some answers.
The End Has Come book cover
#59

The End Has Come

2015

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH tells their stories. Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse. THE END HAS COME features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Carrie Vaughn, Mira Grant, Jamie Ford, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Elizabeth Bear, Ben H. Winters, Scott Sigler, and many others. THE END IS NIGH is about the match. THE END IS NOW is about the conflagration. THE END HAS COME is about what will rise from the ashes. CONTENTS 01 - Carrie Vaughn, Bannerless 02 - Megan Arkenberg, Like All Beautiful Places 03 - Will McIntosh, Dancing With a Stranger in the Land of Nod 04 - Scott Sigler, The Seventh Day of Deer Camp 05 - Sarah Langan, Prototype 06 - Chris Avellone, Acts of Creation 07 - Seanan McGuire, Resistance 08 - Leife Shallcross, Wandering Star 09 - Ben H. Winters, Heaven Come Down 10 - David Wellington, Agent Neutralized 11 - Annie Bellet, Goodnight Earth 12 - Tananarive Due, Carriers 13 - Robin Wasserman, In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land 14 - Jamie Ford, The Uncertainty Machine 15 - Elizabeth Bear, Margin of Survival 16 - Jonathan Maberry, Jingo and the Hammerman 17 - Charlie Jane Anders, The Last Movie Ever Made 18 - Jake Kerr, The Gray Sunrise 19 - Ken Liu, The Gods Have Not Died in Vain 20 - Hugh Howey, In the Woods 21 - Nancy Kress, Blessings
The End is Nigh book cover
#60

The End is Nigh

2014

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories. Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse. THE END IS NIGH features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jamie Ford, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, and many others.
The End is Now book cover
#61

The End is Now

2014

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories. Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, The Apocalypse Triptych is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME explores life after the apocalypse. THE END IS NIGH is about the match. THE END HAS COME is about what will rise from the ashes. THE END IS NOW is about the conflagration. • • • • table of contents: INTRODUCTION by John Joseph Adams HERD IMMUNITY by Tananarive Due THE SIXTH DAY OF DEER CAMP by Scott Sigler GOODNIGHT STARS by Annie Bellet ROCK MANNING CAN’T HEAR YOU by Charlie Jane Anders FRUITING BODIES by Seanan McGuire BLACK MONDAY by Sarah Langan ANGELS OF THE APOCALYPSE by Nancy Kress AGENT ISOLATED by David Wellington THE GODS WILL NOT BE SLAIN by Ken Liu YOU’VE NEVER SEEN EVERYTHING by Elizabeth Bear BRING THEM DOWN by Ben H. Winters TWILIGHT OF THE MUSIC MACHINES by Megan Arkenberg SUNSET HOLLOW by Jonathan Maberry PENANCE by Jake Kerr AVTOMAT by Daniel H. Wilson DANCING WITH BATGIRL IN THE LAND OF NOD by Will McIntosh BY THE HAIR OF THE MOON by Jamie Ford TO WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD by Desirina Boskovich IN THE MOUNTAIN by Hugh Howey DEAR JOHN by Robin Wasserman
The Cleaner book cover
#72

The Cleaner

2017

Chloe Zayets is a dishwasher in the kitchens of the Silo. When the death of a friend turns her world upside down, she becomes aware of a threat to the Silo - a threat that could prove to be their downfall! Set in the world of Hugh Howey's Silo Saga, The Cleaner is republished with permission from Hugh Howey.

Authors

Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress
Author · 60 books

Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella Beggars in Spain which was later expanded into a novel with the same title. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for Writer's Digest. She is a regular at Clarion writing workshops and at The Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland. During the Winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress is the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany. Excerpted from Wikipedia.

Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey
Author · 68 books

I'm the author of WOOL, a top 5 science fiction book on Amazon. I also wrote the Molly Fyde saga, a tale of a teenager from the 25th century who is repeatedly told that girls can't do certain things—and then does them anyway. A theme in my books is the celebration of overcoming odds and of not allowing the cruelty of the universe to change who you are in the process. Most of them are classified as science fiction, since they often take place in the future, but if you love great stories and memorable characters, you'll dig what you find here. I promise.

Hanna Elizabeth
Hanna Elizabeth
Author · 2 books

In 2005, I completed my first novel which sits loved but unpublished, in a drawer. I've had numerous non-fiction articles published in the Body, Mind and Soul section of LUX Magazine. VISIONS of WOOL was my first published work of fiction, then along came Concessions, and a little story called The Man Upstairs in a DeadPixels Publication called, Flying Toasters. My most recent publication is a book of poetry called, Elemental.

Paul B. Kohler
Paul B. Kohler
Author · 22 books
Paul B Kohler is the International Bestselling author of the highly acclaimed novel Linear Shift. His recent work includes Turn, Detour, and Reversion, from The Humanity's Edge Trilogy, along with several short stories. His short story, Rememorations, was included in The Immortality Chronicles - The Best Anthology of the Year as voted in the 2016 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll. Rememorations was also nominated for Best American Science Fiction.
Robin Wasserman
Robin Wasserman
Author · 39 books
Robin Wasserman is the author of the novels MOTHER DAUGHTER WIDOW WIFE (June 2020) and GIRLS ON FIRE. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and several short story anthologies. A recent MacDowell Colony fellow, she is also the New York Times bestselling author of more than ten novels for young adults and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University.
David Adams
David Adams
Author · 25 books

I've always been writing in my mind. I have way, way, way too many stories to tell and far too little time to tell them. I've been involved in Star Trek roleplay-by-emails for a few years, where basically I learned my craft, but it's only last year that I actually started putting these thoughts to paper. By day I'm a software engineer. But by night I write a little science fiction, a little fantasy, a little humour and comedy, and a little erotica under pen names.

Jason Gurley
Jason Gurley
Author · 16 books
Jason Gurley is the author of Awake in the World (Roaring Brook, 2019) and Eleanor (Crown, 2016), and co-author of The Edge of Sleep (St. Martin's, 2023). His short fiction appears in the anthologies Loosed Upon the World (Saga, 2015) and Help Fund My Robot Army!!! (2014). He lives and writes in Scappoose, Oregon. More at www.jasongurley.com.
David Wellington
David Wellington
Author · 29 books

David Wellington is a contemporary American horror author, best known for his Zombie trilogy as well as his Vampire series and Werewolf series. His books have been translated into eleven langauges and are a global phenomenon. His career began in 2004 when he started serializing his horror fiction online, posting short chapters of a novel three times a week on a friend’s blog. Response to the project was so great that in 2004 Thunder’s Mouth Press approached David Wellington about publishing Monster Island as a print book. His novels have been featured in Rue Morgue, Fangoria, and the New York Times. He also made his debut as a comic book writer in 2009 with Marvel Zombies Return:Iron Man. Wellington attended Syracuse University and received an MFA in creative writing from Penn State. He also holds a masters degree in Library Science from Pratt Institute. He now lives in New York City with his dog Mary Shelley and wife Elisabeth who, in her wedding vows, promised to “kick serious zombie ass” for him.

Fredric Shernoff
Fredric Shernoff
Author · 5 books

Fredric Shernoff is the author of the Amazon Top 100 "Atlantic Island" series. His newest addition to the Atlantic Island Universe, "The Magic Book" (Atlantic Island: Divided Book 1) is available now! Fredric lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Twitter: @fredricshernoff Email: fredricshernoff@gmail.com Website: www.fredricshernoff.com

Mira Grant
Mira Grant
Author · 34 books

Mira also writes as Seanan McGuire. Born and raised in Northern California, Mira Grant has made a lifelong study of horror movies, horrible viruses, and the inevitable threat of the living dead. In college, she was voted Most Likely to Summon Something Horrible in the Cornfield, and was a founding member of the Horror Movie Sleep-Away Survival Camp, where her record for time survived in the Swamp Cannibals scenario remains unchallenged. Mira lives in a crumbling farmhouse with an assortment of cats, horror movies, comics, and books about horrible diseases. When not writing, she splits her time between travel, auditing college virology courses, and watching more horror movies than is strictly good for you. Favorite vacation spots include Seattle, London, and a large haunted corn maze just outside of Huntsville, Alabama. Mira sleeps with a machete under her bed, and highly suggests that you do the same.

Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due
Author · 35 books

TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is the award-winning author of The Wishing Pool & Other Stories and the upcoming The Reformatory ("A masterpiece"—Library Journal). She and her husband, Steven Barnes, co-wrote the Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!" A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and her husband live with their son, Jason.

John Joseph Adams
John Joseph Adams
Author · 10 books
John Joseph Adams is the series editor of BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY. He is also the bestselling editor of many other anthologies, such as ROBOT UPRISINGS, DEAD MAN'S HAND, BRAVE NEW WORLDS,WASTELANDS, and THE LIVING DEAD. Recent and forthcoming books include WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT?, OPERATION ARCANA, PRESS START TO PLAY, LOOSED UPON THE WORLD, and THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH (consisting of THE END IS NIGH, THE END IS NOW, and THE END HAS COME). Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, John is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award (for which he has been nominated nine times), is a seven-time World Fantasy Award finalist, and served as a judge for the 2015 National Book Award. John is also the editor and publisher of the digital magazines LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE, and is a producer for Wired's THE GEEK'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY podcast. You can find him online at www.johnjosephadams.com and on Twitter @JohnJosephAdams.
Leife Shallcross
Leife Shallcross
Author · 3 books
Leife Shallcross’s first novel, The Beast’s Heart, a "luxuriously magical retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale", will be published by Hodder & Stoughton in May 2018. She is also the author of several short stories, including Pretty Jennie Greenteeth, which won the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story. Leife has a bit of a thing for fairy tales, and is particularly inspired by those characters that tend to fall into the cracks of the usual stories. She can be found online at leifeshallcross.com and on Twitter @leioss.
Sarah Langan
Sarah Langan
Author · 13 books

Sarah grew up on Long Island, got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, her MS in environmental toxicology from NYU, and currently lives in Los Angeles with her family, house rabbit, hamster, and tarantula. True story. Her next novel MOM'S NIGHT OUT is due out from S&S in Spring, 2023. Her previous works include Good Neighbors (S&S 2021), You Have the Prettiest Mask (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, 2020), and Night Nurse (Best Horror of the Year, 2020). She is also three-time Bram Stoker award winner for outstanding novel in 2007 - The Missing, outstanding short story in 2008 - The Lost, and outstanding novel in 2009 - Audrey's Door. Blog:https://sarahlangan.com/blog/

Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire
Author · 183 books

Hi! I'm Seanan McGuire, author of the Toby Daye series (Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses), as well as a lot of other things. I'm also Mira Grant (www.miragrant.com), author of Feed and Deadline. Born and raised in Northern California, I fear weather and am remarkably laid-back about rattlesnakes. I watch too many horror movies, read too many comic books, and share my house with two monsters in feline form, Lilly and Alice (Siamese and Maine Coon). I do not check this inbox. Please don't send me messages through Goodreads; they won't be answered. I don't want to have to delete this account. :(

Ben H. Winters
Ben H. Winters
Author · 24 books

Ben H. Winters is the author most recently of the novel The Quiet Boy (Mulholland/Little, Brown, 2021). He is also the author of the novel Golden State; the New York Times bestselling Underground Airlines; The Last Policeman and its two sequels; the horror novel Bedbugs; and several works for young readers. His first novel, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, was also a Times bestseller. Ben has won the Edgar Award for mystery writing, the Philip K. Dick award in science fiction, the Sidewise Award for alternate history, and France’s Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire. Ben also writes for film and television. He is the creator and co-showrunner of Tracker, forthcoming on CBS. Previously he was a producer on the FX show Legion, and on the upcoming Apple TV+ drama Manhunt. He has contributed short stories to many anthologies, as well as in magazines such as Lightspeed. He is the author of four “Audible Originals”– Stranger, Inside Jobs, Q&A, and Self Help—and several plays and musicals. His reviews appear frequently in the New York Times Book Review. Ben was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Maryland, educated in St. Louis, and then grew up a bunch more, in various ways, in places like Chicago, New York, Cambridge, MA, and Indianapolis, IN. These days he lives in LA with his wife, three kids, and one large dog.

Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear
Author · 67 books
What Goodreads really needs is a "currently WRITING" option for its default bookshelves...
Megan Arkenberg
Megan Arkenberg
Author · 5 books
Megan Arkenberg is an award-winning writer, poet, and editor of speculative fiction. Her work has appeared in Asimov's, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and dozens of other places. She blogs sporadically at Bitter Irony.
Ernie Lindsey
Ernie Lindsey
Author · 23 books

Ernie Lindsey grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia, working on the family farm and reading, and has spent his life telling stories to anyone that will listen. He currently works as a freelance writer and is the author of five Mystery & Suspense novels and numerous short stories. When he's not writing, you can find him tackling the gigantic To Be Read list on his Kindle or the never-ending stack of books in his office. Ernie and his family live in Oregon, along with a multi-fingered Hemingway cat named Luna. Head over to Ernie's site where you can pick up some free Kindle books. Join him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ErnieLindseyFiction.

Jamie Ford
Jamie Ford
Author · 9 books

Jamie Ford’s debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Jamie’s work has been published in 34 languages. Also, because Jamie feels weird writing about himself in the 3rd person, he’s going to say… Hi, this is me. Not a publicist. Not some weird aggregated bit of web-content, just little ol’ me, the author, sitting here in my favorite Batman pajamas (yes, I have several pairs) writing this note in my cozy home office, dog at my feet. Her name is Lucy and she’s twitching right now, obviously chasing squirrels in her dreams. While we’re chatting, I should mention that my latest novel novel, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, is now available for pre-order :) If you’re looking for more things that have spilled out of my brain, I have steampunk storiess in The End is Nigh, The End is Now, and The End Has Come (The Apocalypse Triptych). Also a tale in Stories from Suffragette City. Lest I forget, I have a story in Anonymous Sex, but I'm not allowed to say which story is mine.

Ken Liu
Ken Liu
Author · 59 books

Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an American author of speculative fiction. He has won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, as well as top genre honors in Japan, Spain, and France, among other places. Ken's debut novel, The Grace of Kings, is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers play the role of wizards. His debut collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work. The most recent projects include “The Message,” under development by 21 Laps and FilmNation Entertainment; “Good Hunting,” adapted as an episode of Netflix's breakout adult animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC's Pantheon, which Craig Silverstein will executive produce, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories by Ken. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Ken worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. Ken frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, cryptocurrency, history of technology, bookmaking, the mathematics of origami, and other subjects of his expertise. Ken is also the translator for Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds, Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide, as well as the editor of Invisible Planets and Broken Stars, anthologies of contemporary Chinese science fiction. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

Charlie Jane Anders
Charlie Jane Anders
Author · 36 books

My latest book is Victories Greater Than Death. Coming in August: Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories. Previously: All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and a short story collection, Six Months, Three Days, Five Others. Coming soon: An adult novel, and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes. I used to write for a site called io9.com, and now I write for various places here and there. I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” I've also won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a William H. Crawford Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award and a Lambda Literary Award. My stories, essays and journalism have appeared in Wired Magazine, the Boston Review, Conjunctions, Tin House, Slate, MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies. I organize Writers With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. I co-host a Hugo Award-winning podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct, with Annalee Newitz. Back in 2007, Annalee and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine called other, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut. I used to live in a Buddhist nunnery, when I was a teenager. I love to do karaoke. I eat way too much spicy food. I hug trees and pat stone lions for luck. I talk to myself way too much when I’m working on a story.

Patricia Gilliam
Patricia Gilliam
Author · 1 books

Patricia Gilliam is the author of The Hannaria Series (sci-fi) and Heroes of Corvus (urban fantasy/superhero). She is also a contributor to several anthologies and the creator of Seriescraft 101 character and world-building resources. She and her husband Cory live in Knoxville, TN with their cat, Butterscotch.

Brian Spangler
Author · 7 books
also writes as B.A. Spangler and B.R. Spangler
Robin Reed
Author · 3 books
See also Robin M. Reed, an author who writes as Robin Reed.
Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn
Author · 73 books

Carrie Vaughn is the author more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories. She's best known for her New York Times bestselling series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. In 2018, she won the Philip K. Dick Award for Bannerless, a post-apocalyptic murder mystery. She's published over 20 novels and 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. She's a contributor to the Wild Cards series of shared world superhero books edited by George R. R. Martin and a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado, where she collects hobbies. Visit her at www.carrievaughn.com For writing advice and essays, check out her Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/carrievaughn

Annie Bellet
Annie Bellet
Author · 41 books

Annie Bellet is a full-time speculative fiction writer. She holds a BA in English and a BA in Medieval Studies and thus can speak a smattering of useful languages such as Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Welsh. Her books include Avarice (Pyrrh Considerable Crimes Division: Book 1), The Gryphonpike Chronicles series, and the Twenty-Sided Sorceress series. Her interests besides writing include rock climbing, reading, horse-back riding, video games, comic books, table-top RPGs, and many other nerdy pursuits. Want to be notified when her next book is released, receive free stories and books, and be notified about sales and other goodies? Sign up for Annie Bellet's mailing list

548 Market St PMB 65688, San Francisco California 94104-5401 USA
© 2025 Paratext Inc. All rights reserved