Christmas in Space!

Join me and a host of authors as we explore what Christmas looks like ... when Santa gets in a knock down drag out fight for the spirit of Christmas ... when ancient horrors escape into the world during the Yuletide season ... when humanity ventures into the depths of space. 

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It's a Christmas collection unlike anything you've ever read before, featuring aliens, angels, and androids!

Follow yonder star with us in the collection of short stories, a novella, and a graphic novel that will take you from deep space to ancient Judea, from dark woods to empty streets, from the far future to the distant past. You'll discover romance, redemption, and a robot or two . . .

PART 1 - WINTER WONDERLANDS - featuring . . .

Sky Pirates plot to plunder the holidays in Jeremy P. Madsen's fantasy "Twigly and the Great Yuletide Heist"

A wealthy businessman who pushed away the love of his life wishes for a second chance after receiving devastating news during the holidays season in Parker J. Cole's magical romance "Wish Upon a Strawberry Shortcake"

PART 2 - MERRY MELEES - featuring . . .

An unidentified flying object interupts Santa's Christmas duties in Nathan Marchand's "The Christmas Invasion (or Santa vs. the Flying Saucer)"

A pack of werewolves plot to take down Santa in "Cold Moon Christmas" by The Brothers Norman

It's Santa vs. Krampus in Tim Baron and Ben Avery's graphic novel ’Twas the Night Before Krampus: A Tale of St. Nicholas

PART 3 - HOLIDAY HORRORS - featuring . . .

The ancient evils imprisoned in the trees weren't supposed to be forgotten, and they definitely weren't supposed to get loose, in The Green Men by Winston Crutchfield

Angels and demons give us a glimpse at the spiritual warfare that may have occured in the lead up to the first Christmas in Jered Gering's "Angels from the Realms of Glory"

A monster walks the land, drawn back into the world of men where there is "A Gift for the Monster" by Mike Bogue

PART 4 - COSMIC CHRISTMASES - featuring . . .

A first-time cruise director causes a disaster that leaves the ship stranded in deep space on Christmas Eve in Adam David Colling's "The Christmas Star Disaster" (part of his Jewel of the Stars series)

An explorer on a distant world has an encounter with something from before their colony's founding in Harding McFadden's "Heroes and Legends"

A smuggler finds himself stranded in deep space with a desperate stowaway, just in time for the holidays, in Ben Avery's "We Three Kings" (part of his Slipstream Universe)

Upon the Riverworld

In my previous examination of Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld, I spoke much about Farmer and very little about his setting. I'm afraid I find Farmer's work tedious, but the Riverworld setting incredibly fascinating. In particular, I'm fascinated by Farmer's depiction of Riverworld as an archetypal paradise and mankind's inability to accept this paradise as the Heaven it is meant to be. Heaven ought to be a place where all of your needs are met and you can be at perfect peace with yourself. On Farmer's Riverworld, no one is ever at peace.

Welcome to Paradise, Welcome to Hell

Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series postulates the mass awakening of the entire deceased population of the Earth on a paradise planet where a single, massive river separates two shores bounded by impassable mountains. All of those who have died, from all throughout history, inexplicably find themselves once more "in the flesh" and placed within a garden where they do not require shelter and do not need to work for food or drink. Luxuries are provided for them. They are in perfect health and without any kind of physical or mental deformity. Mankind has entered paradise.

Nothing could be more like Hell.