Let’s face it: mankind hasn’t earned any trophies for planning ahead. In Living Things by Jackie Gamber, the future isn't looking much better. Microchipped zombies. VR game escapism. Intergalactic bride exchanges. These science fiction and dystopian short stories are a raw and surprising collection about human beings-and not-so-human beings-trying to live and love among the ruins. You’ll find poignant favorite stories, plus new and never-before-published ones. From the alien world of the novella "Hologram Bride" to the gothic short story "The Monster," Jackie Gamber takes you deep into the heart of who we are. Because often, the worst fate is living with our own mistakes.

A liminal space is a threshold. A crossing-over place. In Liminal Space by Jackie Gamber, stories are showcased with lives and worlds in states of transition. Meet mysterious carnies, time-traveling dragons, and discover secrets on walks in the woods. This anthology includes short stories and poetry, such as Meda’s Clearing, Dreamcatcher Bridge, and the two-part novella The Time Scar. In it, Jackie Gamber captures the magic of the everyday, and what we might learn–and become–when we walk among it.

Kallon Redheart lives with his back turned on his fellow dragons, on humans, and on everything he once understood. Riza Diantus is a young woman with dreams too wide to fit inside her village fence. Their unexpected friendship is risky in Leland Province, where drought has stripped the land and superstition has cowed its people. And the danger only grows. Fordon Blackclaw, Dragon Council Leader, resents Leland's time-worn venur system. He has inflamed tensions between dragons and humans to the brink of war. He wants to trample humans into utter submission, or wipe them off the face of the land. Anger erupts, scorching innocent lives in its path. When Riza is threatened, Kallon is the only one with the power to save her. But first, he must confront his past and the future he stopped believing in. He must claim his destiny.

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Sela Redheart is lost, driven from her home with only her old uncle to watch over her. As the dragon-born child of Kallon Redheart, she is now trapped in human form and can't seem to turn back.

Vorham Riddess, Venur of Esra Province, covets the crystal ore buried deep in Mount Gore. His latest device to obtain it: land by marriage to a Leland maiden. Schemes begin to unfurl, and all is at risk as magic and murder strangle the heart of Esra Province.

Surely Sela is the key to unlocking restorative magic for a crumbling world; but how can she begin to help when she doesn't understand her own transformation?

Welcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novel: the award-winning magazine Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show (IGMS) has been an online haven for this powerful form of storytelling since 2005. Now the magazine’s editors have selected their all-time favorite science fiction novelettes from the magazine's eight-year history and reprinted them together in one Big Book of reading pleasure: IGMS: Big Book of SF Novelettes.

The Most Dangerous by Jackie Gamber