{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Gerald Brandt", "description": "", "home_page_url": "https://geraldbrandt.com", "feed_url": "https://geraldbrandt.com/feed.json", "user_comment": "", "author": { "name": "Gerald Brandt" }, "items": [ { "id": "https://geraldbrandt.com/blog/last-ditch-stories-in-years-best-canadian-fantasy-and-science-fiction/", "url": "https://geraldbrandt.com/blog/last-ditch-stories-in-years-best-canadian-fantasy-and-science-fiction/", "title": "Three LAST-DITCH Stories in YEAR’S BEST CANADIAN FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION", "summary": "Big news! Stephen Kotowych has announced the table of contents for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, and three of the stories are from Last-Ditch, the Zombies Need Brains anthology I co-edited with Troy Carrol Bucher: Tanya and Derryl were two of…", "content_html": "

Big news! Stephen Kotowych has announced the table of contents for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, and three of the stories are from Last-Ditch, the Zombies Need Brains anthology I co-edited with Troy Carrol Bucher:

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Tanya and Derryl were two of my authors on Last-Ditch, so this one means a lot to me. Congratulations to Tanya, Blake, and Derryl, and to everyone else who made the book!

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You can see the full table of contents on Stephen’s site. The ebook comes out October 14, 2025, with the trade paperback to follow.

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Last-Ditch, the anthology from Zombies Need Brains that I co-edited with Troy Carrol Bucher, is out today!

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Successful spies change history. Failures are never heard from again.

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From simple data theft or sabotage to protecting state secrets and last-ditch gambles that alter the tides of war, it's the spy—professional or amateur—who gets the job done! Whether it's for King and country or private vendetta, it is often the lone agent, through stealth, skill, and sometimes a little luck, who makes the difference.

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If only it were that easy.

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In Last-Ditch you'll find sixteen original stories of men, women, aliens, and even creatures who face seemingly insurmountable odds to achieve their goals. So come join in on a little heart-pounding espionage, as Jason M. Hough, Tanya Huff, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., D. Thomas Minton, Nemma Wollenfang, Hayden Trenholm, Edward Willett, Blake Jessop, Steve Perry, Ember Randall, Derryl Murphy, Chadwick Ginther, Russell Hugh McConnell, Gary Kloster, E.C. Ambrose, and Donald McCarthy put it all on the line to take you behind the scenes and behind enemy lines.

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Find out more about Last-Ditch, including where to buy it.

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The Kickstarter for Last-Ditch, a new anthology from Zombies Need Brains that I’m co-editing with Troy Carrol Bucher, launches today!

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Check out the Kickstarter to back the anthology.

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Dragonesque, the anthology from Zombies Need Brains edited by S.C. Butler and Joshua Palmatier, is out today! It includes my story “Tatsu: Cryo Five”.

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Is anything more terrifying than a dragon? Bat-winged nightmares swooping down from the sky to breathe fire and ice on the wretched humans below, kidnapping princesses, hoarding treasure, swallowing cows.

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Or not.

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In DRAGONESQUE, the latest fantastic anthology from Zombies Need Brains, you finally get to experience all that awfulness from the dragon’s point of view. And what if it isn’t necessarily that awful? What if the princess wants to be kidnapped, or the dragon is tired of being made fun of week after week at the Renaissance Faire? Or maybe a dragonet just really, really wants to be a unicorn? Perhaps they’re happiest collecting art, or enjoy being tattooed? Or maybe some dragons like putting out fires more than starting them…unless they absolutely have to? DRAGONESQUE features sixteen original stories from such fiery authors as Esther M. Friesner, Madeline Dau, Niall Spain, Russell Hugh McConnell, Grace Eliza, Mike Jack Stoumbos, Paul D. Smith, Jean Marie Ward, Gerald Brandt, Gini Koch & Bebe Bayliss, Larry Ivkovich, Barbara Campbell, Journey Sloane, Em McDermott, Auston Habershaw, and David B. Coe.

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See the world as the dragons see it, from the delightfully delicious to the tastefully transactional. Welcome to DRAGONESQUE.

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Find out more about Dragonesque, including where to buy it.

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Today is the official release day for Threader God, the third and final book of the Quantum Empirica, from DAW Books!

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The third and final book of the Quantum Empirica sci-fi series explores an alternate earth where powerful Threads have the power to alter reality as we know it.

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The audiobook is narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross.

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You can read the first chapter, or find out where to buy Threader God.

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Shapers of Worlds Volume III, the anthology from Shadowpaw Press edited by Edward Willett, is out today! It includes my story “The Metamorphosis of Thomas Darrow”.

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From outer space to inner space, from realms of magic to the here-and-now, from the distant past to the far future, the twenty-one authors in this third collection of science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers will take you on incredible adventures in the company of unforgettable characters. A pampered, overweight cat from the present saves the world from alien invasion in Ancient Egypt. A musician whose special horn helped bring down the walls of Jericho is fated to bring down walls again and again throughout history. A house ghost is troubled by a new owner who proves unhauntable. Robots programmed to love humanity take the only action they can to save us from ourselves. A CDC agent is prepared to do whatever it takes to prevent a novel pathogen from spreading . . . Shapers of Worlds Volume III features new fiction from Griffin Barber, Gerald Brandt, Miles Cameron, Sebastien de Castell, Kristi Charish, David Ebenbach, Mark Everglade and Joseph Hurtgen, Frank J. Fleming, Violette Malan, Anna Mocikat, James Morrow, Jess E. Owen, Robert Penner, Cat Rambo, K.M. Rice, and Edward Willett, new poetry by Jane Yolen, and previously published stories by Cory Doctorow, K. Eason, Walter Jon Williams, and F. Paul Wilson. Among these authors are established, international bestsellers and winners of every major award in science fiction and fantasy as well as authors still at the start of what promises to be stellar careers. All of them have crafted stories that will excite, enchant, enlighten, and entertain. Enter their fantastical worlds, and enjoy!

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Find out more about Shapers of Worlds Volume III, including where to buy it.

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The Kickstarter for Dragonesque, a new anthology from Zombies Need Brains edited by S.C. Butler and Joshua Palmatier, launches today! I’m one of the anchor authors, and my story “Tatsu: Cryo Five” will be in it.

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Check out the Kickstarter to back the anthology.

", "image": "https://geraldbrandt.com/media/posts/338/kickstarter-dragonesque-card.jpg", "author": { "name": "Gerald Brandt" }, "tags": [ ], "date_published": "2022-08-15T10:00:00-05:00", "date_modified": "2022-08-15T10:00:00-05:00" }, { "id": "https://geraldbrandt.com/blog/kickstarter-shapers-of-worlds-volume-iii/", "url": "https://geraldbrandt.com/blog/kickstarter-shapers-of-worlds-volume-iii/", "title": "Kickstarter Launch: SHAPERS OF WORLDS VOLUME III", "summary": "The Kickstarter for Shapers of Worlds Volume III, a new anthology from Shadowpaw Press edited by Edward Willett, launches today! It will include my story “The Metamorphosis of Thomas Darrow”. From outer space to inner space, from realms of magic to the here-and-now, from the…", "content_html": "

The Kickstarter for Shapers of Worlds Volume III, a new anthology from Shadowpaw Press edited by Edward Willett, launches today! It will include my story “The Metamorphosis of Thomas Darrow”.

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From outer space to inner space, from realms of magic to the here-and-now, from the distant past to the far future, the twenty-one authors in this third collection of science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers will take you on incredible adventures in the company of unforgettable characters. A pampered, overweight cat from the present saves the world from alien invasion in Ancient Egypt. A musician whose special horn helped bring down the walls of Jericho is fated to bring down walls again and again throughout history. A house ghost is troubled by a new owner who proves unhauntable. Robots programmed to love humanity take the only action they can to save us from ourselves. A CDC agent is prepared to do whatever it takes to prevent a novel pathogen from spreading . . . Shapers of Worlds Volume III features new fiction from Griffin Barber, Gerald Brandt, Miles Cameron, Sebastien de Castell, Kristi Charish, David Ebenbach, Mark Everglade and Joseph Hurtgen, Frank J. Fleming, Violette Malan, Anna Mocikat, James Morrow, Jess E. Owen, Robert Penner, Cat Rambo, K.M. Rice, and Edward Willett, new poetry by Jane Yolen, and previously published stories by Cory Doctorow, K. Eason, Walter Jon Williams, and F. Paul Wilson. Among these authors are established, international bestsellers and winners of every major award in science fiction and fantasy as well as authors still at the start of what promises to be stellar careers. All of them have crafted stories that will excite, enchant, enlighten, and entertain. Enter their fantastical worlds, and enjoy!

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Check out the Kickstarter to back the anthology.

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Today is the official release day for Threader War, book two of the Quantum Empirica, from DAW Books!

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The second book of a new sci-fi series follows Darwin back to an alternate earth where powerful Threads have the power to alter reality.

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The audiobook is narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross.

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You can read the first chapter, or find out where to buy Threader War.

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Derelict, the anthology from Zombies Need Brains edited by David B. Coe and Joshua Palmatier, is out today! It includes my story “Time, Yet”.

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A ship lost with all hands on icy Titan. A dying woman’s soul linked with the fate of an interstellar vessel. A wrecked ferry possessed by the ruin-demon who grounded her. A haunted space cruiser of legend again terrorizing those who travel among the stars. A pirate-ravaged frigate concealing magical secrets that can doom the wicked, or redeem the worthy. An inexplicably empty cruiser arriving at a space station amid the panic of a system-wide pandemic.

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There is an allure to the ghost ship, the once-proud voyaging craft now abandoned to the void of space or the depths of the sea. In Derelict, speculative fiction authors Kristine Smith, D.B. Jackson, Griffin Ayaz Tyree, Andrija Popovic, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Gerald Brandt, Kit Harding, Gini Koch, Jacey Bedford, Mark D. Jacobsen, Jana Paniccia, Alex Bledsoe, Chaz Brenchley, R.Z. Held, Jack Campbell, and Julie E. Czerneda offer their tales of the lost vessel. So climb aboard if you dare, and prepare for a reading adventure that will unnerve and inspire and transport you beyond distant horizons.

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Find out more about Derelict, including where to buy it.

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