Cheryl S. Ntumy's fantasy and near-future sci-fi is powerful and unique. Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa is a collection of short stories exploring diverse themes ranging from rampant consumerism, corruption and oppression to community-building, faith, reclamation and healing, all with a speculative bent.

This anthology is a collection of works that draw inspiration from the Creative Futures Research Project, a partnership between Coventry University and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. The stories imagine future crises that we may have to resolve and the ramifications of our choices on subsequent generations. Edited by Allen Stroud.

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Horror stories about women, written by women, focusing on the strength of women faced with adversity. It explores many ways in which societal structures and personal action can reach a tipping point, creating unexpected changes, empowering women around the world.

In this near future anthology, Solarpunk explores the many ways individuals and resilient groups can fight gentrification, expropriation, abuse and loss of identity, starting within local communities, ultimately to embrace the whole world. Edited by Francesco Verso, authors include Ken Liu, Gustavo Bondoni and Brenda Cooper.

Catherine Wells was both the wife of the famous H.G. Wells and the author of short stories, poems and an unfinished novella, The Open Heart, a haunting study of a woman’s sense of unfulfilment that adds to our knowledge of early 20th-century feminism. The Open Heart is published here for the first time, accompanied by her short stories and poems.

A CWA anthology celebrating members' fiction from over the years, Then There Were More is a delightful compilation of stories from some of the best crime writers of the last century. The Beyond and Within books are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.