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OCEANS: The Anthology (Frontiers of Speculative Fiction) Paperback – September 19, 2017
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Underwater cities, lost civilizations, crops, climate change, and dead zones.In this collection of ocean-themed stories, twelve of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality, our built-in societal restraints, and reflect upon our state of grace.The waves roll in, the waves roll out.
“OCEANS: The Anthology” features stories from bestselling authors such as winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards Ken Liu, Rysa Walker (the Chronos series), Daniel Arthur Smith (Tales from the Canyons of the Damned), R.D. Brady (the Belial series), Alex Shvartsman (the Unidentified Funny Objects series), P.K. Tyler (the UnCommon series), plus six more of today’s top authors in speculative and science fiction.Daniel Arthur Smith presents OCEANS: THE ANTHOLOGY, book 2 of the 2 book Frontiers of Speculative Fiction series that began with the top-ranking CLONES: The Anthology!
- Print length294 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 19, 2017
- Dimensions5.25 x 0.67 x 8 inches
- ISBN-101946777412
- ISBN-13978-1946777416
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- Publisher : Holt Smith Limited (September 19, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 294 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1946777412
- ISBN-13 : 978-1946777416
- Item Weight : 10.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.67 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #659,914 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,329 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
- #1,958 in Genetic Engineering Science Fiction (Books)
- #3,057 in Magical Realism
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About the authors
Daniel Arthur Smith is a USA Today bestselling author. His titles include Spectral Shift, Hugh Howey Lives, The Cathari Treasure, The Somali Deception, and a few other novels and short stories. He also curates the phenomenal short fiction series Tales from the Canyons of the Damned and Frontiers of Speculative Fiction.
He was raised in Michigan and graduated from Western Michigan University where he studied philosophy, with focus on cognitive science, meta-physics, and comparative religion. He began his career as a bartender, barista, poetry house proprietor, teacher, and then became a technologist and futurist for the Fortune 100 across the Americas and Europe.
Daniel has traveled to over 300 cities in 22 countries, residing in Los Angeles, Kalamazoo, Prague, Crete, and now writes between Manhattan and Connecticut where he lives with his wife and young sons.
For more information, visit danielarthursmith.com
Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. He's the author of The Middling Affliction (Caezik, 2022) and Eridani's Crown (UFO Publishing, 2019) fantasy novels.
Over 120 of his short stories appeared in various magazines and anthologies since 2010, including Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, etc. He's the winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction.
He edits the Unidentified Funny Objects series of anthologies and Future Science Fiction Digest. His other projects as editor include The Cackle of Cthulhu (Baen Books), Humanity 2.0 (Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick), Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic (UFO Publishing) and Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse (Deorc Enterprises).
You can visit his official home page and blog at alexshvartsman.com
RYSA WALKER is the author of the bestselling CHRONOS Files and CHRONOS Origins series. Timebound, the first book in the series, was the Young Adult and Grand Prize winner in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. The CHRONOS Files has sold nearly half a million copies since 2013 and has been translated into fourteen languages. Her first book in the Delphi trilogy, The Delphi Effect, was a finalist for the 2018 ITW Thriller Award.
You can also find her new serial, IMPROBABLE: The Outlandish Adventures of Miriam Cole on the new Kindle Vella platform, with new chapters premiering each week.
In addition to speculative fiction, Rysa writes mysteries as C. Rysa Walker, occasionally in collaboration with author Caleb Amsel.
Rysa currently resides in North Carolina with her husband, two youngest sons, and a hyperactive golden retriever. When not working on the next installment in her CHRONOS Files universe, she watches shows where travelers boldly go to galaxies far away, or reads about magical creatures and superheroes from alternate timelines.
For news and updates, subscribe to the newsletter at rysa.com/contact.
Will Swardstrom is a speculative fiction author. He has two full length novels, Dead Sleep and Dead Sight, and is at work on the finale in the trilogy.
He also has three stories in The Future Chronicles anthology series (Uncle Allen in The Alien Chronicles, Z Ball in The Z Chronicles, and The Control in The Immortality Chronicles). Each of those anthologies has charted in the Top 5 on the SF Anthology list and The Alien Chronicles reached as high as #6 on the Overall Top 100 List. The Control from The Immortality Chronicles has been nominated for Best American Science Fiction.
He also has a few stories set in Hugh Howey's WOOL Universe among his various other short stories and novellas. He lives in Southern Illinois with his wife and two kids.
Hank Garner is the author of Bloom, Mulligan, The Witching Hour, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Writer's Block, and has contributed to several anthologies. He also hosts a weekly podcast called Author Stories where he interviews successful authors each week about writing and the creative process. Find the podcast at http://hankgarner.com/category/podcast/
Hank's days are filled with interviewing the bestselling authors of today for The Author Stories Podcast and writing stories about life. Hank lives in Mississippi with his wife of over twenty years and five children.
S. Elliot Brandis is an engineer and author from Brisbane, Australia. He writes post-apocalyptic, horror, and dystopian fiction, often blurring genre lines. He is a lover of bourbon, baseball, and horror movies.
His novels are about outlaws, outcasts, and outsiders.
Join the mailing list at http://eepurl.com/PsmMv for news about giveaways and upcoming releases.
email: s.elliot.brandis@gmail.com
Nathan M. Beauchamp started writing stories at nine-years-old and never stopped. From his first grisly tales about carnivorous catfish, mole detectives, and cyborg housecats, his interests have always delved into strange waters. Nathan is an academic mercenary (Adjunct Professor of English), and earns paltry sums in exchange for warping young minds. His hobbies include photography, reading, arguing for sport, pondering the eventual heat death of the universe, and sarcasm. He has published many short stories in magazines and anthologies and holds an MFA in creative writing from Western State Colorado University. Nathan co-created the award winning YA science fiction series Universe Eventual where he writes under the pseudonym N.J. Tanger (www.njtanger.com).
I’m a pathologically curious sci-fi and fantasy geek. Most of my writing portrays ethical crises packaged in nail-biting thriller and mystery story lines, taking place in super-detailed story worlds. I love this stuff.
Connect with me at joshuaingle.com!
P.K. Tyler is the author of Speculative Fiction and other Genre Bending novels. She's also published works as Pavarti K. Tyler and had projects appear on the USA TODAY Bestseller's List.
"Tyler is essentially the indie scene's Margaret Atwood; she incorporates sci-fi elements into her novels, which deal with topics such as spirituality, gender, sexuality and power dynamics." - IndieReader
Pav attended Smith College and graduated with a degree in Theatre. She lived in New York, where she worked as a Dramaturge, Assistant Director and Production Manager on productions both on and off-Broadway. Later, Pavarti went to work in the finance industry for several international law firms.
Now located in Baltimore Maryland, she lives with her husband, two daughters and two terrible dogs. When not penning science fiction books and other speculative fiction novels, she twists her mind by writing horror and erotica.
Like Genre-Bending Literary Fiction? Click here for free stories: http://www.pktyler.com/subscribers/
Hugo and three-time Nebula Award finalist Caroline M. Yoachim is the author of over a hundred published short stories, appearing in Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Lightspeed, among other places. Her work has been reprinted in multiple year’s best anthologies and translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Czech. Yoachim’s debut short story collection, Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories, came out in 2016. For more, check out her website at http://carolineyoachim.com
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The best is "The Titan's Daughter" with its strong echoes of The Odyssey. The worst co-opts the plot of a C&W song -- "Ruby, don't take your love to the surface!" -- and simply plops it in the ocean. The collection is not horrible, but you have to work too hard to find the interesting nuggets.
When I was a teenager, I subscribed to several SF magazines (Analog, Asimov, Omni) but eventually lost the taste for short stories. As I've followed the Chronos stories from one anthology to another, I've regained my taste for this style of collection. Thanks to all the authors!
What a wonderfully imaginative, creatively speculative, multi-author collection! I loved it! I was intrigued by the title, as I have been an aficionado of the Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic sub-genres for nearly six decades, and because over the last couple of years that interest has focused on rising sea levels, climate change, and Lovecraftian apocalypses. I found plenty to gratify my intrigue here, and OCEANS: THE ANTHOLOGY has found a place on my special rereader shelf. You can't go wrong here, as there is much from which to choose, all of it guaranteed to stretch the imagination.
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I need to say at this point that I am terrified of water, and have been from a very early age. I can't swim and am unable to go anywhere near open stretches of water. The stories are very well written and so detailed, realistic and atmospheric, that I actually felt myself physically 'backing off' whenever character(s) were near the water. Having said that, I really enjoyed this anthology and I didn't think I would because of my phobia. I did have to keep reminding myself that 'it's only a book!'.
I loved all the stories, but these were my particular favourites:
'Tide Sweeping' by P K Tyler
I have yet to be disappointed by anything this author writes. Her works are so unusual and unique, and she pulls you into her worlds from the first paragraph. Vivid language, scarily beautiful, and unfortunately every bit believable for a potential timeline.
'Turtle: An A.L.I.V.E. Story' by R D Brady
I'm a huge softy when it comes to animals of any kind and I'm sure I'm not the only one...ah, lovely Iggy. It is also the total chaos and devastation that we, as (supposedly) the most intelligent beings, cause to other species that we are reminded of in this story.
There's a photo doing the rounds at the moment of a tiny, beautiful seahorse carrying a Q-Tip. That made me so angry. Parts of this story made me angry too, particularly the turtle that Iggy found. Dear god... We have made our presence known on this Earth, good and bad. There are times I think that we are not worthy of our amazing home. This story completely backed up my thoughts.
'Aquagenic' by Will Swardstrom
Amazingly well thought out story for a real and debilitating condition. Dana gives Cora the time she needs next to the ocean to understand where she should be, and what she is. Wonderfully haunting.
A very easy five star award.

My favourites here (i.e. the ones I remember without prompting): the hole in the middle of the desert, containing the remnants of the last ocean, which was a centre of pilgrimage; the mermaid who just needed to get back to the sea; the clone who was born in the air and transferred when she was old enough, working with clones born below the sea, with a completely different lifestyle and mythology; the stranded explorer on a dead world, where life was a beach… There were many more, but I’d have to go back to the book to look, and then I’d list them all.
It’s a brilliant collection, and a perfect beach read for nerds like me. And a great read for everyone else!

Featuring 12 fantastic stories of varying lengths, OCEANS is an enjoyable read from start to finish. All stories are obviously ocean themed but I loved how each author approached the theme in such unique ways from a Sweeper who is charged with protecting the last pocket of ocean from being devoured by sands, a community of genetically altered humans who dwell in the seas and build pipelines to power the cities for land humans, and a sister who can't stop hearing the siren call of the sea, to stories which tackle environmental issues head-on in true speculative fiction fashion!
My favourites of the anthology included:
- Tide Sweeping by P.K Tyler
- Dancing in the Midnight Ocean by Caroline M. Yoachim
- New Years Eve by Joshua Ingle
- Girt by Sea by S. Elliot Brandis
Another thing I really appreciated was that at the end of each story there is a neat little authors note about their contribution as well as more info about them and their work. I'll definitely be adding some of their books to my reading list as well as the first anthology in the Frontiers of Speculative Fiction series - CLONES - which also looks amazing!

