Recent Publications

  • Lightspeed: Year One

    Lightspeed: Year One compiles all the fiction published by the online science fiction magazine Lightspeed in its first year. Originally published stories include Nebula Award finalists Vylar Kaftan’s “I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno” and Adam-Troy Castro’s “Arvies” as well as Carrie Vaughn’s Hugo Award-nominated “Amaryllis.” Plus, there are classic stories by Stephen King, Ursula K. Le…

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  • Brave New Worlds

    YOU ARE BEING WATCHED.

    When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state. Will you fight the system, or be ground to dust beneath the boot of tyranny?

    In his smash-hit anthologies Wastelands and The Living Dead, acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams showed you what happens when society is utterly wiped…

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  • The Way of the Wizard

    A World Fantasy Award finalist!

    Power. We all want it, they’ve got it—witches, warlocks, sorcerers, necromancers, those who peer beneath the veil of mundane reality and put their hands on the levers that move the universe. They see the future in a sheet of glass, summon fantastic beasts, and transform lead into gold…or you into a…

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  • The Living Dead 2

    Two years ago, readers eagerly devoured The Living Dead. Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams is back for another bite at the apple — the Adam’s apple, that is — with 43 more of the best, most chilling, most thrilling zombie stories anywhere, including virtuoso performances by zombie fiction legends Max Brooks (World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide),…

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  • The Living Dead

    A World Fantasy Award finalist!

    From White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead, from Resident Evil to World War Z, zombies have invaded popular culture, becoming the monsters that best express the fears and anxieties of the modern west. The ultimate consumers, zombies rise from the dead and feed upon the living, their teeming masses ever hungry, ever seeking to…

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  • Wastelands

    Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon — these are our guides through the Wastelands… From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so,…

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From the Blog

Under the Moons of Mars: Sneak Preview @ io9

io9 is currently featuring a sneak preview of my John Carter/Barsoom anthology Under the Moons of Mars, “A Tinker of Warhoon” by Tobias S. Buckell.

For more about Under the Moons of Mars, visit the promotional site, which includes interviews, artwork, free fiction, and more!

 

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About JJA

John Joseph Adams—called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble.com—is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as Brave New Worlds, Wastelands, The Living Dead, The Living Dead 2, By Blood We Live, Federations, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and The Way of the Wizard. He is a two-time finalist for the Hugo Award and a three-time finalist for the World Fantasy Award. He is also the editor and publisher of Lightspeed Magazine, and is the co-host of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.

Current Projects

  • Other Worlds Than These

    Reprint anthology of parallel worlds/portal fantasy stories.

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  • Epic

    Reprint anthology of epic fantasy short fiction for Tachyon Publications.

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  • Lightspeed Magazine

    The Hugo Award-nominated online science fiction magazine, featuring a mix of original and reprinted fiction, with nonfiction, podcasts, and art.

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