Recent Publications

  • Oz Reimagined

    edited by John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen

    When L. Frank Baum introduced Dorothy and friends to the American public in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became an instant, bestselling hit. Today the whimsical tale remains a cultural phenomenon that continues to spawn wildly popular books, movies, and musicals. Now, editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen have brought …

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  • The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

    edited by John Joseph Adams

    Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy or otherwise dominate the world as we know it.…

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  • Brave New Worlds (2nd Edition)

    REVISED & EXPANDED 2ND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE!

    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 …

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  • Epic: Legends of Fantasy

    There is a sickness in the land. Prophets tell of the fall of empires, the rise of champions. Great beasts stir in vaults beneath the hills, beneath the waves. Armies mass. Gods walk. The world will be torn asunder.

    Epic fantasy is storytelling at its biggest and best. From the creation myths and quest sagas of ancient times to the …

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  • Other Worlds Than These

    What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?

    We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, …

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  • Armored

    PART HUMAN. PART MACHINE. ALL SOLDIER.

    Decades ago, Starship Troopers captivated readers with its vision of a future war in which power armored soldiers battled giant insects on hostile alien planets. Today, with the success of Iron Man, Halo, and Mechwarrior—and with real robotic exoskeletons just around the corner—the idea of super-powered combat armor and giant mecha has never …

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  • Under the Moons of Mars

    Readers of all ages have read and loved Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars series since the first book, A Princess of Mars, was published in 1912. Fans have marveled at the adventures of John Carter, an Earthman who suddenly finds himself on a strange new world: Mars. Now, in time for the 100th anniversary of that seminal work and the …

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From the Blog

New Anthology: DEAD MAN’S HAND

This one has been under wraps for a while, but I’m happy to announce that I’ve edited an all-original anthology of “weird west” stories for Titan Books, called Dead Man’s Hand. Here’s the press release and the (not final) cover:

Titan Books announced today that next spring it will publish Dead Man’s Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West (May 2014, Trade Paperback), an exclusive “weird western” anthology, edited by John Joseph Adams, that will include stories from many …

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About JJA

John Joseph Adams is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as Oz Reimagined, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, Epic: Legends of Fantasy, Other Worlds Than These, Armored, Under the Moons of Mars, Brave New Worlds, Wastelands, The Living Dead, Federations, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and The Way of the Wizard. He is a six-time finalist for the Hugo Award and a four-time nominee for the World Fantasy Award. He is also the editor and publisher of the magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare, and is the co-host of Wired.com’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.

Current Projects

  • Nightmare Magazine

    NightmareThe online horror magazine, featuring a mix of original and reprinted fiction, with nonfiction, podcasts, and art.…

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  • Robot Uprisings

    An original anthology of stories concerning the inevitable robot uprising. Co-edited with Daniel H. Wilson. Forthcoming from Doubleday in 2014.…

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  • Lightspeed Magazine

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

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