• By Blood We Live: ebook | sampler
• The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ebook | sampler

My anthologies include several works that are currently eligible. All stories belong in the short story category unless otherwise noted. Linked stories are available online in their entirety. SFWA members can download the stories via the links provided (email me at johnjosephadams@gmail.com if you’re a SFWA member and have issues downloading the files).

Seeds of Change [SFWA members download]
Prime Books, August 2008

• N-Words by Ted Kosmatka
• The Future by Degrees by Jay Lake
• Drinking Problem by K. D. Wentworth
• Endosymbiont by Blake Charlton
• A Dance Called Armageddon by Ken MacLeod
• Arties Aren’t Stupid by Jeremiah Tolbert
• Faceless in Gethsemane by Mark Budz
• Spider the Artist by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
• Resistance by Tobias S. Buckell

The Living Dead
Night Shade Books, September 2008

• How the Day Runs Down by John Langan (novelette) [SFWA member download]

Federations [SFWA member download]
Prime Books, May 2009

• Carthago Delenda Est by Genevieve Valentine
• Life-Suspension by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• Terra-Exulta by S. L. Gilbow
• Different Day by K. Tempest Bradford
• Twilight of the Gods by John C. Wright (novelette)
• Swanwatch by Yoon Ha Lee
• Pardon Our Conquest by Alan Dean Foster
• My She by Mary Rosenblum
• The Culture Archivist by Jeremiah Tolbert
• The Other Side of Jordan by Allen Steele
• Like They Always Been Free by Georgina Li
• Eskhara by Trent Hergenrader
• The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses by James Alan Gardner
• Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy by Catherynne M. Valente

By Blood We Live

• The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan (novella) [SFWA member download]
• Foxtrot at High Noon by Sergei Lukyanenko [SFWA member download]

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

• The Adventure of the Pirates of Devil’s Cape by Rob Rogers (novelette) [SFWA member download]

Here’s a taste:

• “The reigning king of the anthology world is John Joseph Adams.”
• “Every anthology this guy is associated with seems to turn to gold: and by gold I mean jaw-droppingly brilliant anthologies with no weak links that I’ll not only read again and again but treasure until the day I die.”
• “[Wastelands] is arguably my favorite anthology of all time – just packed with speculative masterworks.”
• The Living Dead was, simply put, the best collection of zombie fiction stories ever collected. … This anthology is, like Wastelands, one of my all-time favorite short story collections. Fans of zombie fiction shouldn’t just read this anthology – they should own it.”
• “By Blood We Live [is] a killer collection of simply stellar vampire stories that just floored me from beginning to end. … Yet another masterful – dare I say perfect – anthology.”
   

And as if that wasn’t cool enough for one day, Allen’s article also inspired some…fan art?

Here’s the cover copy:

Vampires. They are the most elegant of monsters—ancient, seductive, doomed, deadly. They lurk in the shadows, at your window, in your dreams. They are beautiful as anything you’ve ever seen, but their flesh is cold as the grave, and their lips taste of blood. From Dracula to Twilight, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to True Blood, many have fallen under their spell. Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams brings you 33 of the most haunting vampire stories of the past three decades, from some of today’s most renowned authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

Charming gentlemen with the manners of a prior age. Savage killing machines who surge screaming from hidden vaults. Cute little girls frozen forever in slender bodies. Long-buried loved ones who scratch at the door, begging to be let in. Nowhere is safe, not mist-shrouded Transylvania or the Italian Riviera or even a sleepy town in Maine. This is a hidden world, an eternal world, where nothing is forbidden…as long as you’re willing to pay the price.

By Blood We Live is 245,000 words of the best in vampire fiction. Thirsty? By Blood We Live will satisfy your darkest cravings…

And here’s the URL: www.johnjosephadams.com/by-blood-we-live

My next anthology, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is coming out in September, but I’m launching the site for that now as well:

Sherlock Holmes is back!

Sherlock Holmes, the world’s first—and most famous—consulting detective, came to the world’s attention more than 120 years ago through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels and stories. But Conan Doyle didn’t reveal all of the Great Detective’s adventures…

Here are some of the best Holmes pastiches of the last 30 years, twenty-eight tales of mystery and the imagination detailing Holmes’s further exploits, as told by many of today’s greatest storytellers, including Stephen King, Anne Perry, Anthony Burgess, Neil Gaiman, Naomi Novik, Stephen Baxter, Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock, and many more.

These are the improbable adventures of Sherlock Holmes, where nothing is impossible, and nothing can be ruled out. In these cases, Holmes investigates ghosts, curses, aliens, dinosaurs, shapeshifters, and evil gods. But is it the supernatural, or is there a perfectly rational explanation?

You won’t be sure, and neither will Holmes and Watson as they match wits with pirates, assassins, con artists, and criminal masterminds of all stripes, including some familiar foes, such as their old nemesis, Professor Moriarty.

In these pages you’ll also find our heroes crossing paths with H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, and even Arthur Conan Doyle himself, and you’ll be astounded to learn the truth behind cases previously alluded to by Watson but never before documented until now. These are tales that take us from the familiar quarters at 221B Baker Street to alternate realities, from the gaslit streets of London to the far future and beyond.

Whether it’s mystery, fantasy, horror, or science fiction, no puzzle is too challenging for the Great Detective. The game is afoot!

And the URL is www.johnjosephadams.com/sherlock-holmes

“For this anthology of twenty-four stories, editor John Joseph Adams tasked some of the brightest luminaries of speculative fiction to write stories of vast, galaxy-spanning empires and the people that live in them. … By mixing writers with great experience in with newer authors, Adams captures both the feel of the old pulp magazines and the practical elements of the ever-changing science of astronomy and space travel. … Editor Adams has collected both the finest writers and their finest tales in the definitive volume of vast, epic, interstellar Federations.”

Bibliophile Stalker reviews Federations:

“It’s a testament to the strength of the editor when a mixed anthology–one that features both reprints and original stories–features a consistent selection that one has trouble discerning which is which (or ceases to care about identifying them). Federations is one of those anthologies where I open the book and each story is a treat. … Federations is an accessible science fiction anthology and features both recognizable and refreshing elements of the genre. … [O]ne of the more enjoyable books I’ve encountered in quite some time”

BookPage Magazine reviews By Blood We Live:

“More than anything, this anthology demonstrates that the vampire is not only undead but mutable, and in the best writers’ hands, a tool for analyzing our mortal frailty and resilience in the teeth of unadulterated evil and unimaginable love.”