Hugo Award WinnerHOMer Award NomineeThe field of advanced mathematic imaging has taken a lethal turn in the form of the BLIT. Named after the now-deceased mathematician Vernon Berryman, the Berryman Logical Imaging Technique can create images that crash the human brain in the same way a computer crashes from a sufficiently complex query. Terrorists have killed millions using posters, graffiti—and television. Many parents have had secret biochips implanted in the optic nerves of their children to darken the world outside of their schools and homes. Now, with a mild-dose BLIT found in a copy machine, the secret student group known as the Shudder Club holds contests to see who can stare at it the longest and prove worthy of their tenet: That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.

An anthology of stories edited by Mike AshleyMarianne is an important fictional formulation of Sand's thinking on the role of women and the nature of democracy. This edition includes a long biographical preface which quotes extensively from her correspondences.

Welcome To The Frightmare Lands…Imagination can be a terrible revenge when a storybook character takes on a life of his own….Trick or treat suddenly takes on a whole new meaning for one doctor who has long been exercising his powers over life and death….When two boys' existences and identities somehow become intertwined, is one the dreamer and the other a dream?She thought she'd found the ideal apartment until it began to take on an eerie life of its own….These are just a few of the twenty-six dwelling places of terror you'll visit in…