In the human resistance against the machines his name is legend. Almost nothing is harder to kill than a legend. Except.......
A collection of Robert E. Keller's science fiction and fantasy short stories, some of which were previously published in online and print magazines an...
He was different. His one, lidless eye could see in, through, past. It drove him insane. But then, he fell, injuring himself badly. He couldn't see an...
We all have dreams. We pray, we hope, we buy lottery tickets and wish on falling stars. We know this isn't the most practical way to get things done, ...
“I don’t think you understand, sir. I am talking about truly indisputable evidence that the Sasquatch exists.” “Yes, you have indisputable evi...
Carl Weston finds a young man lying unconscious by the train tracks. Who is he? Where did he come from? Carl knows the man can't have got off the trai...
For two decades Eric Montague has traveled back in time to the scene of his wife’s fatal accident. Even though he grieves for her constantly, he is ...
The family thought they'd moved into their dream house... they found that they may have prematurely moved into their own tombs. The spiders that popul...
Biz Cooper comes into Kluskey's bar with an urgent tale to tell. Two thirds of the Colestar 24's crew have left the ship as it comes into port. The se...
Life within the dome is comfortable, secure and predictable.What lies on the outside is the unknown; the work of the other creator.Lara, a young woman...
The truth shall set you free, or so they say, but what happens when the it does the complete opposite? Jason Pendrill is orphaned after his mother's d...
Discover life-changing worlds, old and new, with this eBook collection of seventeen excerpts from Del Rey and Bantam Books, featuring many of the bigg...
A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2020. Includes stories by: Charlie Jane An...
"Going Down" follows a Fleet infantry soldier named Bryis who, while retreating from a hostile enemy on an alien world, finds herself immobile and str...
Tired of ho-hum horror and science fiction stories that fail to keep your interest? Want some tales to keep you awake at night? Then try this double a...
What should have been the greatest moment of Dr. Spencer's life would be a death sentence if he told what he and some other scientists were working on...
In the blink of an eye, all human life disappeared, except for myself. A short story.
Based on actual events...maybe... It was just a party. There were six of them, three guys and three girls enjoying the cool fall evening. Good friends...
The Avellan is sent out by the military to perform rescue missions. Soon, the crew finds themselves trying to stop David and save humanity.
I was thirteen when I first met her. By the end of our first encounter, I knew she wasn't human. By the end of our second, I knew she was a friend. By...
The five little men who walk into Kluskey’s are no ordinary customers. They are Shantaitha, monks from the planet Gide, making an epic journey acros...
A man struggles to survive in Miami after zombies have killed most of the inhabitants. His elemental existence is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of...
Witness a first-person view of a changed world. A solitary survivor hides in a mountain above the city, living in a trailer with the door and windows ...
Billy was always curious about the lights in the sky, but he didn’t think much about them until June 14, 1963. One night, on his dad’s farm, he sa...
He entered the big oval room, lighted from overhead by the great star-map in the ceiling, and crossed to his desk, with the viewscreens and reading sc...
A ship of explorers has crash-landed onto K24B, a planet full of vast plains and lush forests teaming with countless new species. The knowledge-hungry...
Flat broke and stranded in a South American country, Ralph Gardiner is nursing a beer and contemplating the wreckage of his life. No money, no prospec...
Ten years ago, Pell Argood saw something that has haunted him ever since. Can he convince the cadets in Kluskey's bar to stay away from Sector 17?
A short science fiction / conspiracy story set in the Highlands of Scotland.
A fascinating and engaging collection of Science fiction short stories, all made up of of 400 words or less. For those times when you have just a few ...
Science Fiction Short Stories is a collection of eight, inspirational science fiction stories: Home, The Sacrifice, The Same Stars, Siren Song, What...
Great short stories told in 1,000 words or less to fill those times between sleeping and working. In here you’ll learn that burying a body in the wo...
A collection of gripping stories that explore a range of possible futures for Earth and humanity transformed by climate change. Featuring contribution...
An Oolite short story - Lumbering through the depths of space are the Generation Ships; huge self contained transports driving between the stars at su...
It was a perfectly normal spring day in Brisbane. Some friends got together to share a few drinks. But the darkness of nightfall and the coming storm ...
Have you read of the Nephilim and found yourself wondering who they really were? What about the other, similarly described beings from ancient text? O...
Surprise presents are very nice, even to tyranical dictators. Sometimes the surprise is that anyone will even SEND you a present!
Gattica Province died five years ago and sparked a war between the Earth Federation and the Epsilon Alliance. Cat Anders left E-Fed service after she ...
Poor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wrong, hurts n...
Larry is a odd sort of kid who hates his father. William is an odd sort of man who hates life. What happens when William meets Larry, and how will it ...
An escaped prisoner is taken up into a UFO and transformed into a hideous creature designed to harvest humans to be used as food on an alien planet.
A mission to Mars has left Earth but more may be at work behind the mission than there first seems. A short story.
Dan Drake signed up for a one-man mission to explore the uncharted depths of outer space. No more emotional entanglements or catastrophic relationship...
The settlers were dispatched to a distant world to prepare the way for the great migration. Everything went according to plan, a little too smoothly, ...
What if? What if a note that arrived at your feet every two hours and eleven minutes was all that separated you from utter madness as you floated thro...
Please enjoy these excerpts from a dozen of Tor.com's favorite science fiction, fantasy, and horror novellas and novels from the following innovative ...
Save Sci-Fi (SSF) has supported new, independent, quality science fiction across all mediums since its inception. And now, as a part of our long- stan...
When NASA detects a strange object on the dark side of Pluto, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate.
Three month old alien Clem faces his first day of Kaxian duty with anxiety. What will be his assignment? If only his tail didn't have a mind of its ow...
The year is 1945. The Third Reich has unleashed, and subsequently lost the Second World War. Their home in Europe lies in ruins, and their dictator Hi...
This anthology of short stories is the result of a seven-week creative writing course. Most but not all of the stories are science fiction or fantasy....
Deep in the forest, stands a mountain that has claimed the lives of many daring mountain climbers, known as Death Mountain, which is one of the talles...
Pilgrims travel to a time honored place to pray for the ancients to return.
"Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to." - Toralii Proverb Hundreds of years before the Toralii attacked Earth, destroying the cities ...
It was the summer of 1963 and three friends Mark, Dan and Steve who loved to sail the deepest oceans shared the same dream, they all wanted to find th...
This collection of twelve short stories, with subjects ranging from sci-fi to spy thriller, from humour to history and from family to finance is writt...
Trading, fighting, even just surviving in the depths of space is full of hardship and unseen dangers. A thousand things can go wrong at any time in a ...
Monsters, legends, and things that we would rather not think about, this collection of three short stories and two pieces of flash fiction will treat ...
Something came with the rain one night to the town of New Leeds. Something dark that soaked into earth, the buildings, the people and gave birth to so...
These short stories were written to explore some of the ethical issues medical advancements will bring forth. The scenarios are within the realm of po...
Dr. Dan is a dentist who also happens to be a dirt bike riding daredevil! One day Dan's astronomer friend discovers an asteroid heading for the Earth!...
A speculative satire about the health care industries assuming dictatorial powers in a recognizable near future society. Healthy or Else tells the sto...
Fledgling colonies burn. Orbital stations are reduced to debris. Expansion into the solar system has been completely halted by a force against which h...
Henry Beam Piper’s book “Five Sci-Fi Short Stories“ is a collection of: The Answer, Temple Trouble, Flight From Tomorrow, Police Operation and G...
A hug-warm bed every night. A freshly-brewed coffee every dawn. That's the promise being touted by revolutionary tech giant iSYS and their new smart-h...
Ever get the feeling your being watched, Ted and Ralf find the truth behind the latest star wars saga.
The end of the world is at hand and humanity races for survival in the face of an extinction level event that will wipe out all life on Earth.
Little though they seem to think of it, the people of this twenty-ninth century live continually in fairyland. Surfeited as they are with marvels, the...
The Spark grew brighter. He was more than a something that merely knew that it existed. He was a man, and he had a name, and a military rank, and memo...
He is driving a pretty red space ship. He finally crash’s his ship into a woman’s yard. He gets out of his spaceship. A woman comes out and says, ...
In the near future, a multicultural group of idealistic college students make a bold move to bring peace to the Balkans.
FUTURES & FANTASIES is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy culled from the pages of the digital short fiction magazine, LIGHTSPEED. In its...
It's a quiet night in Kluskey's spacer hangout, so Tam Kluskey asks veteran spacer Jok to tell a story. Jok tells the tale of the Surehaul Logistics 7...
The crew of the Leavenworth discover a century-old satellite in a sector of deep space where it doesn't belong. Even worse, there's a frozen body stuf...
The second of the wolf legion series...The rage of the Werebear! More secrets of the mighty Pensacola Indians exposed! Seems that the wolfs are not al...
Every evening Joshua, a manager at FishBurgers, walks home alone. One night, he comes across Mariella, an unusual young woman sitting on a bench. He's...
Ellie Simmons lost the love of her life, her husband Daniel. And now, two years later, baby Daniel is born -- a clone of the man she lost. But human c...
Journey with Julius though the ages from him being an centurion at the time of Christ’s Crucifixion where he was first bitten to the middle Eighteen...
Thousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires ...
This is a short Jon Pertwee Doctor Who tale - the third Time Lord in the BBC science fiction television series. This time, the Doctor comes to early A...
The first galactic princess is a little girl growing up in a wonderful place. She faces an ordinary problem with the help of a friend and the support ...
The Heilmann Drive allowed humanity to spread across the stars and prosper for nearly two thousand years. But when the use of the device begins to eat...
This short story is an ode to the theories of the late Zechariah Sitchin, author of the "Twelfth Planet" though his theories have been modified some t...
A tale of what might happen when an example of sophisticated technology is suddenly thrust upon a backward culture steeped in religion. Ascension tell...
In a dystopian future, aging has been cured, but population control measures ensure that the number of people remains constant: for every newborn, som...
I like Jenna-Louise Coleman. I think her acting in the BBC television series Doctor Who is worthwhile Sci-Fi. But honestly, her character, Clara Oswin...
An ancient craft, long forgotten, adrift alone, sending out a distress call. Simply trying to get back home. Imagine it's surprise when it discovers s...
This is a short description of police atrocities on people involved in revolutionary movements in Punjab/India conveyed in the form of punjabi scienti...
There's no joy in coming of age for Lexi. As a illegitimate third-born daughter, she knew the day only held exile from her clan-hold. Outside the wall...
Do you wonder why Man and the Earth were created? This short parable explains where we came from and why we are here. It is a five minute lesson of ou...
When star pilot Jael rebels against an abusive captain and flies the "mountain route" through the Flux, she dismisses a legend claiming that dragons l...
From the 15 year old first-time-author Christian Gutierrez comes a psychological thriller An average boy living in a world that is populated by myster...
When Gilda buys a locket for her birthday, she finds more than she ever dreamed of, literally. She soon discovers the locket is more than a piece of j...
Do you ever get that sense of deja vu...a feeling that you've experienced something before? As computers get more and more complex, they are able to r...
“Lonely Child” is a sci-fi story of a young boy’s wish to be able to walk on our planet’s surface. He was born in zero gravity and has lived t...
A short story about an asteroid miner and his Artificial Intelligence companion returning an asteroid to Earth, only to find that there is a large pro...
Everyone said it's the last day of Earth and he went outside and waited. A short story about the apocalypse.
This is a Anthologies book. A friend tells me that the allusion to the Acanthus on the first page of this book is obscurely expressed, that it was not...
What is this Doctor Who fan fiction about? Well, I’m getting old and my favorite Doctor is Tom Baker – me being American, he’s who I first met. ...
Not all villains succeed at being evil. Not all diseases deserve the word plague. Fate can be ironic indeed. The chilling short story, The Giving Plag...
FEATURING GREG EGAN • YOON HA LEE • NEIL GAIMAN • E LILY YU • K J PARKER • GEOFF RYMAN • M BENNARDO • RAMEZ NAAM • TED CHIANG • PRIY...
Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, some of today's leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries have come together...
Robert A. Heinlein's brilliance and diverse talents are on display in this collection of five short stories that range from mind-twisters ("All You Zo...
Five original tales set in a shared urban future—from some of the hottest young writers in modern SF More than an anthology, Metatropolis is the bra...
“A breath of fresh air . . . the vision is deeply imagined, very complete and controlled . . . Gibson is truly brilliant.”—Washington Times maga...
The young man's nightmare continues as once again he falls asleep. He finds himself having an out of body experience but is interrupted by another cre...
Jack McDevitt loves a good mystery. And he enjoys baffling his readers with enigmas like why, after so many years of listening with no results, would ...
Here for the first time is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed Hainish series, which tells the history...
From the author of Exhalation , an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, t...
ORIGINAL STORIES SET IN JOHN RINGO'S BEST-SELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES. The zombie apocalypse is here in these all-new stories from John Ringo, Sa...
The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways...
Hugo Award winner "Neutron Star" and seven other groundbreaking stories and novellas by the author of RINGWORLD. Well-known Niven characters -- ...
This book contain collection of 9 books 1. All the Sad Young Men [1926] 2. The Beautiful and Damned [1922] 3. Flappers and Philosophers [...
An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantali...
The universe of the mind is a limitless expanse of wonders, filled with worlds and secrets that cannot be fully explored within the pages of a single ...
IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a di...
From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic va...
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds , is #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson's novella collection of science fiction thrillers ...
CONFLICT IS ETERNAL We have always fought. War is the furnace that forges new technologies and pushes humanity ever onward. We are the children of a b...
Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut consists of two science fiction stories including 2 B R 0 2 B and The Big Trip Up Yonder. 2 B R 0 2 B that focuses on a...
H.G. Wells: The Short Story Collection is a collection of lesser known Herbert George Wells short stories. Best known for his science fiction ma...
In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The w...
Edmond Hamilton. For most people, this name conjures visions of two-fisted space opera -- pure pulp science fiction. And Hamilton -- known as the auth...
Imagine having the power to see briefly into the future, or being able to kill someone through a magic candle. Imagine someone playing war like a chil...
A major collection of short fiction from Peter F. Hamilton, New York Times bestselling author of Pandora’s Star, The Dreaming Void, and many other e...
LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to ...
Gil “The Arm” Hamilton was one of the top operatives of ARM, the elite UN police force. His intuition was unfailingly accurate; his detective skil...
2 B R 0 2 B or 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut is a science fiction story that focuses on a society where individuals have an indefinite lifespan and the popu...
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 jus...
Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others . Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival , starring Amy...
For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous litera...
Marshall Zebatinsky was embarrassed. He, a nuclear physicist, visiting a numerologist in the hopes of furthering his career―to be famous. Was he so ...
This is not a novel. This is not a short story collection. This is Self-Reference ENGINE. Instructions for Use: Read chapters in order. Contemplate th...
The definitive collection of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Vi...
This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manu...
Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best of the Year In her new collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. McHugh delves into the dark heart of contemporary lif...
An NPR Books Great Read: Two never-before-published stories from the archives of one of science fiction’s all-time masters. The novella “A Necessa...
A sensational short story collection in the expansive universe of HALO, the New York Times bestselling series! Launch once more into galaxy-spanning c...
Exciting, fast-paced and full of action right from the start. If you love Firefly and Star Trek, you will love this. When the crew of the Orion are hi...
Братья Стругацкие — Аркадий Натанович и Борис Натанович — советские и российски...
The mind of Ray Bradbury is a wonder-filled carnival of delight and terror that stretches from the verdant Irish countryside to the coldest reaches of...
Wondrous, horrifying, achingly human: The best short stories by “one of the greatest writers of science fiction and fantasy who ever lived” (Steph...
A short story in the Alcantaran series. All Kota and Zibo wanted to do was to start a family and to make a living, using the space ship freighter that...
MECH: Age of Steel is a collection of 24 mecha-inspired short stories in the spirit of Pacific Rim, Macross, Transformers, Robotech, Gundam, Evangelio...
With the publication of his debut novel, The Privateer, in 1981, Walter Jon Williams began one of the most varied and prolific careers in contemporar...
In a future where ageing has been cured, for someone to be born, someone must first volunteer to die. Edward K. Wehling, Jr waits in the hospital as h...
An annual celebration of the finest short form science fiction of the past year, editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer’s Year’s Best scienc...
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, th...
Technology Review Science Fiction: 12 visions of the future of computing, biotechnology, energy and more from the editors of MIT’s Technology Review...
This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the first two years of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy, with ...
Six extraordinary stories from the author of Kindred , a master of modern science fiction—including a Hugo and Nebula award–winning novella. Octav...
Collected here are eighteen stories that bend time and space by the incomparable R. A. Lafferty . Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantas...
Killdozer! is the third volume of a series of the complete short stories from Theodore Sturgeon's career. It contains a few of his best and most famou...
In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The w...
In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of astonishingly creative and gifted writers are boldly exp...
Invisible Planets , edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by...
From Leviathan Wakes to Leviathan Falls , James S. A. Corey's Hugo Award-winning Expanse series has redefined modern space opera. Now, available in pr...
Long before A Game of Thrones became an international phenomenon , #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin had taken his loyal reader...
"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the ge...
The third volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collection 26 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including a complete nov...
From the mind of #1 New York Times bestselling author Larry Niven, come twenty-six tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering place, colle...
Science Fiction Stories is a collection of brilliant tales from the masters of science fiction storytelling including Philip K. Dick, H. G. Wells, Ran...
"A blisteringly good collection." "Will read everything in this series I can get my hands on." "These stories are full of great, complex c...
A collection of short science fiction stories by Jon Griffin. Black Space Rockets, Space, Death In 2061, commuters shuttle from New York to the moon a...
The thirty-two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, a...
The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite ...
"The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn't give...
A man falls from the sky and as he falls an explosion appears above him. When the man hits the ground he survives the fall but finds he has lost his m...
"The Philip K. Dick Anthology: 18 Classic Science Fiction Stories" contains a fantastic selection from the legendary master of the genre. The st...
Ashton Chayton was born with a powerful gift, a unique inhuman telepathic ability. Orphaned and raised by the hyper-intelligent Red Wolves of Opan, he...
From #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones : Nightflyers , coming to television on SyFy, is an epic story of space exploration and cosmic horror,...
Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking col...
The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid ...
A splendid selection of stories from the lady who taught dragons to fly and rockets to sing . . . Lady in the Tower The Rowan was one of a selec...
Includes "After Yang," the basis for the acclaimed A24 film After Yang , starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Haley Lu Richardson, and dire...
Since Cherie Priest burst onto the speculative fiction scene, she’s built a huge following through novels that have earned her accolades and the tit...
‘Hello, sweetie!’ Melody Pond, Melody Malone, River Song…She has had many names. Whoever she really is, this archaeologist and time traveller ha...
In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and...
From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected in a Single Paperback Volume Keeping up-to-date wit...
A short story in the Alcantaran series. Zendo had learned from the star traders and they had given him money to expand his trading business. He was an...
The Future Boldly Imagined From Breathtaking New Perspectives The world as we will know it is far different from the future once predicted in simpler ...
The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-selling Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon. Today...
In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The w...
Praise for Karen Joy Fowler: "No contemporary writer creates characters more appealing, or examines them with greater acuity and forgiveness."—Micha...
Before The Road by Cormac McCarthy brought apocalyptic fiction into the mainstream, there was science fiction. No longer relegated to the fringes of l...
<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">It's here at last--the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of mas...
Short Stories by Philip K. Dick is a collection of 11 essential science fiction short stories including The Skull, The Eyes Have It, Piper in the Wood...
Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where...
From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis ...
Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation-- New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow-- Radicalized is a timely novel...
A young man wakes up in the middle of the night with his whole body paralyzed. As he is unable to move he notices another presence in his bedroom with...
The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929-1964. This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stor...
Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations...
A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY For the first time in a decade, a compilation of the very best in science fiction, from a world authori...
For more than 80 years H. P. Lovecraft has inspired writers of horror and supernatural fiction with his dark vision of humankind's insignificant place...
The world has been brought to its knees by the “zombie virus.” Nations have fallen, cities have been overrun by the infected, and the human race h...
Musaicum Books presents to you a carefully created collection of H. Beam Piper's Dystopian Novels, Sci-Fi Books and Supernatural Stories. This ebo...
Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined. Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this third collection...
If you're a regular backer of Kickstarters, you've probably seen some unique crowdfunding projects in your time. But one thing all of those campaigns...