SF & fantasy collected from Pirate Writings magazine. The stories are not about Pirates, nor are they “pirated”. Pirate is more indicative of the attitude  & ambition that set the magazine apart from the rest & made it one of the best small press speculative fiction magazines of its day. Featuring the talents of:

Linda D. Addison	Bram Stoker award winner! Author of: Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes Animated Objects
Paul DiFilippo	Author of: The Steampunk Trilogy Ribofunk Lost Pages  Fractal Paisleys  Little Doors
Tom Piccirilli	Multiple Bram Stoker award winner!  Author of: A Choir of Ill Children The Night Class Grave Men The Dead Past The Deceased Sorrow’s Crown
Mike Resnick	Hugo Award Winner! Author of: The Return of Santiago The Widowmaker  The Outpost  A Chronicle of a Distant World Series Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia & For I Have Touched the Sky (Tales of Kirinyaga , No 2) A Chronicle of A Distant World Editor of many anthologies
Josepha Sherman	Best Selling Author! Author of: Star Trek: Vulan’s Forge & Star Trek: Vulcan’s Heart. Many books in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Highlander, and Xena series.
Allen Steele	2 time Hugo Award Winner! Author of: Lunar Descent Coyote:  A Novel of Interstellar Exploration Labyrinth of Night The Jericho Iteratium
Patrick Thomas	Author of: Murphy’s Lore : Tales From Bulfinche’s Pub, Fool’s Day, Throught the Drinking Glass, & Shadow of the Wolf. The Wildsidhe Chronicles: Welcome to the Wildsidhe and Double Cross: Exile and Entrance

Also featuring the talents of

 Brendon Adams • Kathryn J. Brown • G. William Cromer  • Steve Hamilton  • J.L. Hanna  • Anthony J. Howard • Brett Hudgins  • Mary Soon Lee • Lyn Lifshin  • Edward J. McFadden • Brian Plante   • Arthur J. Scott •  Christopher Stires  • Jeffrey Valka

Cover art by Brian Durfee

Praise for Pirate Writings

“EXCELLENT.” 

-SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE        

“FABULOUS...QUITE AN ACHIEVEMENT.”

-DEAN R. KOONTZ

“SIGN ON UNDER THE FLAG OF McFADDEN’S JOLLY ROGER NOW!”  

-ASIMOV’S

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