Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology

. Phobos Books, $14.95 (262pp) ISBN 978-0-9720026-0-8

Phobos Books launches its first title, Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology, edited by Orson Scott Card and former Starlog managing editor Keith Olexa. Lawrence Kraus (The Physics of Star Trek, etc.) supplies a foreword. While the contributors are all unknowns, selected in the First Annual Phobos Fiction Contest, the big names associated with this project should ensure plenty of attention within the SF world.

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