Mercedes Lackey

Fifteen-year-old Tomas Torres, the son of an immigrant family who are just barely making it, gets picked up by the police for doing some work for the local padrone (collector). For this work, Tomas has made $1000 a week, a lot of money by anyone's count. But what is the work? What is Tomas arrested for? Arson, but arson that cannot be explained. Tomas has a most unusual gift: he is a fire-starter--he can start fires with sheer force of will that flame...

Gwenhwyfar moves in a world where gods walk among their pagan worshipers, where nebulous visions warn of future perils, and where there are two paths for a woman: the path of the Blessing or the rarer path of the Warrior. Gwenhwyfar chooses the latter, giving up the power that she is born into. Yet the daughter of a king is never truly free to follow her own calling. Acting as the "son" her father never had, when called upon to serve another purpose...

A great working of Wild Magic and High Magic strikes at the heart of the Demon Queen's plots, but the human city, the Golden City of the Bells, falls farther under her sway with each day that passes. And without the City's High Magicians, the Wild Magicians, the Elven Army, and all their allies will surely fall before the onslaught of the Demon Queen's malignant warriors. But not all hope is lost. The Light's young mages, tempered by war, grow ever...

It has been ten years since the magical Cataclysm, which destroyed the twin strongholds of the two world's most powerful Mages, killing Urtho, creator of the gryphons, and sending his forces into exile. Now Urthro's peoples-human and non-human alike live in a terraced city carved into the face of a gleaming white cliff on the edge of the Western Ocean. Secure at least . . . until the fleet of the mysterious Black Kings appears in their harbor, bringing...

Aspiring High Mage Tiercel and reluctant Knight-Mage Harrier work on their powers while witnessing devastating attacks by the Wild Mage Bosochim, and while young Shaira leads the desert tribespeople toward a legendary oasis.

The seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina is more than a pampered princess-she's also the family spy. Which makes her the perfect emissary to check out interesting happenings in the neighboring kingdom...and nothing interests her more than Sasha, the seventh son of the king of Belrus. Ekaterina suspects he's far from the fool people think him. But before she can find out what lies beneath his facade, she is kidnapped!

Trapped...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 29: November 2017 Mike Resnick, Editor Taylor Morris, Copyeditor Shahid Mahmud, Publisher Stories by Larry Hodges. David L. Hebert, Mercedes Lackey, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Daniel J. Davis, Kevin J. Anderson, Eric Leif Davin, Steve Pantazis, Barry N. Malzberg, Dan Koboldt, Sandra M. Odell, Nancy Kress Serialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford Recommended...

Defending their world against evil forces, Knight-Mage Harrier and High Mage Tiercel team up with the rogue Bisochim in an effort to destroy Ahairan, who is using her magical forces to attack desert nomads under their protection.

The evil Unseleighe Sidhe attempt to prevent the rise to the throne of a red-haired child destined to usher in a golden age, while the good Sidhe of Elhame Avalon endeavor to ensure that the child will become Queen Elizabeth I.