Mary Fan

This book is a real mother.
To celebrate bad-ass moms everywhere, Crazy 8 Press has assembled a fantastic line-up of authors to create stories spanning numerous genres, including sci-fi, contemporary, historical, and fantasy. Since moms and badassery come in infinite forms, the authors were given only one criteria: that their story be about a bad-ass mother or mother figure, whatever that meant to them.
From grandmas to new moms, biological

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Venture into realms of sci-fi marvelsCome explore a world of teen makers and innovators. From interstellar escapades to near-future locales, this volume of sci-fi stories has something for everyone. Girls who use their mechanical acumen to save interstellar colonies and design super-powered armor. Young women who apply their knacks for numbers to finding criminals and solving environmental problems. Ladies who use brainpower and intellectual skills...

Monster slayer. Champion. Rebel. Teen monster slayer Aurelia "the Firedragon" Sun has been training since she could walk to do one thing: gank supernaturals. Almost a hundred years ago, the Lord of the Underworld unleashed countless beasts upon the earth, and it's up to fighters like her to defend what's left of humanity. But under the Triumvirate a totalitarian regime built from the ashes of the United States she'll always be considered a second-class...

Fire fears nothing. And Elaia is about to show her world that she doesn't, either.Like the rest of her kind, fire nymph Elaia is bound to her homeland, a forest whose borders were closed centuries earlier in a peace agreement between the humans and the enchanted creatures of the Terrestrial Realm.But her heart is as restless as the flames she casts, and she secretly yearns to defy that order.When a mysterious threat creeps into the forest, an invisible...

Dive into a universe of sci-fi wonders. This collection of sci-fi shorts features a variety of brainy young heroines girls who engineer, tinker, experiment, and more. Voyage to far-off galaxies with girls who use their science savvy to fix rovers, rescue friends, and protect alien critters. Visit steampunk realms where young ladies put their skills to the test building mechanical wonders and solving mysteries. Trek across sci-fi landscapes with girls...

This collection of sci-fi stories features brainy young heroines who use their smarts to save the day. Girls who fix robots and construct superhero suits, hack interstellar corporations and build virtual reality platforms. Who experiment with alien chemicals and tinker with time machines. Who defy expectations and tap into their know-how in the depths of space, or the bounds of dystopia, or the not-too-distant future to solve despicable crimes, talk...

When darkness falls, the stars ignite.Against all odds, Iris has made her voice heard. Inspired by her call for freedom, sympathizers to her cause have occupied a prestigious theater in the heart of Adrye's capital. Their demands are simple: Abolish the cruel systems that use brainwashing to force obedience upon both Earthling performers and aberrant Adryil. Recognized as the face of the movement and caught in the thick of the demonstration, Iris...

Sing your truth. Defend your dream. Defy your stars.A month has passed since Iris joined an underground rebel group to save Dámiul from the brutal prison he was sent to for fighting back against his world's oppressive system. Here, conformity and compliance are enforced through telepathy, and Earthling performers are brainwashed into absolute obedience.Word of a merciless crackdown on those who sympathize with their cause leaves both Iris and Dámiul...

Tales of brainy gals and sci-fi worldsWelcome this collection of sci-fi stories featuring brainy teen heroines. Mechanics on post-apocalyptic submerged worlds, steampunk heroines who solve mysteries and fix robots, computer geniuses who hack all and use their savvy to save the day. From near-future science lovers to space cadets on far-flung planets, this 22-story collection has something for everyone.Proceeds from sales of this anthology will be...

Jane Colt is just another recent college grad working as an Interstellar Confederation office drone-until the day she witnesses her best friend, Adam, kidnapped by a mysterious criminal. An extensive cover-up thwarts her efforts to report the crime, shaking her trust in the authorities. Only her older brother, Devin, believes her account. Devin hopes to leave behind his violent past and find peace in a marriage to the woman he loves. That hope shatters...