This stunning epic fantasy debut introduces two exciting new authors—and a world brimming with natural and man-made wonders, extraordinary events, and a crisis that will test the mettle of men, the boundaries of magic, and the heart and soul of a kingdom. Thanks to its elite Dragon Corps, the capital city of Volstov has all but won the hundred years' war with its neighboring enemy, the Ke-Han. The renegade airmen who fly the corps's mechanical, magic-fueled dragons are Volstov's greatest weapon. But with Volstov immersed in a scandal that may have international repercussions, the Ke-Han devise an ingenious plan of attack. To counter the threat, four ill-assorted heroes must converge to save the kingdom they love: an exiled magician, a naive country boy, a young student--and the unpredictable ace airman who flies the city's fiercest dragon, Havemercy. Learn more about the book at http://tinyurl.com/6rnay9

Mind the Gap is book 1 of the Hidden Cities series from award-winning fantasy authors Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon. Presented here are chapters one through three. Their work speaks for itself: Baltimore, or the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire (written with Mike Mignola), Dusk, Of Saints and Shadows, Fallen, The Lost Ones, and Hellboy: Unnatural Selection. Now Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon--two of today's brightest stars of dark fantasy--combine their award-winning, critically-acclaimed talents in a new tale of magic, terror, and adventure that begins when a young woman slips through the space between our everyday world and the one hiding just beneath it. Every big city has a soul, and every soul has a dark, secret side.

"The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics" is the 2008 Hugo-Award-nominated short story by Daniel Abraham originally published in Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories (available from Bantam Spectra).