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Flying Saucers from Outer Space is a non-fiction book by Donald Edward Keyhoe about flying saucers. In 1956 a film version was made under the title Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, also known as Invasion of the Flying Saucers.

"When the alien gets around to unzipping her jumpsuit it'll be impossible to see what's underneath."

UFOlogist Harold Flint is heartbroken and depressed that the aliens that have landed on the White House lawn appear to be straight out of an old B movie. They wave to the television cameras in their sequined jumpsuits, form a nonprofit organization offering new age enlightenment, and hover their saucers over the streets of New York looking for converts.

Harold wants no part of this kitschy invasion until one of the aliens, a beautiful blonde named Asket, begs him to investigate the saucers again and write another UFO book. The aliens and their mission are not as they seem.

Asket isn't who she seems either. Tracking down her true personality leads Harold and his cowriter through a maze of identity and body-swapping madness, descending into paranoia as Harold realizes that reality, or at least humanity's perception of it, may be more flexible than anyone will admit.

After the Saucers Landed is a deeply unsettling experimental satire, placing author Douglas Lain alongside contemporaries like Jeff VanderMeer and Charles Yu as one of his generation's most exciting and challenging speculative fiction voices.

Ever wonder what happened to the rest of the tea party when the saucers went off into space? Here's your chance to find out! What would it be like to go to a club where you could buy an injection of sexiness? To grow up in a world where you didn't know what gender you would be until puberty -- and the discovery could be painful? To find yourself and your secret pitted against the entire United States government?

The James Tiptree, Jr. Award has been recognizing science fiction and fantasy novels and stories that explore and expand gender since 1992. Although the award itself is given to one or two works of fiction a year, each jury also produces an honor list of notable works that were considered for the award. This anthology contains almost all of the short fiction that either won or was honored in the first five years of the award.

Table of Contents:

• Why Have a Tiptree Award? - (1998) - essay by Debbie Notkin
• And Salome Danced - (1994) - shortstory by Kelley Eskridge
• The Lovers - [Hwarhath] - (1994) - novelette by Eleanor Arnason
• Chemistry - (1993) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Forgiveness Day - [Yeowe and Werel 2] - (1994) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Some Strange Desire - (1993) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• Venus Rising - (1992) - novelette by Carol Emshwiller
• Eat Reecebread - (1994) - shortstory by Graham Joyce and Peter F. Hamilton
• Motherhood, Etc. - (1993) - novelette by L. Timmel Duchamp
• The Other Magpie - (1993) - novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• Food Man - (1994) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• Young Woman in a Garden - (1994) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• Grownups - (1998) - novella by Ian R. MacLeod [as by Ian MacLeod]
• The Matter of Seggri - (1998) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin

A new release from Anthology Editions hits the street today.

Immerse yourself in Jack Womack's UFO library with Flying Saucers Are Real!

Flying Saucers Are Real! is a catalogue and history of one of the 20th century's most pervasive subcultures. The collection presents an unknown wealth of images taken from mid-century flying saucer books and extensive text by the author-collector outlining the history of the UFO phenomenon and opining on the selections. This first edition features an introduction by science fiction author William Gibson.

Smith was a writer of science fiction stories. Now, incredibly, he was witnessing the real thing. Travelling silently at immense speed, its mirrored metal sides flashing in the sun, the saucer swooped in for a landing on Earht. Then, as Smith watched, another saucer appeared in the sky -- and the dogfight began! The saucers -- aliens from beyond known space -- were battling for control of the Earth. Something had to be done, even if Smith had no idea what it should be. The trouble was -- no one believed him!

It was Earth's darkest hour. Weak, backward, prey to attack, it could only be saved by the Vigilantes. Sci-fi writer Thane Smith and his beautiful, adored wife had the task of discrediting UFO stories. But how can they -- after they run up against a playboy-monster who could only have been created by an alien race?