Event Horizon 2018, edited by Jake Kerr, with a quarter million words of fiction by 58 Campbell-eligible authors, is available as a free download. (Epub, mobi, and PDF formats are available.)

Nominees for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer come from Hugo voters, who will need to read fast – votes must be in by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Friday March 16, 2018.

The book’s introduction reminds readers that the project was originally conceived by M. David Blake, and called The Campbellian Pre-Reading Anthology. The first volume was published by Stupefying Stories in 2013 and contained stories by 43 authors. The next volume included over 111 authors and 1 million words.

Table of Contents

• “Devil’s Due” By Percival Constantine
• “Forestborn” By Sylvia Heike
• “A Question Of Faith” By Tonya Liburd
• “Shaman’s Quest” By Kevin L. O’Brien
• “Memories to Come” By Paul Alex Gray
• “Aspiration Value” By Mike Reeves-McMillan
• “Of Puddings and Prophecies” By Helen French
• “Dearly Departed” By Kelly Stewart
• “Cyborg Shark Battle (Season 4, O’ahu Frenzy)” By Benjamin C. Kinney
• “The Legendary Legend of the Darkly’s Slayer” By J.R. Dawson
• “The Invisible Box” By J.J. Litke
• “Termination Pending” By Rachelle Harp
• “Eyes That See Everything” By Karen Bovenmyer
• “Twisted Knots” By D.A Xiaolin Spires
• “The Heart is a Lonesome Hunter” By Eugenia Triantafyllou
• “The Fox, the Wolf, and the Dove” By Ville Meriläinen
• “Dragon’s Trail” By Joseph Malik
• “Spooky Action” By David A. Kilman
• “Granite Requires” By TJ Berry
• “Forgive Us Our Trespasses” By Bennett North
• “The Best Busker in the World” By R. K. Duncan
• “Like You, I am a System” By Nathan Hillstrom
• “Darner” By Jonathan Laidlow
• “First date with the Hive” By Gretchen Tessmer
• “The Librarian” By Andrew Kozma
• “The Stars and the Rain” By Emily McCosh
• “London Calling” By Philip A. Suggars
• “Analog Signals” By Shawn Proctor
• “Fandom for Robots” By Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• “The Spark That Starts The Flame” By Daniel Rosen
• “These Constellations Will Be Yours” By Elaine Cuyegkeng
• “The Nine” By Tracy Townsend
• “I Remember Your Face” By E. K. Wagner
• “Old Teacups and Kitchen Witches” Kate Baker
• “The In Between Place” By Kat Day
• “”A Matter of Interpretation” By M. Elizabeth Ticknor
• “Baby Teeth” By Lina Rather
• “The Awakening of Insects” By Bobby Sun
• “”The Man in the Crimson Coat” By Andrea Tang
• “Outburst” By B. Morris Allen
• “Rushford Recapitulation” By Christopher Mark Rose
• “A Heart in the Hand” By Jeremy M. Gottwig
• “Moths To The Flame” By Daniel Rosen
• “A Glowing Heart” By Anton Rose
• “Demeter’s Regard” By Deborah L. Davitt
• “The Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make for Yourself” By Matt Dovey
• “The Lives Beneath” By Katherine Inskip
• “Abyssal” By Lorraine Schein
• “Starr Striker Should Remain Capitol City’s Resident Superhero, by Keisha
• Cole, 10th Grade Student”” By Amanda Helms
• “Baro Porrajmos, or Love in the Vardo” By Eileen Gunnell Lee
• “Ora et Labora” By Theodore McCombs
• “An Equal Share of the Bone” By Karen Osborne
• “Phalium arium ssp anams” By Victoria Sandbrook
• “The Broken Karwaneer” By Jeremy A TeGrotenhuis
• “Seb Dreams of Reincarnation” By Aimee Ogden
• “Snail Mail” By Steven Fischer
• “The Arrow of Time” By Kate Dollarhyde
• “Think of Winter” By Eleanna Castroianni

[Thanks to Mark Hepworth for the story.]