Ever wonder what became of those fantastic worlds described by

A. Conan Doyle and Edgar Rice Burroughs? Third Flatiron Publishing

presents "Lost Worlds, Retraced," a spate of new speculative fiction

short stories by an international group of award-winning and emerging

writers. Contributors include Maureen Bowden, Ron Collins, Neil

Davies, Judith Field, Bruce Golden, Sarah Hodgetts, DeAnna Knippling,

Andrew Kozma, Marilyn K. Martin, Will Morton, Konstantine Paradias,

Soham Saha, and Jonathan Shipley.

These storytellers retrace the lost paths of an ancient

sun-worshipping civilization, a doomed planet, a tribe of persecuted

witches and robots, a cartoon world stalked by death, and an abrupt

end to fossil fuel use. Meet a spy at the end of the universe, a Sons

of Chaos motorcycle chick, a TV survival show host, and, of course,

that icy rock we once knew as the planet Pluto.