Crank! rocks. This cutting-edge SF magazine is the best place to go for border-blurring stories by great authors. 
 
    Now you can read "The Best of Crank!"--put together by the 
magazine's editor, Bryan Cholfin.

   Historical fantasy fans take note. 
 
   Kurtz and Harris deftly handle this story of the famous Knights Templar, heroes of the Crusades and a powerful force in European history. 
 
   "The Temple and the Stone" tells a tale of intrigue, political conquest, and spiritual warfare, with a dash of sorcery to season the mix.

   The book: "The Merlin Mystery," a beautiful and intriguing puzzle with clues woven throughout. 
 
   The prize: a golden, bejeweled wand, plus a cash prize that increases with every sale of the book. 
 
   The winner: the bright kid or expert puzzler who solves the mystery first, using imagination and patience to find the clues. Could it be you? 

   A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. 
 
   One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for. 

   "The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." 
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 

   They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end.... 
 
 

   A masterful achievement that ranks with Brave New World and 1984, this mesmerizing tale of the terrible aftermath of nuclear war has captivated generations of readers since its first publication in 1959. 
 
   "Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim." 
--Chicago Tribune. BDD ONLINE