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Witch covens, vicious barbarians, skeletal warriors, rogue AIs, daring pirates, mech warriors, Arthurian legends, and shapeshifting demi-gods. These are just a few of the things you can expect in this professionally curated collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy. From one story to the next, you will have no idea what to expect. In Volume Four of the annual Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy anthology series, editor Dustin Bilyk brings tales to you that will shatter your speculative fiction expectations while introducing some of the most hard-hitting and evocative short stories on the market today. In this volume, we have included 24 stories from 24 authors. Whether you have an appetite for… A grizzled veteran of war, operating a deadly robot paired with his dead wife's AI Skeletal men, a party of long-dead heroes, are raised from their sacred graves by a necromancer, and sent on one final mission: to avenge the decimation of the kingdom and people they once served An AI robot caring for the very last of the human race, realizing his kind are no different than their war-like creators A Malaysian shapeshifter becoming an unlikely bodyguard for a benevolent but corrupt kingdom A coven of witches faced with holding back hell itself in order to save a possessed woman …we have something for everyone. Included are epic, never-before-read short stories from Thomas K. Carpenter, Mark Bilsborough, C. W. Stevenson, Jennifer Shelby, Bill Hackenberger, Robin Cassini, Craig Hinds, Damion Keith Wilson, Curtis A. Deeter, Zary Fekete, Brian M. Milton, Sidney Ho, Rami Rudensky, Nicoletta Giuseffi, Subarna Mohanty, and Hannah Greer. PLUS, reprints by Miranda Jensen, Wen Wen Yang, Lex Chamberlin, J. Weintraub, Paula Hammond, Lane Zumoff, Paul Alex Gray, and Joshua Lim.