Paradise can be the stark natural beauty of our own world; it can be the connections we have with the people we love; it can be a moment in time. Paradise can be a place we’re seeking or a place that we didn’t realize we already had until it started to slip away. It can have a dark side. Even shining science-fiction utopias can come with a price.

Read this book and take a journey through eighteen different visions of paradise–beginning with the personal and natural, traveling through the societal and technological, and all the way out to the supernal and divine. A great book can heal you when you’re hurting, give you an escape that you desperately need, or even rekindle a lost spark of hope.

Let this book be a small piece of paradise for you.

Contents:

Northern Delights by Madison Keller

Flying Back to Paradise by Jelliqal Belle

Personal History by Tim Susman

The Lion Sleeps by Frances Pauli

Tucked Away by E. S. Lapso

When Pigs Fly by Amy Fontaine

Funnel Dresses by Priya Sridhar

A Christmas Tale For The Disenchanted by Mark Blickley

Bite The Apple by Christopher Shaffer

Lonesome Peak by John Giezentanner

When the Milk Men Come by Searska Greyraven

Nor'Killik by Matt Doyle

We Are One by Thurston Howl

Lucid by Nicholas Hardin

Castle Phoenix by Bill Kieffer

Kypris’ Kiss by Slip Wolf

Behesht by Dwale

Hope For the Harbingers by Allison Thai

Cover art by Teagan, Edited by Mary E. Lowd