Echo of the Hour: Tales of Time

Coming February 2, 2027!

Edited by Lisa Mangum with Briannon Holifer 

Featuring an original short story by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry 

Every moment has a sound. The chime of a clock. The toll of a bell. The rhythm of a metronome. The click of a second slipping away.  

Echo of the Hour contains nineteen stories—including a brand-new short story by New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry—that explore the moments when time changes everything, and the defining sound that marks its passage. 

From a dying man’s last memory, to a time courier who is 312 years late to her own wedding, to a father who would do anything to go back and save his daughter, these stories showcase all the many ways time and our relationship to it shapes lives, choices, and consequences. 

And no one is immune to time, including those who are not meant to experience it: a robot longing for its warranty to expire, a goddess discovering mortality, and even Time itself learning that some moments are worth holding onto. 

In these stories—as in life—every moment matters. Though the hours pass and the seconds disappear, the echo remains. 

All profits from Echo of the Hour support the scholarship and endowment funds for Superstars Writing Seminars.