This is How You Die ─ Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death

Using the premise of a machine that predicts how—but not where or when—a person will die, the editors cull together the best of the thousands of submissions they received, many of which have unexpected endings. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Matthew Bennardo is a writer and editor from Cleveland. His short fiction has been appearing in print and online for over a decade, with pieces inAsimov's, Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, Shimmer, among others.

David Malki ! is the Los Angeles-based author of Wondermark, a comic strip available online and in collections from Dark Horse Books, one of which was nominated in 2009 for the Eisner Award (the highest honor in comics) for "Best Humor Publication." He also holds the distinction of having written the longest article ever published byPoets & Writers Magazine.

Ryan North is the Toronto-based author of the online Dinosaur Comics, one of the internet's most popular comic strips. He's also currently the writer of theAdventure Time comic book from BOOM! Studios, based on the television show.