Benedict Smith: 8 books

Particularism and the Space of Moral Reasons critically assesses the startling idea that our moral reasoning does not need to use moral principles. If we don't have principles, how do we work out what to do? This book examines 'moral particularism', a controversial idea at the forefront of contemporary moral theory.

There’s a girl in the woods at dawn, Emily has wolf-hair at her feet and blood on her hands. She can’t remember the night before. There’s a boy who wants to ask her out who must never know. She doesn’t understand what’s happening to her. The people who are coming for her don’t care. They...

Have you been known to break into a seventeen hour spontaneous filibuster over the dramatic differences between the movie BILLY THE KID VERSUS DRACULA as compared to JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER? Have you ever spent long sleepless nights sitting awake and pondering over the obvious...

The Dark is coming! Call your friends over. You don't want to go through this alone. You will be taken back into the past, down to the depths of the ocean and across the borderline between our world and the next. You will see snapshots from the lives of small children, old-time cockney gangsters and...

Everyone faces dark times. Everyone looks for a light to get through. These fifteen stories show teen heroes/heroines using creativity and heart to find their inner “spark” to overcome adversity, evil, or ignorance. In this anthology for all ages, join a girl who struggles to accept the zombie...

Alchemy changes more than dross into gold. It changes steampunk stories into stories of magical transformation. These thirteen stories combine science and magic into do-not-miss alternate history stories that span the globe. Travel with a soul-stealing carnival, meet the Grand Dangoolie, put on some...

Editing an anthology can prove tricky business. Wonderful stories sometimes find themselves on the rejection pile simply because they do not fit in the editor’s vision of that anthology. So, editor Mark Leslie decided to save some of those amazing stories for this latest volume of Fiction River:...

"Dalle foreste di sequoie nella nebbiosa California settentrionale alle soleggiate spiagge da surf nella California meridionale, il magico 'Stato dell'oro' fa sembrare reale anche Disneyland". Esperienze straordinarie: foto suggestive, i consigli degli autori e la vera essenza dei luoghi....