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Five SFF Works Inspired by Urban Myths
Urban legends tell dark stories in the most mundane of settings, using the strange and supernatu...
Read an Excerpt From The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott
Status is hereditary, class is bestowed, trust must be earned.
Patrolling the Spaceways: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet: Stand By for Mars! by Carey Rockwell
The first in a series of classic space adventures!
Reading The Wheel of Time: Loial Makes Vows and Lews Therin Fights a Battle in Knife of Dreams (Part 14)
Lots of action and a section told from Loial's POV in chapters 18 and 19!
Into the Abyss: Five SFF Stories About Delivering Destruction
Unleashing chaos, maybe even apocalypse, intentionally or not...
Finding Magic and Community in A Spell for Change by Nicole Jarvis
An imperfect, but intriguing, Appalachian fantasy.
Most Anticipated Young Adult SFF/H for May & June 2025
This summer's new YA releases include gods and demons, dystopian settings, and historical fantas...
Read Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi: Chapters 5-9
Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn’t need much—least of all trouble—but trouble always seems...
Wind and Truth Reread: Chapters 61 and 62
Jasnah and Sigzil sense trouble, while things get complicated in the Spiritual Realm…
Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for May and June 2025
This summer's new titles include the speculative, fantastical, and outright weird...
Six Speculative Stories About Preserving and Creating Individuals’ Memories
Exploring slippery questions about memory and identity...
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The Nölmyna
The star skeptic from a haunted house reality show finds herself in a jam when she discovers her...
Squid Teeth
A woman talented in the art of spinning--creating pottery by manipulating clay in her mouth--lon...
Human Resources
Set years before Adrian Tchaikovsky’s SERVICE MODEL, the newly-promoted head of Human Resources...
Liberation
A young woman is recruited to be part of Nigeria's first ever space mission, but things go awry...
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets...
After the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens
Two ex-military nurses, one human and one alien, share a friendship in a city following an alien...
The Shape of Stones
As a young scholar sets out on a research project to find the stones where the settlers of Icela...
Landline
A woman about to leave on an overseas business trip, calls home from the airport and discovers t...
