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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Romantasy

A few years ago, I proposed this column to meet a shift in SFF publishing, where the major SFF t...

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Detail from the cover of The Psychology of Time Travel

Five Stories About Time Travel and Bureaucracy

What's the fun of time travel without a regulatory body to enforce the rules?

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Cover of That Devil, Ambition by Linsey Miller.

Read an Excerpt From That Devil, Ambition by Linsey Miller

There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does grav...

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Selections from the covers of three SFF short fiction magazines: Baffling, Small Wonders, and The Skull & Laurel

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: April 2025

This month's stories have a little god murder, some necromancy, and some brain swapping...

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Cover of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

How Cloud Atlas Is Shaping a Generation of Authors

Tracking the influence of David Mitchell's groundbreaking novel over the last two decades.

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Illustration from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; Art by Stephen Gammell

Five SFF Works Inspired by Urban Myths

Urban legends tell dark stories in the most mundane of settings, using the strange and supernatu...

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Cover of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott.

Read an Excerpt From The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott

Status is hereditary, class is bestowed, trust must be earned.

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Detail from the cover of The Apocalypse Seven; art by David Curtis

Into the Abyss: Five SFF Stories About Delivering Destruction 

Unleashing chaos, maybe even apocalypse, intentionally or not...

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