Local Star is a polyamorous space opera with a fast-paced, action-packed adventure that's sure to punch you in the feels. It follows guttergirl Triz as she saves her hub from invaders from the Cyberbionautic Alliance, all the while negotiating her rekindled romance with Kalo, her ex who's returned from battle and won't stop hanging around the wrenchworks.

This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary tank at a science fiction convention, a questionable academic paper published at a university of magic, living fossils awakened when the coal formed of them burns. The stories vary from humo...

This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 450 p...

From space opera to weird fiction to indie games and NaNoWriMo, this collection represents the best in nonfiction dedicated to geekery.Founded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays on what's new in the world of speculative genres. With interviews, personal essays, rants, and raves, the authors of Interstellar Flight Magazine explore the vast outreaches of nerdom. In the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, ...

This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 4...

This anthology collects all 24 original stories from the third year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Lovecraftian food bloggers, doors that bring back the dead, fantastical roommates apartment hunting in Brooklyn, oversea octopus explorers, sisterly love and rivalry in space, living breathing sweaters. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from contemporary authors both new and established.The stories in this anthology are:

In this exciting collection of noblebright fantasy, fresh new fantasy voices and award-winning authors explore grief and hope, sacrifice and heroism. Rediscover the best aspect of classic fantasy - the noblebright ideals that made heroes heroic, even when the world grew dark around them.Thieves, dragons, nightmares, fairy warriors, pookas, enchanted bear-men, and other magical creatures will delight you in these unique tales of possibility, courage, and hope.This anthology ...

The year's best science fiction and fantasy as selected by The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers AssociationThis latest installment of the prestigious Nebula Awards Showcase anthology series—published annually since 1966—reprints winning and nominated works from the 61st annual Nebula Awards, as voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA).Nebula Awards Showcase 61 features stories, poems, and excerpts by this year's Nebula Award winne...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Laughter Among the Trees" by Suzan Palumbo"The Yoke of the Aspens" by Kay Chronister"One Last Broken Thing" by Aimee Ogden"A Resting Place For Dolls" by Priya Sridhar

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Hundreds of Little Absences" by Aimee Ogden"There's Nothing Left Without the Smoke" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu"The Hide's Effect" by Frances Ogamba"Fiat, Fiat, Fiat" by Eliot Fintushel

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Burrowing Machines" by Sara Saab"Impostor/Impostor" by Ian Muneshwar (reprint)"Tansy" by Angela Fu"A Cruelty That Cut Both Ways" by Aimee Ogden (reprint)

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our December 2021 issue (#183) contains:Original fiction by Aimee Ogden ("The Cold Calculations"), Meghan Feldman ("Beneath the Earth Where the Nymphs Sleep"), David Goodman ("Vegvísir"), Rich Larson ("You Are Born Exploding"), Wang Yuan ("Other Stories"), E. N. Díaz ("Just One Step, and Then the Next"), and Amal ...