Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our September 2022 issue features "Hānai" by Gregory Norman Bossert, "Diary of a Pod Person" by Emily C. Skaftun, and "The Beast Adjoins" by Ted Kosmatka. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.

Prophet of Bones is a thrilling novel by Ted Kosmatka.An ancient discovery. A hidden past. A deadly conspiracy to bury the truth.He was told his was the only name on their list. But for brilliant young anthropologist Paul Carlsson, asked to examine the cache of bones found on as remote Indonesian jungle island, fascination soon turns to fear.Because waiting for him east of Java is evidence of something that shouldn't exist; a revelation tha...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our December 2019 issue features "Lazy Dog Out" by Suzanne Palmer, "Incomers" by Paul J. McAuley, and "The Art of Alchemy" by Ted Kosmatka.

A scientist's discovery puts him the crosshairs of dangerous people determined to silence him—and his findings—in this hard science fiction thriller."A high-speed thriller. . . . The pages turn rapidly with well-orchestrated suspense." — New York TimesA quantum physicist shocks the world with a startling experiment, igniting a struggle between science and theology, free will and fate, and antagonizing forces not kn...

Ted Kosmatka's sensational new thriller, Prophet of Bones, thrusts readers into an alternate present.Paul Carlson, a brilliant young scientist, is summoned from his laboratory job to the remote Indonesian island of Flores to collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange, new species of tool user unearthed by an archaeological dig. The questions the find raises seem to cast doubt on the very foundations of modern science, which has proven the world to be only 5,800...

What if science proved the existence of the human soul?'If Stephen Hawking and Stephen King wrote a novel together, you'd get The Flicker Men. Brilliant, disturbing, and beautifully told' Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of the Wool series***The ManEric Argus, a washed-out quantum physicist given one last shot at redemptionThe ExperimentAn investigation int...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by Ted Kosmatka ("The One Who Isn't") and Jilly Dreadful ("5x5"), along with SF reprints by Genevieve Valentine ("Small Medi...

Jurassic Park meets The Hunger Games in this stunning new high-energy, high-concept tale from first-time novelist Ted Kosmatka, a Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist.Brilliant geneticist Silas Williams oversees U.S. selections for the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: No entrants may possess human DNA. Desperate to maintain America’s edge in the upcoming Games, Silas’...

Ted Kosmatka's sensational new thriller, Prophet of Bones, thrusts listeners into an alternate present.Paul Carlson, a brilliant young scientist, is summoned from his laboratory job to the remote Indonesian island of Flores to collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange, new species of tool user unearthed by an archaeological dig. The questions the find raises seem to cast doubt on the very foundations of modern science, which has proven the world to be only 5,...

Jurassic Park meets The Hunger Games in this stunning new high-energy, high-concept tale from first-time novelist Ted Kosmatka, a Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYSet in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world tha...

Nebula award-nominated author Ted Kosmatka's latest novel is The Flicker Men: a gripping tale about the struggle between science and theology, free will and fate.Research scientist Eric Argus has four months to prove himself during a probationary period with Hansen Research. Haunted by his past and struggling with alcohol abuse, he is certain that he will squander this opportunity. That is until a mysterious crate from a now-defunct laboratory arrives at his office. The co...

“Strong debut…vivid and compelling.” —Publishers WeeklyYesterday cannot last forever...A decade has passed since the city of Pittsburgh was reduced to ash.While the rest of the world has moved on, losing itself in the noise of a media-glutted future, survivor John Dominic Blaxton remains obsessed with the past. Grieving for his wife and unborn child who perished in the blast, Dominic relives his lost life by immersing in the Archiv...