Brought to you by Penguin.The Union-Congregate war rages onward and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo Eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots aren't human, but Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections.At the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antoni...

The breathtaking debut from acclaimed short story writer Derek Kunsken. Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright to even try. In fact, the job is so big that he'll need a crew built from all the new sub-branches of humanity. If he su...

* SET IN THE WORLD OF THE AMAZON #1 BESTSELLING THE QUANTUM MAGICIAN *'Philosophical, clever, and emotional' - LOCUS'Compassion and empathy and love and hope' - KARA REVIEWSFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE QUANTUM MAGICIAN AND THE HOUSE OF STYXFrom the clouds of Venus to the origins of the time gates, this collection of novellas and short fiction vi...

George-Étienne and his children have formed The House of Styx, after finding a mysterious artefact on the surface of Venus herself. But with the discovery comes great risk, not only from a planet that kills with its very touch but also from the banks and powers of old Earth, whowill stop at nothing to claim this new technology for themselves.From humble origins, The House of Styx is determined to become one of the most powerful families in the known galaxy or die trying.

A Hunt Through EternityAt the end of the Quantum War, Belisarius disappeared into a collapsing wormhole, and was thought lost forever. Now the Puppet priestess Rosalie Johns-10 is suffering powerful nightmares of strange geometries. Belisarius's old lover Cassandra and the AI Saint Matthew work out the nightmares are a signal, originating somewhere - and somewhen - in the 11-dimensional space of the wormhole network.Cassandra, Rosalie, Sai...

* NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL *'Delightfully brutal portrayal of the reality of war' - AMAZING STORIES'Astonishingly good' - WORLDS WITHOUT END'Compelling, convincing and tightly written' - SFANDF REVIEWS'One of the best [series] of this century' - SCIFI MINDA WAR IN THE STARSThe war rag...

* THE HEARTBREAKING CONCLUSION OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED VENUS ASCENDANT SERIES *'Takes us on an enormous journey' - SCIFINOW'Retains that "human" impact of the sci-fi stories of old' - AMAZING STORIES'Each book just seems to be better than the last' - KARA REVIEWSLIFE CAN EXIST ANYWHERE. AND ANYWHERE THERE IS LIFE, THERE IS HOME.Georges-Ét...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our January 2019 issue (#148) contains:Original fiction by Jamie Wahls ("Eater of Worlds"), Natalia Theodoridou ("One's Burden, Again"), Ray Nayler ("Fire in the Bone"), Derek Kunsken ("The Ghosts of Ganymede"), and Lavie Tidhar ("Venus in Bloom").Reprints by Marissa Lingen...

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 June 2026 issue features "Tool Use By the Humans of Danzhai County" by Derek Künsken, "Hello, Hello" by Seanan McGuire, and "Rager in Space" by Charlie Jane Anders. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.

An unabridged collection spotlighting the best hard science fiction stories and novellas published in 2025 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.· “Apartment Wars” by Vera Brook—the widow of a physicist, residing in a country short of living space for its citizens, finds a device that creates small pocket dimensions. This novella is a finalist for a 2025 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Award.· “ESRI” by J...

Brought to you by Penguin.Major Chenesai Okonkwo is an Auditor for the Sub-Saharan Union. Her mission: to find out if the Sixth Expeditionary Force's newly discovered time gate has been compromised. Is the Union's revolutionary discovery already doomed, eleven years in the future?But there is another, more personal mission. The possible murder of her husband remains unsolved. But are the two things connected? Can she navigate the world of aliens, spies, pol...

From the Author of The Quantum Magician and The House of StyxFrom the clouds of Venus to the origins of the time gates, this collection of novellas and short fiction visits many favourite worlds of the Quantum Evolution universe, as well as some new to the series. With two 20,000-plus-word novellas and four long short stories, this collection is a stunning showcase of talent.Collecting: “Persephone Descending”, “Schools of Clay”, “Beneath Sunlit Shallows”, “Flight From the ...