This month we have a few trips into the surreal, with a workplace fight, a shape-shifting shopper, and an unidentified no-longer-flying object. There are plenty of great ideas and story lines to enjoy, so have a seat in the shade and get started. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative fiction. It sprang fully formed from the elbow of ...

By sixteen, everyone must choose. For the telekinetic youth of New Teotihuacan’s Worker City there are two choices: an enslaved life or a free death.SERIAL DESCRIPTION:On an earth rampant with telekinesis, Calli Bluehair lives within one isolated city-state among many. New Teotihuacan’s protective dome and oppressive regime preserve not only its strict social classes, but also the lie that empowers the immortal class over the workers.

The rules are about to change. When Jim Buckner's research to unlock human immortality thrusts his daughter into the cross-hairs of a secret war, he'll do anything to get her back--including evolve.SERIAL DESCRIPTION:When Jim Buckner's daughter is kidnapped, his obsession shifts from discovering the lost genetic sequence for awakening human immortality to discovering who took her and how to get her back.The journey reveals a hiberna...

The most startling discovery to never be made. "Sergio Leone would have killed to film Fistful of Reefer. Harry Turtledove would admire the way history has been skewed. Others will love the notion of the Lost DMB Files. The estimable Mr. Brown has really latched onto something here.” ~ Mike Resnick (The Godfather of Weird Western) SERIAL DESCRIPTION: Some conspiracies remain theories. Others become obsessions. Exhum...

Never create a killing machine you can’t control. A space-operatic-love-triangle between a human killing machine, a woman bearing the genetic cancer he’s conditioned to exterminate, and the AI designed to keep him accountable. SERIAL DESCRIPTION: The Hiberverse has been incubating a hidden evil, and the post-human Hibernarii have been inadvertently feeding it. Obsessed with the quest for immortality, the advanced human race know...

Never create a killing machine you can’t control. A space-operatic-love-triangle between a human killing machine, a woman bearing the genetic cancer he’s conditioned to exterminate, and the AI designed to keep him accountable. SERIAL DESCRIPTION: The Hiberverse has been incubating a hidden evil, and the post-human Hibernarii have been inadvertently feeding it. Obsessed with the quest for immortality, the advanced human race know...

We're ending the year strong with a surprisingly wide variety of story types. But they all center around some significant, and usually life-changing realizations about life, no matter how fantastical it is. And that's why we love science fiction and fantasy: Even though the narrative elements aren't real in our lives, the sentiments, interactions, and life lessons are. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vort...

In the first issue of 2015, we feature a modern take on the Fates, a strangely ambiguous story about the paths of the afterlife, a tale of far-future humans who have survived the death of the Earth, and a goofy set of letters sent by a dissatisfied alien. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative fiction. It sprang fully formed from the elbow...

By sixteen, everyone must choose. For the telekinetic youth of New Teotihuacan’s Worker City there are two choices: an enslaved life or a free death. SERIAL DESCRIPTION: On an earth rampant with telekinesis, Calli Bluehair lives within one isolated city-state among many. New Teotihuacan’s protective dome and oppressive regime preserve not only its strict social classes, but also the lie that empowers the immortal class over the ...

The rules are about to change. When Jim Buckner's research to unlock human immortality thrusts his daughter into the cross-hairs of a secret war, he'll do anything to get her back--including evolve.Episodes 1-11. Over 600 pages of a telekinesis-filled, cinematic thrill-ride!SERIAL DESCRIPTION:When Jim Buckner's daughter is kidnapped, his obsession shifts from discovering the lost genetic sequence for awakening human...

This year’s Fiction Vortex Horror Contest has some of the best short fiction horror we’ve ever seen. Entries ran the gamut from personal to apocalyptic. Filled with strangeness and terror, madness and fear, these stories are a tour to the dark places of the imagination. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative fiction. It sprang fully formed...

This month we have a few trips into the surreal, with a workplace fight, a shape-shifting shopper, and an unidentified no-longer-flying object. There are plenty of great ideas and storylines to enjoy, so have a seat in the shade and get started. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative fiction. It sprang fully formed from the elbow of T...