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Books
Revealing The Game of Oaths by S. C. Bandreddi
A richly imagined fantasy of glamor and revenge, arriving June 2026
Read an Excerpt From As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel
Two women—a witch and an immortal demon—make a Faustian bargain and are drawn into a cat-and-mou...
History and Hauntings: Tall Is Her Body by Robert de la Chevotière
Alex Brown reviews Robert de la Chevotière’s gorgeous magical realism story.
High School Horrors: John Hall’s Homecoming Queen and R.L. Stine’s Who Killed the Homecoming Queen?
If your "prank" requires a FAKE SEVERED HEAD you might want to rethink it.
RPG Tourism: Five Games To Help You Travel Vicariously
Experience the trip of a lifetime — without having to deal with planes, passports, or other tour...
Read an Excerpt From The Seventh Champion by Sylvia Mercedes
A dragon princess joins forces with a scarred prince to escape a competition for her hand in mar...
Vampires, Time Travel, and Rebellions: Romantasy Report for November and December 2025
These 26 new romantasies will whisk you from fall to winter...
Brain Surgery Without Safewords: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 6)
A new type of monster has entered the plot...
Mary Doria Russell’s Children of God Is a Perfect Sequel
Cadwell Turnbull on the triumph and tragedy of Mary Doria Russell's first contact novel.
Five Stories Set in Terrifying Sci-Fi Prisons
From AI-run cells to mysterious bunkers to interplanetary prison camps
Revealing The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams by Michelle Kulwicki
An adventure-packed portal fantasy arriving April 2026
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The Belle of the Ball
In a future where people can travel back in time and do anything they want without consequences,...
Barnacle
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind...
Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves
Is it bad to cheat on your boyfriend with the fabric of space and time?
Phantom View
A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father tries to understand the mysterious blur hauntin...
Where the Hell Is Nirvana?
A minor deva drudging away in the gleaming offices of Buddhist heaven discovers there are easier...
Model Collapse
A government agent and his mentee are sent into a remote town on a mysterious and dangerous proj...
Freediver
A two-man team must risk a spacewalk when meteoroids threaten crucial portal-spanning telecommun...
Laurie on the Radio
In a newly integrated insect metropolis, generations clash around art, technology, and capitalis...