When I was a kid, I watched a lot of Twilight Zone. My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple of her childhood—and thus she made it one of ours, too. There were a lot of memorable episodes, but one of the stickier ones was called Mirror Image. It’s the story […]
It has been a great year for sci-fi and fantasy short fiction, and not just in the magazines. Recent months have also seen an unusually strong stack of new single-author collections in your favorite genres. Here are 13 that stand out: unforgettable, brief tales to fill the remaining weeks of long summer days. What SFF […]
Illustrated by Adrienne Valdes • Edited by Joel Cunningham Lately, Inspector Abijah Olivia has found most of her answers at the bottom of a bottle. But when she takes a private contract to figure out why the bodies of dead young men keep washing up on the beaches of her colony world, a single golden button […]
Do you feel it? There is a tremor in the force. Science fiction and fantasy are steeped in traditions far older than Tolkien and Heinlein—going all the way back to the origins of storytelling. It’s a rich history, steeped in imagination and a desire to contemplate a future beyond our wildest dreams. But our dreams have a […]