The Birth of Death
Reading Time: 7 minutesStarbonder Elidoh never imagined anything would threaten her connection with the Unison. She was wrong.
Reading Time: 7 minutesStarbonder Elidoh never imagined anything would threaten her connection with the Unison. She was wrong.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn May 9, Amazon pulled the Star Wars novel “Heart of the Jedi,” from sale on its online retailer. While there is no official statement from Amazon or Lucasfilm as to the matter, one can hypothesize that Disney took action against the selling of an unauthorized Star Wars book.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo you want Luke Skywalker’s bionic hand? Thanks to 3D printing technology, soon you will be able to have it.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA hayride with an old friend from the past unveils uncomfortable truths for Max and his family.
Reading Time: 17 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an alien invasion, post-apocalyptic survival, a werewolf romance, and a paranormal cozy mystery.
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Reading Time: 17 minutesA dark, speculative story in the vein of Orwell and Vonnegut.
Reading Time: 4 minutesTranshumanists predict that science will enable us to free our minds from bodily constraints. But these ideas actually date back to the 18th century.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA step-by-step guide on what to expect when you’re preparing the universe’s most elusive delicacy.
Reading Time: 37 minutesHow to use free and low-cost AI tools to create cool images for websites and social media.
Reading Time: 17 minutesFor untold ages, the refugees from the land of Deschemb have lived secretly beneath the surface of human society. Now modern civilization crumbles as their ancient feud boils to the surface. As chaos and brutality engulf the world, strange alien forces reshape the lands for a new beginning…for whoever survives.
Reading Time: 12 minutesThis technique of intellectual suspense and argument is a great example of fantastic storytelling that doesn’t involve rayguns or spaceships.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesLizzie Williams kept the head in a burlap sack. We’d pay to look at it, pay even more to hear its secrets. We hated that head.
Reading Time: 16 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a gay romance between a vampire and a were-beaver, lots and lots of dragons, and three magical cozy mysteries.
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Reading Time: 14 minutesAnna retires to Northwick, with dreams of living out her remaining years in the comfort of a charming New England town. Things aren’t as peaceful as she had hoped, though, as she discovers the islanders’ bizarre secret.
Reading Time: 16 minutesAn adventuring duo seeks the legendary, magical dagger of Shellafen. This weapon is embedded in the troll that killed Shellafen.
Reading Time: 26 minutesI try out the top 15 free online mind mapping apps.
Reading Time: 24 minutesAt a moon colony where Mars Orbiters are manufactured, a damaged android is saved from the recycle shredder by an introverted teenager with vague ambitions of ion boarding on Mars. Against Trent Wagner’s own substantial logic, he accepts the challenge from the older kids to fix the bot and enter it into the Foot Race, a three mile competition across the lunar surface. Things get interesting as the bot displays behaviors and images of a past human life.
Reading Time: 27 minutesRandall Garret weaves a fantastic tale with the suspense building throughout. What is precognition? Is it something that is a charlatan’s hoax or does it fall into the fringes of science?
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAn apprentice talecrafter constructs her first magical tale.
Reading Time: 14 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a shape-shifting dragon, zombies, elves, and vampire assassins.
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Reading Time: 14 minutesIn an alternate Cold War, America is armed with a fleet of manned nuclear ICBMs. But all is not well, and every night, the rocket man dreams of Moscow . . .
Reading Time: 17 minutesReporter Angela Ioane discovers the most promising new weight loss therapy in years has side effects no one is talking about.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMore Black writers and artists are turning to science fiction — and an artistic movement known as Afrofuturism — to tackle issues around race and inequality and give fans an escape from the harsh realities on Earth.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesHow the use the free Miro app to outline your story or novel.
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis is a dark SF tale about creating organ donors for those who can pay.
Reading Time: 23 minutesBy N.T. Narbutovskih The term “droid” has a special place in the heart of everyone who has a passing familiarity with science fiction. Mari Wolf coins the term in this quirky tale about robots, consciousness, and humanity. Wolf’s forecast of the rise of human-consciousness equivalent artificial intelligence has all the classic veneer of the Golden
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Reading Time: 6 minutesThe results of MetaStellar’s first submission cycle of 2021 are in, and we at MetaStellar are thrilled to announce the success of our second original fiction submission cycle.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I feel like I left my mind on Mars. Even now, I can still hear the wind.” Rosie reaches over from where she sits on her rocking chair and winds her fingers around mine. She hasn’t changed a bit, despite the years I was gone. Her face is still every bit as bright and optimistic
Reading Time: 12 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes aliens, a fairy tale with a big bad wolf, magical mysteries, and a collapse of civilization.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesIf and when they eradicate humans, they would be better suited to space travel. In orbit, octopuses could maneuver much more easily and fit in smaller spaces.
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Reading Time: 19 minutesRejected by her god and exiled by her tribe for reasons beyond her understanding, a young alien girl seeks the truth of her world and the faith of her people.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA dying physicist makes a desperate attempt to spare his daughter grief by flying into a black hole.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat if your past was a lie and you had the opportunity to go back and change it?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFantasy & Science Fiction magazine is now in Kindle Unlimited, which means that if you’re a member, you can read this magazine at no additional cost.
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Reading Time: 90 minutesIn this story set in her incredible Darkover universe, Marion Zimmer Bradley masterfully blends science and fantasy, psychological suspense, and action.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesHumanity finally finds God, waiting in a nearby planetary system. Of course, that’s when the problems begin.
Reading Time: 26 minutesTwo powerful Martian adversaries vie for leadership and the love of one woman.
Reading Time: 13 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes space battles, haunted houses, and a succubus demon with werewolf lovers.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesLesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen I arrived in Austria I had to complete a German language course before I could attend university, but I had trouble focusing in the online learning platform. Immersive virtual reality solved the problem.
Reading Time: 17 minutesThe country that gave the world Bach, Mozart and Beethoven used poison gas, barbed wire and machine guns in order to kill as many men as possible. The countries that gave the world Shakespeare, Milton, Bizet, Victor Hugo, Tchaikovsky and Tolstoy responded in kind.
Reading Time: 17 minutesNehan is her people’s wartime queen, and must surrender her crown if she can repel her country’s invaders. With her biological daughters dead, she must hope she has done enough to smooth the way for her adopted son, the orphan of poor nomad folk, to rule after her.
Reading Time: 3 minutesContrary to what sci-fi literature has been telling us for the past several decades, humans have not been able to fly on another planet until yesterday.
Reading Time: 36 minutesAny sacrifice for the greater good is acceptable. War doesn’t wait on the needs of the individual. These themes are present in today’s tense international environment just as they were when Dick wrote this packed tale. From AI to warfare to original sin, this story hits all the big questions. Classic Phillip K. Dick tales
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Reading Time: 11 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes FBI agents who can shape-shift into dragons, a battle to save Earth from an evil AI, vampires, witches, werewolves, wormholes, space pirates and a prison planet.
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Reading Time: 14 minutesA galoot is kidnapped by aliens for medical experiments. He becomes unexpectedly intelligent, takes out the aliens and conquers earth.
Reading Time: 7 minutesFinalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced by DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention today in a YouTube video.
Reading Time: 9 minutesBen Bova weaves a short and impactful story that doesn’t get bogged down in the weeds.
Reading Time: 11 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes dragons, badass devil hunters, and time-traveling sailing ships.
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