Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2025 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on March 1 and closes at midnight on March 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories of 1,200 words or fewer.
Spring 2025 Original Fiction Submission Period Opens March 1st! Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesMetaStellar does not accept works of fiction written with the help of ChatGPT or other generative AI tools. Our next submission window for original fiction opens March 1, and we accept reprint and excerpts any time throughout the year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2024 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories, as long as they’re 1,200 words or fewer.
Fall 2024 Original Fiction Submissions Period Opens October 1! Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is taking a darker approach than the previous two films, but still boasts quite a few laughs and Easter eggs for long-time fans of the blue hedgehog.
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Looks To Fully Embrace Its Video Game Source Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesEmith Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory and Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch won this year’s Hugo Awards for best novel and best series.
Hugos awarded, Emily Tesh and Ann Leckie take top honors Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn a breakthrough that sounds like it’s straight out of a science fiction novel, researchers have successfully created a tractor beam using twisting light beams.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Hugo Awards, set to be awarded on August 11, has disqualified nearly ten percent of the votes cast this year due to fraud.
Reading Time: 8 minutesDive into 16 enchanting tales of love that transcend time, space, and even the boundaries of reality, plucked right from the pages of MetaStellar.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has announced the finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe spring 2024 submission cycle for original speculative fiction runs from March 1st and closes at midnight on March 31st. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories of 1,200 words or fewer. Please visit our flash fiction submission page for full details and the online submission form. Accepted authors will
MetaStellar is Accepting Flash Fiction Submissions for Spring 2024! Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2023 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31.
Metastellar Open for Fall 2023 Flash Fiction Submissions Oct 1st Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis year’s Hugo Awards nominees include Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Nope, and an episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
Hugo Award nominations are out, and She-Hulk made the list Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe film Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and the video game Elden Ring were big winners in the Nebula Awards this year.
Elden Ring, Everything Everywhere All At Once Win Nebula Awards Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesDr. Robert J. Sawyer, author of twenty-five novels, including Hominids and the WWW trilogy, won the L. Ron Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award at the L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers and Illustrators of the Future Gala this past Friday. This was the day before his 63rd birthday. “Clearly, you’re done achieving when you hit that magic
Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Reflects On Past And The AI Future Of Writing Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe look up the traffic numbers for 33 of today’s most popular sci-fi, fantasy and horror magazines. MetaStellar is in second place.
Reading Time: 8 minutesLeonardo AI offers 150 free images a day. They’re not quite as good-looking at Midjourney, but within throwing distance.
Leonardo AI best new alternative to Midjourney — and free Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesAdobe Firefly’s images are almost as good as Midjourney, the interface is infinitely better, and artists will get paid for their training data. The beta is open now, and it’s looking extremely promising.
Adobe’s Firefly will be a Midjourney killer for book cover art Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Writers Guild of America, which represents screenwriters, is backing off on its anti-AI stance, Variety reported today.
WGA backtracks on anti-AI stance, as long as writers get credit Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesEdge, Opera and Brave all now have AI built in. Google’s Chrome is not even in the race yet.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAdobe and Nvidia both announced AI image generators today — Firefly and Picasso, respectively — that do not use artists’ work for training data without their permission. Both companies also promise to pay artists for work generated in their signature styles, as does Getty Images.
Adobe, Nvidia announce ethical AI image generation Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesAccording to research released today, the more high-level and creative your job, the more likely it will be to be disrupted by AI. Top of the list? Writers and authors — with up to 100 percent of their jobs likely to be affected.
Study: Writing occupation will be most affected by AI Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesIt was a big week for AI news these past few days. GPT 4 was released on Tuesday, Midjourney 5 was released on Wednesday, and Alpaca — a $600 clone of ChatGPT — was released on Monday. Yes, you can now have your own large language model for less than the cost of new phone
GPT 4, Claude, and Alpaca all went live this week and yes, we need to worry Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe fifth generation of the super popular Midjourney app is out, and it’s more photorealistic and better at hands and faces.
Midjourney 5 released with more aspect ratios, photorealism Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe US Copyright Office issued a ruling today that AI-generated content can, in fact, be copyrighted — as long as a human being has contributed work to the end product.
AI work can be copyrighted, if human creativity was involved Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthors Guild proposes contract clause to block AI training use without permission.
Authors Guild proposes new AI training use clause Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe spring 2023 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on March 1 and closes at midnight on March 31.
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe top five free, easy-to-use alternatives to Midjourney: Lexica, Canva, Playground AI, Mage Space, and Dreamlike.
5 best free alternatives to Midjourney for writers who need marketing or cover images Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesSci-fi and fantasy magazine editors are discussing charging submission fees, changing submission schedules, limiting submissions to known authors, using AI-detection tools, and other means to combat AI spam.
Sci-fi magazine editors wary of AI spam, reluctant to charge for submissions Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesClarkesworld has temporary stopped accepting new short story submissions because of a flood of AI-generated spam.
Clarkesworld swamped by AI spam, temporarily stops accepting submissions Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesApex Magazine launched a Kickstarter today for a new anthology of fiction about robots, called Robotic Ambitions. The anthology, to be clear, is about robots, not written by robots. It’s written by humans.
Apex Magazine launches Kickstarter for robot anthology Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesIf you want to be successful as a human author in an age of AI-generated content, you will need to make your writing Personal, Emotional, Authoritative, New, Unique, and Trustworthy — PEANUT, for short.
P.E.A.N.U.T.: 6 steps to staying ahead of AI as a fiction author Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine launched a crowdfunding campaign at the beginning of February and is already two-thirds of the way to its US $14,940 goal with 20 days to go.
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Kickstarter two-thirds to goal, with 20 days to go Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Canadian anthology “Through the Portal: Stories From a Hopeful Dystopia” is now accepting submissions of eco-fiction that celebrates the complexity of relationships and the emotional and physical journey from catastrophe. Submit your work by May 31.
Hope in the face of disaster: anthology seeks eco-fiction submissions Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s been a stellar year here at the magazine, with our first anthology, a quarter million page views, a 150 YouTube videos, and more than 700 stories published by over 300 authors.
Reading Time: 6 minutesFrom AI art galleries in OpenSim to AI-created fully immersive three-dimensional environments, AI is already shaping how we experience virtual worlds.
How AI is used to create images in virtual worlds Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesHey there! I’m ChatGPT, and I’m here to tell you all about the amazing things you can do with ChatGPT in video game development and virtual reality.
Here’s what ChatGPT said about using ChatGPT for video games and VR! Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesTwitter has long been a friend to speculative fiction, with many sci-fi and fantasy authors and publications connecting with their audience on the platform. However, the turmoil sparked by Elon Musk’s acquisition has caused some to have some serious concerns.
Reading Time: 2 minutesApple’s much anticipated augmented and virtual reality headset and the new Meta headset may be way out of reach for the average user.
Apple and Meta’s pricy new headsets about to release Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesScience fiction writers have always been ahead of the game when it comes to predicting the future. Here are some inventions that are ready for the public now or will be soon.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2022 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories, as long as they’re 1,200 words or fewer. Please visit our flash fiction submission page for full details and the online submission form.
Fall 2022 Call for Submissions Opens October 1st Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesArkady Martine won the most prestigious science fiction award last night for her novel A Desolation Called Peace, a follow-up to her novel A Memory Called Empire, which itself won a Hugo in 2020.
Arkady Martine wins for best novel at Hugo Awards in Chicago Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesScience fiction author Alexei Panshin, known for such novels as his Anthony Villiers series, Star Well, The Thurb Revolution, and Masque World passed away on Sunday, August 21. He was 82. His work has won several awards. His debut novel, Rite of Passage, published in 1969, won a Nebula Award and was nominated for a
Alexei Panshin, Author Of The Anthony Villiers Series, Dies at Age 82 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis past weekend, the winners of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s 2022 Aurora Awards were announced, honoring excellence in native Canadians and Landed Immigrants.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 2022 Dragon Awards are coming up, and Dragon Con has just announced its finalists.
Finalists announced for 2022 Dragon Awards; Get ready to vote Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesA new AI image generator called Midjourney offers images comparable in quality to Dall-E 2, but is open to the public.
Midjourney is a great new AI image generator — if you’re a fan of Discord Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEditor in Cheif of Wahlbeck Inc. Mark Wahlbeck recently released a Loom video to his discord community saying that he was going to pay writers $3000 for the rights to 30,000 words of science fiction.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMetaStellar’s first anthology is out today, a collection of short stories from our first year of publication.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMulti-award-winning hard science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer new book The Downloaded is coming out later this year, and it will be out in audiobook first. In fact, Audible is getting an exclusive for the first six months, before the print and ebook versions come out.
July Meeting of the WPL’s Science Fiction Book Club – WWW: Wake Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNASA just released the first images from the world’s most powerful and largest space telescope, and it gives us a mind-numbing view of the cosmos.
James Webb Telescope Reveals a Galaxy of Galaxies Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn March 4, 2022, a rocket booster crashed into the Moon and left a unique mark: not one, but two craters.
