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This is the end of the human species...or is it? Here are tales of events that led to our demise. The causes and characters vary, as do the ultimate outcomes.
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Illumen is a quarterly digest of science fiction and fantasy poetry, including minimalist forms such as haiku, haibun, empat perkataan, cinquains, and other forms, as well as more traditional formats…
The Fifth Di... presents science fiction, fantasy, and horror for your reading enjoyment. Come meet the difficulties and the characters who deal with them in The Fifth Di...
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The Martian Wave features science fiction stories of the exploration and settlement of other worlds. You'll find cerebration, celebration, alien contact, problems in space, other worlds, and much, much more.
The Martian Wave features science fiction tales about the exploration and settlement of other worlds, in our galaxy or in any other galaxy. You'll find adventure, first-contact stories, new concepts…
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Crimes of some form will be with us as long as there are laws to break. Technology helps solve those crimes. But those solutions will always be found by the…
Sandra Siegienski, Cameron Cooper
Sheter of Daylight features positive or upbeat stories in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.
In this issue:
Short Stories
Reflections on the Other Side by Sandra Siegienski
Seen…
Shelter of Daylight features positive and uplifting science fiction and fantasy. In this issue you'll find a woman swallowed up by a forest; a reunion after death; the disadvantages of…
Tyree Campbell
A vampire, a werewolf, and a woman: what could go wrong?
The werewolf eats tofu, and is a vegetarian. The woman drives a car that strikes the vampire as a…
Dark As Life features dark stories of trying to stay alive under dismal living conductions. Some of those conditions are created by ourselves, others are created for us. A teenage…
As the societies of Earth collapse into chaos and destruction, Bailey Belvedere, a U.S. Army Intelligence officer fighting for her very survival, steals aboard an alien spacecraft, and soon finds…
BRIEFING: Nyx is a cold-blooded operative for Blacklight, a section of Amphictyony Security that does not officially exist. Deven, her boss, has dispatched her to the tropical world of Malache…
Bombay Sapphire has been tasked by Agni, the Hindu god of storms, along with her friends from The Times of India to investigate strange smells coming from an insecticide factory…
Courage under fire applies to other dangers besides those encountered in military service. Rescuing someone from a burning building. Doing the right thing despite social pressure. Dealing with hard times…
The Unit of Ayvy, Pol, and Nohana is now actively engaged in armed do-gooding. But Ayvy is still wanted by the interstellar authorities for murdering her pastfather and stealing some…
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A quantum is a self-contained unit-of energy, light, and so forth. It exists in and of itself, irrespective of its surroundings. But it can be, and usually is, part of…
The only records that delineate and authenticate Corporatia territories are on that Palmetto. We want it back. What happened? Yoelin asked. A records clerk bypassed security, recorded the information and…
Yoelin’s periphery is under attack, and she has to close down her chosen purpose in life-performing Rescues, of children, people, and things. Her investigation takes her into the sordid world…
Answering a distress call, March and Myrrha find a young woman who has deliberately been marooned on an uninhabited world. She claims to be Hoya Palologa, heir to the Palologa…
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MELISSA MEAD
The year is 2045. Earth's societies have fallen apart for various reasons-economic, social, political, disease. To live, people began to loot, kill each…
Shelter of Daylight is a semi-annual digest of upbeat and positive science fiction and fantasy stories, poems, art, and articles.
The Martian Wave presents science fiction and fantasy about the exploration and settlement of other worlds, all for your reading enjoyment.
The Fifth Di… presents science fiction, fantasy, and horror for your reading enjoyment.
Corporatia has begun to plot against the independent world of Vanadis and enslave or kill its people. The protector of Vanadis, a retired assassin named Ovin Shannen, may be dead…
The Fifth Di… presents science fiction, fantasy, and spooky horror for your reading enjoyment. This issue includes magic, a problem with a car, heroes with feet of clay, monsters, the…
Quarterly sf/f/h speculative poetry digest, including articles, reviews, interviews, and poetry.
A solar mass ejection is about to incinerate the Earth and almost all life will die. Thuvia is a highly gifted teenager who has a plan to survive and to…
The Fifth Di…
June 2021
FEATURED STORY: The Gospel According to Julie by Stephen C. Curro
Peridot #1 by Tyree Campbell, reviewed by Alan Ira Gordon
Who’s Who?
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Illumen is a publication of science fiction and fantasy poetry, with a bit of the dark side here and there. It also includes reviews, articles on how to read poetry…
Annae (real name Maryjade) is an assassin sent to Deege, a forested world, to kill a plant and bring back the druzy who carries it. Druzies resemble young girls, but…
The Fifth Di… presents science fiction, fantasy, and horror for your reading enjoyment. This issue includes tales of a boy and a horse on another world; of a discovery of…
Illumen is a quarterly digest of science fiction and fantasy poetry, published by Hiraeth Publishing. Issues are released in Winter (January), Spring (April), Summer (July), and Autumn (October). Articles and…
Shelter of Daylight is a semi-annual digest of upbeat and positive science fiction and fantasy-short stories, poem, art, and articles. The works in here appeal to the highest points of…
Tanner-human but with a Motic DNA splice that turns her blue-wants to find out why, after a millennium of space travel, humans are no longer going out into space. Now…
Five hundred years into the future, Pevely Keiser is the capo of the criminal organization called Temmen. Temmen runs itself, for the most part, with only a few lethal nudges…
The Martian Wave features short stories and novelettes about the exploration and settlement of other worlds. Included are possible topographies, alien life forms, probable dangers, complications, and survival chances.
Five hundred years into the future, Pevely Keiser is the capo of the criminal organization called Temmen. Temmen runs itself, for the most part, with only a few nudges from…
The Fifth Di… presents science fiction, fantasy, and horror for your reading enjoyment. This issue includes tales of a man searching another world for his wife; a cursed musical instrument…
Pyra, age 13, runs away from home in the Asteroid Belt. She sneaks aboard a cargo shuttle and falls asleep. When she awakens, the shuttle has been seized by the…
