Willow: Lessons in Bravery, Hope, and Having Fun With Fantasy Tropes
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rekt by Alex Gonzalez: Who Needs Cosmic Horror When the Internet Is Right Here?
A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, about a youn...
Hijinks and Homicide: Richie Tankersley Cusick’s April Fools
Featuring what every teen girl wants: a live-in butler.
Five SFF Stories Driven by Complicated Sibling Relationships
From rivalries to ride-or-die, and everything in between...
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Dystopian Books
We're leaping into spring with a set of speculative books set in dystopian hellscapes...
Revealing Tall Is Her Body by Robert de la Chevotiére
A sweeping, multicultural family story of the supernatural...
An Interview With Cameron Reed, Author of The Fortunate Fall
We’ve been longtime fans of Cameron Reed’s iconic 1996 science fiction novel The Fortunate Fall,...
Read an Excerpt From The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika and Maritza Moulite
A Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden zombie abilities to exact revenge on the weal...
A Verdant Childhood: Gregory Maguire’s Elphie
Almost 30 years after the publication of Wicked, Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly yo...
Finding It in the Atlas Doesn’t Help: Stephen Graham Jones’ “Xebico”
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic h...
Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips
You bring the snacks, we'll bring the zombies, robots, and life-threatening peril!
Read an Excerpt From The Cut by C.J. Dotson
A woman fleeing her abusive ex finds herself running from more than just her past…
Witches, Weather and Wonders: The Antidote by Karen Russell
A historical fantasy set during the Dust Bowl but clearly echoing some of the world's current ni...
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The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets...
After the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens
Two ex-military nurses, one human and one alien, share a friendship in a city following an alien...
The Shape of Stones
As a young scholar sets out on a research project to find the stones where the settlers of Icela...
Landline
A woman about to leave on an overseas business trip, calls home from the airport and discovers t...
The Witch and the Wyrm
A new story set in the world of “The Red Mother.” Hacksilver riddled with a dragon, saved his fa...
Agate Way
A pair of sisters are hired to find--and if necessary, dispose of--whatever is killing neighborh...
Red Leaves
The spirit of a recently deceased young boy helps a group of ghosts seek revenge on a corrupt an...
Not Alone
Mel relishes running the “Enchanted Jungle,” a roadside attraction in the Everglades filled with...
