Ghosts. Gaslight. Gears.Welcome to a wondrous age of steam where pirates, rust, and syphilis aren’t all you need to worry about. Ghosts abound!In this hissing and clanking steampunk anthology, there are moments that science just can’t explain. All the mechanical geniuses scratch their heads and whisper words of ghosts and powers, of spirits and demons. Possessed automatons take on lives of their own. Superstitious pilots take all necessary precautions. Avan...

Tet is no longer a priest-mage; thrown out from his temple and cursed by his gods to return a stolen relic. With every passing year, the curse works deeper into his flesh, breaking and twisting him until finally, driven by pain, Tet makes a drastic play to escape the gods.His luck turns sour, and the escape costs him his soul, drawing his death even closer when he is captured by the despotic White Prince. In order to escape the prince, retrieve his soul and break the curse, Tet mus...

Georgina Skyler Carey is not a necromancer. She's the daughter of one.And now she's dead.George has grown up hidden away, trying to live a normal life after her mother was executed for a ghost uprising which killed millions. Every year, the Anti-Necromantic Unit drags her in for testing, while the Empress of Life watches. And every year; nothing.Until she turns twenty, and the wards which were hiding her and binding her are finally erased, and Georgina discovers tha...

Pilot Issue of the new monthly digital Shoreline of Infinity.It's an all-women issue to mark International Women's Day.New stories from: Bo Balder, Fiona Moore, Laura WattsSF poetry from: T.D. WalkerArticle: Transmitting Tales of the Future into the Future, by Pippa GoldschmidtBook Reviews: Cat Hellisen reviews Composite Creatures by Caroline HardakerArt: Stephen Daly, Jackie Duckworth

Knowing the future is not about knowing the future. It's about knowing which path to take.Ilven comes from a family of Saints—future-tellers—but she knows her father didn't waste more than a few grains of the precious drug scriv to see her fate. Now she's facing an arranged marriage to a man she's never met. So, inhaling stolen scriv, she reads three possible futures for herself, searching for the path that will lead to her heart's desire."Mother, Crone, Maiden" is...

New short storiesE.M. Faulds – A Flight of Birds Simon Nagel – They Came To Hear Him Play His Music When The Sun Went Down Gary Gibson – The President is Possessed Elana Gomel – DanaeCat Hellisen – The Death and Resurrection of Mantis-Class Destroyer 'Sentimental Journey', previously 'General Patty Styne', deceasedDavid L Clements – What is Hard Science Fiction?ReviewsCitizens of Nowhere: an Anthology of Utopic Fiction - Rowan B. Fortune (Ed), Review by ...

Marjeta Petrell.Replacement bride, shadow of a dead and perfect wife, step-mother to a duke's treasured daughter.A girl out of her depth, alone and afraid.Magic runs deep in her veins, stitched in blood ties, embroidered with kindness and pain.In an unfamiliar court, Marjeta must discover who are her friends and who are enemies; who she can trust before she is accused of witchcraft and executed.

Science Fiction Magazine featuring short stories, poetry, artwork, articles, reviews.The SF Caledonia special, featuring stories from Scottish writers.Beth NuttallCallum McSorleyCat HellisenDavid Tam McDonaldEly PercyEric BrownKaty LennonKen MacLeodLaura ScotlandLaura WattsMoira McPartlinRichard GregsonTH DrayIncluding the winning story of the Cymera/Shoreline of Infinity ...

Science Fiction and Fairy Tales Special EditionAdam Roberts – Lad and the Devil Woody Dismukes – A Good Morsel of Clay Mary Berman – Cassandra Takes the Plunge Edmund Fines – The Golden Circle Tour Rhys Hughes – A Gorgon Reversed e rathke – Last Life in the Universe Laura Scotland – Such is the Pathway to the Stars Dave Weaver – The Space Apostle Sofia Samatar – Fairy Tales for RobotsMultiverse - poems from: Cat Hellisen, Bethany Davis and Jane YolenBook Reviews...

Mirror, mirror, take my soul...Marjeta was never supposed to be Duke Calvai’s wife. But the sudden death of her sister changed everything, and Marjeta was married off in her stead to seal the Duke’s alliance with her father.Ill-prepared for the dangers of the Calvai court or her new role as stepmother to the duke’s precious daughter, Marjeta finds herself in a hostile environment with a husband who preferred his dead first wife, a child too suspicious to love her, and no true...

A Muse and its client reinvent the story of Rapunzel after their death.

Tired of getting no respect at the big P.I. firm where she's worked for years, Dix Dodd has hung out her own shingle at the ripe age of 40. There are plenty of cheating husbands to go around, and Dix has a knack for busting them. Problem is, it doesn't always pay so well. Conscious that the guys back at the old firm are laying bets about how soon she'll come crawling back, she figures she's got six months to make a go of it.The going gets even tougher when she hires Dylan Foreman. ...