Jurassic Park meets The Hunger Games in this stunning new high-energy, high-concept tale from first-time novelist Ted Kosmatka, a Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist.Brilliant geneticist Silas Williams oversees U.S. selections for the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: No entrants may possess human DNA. Desperate to maintain America’s edge in the upcoming Games, Silas’...

Ted Kosmatka's sensational new thriller, Prophet of Bones, thrusts readers into an alternate present.Paul Carlson, a brilliant young scientist, is summoned from his laboratory job to the remote Indonesian island of Flores to collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange, new species of tool user unearthed by an archaeological dig. The questions the find raises seem to cast doubt on the very foundations of modern science, which has proven the world to be only 5,800...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. This month, we have original science fiction by Ted Kosmatka ("The One Who Isn't") and Jilly Dreadful ("5x5"), along with SF reprints by Genevieve Valentine ("Small Med...

A scientist's discovery puts him the crosshairs of dangerous people determined to silence him—and his findings—in this hard science fiction thriller."A high-speed thriller. . . . The pages turn rapidly with well-orchestrated suspense." — New York TimesA quantum physicist shocks the world with a startling experiment, igniting a struggle between science and theology, free will and fate, and antagonizing forces not kn...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our September 2023 issue features "Fieldwork" by Shariann Lewitt, "Invisible Men" by Christopher Barzak, "The Man" by Paul McAuley, and "The One Who Isn't" by Ted Kosmatka. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our September 2022 issue features "Hānai" by Gregory Norman Bossert, "Diary of a Pod Person" by Emily C. Skaftun, and "The Beast Adjoins" by Ted Kosmatka. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our December 2019 issue features "Lazy Dog Out" by Suzanne Palmer, "Incomers" by Paul J. McAuley, and "The Art of Alchemy" by Ted Kosmatka.

A quantum physicist shocks the world with a startling experiment, igniting a struggle between science and theology, free will and fate, and antagonizing forces not known to exist.Eric Argus is a washout. His prodigious early work clouded his reputation and strained his sanity. But an old friend gives him another chance, an opportunity to step back into the light.With three months to produce new research, Eric replicates the paradoxical double-slit experiment to see for hims...

Ted Kosmatka's sensational new thriller, Prophet of Bones, thrusts listeners into an alternate present.Paul Carlson, a brilliant young scientist, is summoned from his laboratory job to the remote Indonesian island of Flores to collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange, new species of tool user unearthed by an archaeological dig. The questions the find raises seem to cast doubt on the very foundations of modern science, which has proven the world to be only 5,...

Jurassic Park meets The Hunger Games in this stunning new high-energy, high-concept tale from first-time novelist Ted Kosmatka, a Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYSet in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world tha...

Nebula award-nominated author Ted Kosmatka's latest novel is The Flicker Men: a gripping tale about the struggle between science and theology, free will and fate.Research scientist Eric Argus has four months to prove himself during a probationary period with Hansen Research. Haunted by his past and struggling with alcohol abuse, he is certain that he will squander this opportunity. That is until a mysterious crate from a now-defunct laboratory arrives at his office. The co...