A variety of short stories written by these amazing science fiction authors: Mike Rusetsky, L.A. Selby, John Grover, Billy Todd, L.N. Hunter, Arindam Kalita, Albert N Katz, S. E. Forsberg. Jake Russell, Kari Kilgore, Jezza Deep, Diana Parrilla, Kay Hanifen, Christopher R. Muscato, and Thomas Lanthripp

She's a space pirate with vital information. He's a wanted fugitive with enemies hot on his afterburner. Will their unexpected attraction survive escaping a dangerous asteroid mine in time to avert disaster?Trouble is arising across the galaxy, and space pirate Julke Defayensdytr has vital information for her clan. She's almost given up trying to escape the hidden rogue asteroid mine she's been imprisoned in for over a year. But a new batc...

LARRY NIVEN’S KNOWN SPACE IS AFLAME WITH WAR!Once upon a time, in the very earliest days ofinterplanetary exploration, an unarmed humanvessel was set upon by a warship from theplanet Kzin—home of the fiercest warriors inKnown Space. This was a fatal mistake for theKzinti, of course; they learned the hard way thatthe reason humanity had decided to study warno more was that humans were so very, verygood at it.And thus began THE MAN-KZIN WARS. Now,several centuries later, the ...

He is called the Ellimist. A being with the ability to alter space and time. A being with a power that will never be fully understood. He is the reason Elfangor came to Earth. He is the reason the Earth now has a fighting chance. And though his actions never seem quite right or wrong, you can be certain they are never, ever what anyone expects.This is the beginning and the middle of the story. A story that needs to be told in order to understand what might happen to the future. The...

Your passage to unforgettable worlds of imagination and escapism. From the farthest reaches of the universe to the innermost workings of the human heart and mind... Let tomorrow's masters of science fiction and fantasy books take you on a journey that will capture your imagination.A peaceful warrior tries to impose peace on warring alien races, even if that means destroying the world to save it.From survivors on a sky city to salvage specialists hunted by space pirates...bi...

Jessie Stern's life has taken a turn to the weird. It started out great. On her 13th birthday she discovered she was going on a scientific expedition with her dad to document the death of a star and rescue the priestess that waits for them on the planet Shilona. But before they even leave Earth Jessie is chased by beings she never thought existed – the Time Shifters – a race that can control time. She learns she has a mission to stop the Time Shifters from killing the priestess. She also l...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our May 2025 issue (#224) contains:Fiction* "Brainstem Disco, 2191" by Angela Liu* "The Library of the Apocalypse" by Rati Mehrotra* "We, the Fleet" by Alex T. Singer* "Descent" by Wole Talabi* "Oh Time Thy Pyramids" by Ann LeBlanc* "Proxima One" by Caryanna Reuven* "Yarn...

She was meant to save humanity's stories.She's about to create an epic story of her own!17-year-old Aerlys is one of the galaxy's last librarians, racing to preserve humanity's knowledge before it's lost forever.When she arrives on a dead colony world, Aerlys expects an empty planet, but meets a sarcastic shape-shifting robot instead. If she'll take him somewhere safer, he'll help her harvest data--even as the planet crumbles around...

He found her in the darkness of an embattled moon. Once frozen and forgotten, she may be their only hope.Her home was destroyed, her memories all but erased.Imprisoned in cryo for five hundred turns, Tick woke to her world in crisis. Since then she’s been lurking in the shadows of the qubition quarries, willing to fight with knife and fire—until she stumbles on a charming hardrock miner lost in the depths. Though his hands are too soft and...

In this upbeat, positive collection of SFF short stories from Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, author of So You Want to Be A Robot, you'll find hope, humor, friendship—and of course, robots.Have you heard the one about......a neural network who wants humans to drink more water?...a person stranded on Mars with only an obsolete robotic toy?...a cyborg caught in a time loop with a frightened ship?...a self-aware mech who doesn't want to be a weapon anymore?

Beyond this rock we call home, horror awaits. Meteors slash through the sky, illuminating terrors beyond our wildest imagination. In the furthest reaches of the coldest cosmic expanse, there are things waiting, whose very existence our minds are not equipped to comprehend.Can you survive the final frontier?Featuring 14 stories from some of the best up-and-coming talents in the genre, The Darkness Beyond The Stars is an anthology of space-themed hor...

Part One: The ChaseGetting him into handcuffs was the easy part...keeping him out of her mind is gonna take work.Treska Sivekka is the Huntress--the Union's most skilled bounty hunter. Her targets? The psypaths whose mental talents summoned alien attacks on the capital planet that left her body shattered and her mind a blank slate. Now the last free psypath is in her crosshairs...if only he weren't her one chance at restoring her lost memories....