By sixteen, everyone must choose. For the telekinetic youth of New Teotihuacan’s Worker City there are two choices: an enslaved life or a free death.SERIAL DESCRIPTION:On an earth rampant with telekinesis, Calli Bluehair lives within one isolated city-state among many. New Teotihuacan’s protective dome and oppressive regime preserve not only its strict social classes, but also the lie that empowers the immortal class over the workers.

The rules are about to change. When Jim Buckner's research to unlock human immortality thrusts his daughter into the cross-hairs of a secret war, he'll do anything to get her back--including evolve.SERIAL DESCRIPTION:When Jim Buckner's daughter is kidnapped, his obsession shifts from discovering the lost genetic sequence for awakening human immortality to discovering who took her and how to get her back.The journey reveals a hiberna...

Welcome to publishing in the era of the information dealer.Just as the arms dealers and profiteers of the past stirred up murder and chaos for the purpose of profit, so too the information dealers pander to the lowest common denominator for the purpose of profit. Their weapons of choice are link-bait, fake news, click farms, fake reviews, and spammy content.The golden era of the information dealer has been ushered in via the sudden rise of big data and larg...

We're ending the year strong with a surprisingly wide variety of story types. But they all center around some significant, and usually life-changing realizations about life, no matter how fantastical it is. And that's why we love science fiction and fantasy: Even though the narrative elements aren't real in our lives, the sentiments, interactions, and life lessons are.FICTION VORTEX:Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set ou...

This inaugural issue of the Fiction Vortex magazine is stuffed with incredible stories, tales that will take you through the verdant valley of coming-of-age-fantasy, over the jagged summit of hard science fiction, into the dark cavern of cerebral horror, and back out into the sunlit meadows of humorous satire.FICTION VORTEX:Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative...

Never create a killing machine you can’t control. A space-operatic-love-triangle between a human killing machine, a woman bearing the genetic cancer he’s conditioned to exterminate, and the AI designed to keep him accountable.SERIAL DESCRIPTION:The Hiberverse has been incubating a hidden evil, and the post-human Hibernarii have been inadvertently feeding it. Obsessed with the quest for immortality, the advanced human race known as Hibernari...

We always try to have a variety of genres represented on our site, but this month represents the best collection yet of epic fantasy with a personal touch, far-reaching science fiction with a practical bent, truly haunting psychological horror, and a few more speculative stories that don't fit well into a certain category.FICTION VORTEX:Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish grea...

Never create a killing machine you can’t control. A space-operatic-love-triangle between a human killing machine, a woman bearing the genetic cancer he’s conditioned to exterminate, and the AI designed to keep him accountable.SERIAL DESCRIPTION:The Hiberverse has been incubating a hidden evil, and the post-human Hibernarii have been inadvertently feeding it. Obsessed with the quest for immortality, the advanced human race known as Hibernari...

The most startling discovery to never be made. "Sergio Leone would have killed to film Fistful of Reefer. Harry Turtledove would admire the way history has been skewed. Others will love the notion of the Lost DMB Files. The estimable Mr. Brown has really latched onto something here.” ~ Mike Resnick (The Godfather of Weird Western)SERIAL DESCRIPTION:Some conspiracies remain theories. Others become obsessions. Exhumed 100 ye...

This year’s Fiction Vortex Horror Contest has some of the best short fiction horror we’ve ever seen. Entries ran the gamut from personal to apocalyptic. Filled with strangeness and terror, madness and fear, these stories are a tour to the dark places of the imagination.FICTION VORTEX:Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative fiction. It sprang fully formed from the...

Lift up your chin, dear reader, and enjoy these stories with the full knowledge that while your neighbor might outrun you in the zombie apocalypse, you'll know how to create adequate defense perimeters during an attack from unidentified flying objects.FICTION VORTEX:Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative fiction. It sprang fully formed from the elbow of TWOS, re...

We've got more great stories for you this month, with a god morgue, a few unexplained benefactors, and a xenobiologist who would really rather not be eaten by space slugs. Yep, it's that good.FICTION VORTEX:Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative fiction. It sprang fully formed from the elbow of TWOS, retaining none of TWOS’s form but most of its spirit. And the ...