The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina Rather's debut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black.A Golden Crown Literary Society Award FinalistYears ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady o...

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, the follow-up to Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award.“We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames.”Not long ago, Earth’s colonies and space stations threw off the yoke of planet Earth’s tyrannical rule. Decades later, trouble is brewin...

World Fantasy Award nominee for Best NovellaLina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, and the rending of the world, for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Death of Jane Lawrence."An entrancing and transformative queer tale of cosmic horror."—Caitlin Starling" A blood sacrifice of a novel." **—Meg Eliso...

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's cover art is by Reiko Murakami, illustrating an original science fiction story by A. Merc Rustad and Ada Hoffman ("I Sing Against the Silent Sun"). We also ...

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina Rather’sdebut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black.Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only withcrucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard OurLady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined t...

The Sisters of the Order of Saint Rita forge a new path in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars."We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames."Two generations ago, Earth’s colonies and space stations broke free of their home planet’s tyrannical rule. Earth’s Central Governance is now flexing its power to regain control of its lost assets.The Order of Saint Rita—whose mission is to provide aid and mercy to those in need—uncovered Central Governance’s atrocities ...

Tor.com Publishing is proud to present a sneak peak at its 2019 debut authors.Read free sample chapters from the most exciting new voices in science fiction and fantasy today:C. S. E. Cooney (Desdemona and the Deep)Katharine Duckett (Miranda in Milan)Jennifer Giesbrecht (The Monster of Elendhaven)Kerstin Hall (The Border Keeper)Vylar Kaftan (Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water)Scotto...

**Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky's Made Things is dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic.Making friends has never been so important.**Welcome to Fountains Parish--a cesspit of trade and crime, where ambition curls up to die and desperation grows on its cobbled streets like mold on week-old bread.Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don't... tin...

Nebula Award–winning author Kelly Robson returns with a charming historical fantasy romp featuring a flirtatious scribe, some irritable fairies, and a precarious parliament.Lana Baker is Aldgate's finest scribe, with a sharp pen and an even sharper wit.Gregarious, charming, and ever so eager to please, she agrees to deliver a message for another lovely scribe in exchange for kisses, only to be shipped off to the Low Parliament by a temperamental fairy.As Lana transc...

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themselves far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be.Accompanied by Almost Brilliant, a talking bird with...

From Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall comes a debut novel that is “an utterly compelling fantasy” (A. K. Larkwood, author of The Unspoken Name).ALL MARTYRDOMS ARE DIFFICULT.Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way or another, it will kill her. Though she’s able to stomach her gruesome day-to-day duties, the reality of preserving the Sisterhood of Aytrium’s magical bloodline horrifies her.For a brutal price, the matriarchal Order keeps their c...

We think we understand the laws of physics.We think a lot of things. It was perhaps inevitable that some of them would turn out to be wrong.When the great incursion occurred, no one was prepared. Of all the things physicists had predicted, "the fabric of reality might rip open and giant monsters could come pouring through" had not made the list. But somehow, that was precisely what happened.For sisters Susan and Katharine Black, the day of the incursion was the day ...