Fictional military superpowers have captured our imaginations sincePlato invented Atlantis, and superpowers are all too real in today'stechnological world. How would our stories evolve if they took placeon other worlds?"Hyperpowers" from Third Flatiron Anthologies, guest-edited by BascombJames, takes on the challenge of telling short speculative fictionstories that explore space opera and military fiction themes. Thesetales raise potent iss...

Third Flatiron publishes quarterly themed speculative fiction anthologies. The "Third Flatiron Best of 2017" collection is a sampling of the best of the best short stories offered during 2017. Authors include John Sunseri, James Beamon, Rati Mehrotra, J. L. Forrest, Konstantine Paradias, Jean Graham, Jill Hand, Brian Trent, Ville Nummenpaa, Wulf Moon, Keyan Bowes, Vaughan Stanger, and Premee Mohamed.

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "Principia Ponderosa," 17 newscience fiction and fantasy stories exploring weird western,gothic, and steampunk themes.Our authors dig into the principles that have made Weird West fertileground for speculative fiction and adventure.The international group of contributors to "Principia Ponderosa" makethis a unique and varied collection that is sure to please fans ofspeculative fiction.

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "Keystone Chronicles," 19 freshscience fiction and fantasy stories exploring the theme of keystoneevents.What is a keystone? It's the central stone at the summit of an arch,locking the whole together, something on which other things depend forsupport, the heart or core of something, the crux. In storytelling, itis the pivotal message or character who makes it all happen.The international group of contrib...

Let your imagination run away with you for a change. Since the Age ofEnlightenment, it's become the norm to reject belief in miracles,revelation, magic, or the supernatural. But it's only human to feelthat delicious frisson of fear when things get a little strange. ThirdFlatiron Anthologies proudly presents "Ain't Superstitious," a doubleissue packed with 26 stories of the weird, wild, and magical."Ain't Superstitious" from Third Flatiron offers t...

It's Question Time: What is intelligence, anyway? Who has it? Who wants it? Can humans recognize it in other species? Come the Singularity, will humans survive? Is survival only for the fittest? What will newly sentient creations want to do first? Can we love machines, and can they love us back? Could the 'Mozart effect' of music transform us? Are the super-intelligent more likely to be tormented by issues like happiness and the meaning of life?Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "...

"Infinite Lives: Short Tales of Longevity" is a new speculative fiction anthology with the themes of longevity, immortality, and technological life extension.In "Infinite Lives," a man cursed with immortality finally finds joy when technology defeats death, an astronaut finds himself spaghettified by a black hole, a fairy queen returns to earth to bid goodbye to her dying human lover, the Grim Reaper finds an enthusiastic successor in a coffee shop barista, a rebel subvert AIs who ...

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "Redshifted: Martian Stories," a collection of new speculative fiction by rising and established authors. Contributors include Maureen Bowden, Lela E. Buis, Martin Clark, Jaimie M. Engle, Jeff Hewitt, Neil James Hudson, Jason Lairamore, Vince Liberato, Michael McGlade, Kara Race-Moore, Ian Rose, Chuck Rothman, and Robina Williams.Look for your sign as an astrologer casts a Martian colony's horoscope, the Roman god decides war's not in his stars, ...

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "Terra! Tara! Terror!" Tales range from dark to playful, featuring fantastical elements, mythology and folklore, alternate history and steampunk, as well as modern political anxieties. We invite you to savor its mixture of dark and playful themes, fantastical elements, and mystery. A flash humor section, "Grins and Gurgles," is also featured."Terra! Tara! Terror!" is an original and varied collection of science fiction/fantasy, humor, and horror ...

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "Cat's Breakfast," a double issue containing 30 science fiction and fantasy short stories inspired by the wit and wisdom of Kurt Vonnegut.While satire and humor have long been standard tools of the trade for fiction writers, our authors have channeled the uniquely Vonnegutian attitude into all-original stories that probe and instruct us on themes such as free will, mental illness, social cruelty, loneliness, and family. The book concludes with a ...

Time. We feel it march by, seeming to gain momentum with each passingyear. Some physicists argue that it might not actually exist. We haveonly our recollections to depend on, and sometimes those can fool us,becoming fogged, like overexposed film."The Time It Happened" from Third Flatiron Anthologies contains 15short science fiction adventures and flash humor pieces that exploreworld-altering events, both real and imagined, ranging from alien...

Nothing is too strange for Third Flatiron's new anthology, "StrangeBeasties." Find something unsettling at every turn, from risingprimordical monsters and gods to murderous supernatural predators andvengeful soul-hungry demons.There's plenty of dark comedy too, with gamblers who race unusualbeasts, ogres who run cooking podcasts, horrifically dysfunctionalfamilies, and unhinged sorcerers.An international group of new and established contri...