Representation Matters.Fantastic Stories prides itself on being open to underrepresented voices. Science fiction and fantasy should encompass the totality of the human experience, in all of its diversity and complexity. Fantastic Stories is determined to explore a more inclusive, realistic vision of the future.People of color have been publishing some of the highest quality science fic...

What does the future hold for us? This anthology of nineteen diverse stories from authors around the world shows us a future full of adventure, intrigue, fun, heart-ache, and wonder.A imprisoned space pirate from Phobos is given a last chance for freedom, but only if he's willing to kill his younger brother. Again.In post-climate change Italy, a deaf African-American woman and her native partner struggle to build a communal farm that can survive the new environment, a lasting...

What Does a Future Without Police Look Like? An all-new Anthology Edited by James BeamonIn 2020, protesting citizens issued the cry to "defund the police." But what does that mean? We challenged science fiction authors the world over to give us their vision of a world without police and fair systems of justice. In this collection you'll find eleven stories showing alternate forms of law enforcement and criminal justice spread across near future, alternate realities and different wo...

Melvin Morrow has become a barbarian warrior maiden. Will he be able to escape this new, dangerous world and the chainmail bikini he foolishly chose as his armor or will he and his friends be stuck living their lives as their game avatars?Melvin's a teenage boy not used to being ogled or the real world consequences of wearing a steel bikini. But the real world has shifted... him, his friends Jason and Rich, and his big brother Mike are stuck in character, in a plac...

They say the only sure things are death and taxes. But death doesn't have to be a certainty with the right technology. Especially if there are people itching to ask the dearly departed questions about their taxes.Dr. Hugh Torquato's business is post-mortem communications, and business is booming. Sometimes the dead are the only ones with the answers, and the trick of getting them to speak is a closely guarded trade secret.But the revolutionary technology Hugh uses on the jo...

Cy Hunt’s first novel is set in the United States’ capital, Washington D.C. The DuPont Society is a crime thriller that follows two young, black men bonded together by their tragic orphan history. Driven to overcome their past struggles, Rakeem and Ty do whatever it takes to ‘make it’ in one of the most competitive cities in the United States. One December night, Rakeem and Ty get ready for a much needed night out in the city. Their evening plans are interrupted by a fight outside of a nig...

Rich is a rock between two hard places.He's currently a marble statue, the cost for casting a spell reserved for the clearly insane or truly desperate. His friends refuse to leave this fantasy world without him. They may be badasses, but getting Rich less statuesque will involve witches, vamp-beasts and cutthroat discounts for marble art.Even if his friends manage to free Rich without serious injury or an associated death or two, well, there are still the hard places to con...

Jason is the Chosen One of Prophecy... maybe.His unmarked body may be the catalyst that brings about the return of the corrupting God of Power, and with him, the threat of madness and chaos. That's enough for the Holy Aian Empire to stop at nothing to see Jason dead, even if that means total war with the peoples of the Free States.Little do they know Jason's not truly aian or that his controversial body was artificially designed through Hierophane magic. Ev...

Mike's done with this life.He's tired of mages and portals, a brother who's a warrior woman, and his own scarred up little megrym body. Now he's got an army at his back. This time, when he wants to take the Rift Pendulum home, better nobody even think to tell him no.Even though the Pendulum War is over, there are still forces out there bent to stop him. Druze Wozencraft's body is under witchlock but his immortal mind is ever active. Delv Verayn, feared amon...

The Christian faith is filled with mystery, from the Trinity and the Incarnation to the smaller mysteries found in some of the strange and unexplained passages of the Bible: Behemoth and Leviathan, nephilim and seraphim, heroes and giants and more. There is no reason for fiction engaging with Christianity to be more tidy and theologically precise than the faith itself.Here you will find challenging fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories that wrestle with tough questions and r...

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 Saleha Chowdhury, illustrating a brand-new fantasy story by James Beamon ("A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds"). We also have a fantasy origin...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What Does a Future Without Police Look Like? An all-new Anthology Edited by James BeamonIn 2020, protesting citizens issued the cry to "defund the police." But what does that mean? We challenged science fiction authors the world over to give us their vision of a world without police and fair systems of justice. In this collection you'll find eleven stories showing alternate forms of law enforcement and criminal justice spread ac...