I Spin Records Into Gold
Amid the glitz and glamor of the 1970s American rock scene, a mysterious music exec promises an...
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The Day-Blind Stars
An Earth explorer in search of something new and strange in the up and out ends up traveling thr...
Let’s Go to the Zoo
Equipped with two sandwiches, a couple sets out to the zoo to see the one totally sane human bei...
Tatterdemalion
In a traditional folktale from Alak, a dreamy good-for-nothing young woman seeking excitement di...
Cutting Corners
A team of pilots is trained to fly ships in a war where it's become cheaper to send humans inste...
Blade Through the Heart
Graff and his crew face a particularly nasty challenge – an opponent so low-tech they might just...
Deathcap
Two space marines trapped in a doomed spaceship confront the desires that will destroy them both...
Of Two Bloods
Chronicling the secret exploits of the great detective's illegitimate, but highly observant, you...
Agency
An estate agent is forced to choose between a sale and his humanity when facing the inhuman eldr...
Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin
Researchers K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin document the discovery of a family unable to conceive o...
Excerpts
Read an Excerpt From Headlights by CJ Leede
Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t.
Read an Excerpt From The Franchise by Thomas Elrod
This epic tale of a Hollywood-owned fantasy world where nothing is quite as it seems to the peop...
Read an Excerpt From Decomposition Book by Sara van Os
A woman finds a dead body and can’t give up its ghost…
Read an Excerpt From Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir
An Icelandic night may hide secrets and affairs—or even bodies…
Reprints
The Woman Carrying a Corpse
We’re excited to reprint “The Woman Carrying a Corpse” by Chi Hui, translated from Chinese...
The Stars We Raised
We’re delighted to share “The Stars We Raised” by Xiu Xinyu, translated from C...
A Dream of Electric Mothers
We're excited to reprint "A Dream of Electric Mothers," the 2023 Nebula Award–nominated novelett...
