A dystopian future in which ideas are policed and mind control is possible is at the center of this action-packed story. Portraying a dystopian America in rapid decline, Frank T. Klus’s "Azaleas Don’t Bloom Here" is a tale of... Read More

This complex tale puts global crises and personal crises hand in hand, and questions if morality must adapt. Many dystopian novels feel distant, taking place in a time far from now, but Claudia Casper’s "The Mercy Journals" feels like... Read More

Fantasy and reality blur in this science fiction collection, full of eerie, otherworldly moments. The eleven short stories collected in Zelda Leah Gatuskin’s "Digital Face" all address, in one way or another, the question of what is... Read More

This is a science fiction aficionado’s science fiction story—interplanetary and culturally colorful, with high-stakes action. Two species prepare to meet in "Intelligent Design", J. M. Erickson’s action-packed science fiction... Read More

The stories are what they need to be, and if that involves a doglike alien’s wordless meeting with a shepherd, so be it. Jacob Weisman settles—or perhaps provokes—the debate about what constitutes literature, and what represents... Read More

Honest Abe has been revived and sent on a psychedelic trip in this entertaining work of alternate history. After a long coma curtailed Lincoln’s stint with the Dillinger gang in Abe Lincoln: Public Enemy No. 1, Brian Anthony and Bill... Read More

Allynn Riggs has created a world both familiar and strange, and is in good company with the best science fiction and fantasy. Allynn Riggs’s "The Blood" mixes science fiction and fantasy to good effect in a tale laced with humor,... Read More

The narrative serves as a reminder that, for all the good technology can do, it still can’t always be trusted, especially with people’s lives. "In Absence of Fear" by Celeste Chaney takes place in a distant future plagued with... Read More