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Speculative Fiction Readers: Get a Free Advance Review Copy of These Books

10 Jun 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor

Hey, Can I snag five minutes of your time? I'm looking for 25 people to help me launch a 3-part speculative fiction anthology series. Based on Old Testament Bible stories, the Biblical Legend Anthology Series features multiple authors interpreting th...

Fragment 84

9 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

Twenty-six bells, since the pair had boarded Meshmin’s flagship undergalley. Umin stood, rubbing fingers into weary, purpled eye-sockets and pressing tired temples.  He is densely shrouded against the tacky salt-dew and chill, in a sombre sea-robe. ...

Fragment 83

6 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

The Shir is a beast of burden. In their youth they are diminutive, shapeless fleshy blossom-forms, drifting and filtering the lightless and grim under-flows of the Great Lower Sea. It is in this still unformed, latter quarter of their youth that they...

The War on Sirius B - Part 1 (Fiction)

5 Jun 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Krisz Rokk

His skin could absorb huge amounts of radiation which enabled him to walk for hours in the midst of the day when the sun seamed to melt all the surroundings. Enik’s vibrant and crystal clear blue eyes were shimmering while he walked across the boulev...

Help Me Relaunch My Speculative Fiction Anthology Book Series

3 Jun 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor

After last week's announcement that I've intended to revive the Biblical Legends Anthology Series, it seems the series had a resurgence of interest on Amazon. That's great news. I'm thankful for the interest. If you're one of those who bought the boo...

5 Solid Reasons to Re-Launch Your Next Book

29 May 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor

Recently, I announced the re-launch of a multi-author speculative fiction anthology book series I edited and published nine years ago. I decided to re-launch the books for several reasons, but one question I’ve been asked since making this decision i...

Cicada 3301: Satoshi Nakamoto (Part 0.1)

28 May 2023 10 minute read 1 comment NukeAbe

This is a real story. Or at least as real as any story really is. Welcome to the Post-Truth World. The Age of Spin. The fine line between fiction and fact is getting finer. Please don’t believe anything on the internet. Always D.Y.O.R. This is just a...

Book Launch: Join My Team and Read Great Books

27 May 2023 2 minute read 10 comments Allen Taylor

In 2014, I hit upon an idea that I thought was two rungs short of genius (it's the story of my life, falling short of genius). In all seriousness, I thought I'd put out a call for submissions for writers in the speculative fiction genre to send me st...

Fragment 82

27 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

Elsewhere and otherwhiles… The Great Lower Sea. In prose poetical and spare, the Innulians have brooded upon its obsidian-salt gleam, long since before men and women first strode upright, and bartered their souls away to the gods. Its aspect is treac...

Dora's faces

26 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  The first days after Dora’s release from her prison we didn’t leave, we celebrated. She was overflowing in joy and gratitude for her newfound powers. It wasn’t quite like being released, it was much more. She’d been confined her whole conscious li...