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This month, Fiction Vortex is celebrating Halloween with a special all-horror issue. It's still speculative fiction, just with extra scares and mental scars. We know, as well as you do, that true terror isn’t from the dark corners of the world, but from the dark recesses of your mind, and that beneath...

We're ending the year strong with a surprisingly wide variety of story types. But they all center around some significant, and usually life-changing realizations about life, no matter how fantastical it is. And that's why we love science fiction and fantasy: Even though the narrative elements aren't...

In the first issue of 2015, we feature a modern take on the Fates, a strangely ambiguous story about the paths of the afterlife, a tale of far-future humans who have survived the death of the Earth, and a goofy set of letters sent by a dissatisfied alien. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in...

Lift up your chin, dear reader, and enjoy these stories with the full knowledge that while your neighbor might outrun you in the zombie apocalypse, you'll know how to create adequate defense perimeters during an attack from unidentified flying objects. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the...

Fiction Vortex publishes science fiction and fantasy short stories for the discerning reader, if by "discerning" you mean someone who likes solid plots, great characters, and fascinating technologies and cultures. This issue includes all the short stories that appeared on FictionVortex.com during...

The holidays are always magical, when the stress isn't killing you. This issue is pretty magical, too, though there should far less stress involved. Maybe "magical" isn't the right term. All the stories this month are better described as "supernatural" because they are more about unusual things than...

This issue of Fiction Vortex introduces some new subgenres that we haven't published before, including fractured fairytale, high fantasy, steampunk, and space western. Fiction Vortex publishes two new science fiction and fantasy stories each week. All stories in this issue appeared on the site during...

WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 2018 - NON-FICTION. 2 of the papers have been nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017: Kim Lakin-Smith and Juliet McKenna. JULIET MCKENNA'S PAPER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NON-FICTION 2018! “Gender...

This box set collects the entire six book series The Travels of Scout Shannon, namely Under Falling Skies, In Quaking Hills, Among Treacherous Stars, Against Impassable Barriers, Over Freezing Altitudes and At Galactic Central. Under Falling Skies Scout Shannon's whole family died the...

What do you get when you mix mystery and speculative fiction, then toss in the holidays for good measure? A mobster Santa, genetic hanky-panky, Victorian villages, time-travelling detectives, Krampus, eerie bell spirits, and more–this collection of short cross-genre fiction is the perfect counterpoint...

Type: Flash Fiction and the word count is about 630 My first short-short story in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Flash Fiction series visits a dragon queen as she is laying her brood of eggs. Enter a world of dragons and magic. New to Flash Fiction? Flash Fiction are very very short...

Type: Flash Fiction and the word count is about 360 words This short-short story in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Flash Fiction series visits a young dragon as he longs to fly. New to Flash Fiction? Flash Fiction are very very short books to tickle your fancy. They are a great...

Type: Flash Fiction and the word count is about 370 words This short-short story in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Flash Fiction series visits a Brown Delivery person as they start a new and very unusual job. New to Flash Fiction? Flash Fiction are very very short books to tickle...

Type: Flash Fiction and the word count is about 220 words This short-short story in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Flash Fiction series visits a Brown Deliveries person as they take an elevator ride to an interesting delivery. New to Flash Fiction? Flash Fiction are very very short...