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Otherside Magazine
14 September
OTHERSIDE is a quarterly queer-led literary magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
Inspired by José Esteban Muñoz’s definition of queerness as “an insistence on …
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Swords Against!
8 September
Swords Against! Magazine is a new sword & sorcery fiction periodical packed with heart-pounding stories accented by great art.
The magazine explores the boundaries between the old and new, challenges …
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Hugh Howey
7 September
Hugh C. Howey is an American writer, and the author of the books Wool, Shift, and Dust, which the science fiction series Silo from Apple TV is based …
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Alan Baxter
2 September
Alan Baxter is a multi-award-winning British-Australian author of more than twenty novels and novellas and over one hundred short stories, encompassing horror, weird fiction, dark fantasy, crime and more.
This Is …
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Sheer Spite Press
1 September
Sheer Spite Press was founded by Lee Arden in 2024 in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal to publish and distribute useful, generous, personal, political, funny, heart-filled works.
Lee has been making zines …
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Word Horde
11 August
Word Horde was founded by Ross E. Lockhart on the the idea that great stories should be given every opportunity to find the right audience.
When you work with the most talented …
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InverteFest
5 August
InverteFest is a periodic online event to celebrate overlooked invertebrate fauna and shre the joys of discovery.
Artists can submit their invertebrate art to be included in the regularly released …
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Tomkin Press
17 July
The home of Shawn Tomkin, the creator and publisher of the ENNIE-winning Ironsworn tabletop roleplaying game.
Now also the home of Ironsworn: Delve, and Ironsworn: Starforged, and Sundered Isles. …
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M. Darusha Wehm
9 July
M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning author.
Darusha is the author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, as well as over …
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Speculative Insight Collections
9 July
Speculative Insight is a feminist journal, although not every essay will be explicitly feminist in analysis.
They are anti racism, transphobia, queerphobia, and ableism. Speculative Insight welcomes essays that present …
Favourite Books
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Homunculus
Recommended by
kevin
A beautiful, heart-breaking, and hopeful book.
The cycle of it, the 'world outside'. And an enduring message of simply being.
Daughter of the Sun
Recommended by
sapphiction
Oh, wow, this is an enjoyable read. I literally couldn't put it down. It stole my whole day.
It has gripping plot. The characters are lovable. It has a good amount of humor. Also, a lot of rich world building.
The second I finished it I was bummed out because it was over. I wanted to read it again immediately.
The Chameleon
Recommended by
gurdonark
This is a well-told tale about the power of the written word to endure and change.
The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter
Recommended by
kevin
A ripping yarn of disguise, deception and misdirection, propelled along by a brilliantly written period style that firmly places you in the world.
A rollicking ride through alternate-history Britain after the Luddite uprisings. Recognisable locations mixed with carefully applied genre tropes keep this book from becoming yet another steampunk adventure and raise it above its fellows.
The Healers' Home
Recommended by
kevin
Another beautiful read by S.E. Robertson!
I'm really enjoying this slice-of-life fantasy genre I've only just learned about. The Healers' Home gives us a more stable setting, some new drama as past-acquaintances re-appear, and work to do as Agna and Keifon try and fit in to their new lives.
Family expectations, awkward commitments and trying relationships flesh out this wonderful book.
The Healers' Road
Recommended by
kevin
I absolutely loved this book!
Recommended in @paracactus' 'Slice-of-Life Fantasy' list, it provides a place to go, a world to just sit in and enjoy.
Like the contemplative and cozy parts of The Steerswoman series, Jaran, and The Guy of Gisborne books, you simply get lost in the subtly portrayed world.
A fantasy setting without the usual tropes or stereotypes. A fantasy book to love.
Blood Witch
Recommended by
kevin
Absolutely loved this occult murder mystery novella!
It's so much fun! It's fast-paced, has tonnes of likeable characters, some f/f smoochieness, magic, demons, and vampires. And while it's the start of a series, it has a complete story of its own - ensuring you get a nice neat-ish ending at the same time as teasing more adventures to come.
Will definitely read this series!
Muti Nation
Recommended by
sakina
A nail-biting introduction to South African magic and a nice bit of terror into the bargain. No reading this one on a dark stormy night unless you're bigger and hairier than the sorcerer!
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2022
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An average issue with some interesting stories by Eugie Foster, Nick Dichario, Auston Habershaw, Maiga Doocy and J. A. Pak.
The Postman
Recommended by
sakina
Bloody loved it! Epic story with a vision for the future that is possibly more relevant in 2020 than it was when the book was first published.
Origin Complex
Recommended by
kevin
This is the most stunning science fiction novel I've read in years. To see such scope and grandeur in an independent title makes my heart sing!
You'll come for the mechs and ancient alien horrors, but you'll stay for the archaeology and one of the best robot-human buddy pairings since Iain M. Banks' Culture series.
INTERZONE #284 (NOV-DEC 2019)
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An okay issue of Interzone, with the more interesting stories by Joanna Berry, David Tallerman and Tim Chawaga.
Download your Black Library ebooks before 31st of August
In February 2026, Games Workshop announced that The Black Library ebook and audiobook shop would be taking a “...well-earned rest from the 31st of August”.
Amazon's latest anti-reader change
Amazon’s latest change to their older Kindle devices would be perfectly acceptable, if it wasn’t for the fact that it comes after a long chain of anti-consumer and anti-reader practices.
Collections have launched!
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New DRM-free Bookshops of 2026
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ShortBox Comics Fair 2025 is open!
ShortBox Comics Fair, the innovative digital comics fair showcasing all-new, original comics from artists around the globe, is hitting its fifth year!