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Detail from the cover of Going Postal; art by Paul Kidby

Five Books About Imposters, Swindlers, and Con Artists

Beware of smooth-talking hustlers, frauds, scammers, and charlatans!

Cover of Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi

Read Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi: Chapters 10-13

Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn’t need much—least of all trouble—but trouble always seems...

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Cover of Brandon Sanderson's Wind and Truth

Wind and Truth Reread: Chapters 63 and 64

The Oathpact is forged, but not all is as it seems…

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Photo of a figure silhouetted against the night sky, reaching up towards the stars

Five Stories About the Magic and Allure of Stars

Short fiction about watching the skies, and being drawn to the stars...

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Cover of A Far Better Thing by H.G. Parry.

Read an Excerpt From A Far Better Thing by H.G. Parry

I feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse.

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Romantasy

A few years ago, I proposed this column to meet a shift in SFF publishing, where the major SFF t...

Detail from the cover of The Psychology of Time Travel

Five Stories About Time Travel and Bureaucracy

What's the fun of time travel without a regulatory body to enforce the rules?

Cover of That Devil, Ambition by Linsey Miller.

Read an Excerpt From That Devil, Ambition by Linsey Miller

There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does grav...

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Selections from the covers of three SFF short fiction magazines: Baffling, Small Wonders, and The Skull & Laurel

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: April 2025

This month's stories have a little god murder, some necromancy, and some brain swapping...

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Cover of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

How Cloud Atlas Is Shaping a Generation of Authors

Tracking the influence of David Mitchell's groundbreaking novel over the last two decades.

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Illustration from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; Art by Stephen Gammell

Five SFF Works Inspired by Urban Myths

Urban legends tell dark stories in the most mundane of settings, using the strange and supernatu...

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