Join us for a feast! Step into a roadside diner run by witches. Attend a banquet with aliens who are as crass as they are brutal. Eat oysters on the half shell with a pair of conjurers, or scratch out a meal with warring pilots marooned on a desolate planet. Pity the ghost who must cook her way to freedom, and mourn with the warrior who seeks a final delicacy for his lost love. Search the far reaches of space for sustenance or descend into a hellscape of culinary horrors. In this volume, food is the star! Fantasy and science fiction authors Paige L. Christie, Diana A. Hart, A.L. Tompkins, Esther Friesner, Derrick Boden, Andy Duncan, Chaz Brenchley, Howard Andrew Jones, Mike Jack Stoumbos, R.S. Belcher, Mia Moss, Gini Koch, D.B. Jackson, Jason Palmatier, and Gabriela Santiago have prepared a Galactic Stew that will entice and tantalize, nourish the imagination, and sate the most ravenous of literary appetites. But beware! These dishes are not what they seem...

From Lost Friends to Changed Worlds to Goodbye Earth The Unbound Collection is the first three editions of the Unbound Anthology Series published by Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications. 26 Amazing Authors 26 Amazing Stories One Collection With themes of Lost Friends, Changed Worlds, and Goodbye Earth, eveyone will find at least one favorate story. Enlightening, dark, fantasitical, ***Warning*** The Unbound Collection can keep you up late all night reading.

Welcome to the second year's-worth of stories from the online magazine ZNB Presents published by the small press Zombies Need Brains. In these pages, you will find original science fiction and fantasy stories of awe and wonder, darkness and light, ranging through all of the subgenres, including urban fantasy, alternate history, space opera, future fairy tales, and more. They come from the most talented authors in the field today—new voices as well as trusted and familiar names. Join us as we explore visions of the past, present, and future, as we encounter strange new creatures, both in our own backyard, in the depths of space, and our own imagination. Here you will: —Search for a cryptid in the mean streets of the city that tricks you into walking into its mouth —Scavenge in a world where AI has passed the singularity —Relive the scents of a recently lost world at a near-future carnival —Fleece the rich in a South African suborbirail —Hunt vampires in the crypts beneath the Kremlin with a saint by your side —Bargain with the sentient plants in a precarious alliance on a colonized world —Uncover the alternate assassin of Abraham Lincoln —Concoct potions as an apprentice with just a touch too much flare —Become an AI struggling to complete its mission after crashlanding on an alien world And so much more! Twenty-four stories written by Daniel Roman, Ty Lazar, L.P. Melling, Nathan W. Toronto, Caias Ward, Jonathan Robbins Leon, Marie Vibbert, Rob Cornell, Mike Jack Stoumbos, J.L. George, Brian Hugenbruch, Andrew Gudgel, Alicia Cay, Elektra Hammond, Derrick Boden, Alma Alexander, Melinda Brasher, Louis Evans, Niall Spain, Brian Crenshaw, S.C. Butler, Sam Robb, Liam Hogan, and Christine Lucas, each with its own illustration by artists Kat D'Andrea, Ariel Guzman, or Greg Uchrin. Welcome to the multifaceted worlds of ZNB Presents . Find us on Patreon at: http://www.patreon.com/zombiesneedbrains

I've read Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine for the umpteenth time. I've walked the ravine with Douglas Spaulding, fumed over never-mown grass with Grandpa, ridden the time machine with Colonel Freeleigh, rescued Mme. Tarot from the junk heap. Bradbury passed away four years ago this week. If you've never read Ray Bradbury before I'm afraid I must chastise you. Mr. Bradbury is an American icon. A must-read for anyone who appreciates fine literature or who loves a well-told story. Most see Bradbury as a science fiction author. He was that, but so much more. Bradbury wrote. That's all. True, many of his stories could be easily categorized as science fiction. Just as many, however, could be labeled as fantasy or even mainstream. But what makes Bradbury stand out from his peers is the way he put words on a page. He was an artist with words, a master of phrasing, a storyteller with a flair for manipulating the English language to form literary treasures. "We are cups," Bradbury once said, "constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." Beautiful stuff. That's what we like to put on our pages. This month we have some exceptionally beautiful stuff--all speculative fiction of one sort or another. First, a foray into future dystopia from Flash Fiction Online alumnus Derrick Boden, "A Winner's Smile." Next, a heartbreaking urban fantasy piece, "A Partial Inventory of Things I Have Loved," by Michelle Ann King. From author Stephen S. Power, we're pleased to present "Mamita," a near-future science fiction story. Lastly, a reprint from our own staffer, Jason S. Ridler--"Charlatans and Magi," plus another edition of FXXK WRITING!

Kzine contains original stories of Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Crime. This issue we have SF stories by Edward Ahern, Michael T. Best, Tara Campbell, Joseph Benedict, Thomas Canfield, Meryl Stenhouse, Charles Egbert and Derrick Boden.They involving political warfare, family disaffection, stylish time-travel and Virtual girlfriends. In the Crime genre criminals are forced against their will into murder and control mob violence with mind control. Then there are stories depicting an occult police procedural mixing ancient deviants with the present horror, a Christmas twist on a devil's agreement and a Fantastical story where people turn into vegetables... and other things. Something for everybody? Well perhaps not the nervous!

This issue of Kzine contains sf, horror, crime and fantasy stories and sometimes a mixture of these genres. The authors are: Maureen Bowden, Liam North, Michelle Anne King, Derrick Boden, Jackie Bee, Tyler Bourassa, Steven Mace and Gustaf Berger. The cover illustration is by Dave Windett.

Magic is described as science we do not understand and illusions as tricks of controlling audience perspective. Black hat or white hat, good or evil, witches, hackers, and robots work types of magic a little beyond our day-to-day comprehension. And what is more exciting than the inexplicable? DARK MAGIC is all around us. Join us for a thrilling ride.

The Unbound series by Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications. This edition of Unbound - Lost Friends. Set in the SciFi world, we have all suffered loss at one time or another. Now, experience what losing a friend would be like for those characters between our pages.

An anthology magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy short stories. Andi C. Buchanan's I Will Teach You Magic, a love letter to a child of their future. The Association of Twelve Thousand Flowers from Ursula Whitcher is about a bisexual sex worker on another planet investigating a murder. A. Katherine Black's moving This is Not a Diary, This is Not a Confession, where being different, and bullied for it, can make one-prickly. Thomas Ha's Horangi, about a boy growing up with Korean mythical creatures in Hawai`i. Confessions of a Forward Thinker from Derrick Boden, where being able to see the future leads to what is really important. The Game Will be Mortal by Gillian Secord, with the prickling in the head from the dice, what will the next Game bring. Jess Hyslop's Risings brings us a young girl whose father is a 'collaborator' working as a Necromancer for the invaders. In Echoes Under My Skin by Alexandra Seidel, a refugee finds love in their adoptive home and their child fights to defend their new home from invaders. We close with Jessica Lévai's Starter Culture, she's working from her own recipes, but something isn't right.