For over fifteen years, the Bards and Sages Quarterly has been a showcase for both new and established authors to share their speculative works. The short stories presented in each issue serve as a delightful sampler of the speculative genres. Whether your preference is sword and sorcery, time-travel, space exploration, gothic horror, urban fantasy, or any of the speculative genres, you are sure to find something to love in the pages of this magazine. A sample from this issue: A strange sibling rivalry develops between a child and the alchemical creature created to help treat her mother's cancer in From Ashes. After a visit to a strange art gallery, an artist must decide the price they want to pay for success in The Drouet Collection. An acrobat finds herself in a dangerous situation when she is tasked with preventing a time-shattering calamity in Feng, Whose Name Means Phoenix. Special notification: Though we avoid publishing stories we deem gratuitous in nature, as a journal of speculative fiction, some stories may content dark subject matter. Some stories may contain strong or offensive language, depictions of violence, and child and animal endangerment. Please visit our website for information on possible trigger warnings for specific publications.

Bards and Sages Quarterly (January 2024)

The trilogy that began with Outside reaches its dramatic conclusion as it spans the stars and visits worlds both physical and virtual. Virtual Emily and Rome have returned to Earth's simulation where they find all the people have vanished. Revolt is brewing in the Tau Ceti colony, as Mira Heine refuses to accept defeat, and a mysterious crime boss eliminates all who ask the wrong questions. Touk, physical Emily, and the Sextus colonists try to establish life on their new planet, but they become the frontline in a fight with a new enemy that threatens all of humanity, both natural and virtual. Will Artificial Intelligences be humanity's destruction or salvation?In the midst of the chaos, can Emily and Rome - at least some versions of them - find happiness together? "A satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, rejoining a wide cast of its fascinating characters, and inviting you to consider the nature of humanity."- V Anne Smith, author of A Code for Carolyn: A Genetic Thriller

Amalgam - Emily Plair saga, #3

Crime has always been around, and it will continue far into the future. Whether it's priceless artifacts disappearing from a sealed container, trading useless space rocks to aliens in exchange for something far more valuable, a genetically-modified, not-quite-human-anymore celebrity who dies under mysterious circumstances, ghosts achieving the perfect revenge, or robots finding the equivalent of digital drugs, the possibilities are endless for committing-and solving-any type of crime you can imagine. Find all of these, and more, in Thin Air: The Cosmic Crime Fiction of Gustavo Bondoni. The twenty-one tales in this volume represent over fifteen years of storytelling, giving unique perspectives from both heros and villains alike. Three of those stories appear here for the first time! So, tip back in your chair and read a few while listening to the city as it bustles by on the rainy streets below. This is sure to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Thin Air - Indizio, #1

The Society of Misfit Stories is a home for those wonderful stories that are too long for most magazines but too short for stand-alone print books. Whether you call them short stories, novelettes, or novellas, these stories are all of a length that often struggles to find publication traditionally. Each issue offers a substantial volume of amazing speculative fiction for readers who enjoy spending time with a good tale.  A sample of what you'll find in this issue: A community living on the back of a giant tortoise-like creature faces a threat when the creature stops following their commands in Raise Me Up an Eastern Mountain. A guitarist believes an imposter has assumed his identity, but as he tries to unravel the truth, he discovers the imposter is ever more dangerous that he realized in Broken Strings. A bookshop owner's obsession with a female customer who has a disturbing interest in books about pain is forced to confront his own buried demons in Black Leather Gloves.

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... June 2021

Mystic Madness!Join the doomed on their vision quests in eleven stories by the damnedest writers in Perdition: Janet Morris; A. L. Butcher; Joe Bonadonna; Andrew P. Weston; Gustavo Bondoni; S. E. Lindberg Tom Barczak; Michael H. Hanson; Louis Antonelli; Christopher Crosby Morris.

Mystics in Hell - Heroes in Hell

Future SF is a magazine focusing on international science fiction. In this oversized issue we've collected stories from the established masters as well as some exciting up-and-comers in China, Japan, and South Korea. From machine societies to ocean depths, from interstellar migrations to genetically engineered mermaids, these tales envision very different, often dark, but always fascinating futures. Includes the following stories:Rosin by Wu Guan (translated from Chinese by Judith Huang)Raising Mermaids by Dai Da (translated from Chinese by S. Quouyi Lu)Butterfly Blue by Gustavo Bondoni (Argentina)Reflection by Gu Shi (translated from Chinese by Ken Liu; reprint)Whale Snows Down by Kim Bo-Young (translated from Korean by Sophie Bowman)Formerly Slow by Wei Ma (translated from Chinese by Andy Dudak)Just Like Migratory Birds by Taiyo Fujii (translated from Japanese by Emily Balistrieri)

Future Science Fiction Digest Volume 9: The East Asia Special Issue - Future Science Fiction Digest, #9

Little Blue Marble magazine's year in stories: flash fiction, microfiction, and more!Tales of our changing world by these authors from around the globe:F. J. Bergmann, Gustavo Bondoni, Wendy S. Delmater, Salvatore Difalco, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Eric S. Fomley, John Cooper Hamilton, Langley Hyde, Charlotte H. Lee, Dennis Mombauer, Melanie Rees, Holly Schofield, D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Marie Vibbert, Thomas Webb, M. Darusha Wehm, Alison Wilgus, Melissa Yuan-InnesFrom rising tides to edible homes, weather control and tornado killers, floating city-states and plant-based humans, Little Blue Marble 2018 brings you poignant, sometimes hopeful but often biting visions of our futures living with climate change.

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