Reading Time: 2 minutesMetaStellar does not accept works of fiction written with the help of ChatGPT or other generative AI tools. Our next submission window for original fiction opens March 1, and we accept reprint and excerpts any time throughout the year.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe release of the final installment of Gods and Monsters is only a week away, so we now invite you to look back on the story and hear from King herself about what the writing and publication process has been like for this unique and thrilling novel.
The End Is Nigh: Gods and Monsters in Retrospect Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Floating Hotel has the optimism of Becky Chambers and the beautiful imagery of Arkady Martine, all in the setting of The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Floating Hotel is Optimistic, Beautiful, and Grand Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesWe sit down with E.E. King and get the scoop on her new novel, Gods and Monsters, which is being serialized by MetaStellar.
A Vampire Novel Like No Other: E.E. King on Mixing History and Dark Fantasy Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesTalabi’s collection showcases the interplay of family, culture, queer identity, and speculative futures in fifteen fantastic short stories and one novella.
Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi provides a feast of short stories Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesA great read involving factionalized parasitic aliens, a morally grey protagonist, and a harrowing rescue mission.
Wishes are Like Curses in The Quelling by C. L. Lauder Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an ass-kicking, magic-wielding assassin, a Cinderella who goes to a vampire’s ball, and a sexy gargoyle.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 10, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutespowers, with strong themes of coming-of-age and striving against a world whose structure seems predisposed to injustice and violence.
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a fantasy western, a battle between witches and vampires set in a small town in Australia, a sexy telepathic alien, and a convent of nuns fighting evil with their magic powers.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 4, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesCome for the dragons, stay for the queerness.
‘Dragonfall’ is an inclusive fantasy where the dragons have feathers Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a box set of ten books in an epic fantasy series, a story of EMP survival, a time-traveling young lady of Regency society, and a sexy alien,
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 28, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesUranians — an anthology including four short stories and one novella — is the perfect marriage of sci-fi and queerness.
Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a space opera about a man who watches all of humanity get destroyed by aliens.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 23, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features an action-packed space opera by a USA Today bestselling author, a secret organization like Men in Black, but for fairies and dwarves, and a couple of very sexy aliens.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 16, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a space opera by a USA Today bestselling author, a Western with outlaws and mages, and a cynical private eye who shape-shifts into a wolverine.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 9, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a divorced witch, an archeologist sent to explore alien ruins, and two teenage girls accidentally pulled into a dystopian future.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 2, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a creepy stalker-ish vampire, a witch trying to get her powers back, another witch who has to solve a murder mystery, and a box set of six EMP survival books.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 26, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesSalem builds something truly unique out of many familiar fantasy tropes — dwarves, dragons, amnesia, all kinds of magic — and ties it up with compelling characters and a deeply satisfying conclusion.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’d say that anyone who enjoys well-written feminist fantasy should jump on this series now.
Reading Time: 4 minutesFamily pride and power draw Ryan and his great-uncle Garrett into the Broken Lands — a land ravaged by magic that lingers like radioactive waste.
Into The Broken Lands: Where Magical Radioactivity Forges Leaders and Liars Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn intrepid crew of janitors is on a quest to save the world.
Terminal Peace Is Excellent, or, why Jim C. Hines is uninvited from my birthday party Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe fact of the matter is that this book is fun, packs an emotional punch that caught me quite seriously off-guard, and is a tremendous finale on the Heroine Complex series.
Karens and Kaijus and Christmas, Oh My! Sarah Khun’s Holiday Heroine Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesLesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space.
Gideon the Ninth — ‘Show them what the Ninth House does!’ Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you live for reliable magic systems that still feel otherworldly and strange, then the Dreamblood duology is for you.
