Reading Time: 2 minutesSonic’s third installment doesn’t rely too heavily on the previous two, so anyone could just drop in and get caught up fairly quickly.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes epic fantasy, a dystopia, a tale of EMP survival, and a college student flung into a magical world of fae, orcs, and goblins.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAboard a spaceship of giants is a school in which a teacher uses the creatures of Earth to show his pupils that the value of life is not determined by its size.
Reading Time: 4 minutesHumans consume micro-plastics and nano-plastics in huge quantities starting in the womb. These plastics never leave the body. Yet the public rejoices in the advent of micro-organisms that consume plastic wherever it might be. Should we really thank nature for taking out the trash this way?
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the quiet depths of an Ottawa laboratory, Malcolm Reiner dared to rewrite the very fabric of biology, pursuing the dream of mirror-image life forms—an uncharted path on the edge of human understanding.
Reading Time: 17 minutesKyle ducked his head as a spinning flapjack narrowly missed him. He brandished a batter-covered spatula at Derek. “Cease fire at once! You know that’s against the Breakfast Geneva Code!”
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Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the second-person, your reader becomes a character and there must be something for them to do in the book. Dive deep into the second-person point of view and wrangle your reader’s experience.
Reading Time: 5 minutesFrom fantasy epics to disturbing and eerie horror stories, here are eight books by women from several different backgrounds.
Reading Time: 11 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 EMP box set, sexy wolves, and funny time travel.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAn old vending machine serves up more than just a stale Devil Dog.
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe corn field across the road had always been a part of the landscape, a quiet presence that whispered in the wind and marked the seasons with its growth. This year, though, something was different.
Reading Time: 11 minutesSomething from the direction of the forest made them turn about sharply, muscles tensed, a reflex with no apparent trigger. Mab put her thick, gnarled hand upon Job’s shoulder. “A bad visitor. Reeking of sulfur and forgotten hate.”
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Reading Time: 4 minutesA blind man makes a deal with the devil that doesn’t work out as he had hoped.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe first person is the only POV with a true narrator, but your reader will need to know who the narrator is early in the story, so they understand your protagonist.
Reading Time: 7 minutes2025 is bringing the scares from different authors. This is out last, but most certainly not least, list of most anticipated books.
Reading Time: 11 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list has alien conspiracies, a magic-wielding space mercenary, a girl who can talk to dragons, and a private eye looking for a killer werewolf.
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Reading Time: 14 minutesThe salesman of a device that predicts the immediate future finds himself in the pitch meeting of his life when he’s taken hostage by a trio of armed criminals.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2025 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on March 1 and closes at midnight on March 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories of 1,200 words or fewer.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesA mermaid’s lament over her murdered lover, and her call to wage war against those who killed him.
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: 7 minutesA man learns of his destiny when he discovers the body of the mother he never knew. A letter left at he scene is hard to believe.
Reading Time: 12 minutesSurely Job had a Reason for coming to see her, with lots of Relevant Information and perhaps even some Responsibilities. She didn’t know, so she was nervous. She wanted them to speak first and get on with it.
Reading Time: 6 minutesEarth is facing a coming ice age. Humanity has marshaled its technology and resources in an attempt to delay the great cold; a diversion necessary to maintain hope for the people. But some few know the truth. There is little hope left on Earth. But there may still be hope in the stars.
Reading Time: 7 minutesPlaying with dual POVs or timelines? Here are questions to ask to make sure a two-sided storytelling approach is right for the story you’re writing now.
Reading Time: 9 minutesThis year is bringing the bangers for fantasy readers! Here are 10 fantasy books we’re looking forward to reading this year.
Reading Time: 9 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes sexy books by USA Today bestselling authors, apocalypses, and dinosaurs.
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Reading Time: 12 minutesA woman seeks healing at an isolated ranch in the southwest. It goes as expected until it doesn’t.
Reading Time: 4 minutesNaima has everything she needs, and everything she wants, and more besides. Providence does just what it says: whatever you need, it provides. Coming here was the right thing to do, the best thing. Coming here was the only thing that made sense. Coming here was Naima’s idea, after all.
Reading Time: 19 minutesA detective investigating a string of gristly murders comes face to face with an unimaginable horror.
Reading Time: 13 minutesJob, a youthful but accomplished witch, has come to the foster home of Inglenook to meet with 16-year old Renna Porter. Their purpose is a mystery even to the three dads of the foster home, but Job’s quiet tension indicates sudden change incoming.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesIn the future, the government conducts regular audits of people’s thoughts in order to root out criminals and to prevent corporate fraud. A young man discovers a hack on the black market that allows him to have his objectionable thoughts overwritten with benevolent thoughts. Naturally, however, there is a catch.
Reading Time: 5 minutesLearn three ways to tighten your writing on a technical level by reducing fat, remaining consistent, and using parallel constructions for reader ease.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe’ve picked out a few low-budgeted, independent, foreign horror films popular amongst genre fans that offer a buffet of assorted cultures and styles.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes several romantic books by USA Today bestselling authors!
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDr Peters’ new patient suffers from a particularly unpleasant recurring nightmare but, after a session with the doctor, it seems that the ‘fetus-man’ has gone away for good.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA celebrated sci fi author gets annoyed by fans constantly tracking him down at his favorite writing haunts and pitching him with ideas.
Reading Time: 5 minutesExternal feedback — from beta readers or editors — will help you see your blind spots so you can fill them and meet reader expectations while staving off overwhelm.
Reading Time: 9 minutesA new year often means new releases! At MetaStellar, we’re very excited about what 2025 is going to bring, so we took a deep dive into the internet and found several gems. Here is our curation of 10 science fiction books we’re definitely pumped to read this year. Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto I only
Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes two visions of the dystopian future, a sexy romantic fantasy, and magic-wielding detectives.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesJoin Anya Lasagna on a tour of the Historic Ballyhoo Place World Heritage Site! Marvel together at the ingenuity, whimsy and stoicism with which old-style humans once faced the endless vicissitudes of their own bleak reality.
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Reading Time: 25 minutesVera and Sorrow thought they were going to the Facing Cities to intercept a missive sent by their enemies, the League. What happened next was…unexpected.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat would you give up in order to be young again?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe best stories live on the edges of movements, as if the authors who pen them take up silent calls to action and then rally their readerly troops for battle.
Reading Time: 4 minutesJan Byron Strogh’s novel Act of God presents a simple premise: What will happen when Earth becomes inhabitable? In the novel, the apocalypse comes in the form of ice spreading from the poles towards the rest of the world. And because ice has frozen all fertile land, humanity now faces not only extreme climate change,
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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 epic fantasy by a USA Today bestselling author, a box set about post-apocalyptic survival, and a college for monster hunters.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesA man receives a mysterious puzzle box with no sender, igniting an existential journey into the nature of self and reality. As obsession consumes him, the box reveals an impossible and horrifying truth—one that will shatter his reality and unlock his own doom.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile returning from a nearby lake on a camping trip, a couple discovers their camp trashed—with a strange sparkling substance coating everything—and are forced to run when something unnatural gives chase.
Reading Time: 13 minutesIs human photosynthesis the future we need to avert climate change?
