Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the strange public broadcast TV show with the unsettling host she and all the neighborhood kids appeared on years ago. But he does remember. And so does...
A couple is concerned when their dog behaves increasingly bizarrely: first to their chagrin, and, eventually, to their alarm.
Jonathan Carroll (b. 1949) is an award-winning American author of modern fantasy and slipstream novels. His debut book,...
In Alex Sherman’s novella of space exploration The Tourist, a young academic travels to a mining outpost on a small planetoid, far from their sun
There he studies the culture and music of a small squatter population that lives in total...
“A Forest, or a Tree” is a nightmarish horror story from author Tegan Moore, a Tor.com Original.
Four friends, May, Piper, Ailey, and Elizabeth, go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.
It was just the four of them, four...
Once upon a moment, the One spoke to He and She, and learned that infinity and eternity are slippery concepts. At best.
Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics...
When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion—or something else entirely. How much time do we have left, and do we even understand what timescale to use? As a slow apocalypse blooms across the...
A Soviet political prisoner is ordered to use her unique talents to explore a strange scientific phenomenon. It could be a trap… or a way out.
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Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, to the sound of the Salvation Army...
Time travel doesn’t actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex….
When Ythna is sent to serve the Beldame Thakkra, she is only a child, but as she grows, so does her love of her mistress. When tragedy strikes, Ythna has no idea...