I think I last heard from her in β21. We shouldn't leave it so long!
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I think I last heard from her in β21. We shouldn't leave it so long!
Does anyone have current contact details for Kathryn Allan (formerly Bleedingchrome; editor of Accessing the Future)? I think her old professional domain has expired/been cybersquatted.
The cover page of issue 2026.75 of The Future Fire, illustrated by Melkorka. Two ethereal beings, one blue and one gold, represented as nebulas and stars, face one another, eyes closed.
My story, A Multitude of Sparks Descend, is now available to freely read in the current issue of @thefuturefire.bsky.social .
An absolutely stunning illustration by Melkorka accompanies it.
Happy 135th birthday to Clare Winger Harris, often credited as the first woman to publish science fiction under her own name (a novel in 1923, a dozen stories in Weird Tales and Amazing Stories over the next decade). Maybe not quite #feministsf even by 1920s standards butβ¦
Happy 50th birthday to Milla Jovovich, of The Fifth Element, Resident Evil series, Ultraviolet, and many other schlock scifi or horror franchises. Keep kicking cgi ass!
Michael Jackson's #Thriller was released 43 years ago today. Biggest selling album of all time, most effective use of a full-on horror movie as promo video for the title track, and all round legendary release. Out #OnThisDay in 1982.
Happy 127th birthday to sf/fantasy writer, allegorist and university academic C.S. Lewis (The Space Trilogy, 1938β45 & Chronicles of Narnia, 1950β56), born #onthisday in 1898.
Please welcome @toeken.bsky.social, long-time collaborator and artist of βThe Sons of Victor Levitakβ and βUnblooded Gospelβ in The Future Fire #74, for this weekβs installment of our #microinterview series.
press.futurefire.net/2025/11/micr...
Today @laurenferebee.bsky.social, author of βSentinelβ in The Future Fire #74, joins us for a chat about omens, preservation and evolution in the latest instance of our #microinterview feature
press.futurefire.net/2025/11/micr...
Today @laurenferebee.bsky.social, author of βSentinelβ in The Future Fire #74, joins us for a chat about omens, preservation and evolution in the latest instance of our #microinterview feature
press.futurefire.net/2025/11/micr...
Weβre very happy to introduce V. Zixin, author of βThe Better Endsβ in The Future Fire #74, who joins us for this weekβs #microinterview.
press.futurefire.net/2025/11/micr...
Nancy S. Koven, author of βSeven Stories for Now and Laterβ in The Future Fire #74, joined us for a quick chat about extinction, fetishization and writing in this weekβs #microinterview
press.futurefire.net/2025/10/micr...
Nancy S. Koven, author of βSeven Stories for Now and Laterβ in The Future Fire #74, joined us for a quick chat about extinction, fetishization and writing in this weekβs #microinterview
press.futurefire.net/2025/10/micr...
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Novelettes feat. @analogsf.bsky.social @thefuturefire.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
That is surely one possibility. Some day, I hope.
To be clear, I'm not recommending the BBC short film as a good example of that genre.
I am saying I'd like to see more pieces in that genre. Where do I find them?
And while as the archaeologists in the replies have pointed out, the narrator in that story isn't a very good archaeologist (even by 20th century standards), it *is* a piece of archaeological science fictionβwhich is the only genre I love more than anthropological speculative fiction.
There's some #socialpolitical #sciencefiction if you want it. Weird mix of old-fashioned (even for the 60s!) moralising, and eerily modern-feeling critique of materialism and environmental destruction. And a pastiche of archaeological narrative-making.
This week we welcome Justin Taroli, author of βUnblooded Gospelβ in The Future Fire #74, for a super brief #microinterview about his story, dreams and writing press.futurefire.net/2025/10/micr...
Weβre delighted to be joined by @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social, author of βLimueβs Alphabetβ in The Future Fire #74, for a quick chat about alphabets and languages, in this weekβs installment of our #microinterview series press.futurefire.net/2025/10/micr...
Rowley Amato, author of βThe Sons of Victor Levitakβ in The Future Fire #74, joins us to talk about his story and other speculative matters in our micro-interview series press.futurefire.net/2025/10/micr...
#microinterview Weβre joined by @nsborwein.bsky.social, author of the wonderful poem βThe Void ππ΄ in a Playful Mood Tonightβ in The Future Fire #74, to talk about alienation, transmateriality, and writing. press.futurefire.net/2025/09/micr...
If you'd like to comment on, review, give feedback or say anything else about any of the stories, poems and art in this issue, please do so in the comment thread under the blog post at: press.futurefire.net/2025/09/new-...
If you'd like to comment on, review, give feedback or say anything else about any of the stories, poems and art in this issue, please do so in the comment thread under the blog post at: press.futurefire.net/2025/09/new-...
Magazine cover. Header reads "THE FUTURE FIRE Social Political & Speculative Cyberfiction" on a forest green background with multilingual alphabets superimposed over it. Banner: "Issue 2025.74. ISSN: 1746-1839". Main image, a long-coated figure looking out over a stormy seascape in stark shades of teal and charcoal. Footer text: "Art by Barbara Candiotti"
And I know it's at the top of this thread, but I just wanted to point out THAT COVER ART! by Barbara Candiotti.
Thereβs a guy at the bar with lips like wet marble and a credit score you can feel in your spine. He orders vodka neat. Who drinks vodka neat? People who donβt need mixers, or feelings, or food. People who glide.
#speculativefiction #freeScifi
Justin Taroli gives us βUnblooded Gospel,β a razor sharp, queer, punk, urban apocalypse, with art by the splendid @toeken.bsky.social.
futurefire.net/2025.74/fict...
In the dappled shade of a stand of bamboo, an old woman takes a stick and scratches two curved lines in the dusty yellow earth.
βPai is for pera
Limueβs plucked eyeβ
#speculativefiction #sociolinguistics #FreeScifi
A super-smart novelette about poetry and divinity and language in the face of cultural contact: βLimueβs Alphabetβ by Eleanor Glewwe (@eleanorglewwe.bsky.social) with art by the fabulous Barbara Candiotti. futurefire.net/2025.74/fict...
We were both teenagers at the time. Or near enough, anyway. Neither of us knew when our birthdays really were. Children didnβt seem to be born in Shenzhen. They materialized around alleyways and market stalls before being adopted by the proper enclaves.
#speculativefiction #freeScifi #novelette