Our seventh one-shot anthology, HERETIC, is currently a FREE download on Kindle!!
Link for Canada
Link for USA
The promotion runs from Wednesday Oct 11 through Sunday Oct 15. Please download a copy and spread the word. Thanks everyone for the support!
Our latest one-shot anthology, Legacy, has just been published on Amazon, and is currently a free Kindle download. This free promotion runs from Wednesday Oct 5th through Sunday. You can grab a copy free from here (USA) or here (Canada). Thanks everyone for the support!
Strange Wars has officially launched and as part of the promotion is a free download on Kindle Sat Apr 30 through May 4!
“Strange Wars explores military conflict through speculative fiction. Through compelling narratives and fantastic world-building, diverse authors force us to reexamine the familiar and important concept of war. The 27 stories in this collection present organized aggression through the imaginative lens of science fiction and fantasy. These are entertaining and engaging stories with depth, complexity, and thoughtful exploration of the theme to inspire further reflection and debate. Together, they present memorable “what if” questions, pose interesting moral and philosophical dilemmas, and introduce intriguing thought experiments in the form of engaging stories. Accompanying discussion questions probe deeper into the stories and encourage further reflection. Strange Wars is about more than great science fiction and fantasy; it’s about thinking about war in new ways.”
The book is available for D/L in Canada from here, and in USA from here.
Please vote for Speculative North in the Critters Workshop Annual Readers Poll! Voting is free, super easy, and just requires you to have a name and an email address.
Help our proudly Canadian speculative fiction magazine hit #1 by voting! We’re in 3 categories: Fiction Magazine/e-zine: https://critters.org/predpoll/fictionzine.shtml…Magazine/e-zine Cover Art: https://critters.org/predpoll/zineart.shtml…Magazine/e-zine Editor: https://critters.org/predpoll/zineeditor.shtml…
For those who haven’t read the magazine and want to check it out before voting, all of our issues are free; the free download page can be accessed by clicking “link” from the voting pages above, or directly from our website here: http://tdotspec.com/speculative-north-magazine/
Thanks everyone for your support!!!
Wight Christmas is a collection of gripping and creative holiday horror stories that subvert Christmas tropes, reinterpreting and reimagining them as ghosts, demons, supernatural entities, and paranormal phenomena.
If you want to support this awesome anthology, please visit our Kickstarter campaign page and spread the word. Thanks everyone for your support!
The second issue of Spec North is a free Kindle download from Amazon until Oct 7th!
This is an awesome issue that has already hit Amazon #1 Bestseller status in the categories of science fiction short stories and fantasy anthologies!
If you’re living in USA, you can download it from here. If you’re living in Canada, you can download it from here. If you’re outside of these two countries, you can still get it free, but you’ll have to search for it from your country’s Amazon page.
Note: when you’re downloading free books from Amazon, don’t click the “read now” button, which requires a KU account; instead click “buy” for $0.00
I hope you enjoy issue #2 of Spec North! If you get a chance, let me know what you thought of the issue. Thanks so much for your support!
-David
The inaugural issue of Speculative North is now a free download from TDotSpec!
Speculative North #1 is an Amazon #1 Bestseller in the category of Fantasy (Kindle) and #3 Bestseller in Science Fiction (Kindle)! You can download it for free from here.
Very happy to say that my SFF story “Kevin Was Bees” is in the current issue of Andromeda Spaceways Magazine (ASM #78)!
This story starts from the POV of someone who has been turned into a swarm of bees. The first two sentences:
This was a first. No one had ever been bees before.
The premise: on an advanced starship, they need someone to investigate a problem in a bio-preservation sector where humans aren’t allowed, so the computer makes Kevin into bees; Kevin finds out that, during the procedure, the problem was resolved, so his mission is complete. But he’s bees now.
Kevin’s consciousness gradually fractures into competing subgroups of bees, who develop their own hierarchy, mythology, and competing kingdoms, and whose control over the environmental regulators constitutes a kind of magic.
This story makes a lot of use of Arthur C. Clarke’s third law–that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. One POV is science fiction, and takes place on a futuristic starship, where a person made out of genetically engineered bees is in dialogue with an advanced AI; the other POV is fantasy, and takes place in a fantasy world with magic, myth, and warring kingdoms–that is, the world formed from the fractured pieces of Kevin’s consciousness.
I hope you check out the story, and I would love to hear what you think about it!
Very happy to say that my story “Abrama’s End Game” was discussed in the After Dinner Conversation podcast! Check it out here!: https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/podcast/episode-16-abramas-end-game
Very happy to say that my story “Rainbow People of the Glittering Glade” was discussed in the After Dinner Conversation podcast! They do a great summary of the story, and then turn to discussing and debating the issues raised by the story. I’d love if you would check out the episode, available here:
David F. Shultz 