For 24 years, Tales of the Unanticipated has provided the highest quality and the widest range of subject and tone in speculative fiction, poetry, and artwork.
In TOTU #30, Australian author Stephen Dedman explores the kerfuffle caused by a return...
Spaceships passing through the sky like endless clouds. A woman whose skin reveals the names of sailors fated to die at sea. A world where people who touch each other turn into crystalline trees. These are only a few of the tales in Never Never Stori...
In this novelette by Nebula Award finalist Jason Sanford, science fiction and fantasy collide in a moving tale of the far future. Princess Krisja Jerome lives in a playground universe of stone castles and dragons, where gallant knights fight for hono...
For nearly a decade the Million Writers Award has honored the best fiction published in online magazines and journals. Now collected for the first time are the most exciting literary voices recognized by this award. Some of these authors are well-kno...
A monk praying over the cremation of a dead friend, who thanks to nano-technology might still live. A time angel created by humanity to preserve the memories of people from long ago. An astronaut betrayed by her best friend and stranded on a comet hu...
Glowing red lines split their faces. Shock-red hair and clothes warn people to flee their approach. They are plague birds, the powerful merging of humans and artificial intelligences who serve as judges and executioners after the collapse of civiliza...