Theme: Write a story in which a special day plays an important role. A special day may be a holiday or a national observance of some sort...

"Giblin's Scar", by Michael Barbato-Dunn "Giblin's Scar", with an impressive 25 votes! A huge congratulations to the talented author,...

Editors' Choice The December theme prompt, Treasures, Brightly Wrapped, ended on January 15 with the final accepted entry published on...

The editors at SFS have been working behind the scenes to design a new online publication that includes some of the most fascinating and...

Theme: Your challenge this month is to write a story in which the weather or climate is an important plot element. Our monthly theme...

"Pigs and Prejudice", by Nina Miller! The readers have spoken, and their favorite story of the month, our Reader's Pick, goes to "Pigs...

Editors' Choice The November theme prompt, Feasts with the Beasts, ended on December 15 with the final accepted entry published on...

It would be customary at this time of year to look back at the changes, events, and developments that occurred in the year 2023. Having...

Theme: Your challenge this month is to write a story where the main character discovers something surprising about themselves. Something...

Editors' Choice The October theme prompt, Machine in the Ghost, was an enormous success! We received a bunch of fascinating,...

Image Copyright 2023 - SFS Publishing LLC Writing for periodicals is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It’s also not for the faint of heart,...

Theme: This month we’re looking ahead and behind at the same time. Did you ever hear how aliens gave the ancient Egyptians the blueprints...

Theme: We challenge you to write a piece of flash sci-fi in which mechanical or AI contrivances imitate, replace, or become someone who...

Despite having an abiding interest (and a degree) in mathematics, I’ve never tried to write a science fiction story in which math plays a...

“It’s terribly hard to see, and think clearly, about the long future, when the immediate present seems so violently pressing.” American...

In the two weeks prior to this writing, the US has shot down four high-altitude flying objects, three of which are still unidentified....

In the early 1950s, humanity realized that we could destroy all human life on the planet. This realization spurred the emergence of a new...

Let’s get real: As far as we know, Earth is all we’ve got. I mean, if we screw this place up, it’s a big deal, cause you know, until the...

Science Fiction has a long history of dealing with, well, long histories. Therefore, it frequently addresses big questions like, How did...

Everyone here knows this, I hope: Mark Zuckerberg did not invent the Metaverse. He invented a neat way for Harvard nerds to meet co-eds...

Let’s be honest about something. The golden age of sci-fi produced many fine writers and many, many futuristic stories that seem to stick...

Stories about robots and aliens have long been vessels for science fiction writers to examine the nature of “otherness.” How do we treat...

In 1959, nearly at the peak of the golden age of sci-fi, Rod Serling began producing a weekly science fiction television series called...

The zeitgeist of the golden age of sci-fi was anchored in the early 20th century, peaked in the 1950s, and continued through the...