This is a guest post by Sarah Rexman. Thief of Always is an older book by famed horror aficionado Clive Barker, and it could be considered a type of children’s book. Written for those between the ages of 10-13, the story is fantastic for any age and is easily one of my favorite books by [...]

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"Questing Beast" is a 2006 science fiction short story by Ilona Andrews. It is about a small robot who has a computer virus which causes him to think he is Sir Pellinore.

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This is a guest post by Inez Ponce de Leon. Science and fiction are both hard to write, which makes science fiction doubly harder. You need to present a situation as possible without alienating your audience. You need to sound credible. Your science needs to be sound. You need to have a great command of [...]

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Hey everybody, BestScienceFictionStories.com is excited to announce the addition of a new full-time blogger: Konstantine! Kostas (as he is known around here) is joining us from his home in Athens, Greece. He is no stranger to blogging or science fiction, just check out his cool web site, ShapeScapes, to find several good stories and reviews [...]

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"The Valley of Spiders" is a 1903 speculative fiction short story by H.G. Wells. It is about three men who discover a barren valley full of creepy crawlies!

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This is a guest post by Inez Ponce de Leon. Time travel stories have almost run their course: whether you’re reading The Time Traveler’s Wife or a classic by Jules Verne, it seems that man’s obsession with time travel has gotten tiring, if not overused. However, once in a while, there comes a story that [...]

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Wow – it has been a long time since I’ve cast the spotlight on flash fiction stories, and it’s high time to give it another try! With that in mind, here are a couple of cool little stories from the excellent web site 365 Tomorrows.

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This is a guest post by Inez Ponce de Leon. If you swapped minds with your dog, what would you do? Go to the mall, sneak into locker rooms, or chase cats all day? Now, what if you swapped minds with a duck? A cat? Or worse, a toaster? This is the quandary faced by [...]

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This is a guest post by Konstantine Paradias. The End of the Whole Mess is a post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen King, as told from the view point of Howard Fonroy, the older brother of one of the smartest (and few remaining) men on the planet.

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"The Night Train" is a 2010 science fiction short story by Lavie Tidhar. It is about a bio-medically altered bodyguard for a South East Asian crime lord.

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Hi everyone. Today I have something fun and quite cool to share with you: a Bulgarian science fiction site! I know I know, the vast majority of you don’t speak Bulgarian, so why would I promote this site?

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This is a guest post by Martin Dugas. Born of Man and Woman, a 1950 short story by Richard Matheson, is about a young child, apparently a monstrosity, who is kept chained in the basement by its parents and frequently beaten.

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“Grandpa” is a 1955 science fiction novelette by James H. Schmitz. It is about a mischievous boy who gets the chance to test his skills against unknown alien life forms.

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This is a guest post by Jane Smith. Something about science fiction seems to lend itself to narratives on an epic scale. You will be hard pressed to find a science fiction plot that spans less than a trilogy — and even when an author manages to contain the entire unwieldy mass of their story [...]

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This is a guest post by Konstantine Paradias. Still Life With Apocalypse by Richard Kadrey is a post-apocalyptic fiction short story (about 3,000 words long) that is essentially the memoirs of a man in the ruins of the world, after it has been torn to pieces due to inexplicable reasons.

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"Source Decay" is a 2011 science fiction short story by Charlie Jane Anders. It is about the story of a nasty love triangle that persists for thousands of years.

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This is a guest post by Maria Rainier. One of the abiding joys of reading science fiction is being transported to another world, to the future, an alien planet, an alternate dimension, wherever the mind of the author takes us. Science fiction imagines new places and times that fascinate us and provide the setting for [...]

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This is a guest post by Inez Ponce de Leon. There is a danger of telling a story in the second person (i.e., You are walking through a desert landscape… or You remember being here before), which is why very few authors use it. There is a danger of being overindulgent and telling people what [...]

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"The Warriors" is a 1966 science fiction short story by Larry Niven. It is about the first encounter between humans and the aggressive, cat-like Kzinti species.

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One of our part-time reviewers, Martin Dugas, sent me some information about his latest short story “Romano, The Great Magician” so I am passing it on to you. He is offering the story as a free download during the next 3 days, so be sure to check it out. “Romano, The Great Magician”, a 2012 [...]

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