News & Press from The Future Fire

This time for our series on reader recommendations, where we shamelessly use you to add to our reading lists, we’d like to hear your suggest...

A couple weeks ago I spent an evening in the Barbican watching the only part of the Shubbak Film Festival: A Window on Contemporary Arab C...

For this month’s recommendation post we’d like to hear from you all about your favourite superheroines. They can be costumed comic character...

We’re delighted to welcome back to TFF an old friend Joyce Chng (we published her story “Lotus” in We See a Different Frontier , the hauntin...

Noir is a genre of fiction too often plagued with sexist stereotypes. If you are tired of plots where women characters are either manipulati...

“We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.” —Lynda Barry Issue 2017.41 Flash fiction ...

For this month’s recommend feature we’d like to hear from all our readers your favorite examples of a perhaps rare beast, the feminist scien...

Our 2015 anthology of disability-themed speculative fiction, Accessing the Future guest edited by Kathryn Allan, has received a fabulous, i...

For this week's "Recommend" post we’re asking you to tell us your favorite kick-ass women from history. Understand that brief ...

Our friend and erstwhile guest editor Lori Selke has a new column/newsletter, the “ Earworm of the Month Club ,” based on a similar column...

This time, we're asking for recommendations of optimistic science fiction. Please leave your suggestions in the comments below. First, a...

“One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live ...