Best Indie Speculative Fiction

 ISSN 2578-3920

This new initiative from Bards and Sages Publishing seeks to highlight the best stories being produced both by independent authors and our fellow small press publishers. We hope to bring readers an annual celebration of the amazing work being produced in the indie publishing community.

In Volume Two:

Publishing Later This Year

Lonely, Rises the Abyss by Darin Hlavaz

Previously published in Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep anthology by Things in the Well Publications.

Communion by Bill Suboski

Previously published in  Phantaxis, May 2017

The Apprentice by Sarah Gribble

Previously published in Autumn Harvest anthology by Fantasia Divinity February 2018.

Above the Ceiling by Dan Allen

Previously published in Home Sweet Home anthology by Millhaven Press September 2018.

The Syklies by Henry Gasko

Previously published by Aurealis Magazine December 2017

Treasure by Rebecca Gomez Farrell

Previously published in Dark Luminous Wings anthology by Pole to Pole Publishing, October 2017.

X X by Laim Hogan

Previously published in Mad Scientist Journal February 2017.

Weredodo Sleuth by Emily Sorensen

Independently published 2018.

Also includes the winners of the 2018 Bards and Sages Writing Competition:

HIRAETH by Kerri Cadwell

Hyena Woman by Aaron Vlek

By the Stars by Jessica Marie Baumgartner 

That One Time I Broke into a House, Killed the Homeowner, and Took His Family Hostage by J. D. Gordon

Amazon

Angus and Robertson

Barnes and Noble

Bokus

Book Depository

Books-a-Million

Chapters/Indigo

Foyles

Powell's

In Volume One:

ISBN 9781732248977

M by Russell Hemmell

Previously published in the webzine Not One of Us. Go Now Edition January 2016

The Way Up, The Way Down by Dennis Mombauer

Previously published in Helios Quarterly, September 2016

Dead Over Heels by Theresa Braun

Previously published by Frith Books, November 2016

Swim With the Beavers by Robert Allen Lupton

Previously published in Uncommon Origins by Fighting Monkey Press in June 2016

The Wheel of Misfortune by Lillian Csernica

Previously published in Some Time Later from Thinking Ink Press, June 2017.

Son of Eve by Melvin Litton

Previously published in Dark Dossier September 2017

Pacific Wind by Gustavo Bondoni

Previously published independently by Gustavo Bondoni March 2017

An Unexpected Nightmare by Jason Constantine Ford

Previously published in Brief Wilderness Volume 1, January 2017

Justice Enough by Eric Lewis

Previously published in Electric Spec May 2017

Snow Tracks by Justin Malzac

Previously published in Winter's Grasp Anthology by Fantasia Divinity January 2017

The Blue Ruin of Vicar Junípero, The Throat of Heaven by Rhoads Brazos

Previously published in The Book of Blasphemous Words by A Murder of Storytellers.



The Eschatologist by Joseph Aiken

Previously published in Phantaxis Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine May 2017

Beneath the Summer Moon by Vonnie Winslow Crist

Previously published in Hoofbeats: Flying with Magical Horses by Sky Warrior Books in August 2016

Finder's Keepers by Kelly A. Harmon

Previously published as bonus content with A Blue Collar Proposition in October 2016

Sanguine by Johnathan Shipley

Previously published in The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, vol. 2 in January 2017

Ambassador to the Meek by Alex Shvartsman

Previously published in The Sum of Us anthology by Laksa Media in 2017

The Eden Project by C.L. Raven

previously published in BFS Horizons by the British Fantasy Society 2017