FREE FRIDAY: TOP FREE AMAZON SCI-FI AND FANTASY BOOKS FOR APR 17, 2026 YouTube video by MetaStellar

Maria, Emma and Regina talk about todays five FREE sci-fi and fantasy bestsellers!
(There's an urban fantasy box set that Maria will definitely be diving into!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVgz...

Author Perspectives: Emma Burnett on Writing Style, Catharsis, and Her Upcoming Novella. Grace Kielstra interviews Emma Burnett, one of MetaStellar's authors, on the impact her academic research has had on her fiction writing, the conversations she hopes her upcoming novella will bring about, and the effort and beauty of exploring different writing styles and perspectives.

Author Perspectives: Emma Burnett on Writing Style, Catharsis, and Her Upcoming Novella.

Grace Kielstra interviews Emma Burnett, one of MetaStellar's authors, on the impact her academic research has had on her fiction writing, the conversations she hopes her upcoming novella will bring about, and…

Spell Check Episode 39 Springtime!

Spell Check Episode 39

Springtime!

Humanity’s Last First Hope Apollina was born with the head of a fly, and otherwise normal. 

Humanity’s Last First Hope

Apollina was born with the head of a fly, and otherwise normal. 

Writing the Future A fortune teller writes the future for her AI android clients, etching lines onto their palms. A bureaucrat visits, assuming the worst.

Writing the Future

A fortune teller writes the future for her AI android clients, etching lines onto their palms. A bureaucrat visits, assuming the worst.

The Catalyst Installment 14 “I’m sorry, what? How do you download DNA?”

The Catalyst Installment 14

“I’m sorry, what? How do you download DNA?”

How to Write Fantasy Settings that Feel Ancient If you’re writing a story with deep worldbuilding, you want to make your story feel much older than it seems.

How to Write Fantasy Settings that Feel Ancient

If you’re writing a story with deep worldbuilding, you want to make your story feel much older than it seems.

Revisiting the Classics: Black Destroyer by A. E. Van Vogt The story represents some of the very best of Golden Age sci-fi as it's both beautiful and hostile.

Revisiting the Classics: Black Destroyer by A. E. Van Vogt

The story represents some of the very best of Golden Age sci-fi as it's both beautiful and hostile.

FREE FRIDAY: TOP FREE AMAZON SCI-FI AND FANTASY BOOKS FOR APR 10, 2026 YouTube video by MetaStellar

Watch the MetaStellar team talk about today's top five FREE bestsellers in sci-fi and fantasy on our YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW8P...

Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 10, 2026 We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes werewolves, a magic school, and a space opera by a USA Today bestselling author.

Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 10, 2026

We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes werewolves, a magic school, and a space opera by a USA Today bestselling author.

Spell Check Episode 38: Glasses Wiz sees the world through a whole new perspective.

Spell Check Episode 38: Glasses

Wiz sees the world through a whole new perspective.

Lady Meara’s Lullaby Not all coastal sirens pull their prey from the sea.

Lady Meara’s Lullaby

Not all coastal sirens pull their prey from the sea.

The Catalyst Installment 13 Mimi gave me a thorough once over, the kind of look that made me feel dirty. “Woof,” Mimi said.

The Catalyst Installment 13

Mimi gave me a thorough once over, the kind of look that made me feel dirty. “Woof,” Mimi said.

3 Ways to Make Your Writing More Concise Learn to cut down words you don’t need and elevate the words you do.

3 Ways to Make Your Writing More Concise

Learn to cut down words you don’t need and elevate the words you do.

Immigrant A woman's intolerance gets challenged by an unlikely hero.

Immigrant

A woman's intolerance gets challenged by an unlikely hero.

Red Sword Review: Secrets and Action Come into Play The choices the author made while writing this story paid off, as the readers come to slowly know well the main characters and their backstories, and what makes them tick.

Red Sword Review: Secrets and Action Come into Play

The choices the author made while writing this story paid off, as the readers come to slowly know well the main characters and their backstories, and what makes them tick.

FREE FRIDAY: TOP FREE AMAZON SCI-FI AND FANTASY BOOKS FOR APR 3, 2026 YouTube video by MetaStellar

Watch Maria, Emma, and Regina talk about today's top FREE SFF bestsellers!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd5U...

Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 3, 2026 We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an alien invasion, an EMP apocalypse, a cozy magical mystery, and a kick-ass vampire slayer.

Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 3, 2026

We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an alien invasion, an EMP apocalypse, a cozy magical mystery, and a kick-ass vampire slayer.

Spell Check Episode 37: Awesome The brightest stars burn the fastest, then come back as a reanimated skeleton.

Spell Check Episode 37: Awesome

The brightest stars burn the fastest, then come back as a reanimated skeleton.

The Children Who Walked Out of the Sea Grief and guilt always linger just below the surface, waiting to emerge.

The Children Who Walked Out of the Sea

Grief and guilt always linger just below the surface, waiting to emerge.

Flash Fiction Story Submission Form Original flash fiction submissions are now being accepted. Submission window opens October 1 and will end on October 31, 2021.

MetaStellar's spring submission cycle closes at midnight! It's your last chance to submit your original, never-published sci-fi, fantasy, and horror stories of up to 1,200 words in length, and we pay 10 cents a word for accepted stories!
www.metastellar.com/write-for-us...

The Catalyst Installment 12 He’d been having a lot of odd memories and dreams too. He remembered Mary, the splash of blood on her . . . her tragic expression of utter horror.  'No, no. That didn’t happen to me.'

The Catalyst Installment 12

He’d been having a lot of odd memories and dreams too. He remembered Mary, the splash of blood on her . . . her tragic expression of utter horror.  'No, no. That didn’t happen to me.'

Hard Sci-Fi VS Soft Sci-Fi I’ve always been intrigued by sci-fi books because they often involve space travel, cool alien creatures, and new ways of looking at the world. But the fact that it’s called science fiction intimidates me because I’m not that good at science (I almost failed physics in high school 😬). Can you relate? Well, as it turns out, there are many 

Hard Sci-Fi VS Soft Sci-Fi

I’ve always been intrigued by sci-fi books because they often involve space travel, cool alien creatures, and new ways of looking at the world. But the fact that it’s called science fiction intimidates me because I’m not that good at science (I almost failed physics in…

It’s Not Wrong to Make Your Novel Dark (Here’s How to Do It) There’s dark fiction, dark fantasy, grimdark, and straight up horror. All of these genres carry dark and potentially disturbing elements. Some readers like it and others don’t.

It’s Not Wrong to Make Your Novel Dark (Here’s How to Do It)

There’s dark fiction, dark fantasy, grimdark, and straight up horror. All of these genres carry dark and potentially disturbing elements. Some readers like it and others don’t.

Blood Sacrifice Review: A Dystopic Portrait of Current Affairs The novel’s implications are clear and evident—there’s not much need for interpretation because the world and politics in the novel parallel pretty much the current state of our world.

Blood Sacrifice Review: A Dystopic Portrait of Current Affairs

The novel’s implications are clear and evident—there’s not much need for interpretation because the world and politics in the novel parallel pretty much the current state of our world.

FREE FRIDAY: TOP FREE AMAZON SCI-FI AND FANTASY BOOKS FOR MAR 27, 2026 YouTube video by MetaStellar

We tell you about the top five FREE sci-fi and fantasy bestsellers on Amazon -- the top one is a romantasy by a USA Today bestselling author! Another is about a guy hunting the vampires who killed his wife.
youtu.be/eyFvnAzEVlk

Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 27, 2026

We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a USA Today bestselling author and a box set of books about a professional ghost hunter.

Driving at the Speed of Light: Recent Warp-Drive Developments Show Promise Science fiction has catalyzed scientists and mathematicians to prove, disprove, or improve travel through space-time, though it may seem like a fanciful idea, thereby making fiction reality. How far have they gone? And are we any closer to warp speed?

Driving at the Speed of Light: Recent Warp-Drive Developments Show Promise

Science fiction has catalyzed scientists and mathematicians to prove, disprove, or improve travel through space-time, though it may seem like a fanciful idea, thereby making fiction reality. How far have they gone? And are…

Spell Check Episode 36: Patience Good things come to those who wait.

Spell Check Episode 36: Patience

Good things come to those who wait.

WOLF-DAUGHTER Once wolf-daughter had been a small girl.  A tiny thing. Her wolf-mother had named her Lali, the one who is red, because the infant had been found wriggling beside her dead mother’s torn belly, covered in blood. Wolf-mother had unrolled her tongue, grabbed Lali, and shoved her deep inside her belly in a single swoop.

WOLF-DAUGHTER

Once wolf-daughter had been a small girl.  A tiny thing. Her wolf-mother had named her Lali, the one who is red, because the infant had been found wriggling beside her dead mother’s torn belly, covered in blood. Wolf-mother had unrolled her tongue, grabbed Lali, and shoved her deep…