My spoken lyric video Prayer for the Blessed Order of Castrati is an excerpt from my upcoming novel Poor Man’s Opera.

Steven Mayoff (he/him) is a Canadian novelist, poet, lyricist and librettist living on Prince Edward Island, aka Abegweit, home of the Mi’kmaq for thousands of years before any of us settlers showed up. I am proud and humbled to call this island my home and grateful to share it with the First Nations community.

#canlit #fiction #novel #speculativefiction #satire #politics #lyric #libretto #measureformeasure #shakespeare #spokenword #galleonbooks #canada #autocracy #tyranny #toronto #montreal #citystate #citizens #citizenry #ruler #power #corruption #castration #religion #monastery

https://youtu.be/QOY90ZRWaLE?si=pMv060JKhYguZw1o

What If Rome Never Fell? The Technology We Lost

A lost millennium, an industrial revolution centuries early and an imperial AI trained on 2,000 years of uninterrupted history.
https://mediaboxent.com/what-if-rome-never-fell?lang=en

#alternatehistory #RomanEmpire #speculativefiction #historytechnology #whatif

Issue Six is now available! It is available as a free ebook (epub, azw3, pdf, kepub) here:

https://hearthstories.org/issues/6.html

Issue 6 features 7 great fantasy/cozy-fantasy stories from some wonderful authors.

It will be available in the coming days from Kobo, B&N, iBooks, SmashWords, and various library systems.

#magazine #shortstory #fantasy #cozyfantasy #free #ebook #speculativefiction

@alicia

🚀 Part One of my sci-fi saga is complete.

Hindsight Station: Ashes Reborn follows James Fong and the survivors of Ardland Prime as they rebuild civilization 300 years in the future after catastrophe.

Now free to read on Wattpad, with Part Two in development.

https://authormulhall.com/hindsight-station-ashes-reborn-ends-part-two-begins-soon/

What comes next for humanity among the stars?

#SciFi #ScienceFiction #Wattpad #WebSerial #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction

My latest read: "The Complex" by Brian Keene

How well do you know your neighbors? How might you all fare in a crisis? This terror-filled tale considers that, and more! 👍

Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8700439701
Book Radar
https://thebookradar.com/review/5451
StoryGraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/29820f04-fbf1-457c-9fb1-b501658fb776

#horror #bookreview #bookrec #bookreviews #bookrecs #book #books #booksofmastodon #readersofmastodon #read #reads #reading #readingcommunity #specfic #speculativefiction #bookstodon #booktodon

Imagine you’re a cosmic horror. You’ve devoured a thousand worlds. You’re the apex predator of the void. And then… you meet a nurse with a rubber stamp and a dad who hasn't slept since Tuesday. Yeah, that’s exactly what happens in Apex Protocol.

https://youtu.be/IIpzdgxBq_I

#ScienceFiction #CosmicHorror #HFY #HumanityFuckYeah #ApexProtocol #StoryReview #AbsurdistHumor #FoundFamily #SpeculativeFiction #ParentingHumor #Bureaucracy #WritingCommunity #ShortStories #HumanResilience