Fantastique Unfettered #4 Ralewing marks the one year anniversary of this new, genre-bending magazine, an issue filled to the brim with unique prose, poetry, and non-fiction. Herein, there are fears to face, and things unknown, things unthought. Herein, there is Death unmasked. We dare you to turn these pages and read... Featuring new fiction and poetry by Hal Duncan, Mike Allen, Jacqueline West, Alma Alexander and more. Table of contents: Fiction: Azif by Lynne Jamneck The Bachorum Principle by Brenda Stokes Barron The Butterfly Collection of Miss Letitia Willoughby Forbes by Alma Alexander Mr. White Umbrella by Georgina Bruce Sons of the Law by Hal Duncan Stolen Souls by Mike Allen (Reprint) Three Tales of the Devil's Wife by Carmen Lau Verite by D. Harlan Wilson Poetry: Mike Allen (special feature) Seed the Earth, Burn the Sky Binary Sisyphus Crawls Self-portrait by Shweta Narayan 'cubus by Dan Campbell At the Crossroads of the West by J. C. Runolfson Life Decisions by Kaolin Fire Black Sheep by Jacqueline West Clones evaporate faster by Kristine Ong Muslim Nonfiction: Alexa Chats with... Hal Duncan & Brent Weeks The Night Circus Reviewed by Alexandra Seidel Life is Suffering: The Writer's Point of View, Being a Discussion with Hal Duncan & Mike Allen, Conducted by Alexandra Seidel This Inscrutable Light: A Response to Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Editorial by Brandon H. Bell "The stories are fantastical in the best sense of the word: strange and marvelous, full of the inexplicable... This magazine is worth seeking out." --Terry Weyna, Fantasy Literature "By and large the sensibility is 'literary, ' and the quality is high (the two, of course, not always the same thing), virtually all the stories assembled here working, though to different degrees and in different ways.... That combination of quality and variety means that Fantastique Unfettered #1 offers something for many different tastes... " --Nader Elhefnawy, The Future Fire "There is a poignance in these poems: an ache and a loss, a love and a surrender, a luscious melange of sorrow and love." --Dan Campbell, Poetry Editor of Bull Spec (in his review of the poetry and interview)

The gorgeous new issue of the amazing contemporary fantasy periodical, featuring Bram Stoker Award Winner Bruce Boston. Praise for FANTASTIQUE UNFETTTERED: "There is a poignance in these poems: an ache and a loss, a love and a surrender, a luscious melange of sorrow and love." --Dan Campbell, Poetry Editor of Bull Spec "By and large the sensibility is 'literary, ' and the quality is high (the two, of course, not always the same thing), virtually all the stories assembled here working, though to different degrees and in different ways." --The Future Fire, about Issue #1 "Green Rushes by J.S. Watts is a hymn to parts of ourselves with no place in a world of scissors and shears." --Erzebet YellowBoy, Papaveria Press / Cabinet des Fees / Jabberwocky

A very special book, featuring in a single volume (under two beautiful covers), two spectacular short novels: "On a world without women, who are the New People?" The New People by Alex Jeffers, set on the watery planet Rahab in the distant future, presents a society where no females have been born for generations and where science has made it possible for men to continue in a single-sex world. But most males there are still born heterosexually oriented. The biological and existential conundrum inherent in this situation eventually answers the question of who the "New People" are and what their agenda is. But in the process of unfolding for the reader the nature of Rahab's society, Jeffers creates beautifully rendered characters and a deeply moving story that will surprise the reader throughout and leave a lasting impression. "A stunning act of betrayal on a deadly world " Brandon H. Bell's Elegant Threat...On the Demise of Captain Fantomas Patton-Guerrero and Loss of La Amenaza Elegente is a lovely, stirring, startling story focused on a group of far future humans making their living by wrangling the strange fauna of a deadly oceanic moon while facing impending conflict with their Post-Singularity cousins and sectarian strife within their own ranks. Though Bell foreshadows his story's conclusion from the very beginning, he has crafted such engaging characters that one cannot help but hold out hope that somehow disaster will be averted. Together, the two stories form a remarkable duo, the first M-Brane SF Double.

The second issue of the critically acclaimed "Periodical of Liberated Literature," FANTASTIQUE UNFETTERED, from editor Brandon H. Bell and M-Brane Press; this edition contains amazing new fiction from Therese Arkenberg, Simone Martel, Jude-Marie Green and many others. Also, Edward W. Robertson appears with a new story set in THE AETHER AGE universe, and editor Bell offers a compelling argument for Creative Commons

The fabulous inaugural issue of the new fantasy quarterly from editor Brandon H. Bell and M-Brane Press, containing fantastic and fresh original fiction, poetry and artwork.