MINISTRY OF TRUTH — DEPARTMENT OF TEMPORAL CORRECTION
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUÉ No. 2026‑ALT‑HIST‑001
Citizens of the Literary Dominion, Subjects of the Chronological Order, and Loyal Consumers of Approved Fiction,
The Ministry of Truth is delighted to announce the triumphant conclusion of the Sidewise Awards 2026, the Empire’s most prestigious ceremony dedicated to honoring works of "alternate history," a genre we have carefully redefined to mean any narrative containing...
"We are only seeking Man. We have no need for other worlds. We need mirrors. We don’t know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can’t accept it for what it is." - Stanisław Lem
Before the cosmic curtain rises and the fireworks begin, it’s worth pausing for a moment to introduce our two protagonists — not...
Deoxy Diamond is a Brazilian illustrator, working with digital art, currently centered on character design. A science fiction and Afrofuturism fan, they like to mix folklore and black culture in their art. Find their work at Artstation, Instagram, and Twitter. Deoxy provided the illustration for the January 20th story “One Hand in the ...
Fernando A. Flores was born in Mexico and grew up in South Texas. His debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, is set in the borderlands between the USA and Mexico. It is dedicated to “all the disappeared.” This sets us up for a story that is post-apocalyptic in a way ...
CONTENT WARNING: show warningsThis page contains: BloodHe sent me a picture of a long sinuous line, dark as entrails and wet, curving on the floor. ‘Sappy,’ he wrote. ‘But I want you.’ ‘I want you,’ I replied. I could not quite smell apple-flesh and the air suddenly redolent ...
Black from the Future is a speculative fiction anthology composed exclusively of writings by Black women. Fourteen short stories and six poems weave the reader in and out of the fantastical lives of Black women and girls through time. The works in this collection focus on the strength and resourcefulness ...
Last year, the critic Aja Romano posited a new movement within science fiction, which she dubbed “hopepunk” (a term coined by Alex Rowland). Works in the hopepunk subgenre, Romano argued, reject the cynical, anti-social stance of the genre writing that came before them in favor of imagining positively. I found ...
Alix Harrow won a Hugo last year for her short story, “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies,” published in Apex. The piece is lovely and desperately sad, about the allure of libraries, the wisdom of librarians, and the books that can rescue broken people. Its ...
CONTENT WARNING: show warningsThis page contains: Disregard for personal autonomy Body transformation Child death Death/dying SuicideAt long last, we have solved the mind-body problem. My child has a new face Something came out of her along with the sputtering stench of an expiring form pulled from a car in a ...
