Haven Spec is a brand new online magazine publishing science fiction and fantasy stories and poems for the 21st century. We publish six issues a year, and we welcome diverse voices from around the world. Two of our issues will be focused on the climate crisis (see our guidelines for more!), and otherwise our issues will run the gamut of the SFF and weird spectra.
So grab a copy of Issue Zero (it's free!) and discover tales of magic powers passed down through the generations in "The Putnam Tradition" by Sonya Dorman, or what happens when pyramid schemes get out of hand in "The Snowball Effect" by Katherine MacLean! If poetry is more your speed, then check out "The Frozen Ocean" by Viola Meynell, in which the wide ocean takes a page from Bartleby the Scrivener, crosses its arms, and tells the world I would prefer not to.
We've included stories and poetry from such literary giants as Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Butler Yeats, and Mary Shelley, but if you're in the mood to try something new (or at least new to you!), discover a new favorite writer from the early 20th century in T.D. Hamm, Miriam Allen deFord, or Alfred Noyes!
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Albert Robida (14 May 1848 – 11 October 1926) was a French illustrator, caricaturist, and novelist. His science fiction trilogy explored what life would be like in the distant future of 1955, where we'd be flying around in tubes high above the city and spending all our free time watching TV on our Téléphonoscope. He was half right.
This cover is part of a larger work called "Paris at Night," in which the people of Paris are flying through the sky on metal ships shaped like fish, and we ask ourselves how we ended up in the wrong timeline. The image was first publish in Paris in 1883 and is in the public domain.
The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman
All Cats are Gray by Andre Alice Norton
Where the Phph Pebbles Go by Miriam Allen deFord
The Snowball Effect by Katherine MacLean
The Frozen Ocean by Viola Meynell
The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats
The Loom of Years by Alfred Noyes
The Signboard by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Introduction to the 1831 Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley