Pulp Literature Winter 2026: Issue 49

In this Issue

Under the dark sky of Jeff Sturgeon’s Jupiter Rising Over Europa, figures from modern and ancient myth come in for a landing with fiction by Robert J Sawyer, Benny Lawrence, and Russell Hugh McConnell. Smiles hold different meanings in stories by JM Landels, DP Snyder, and Emily Drake, and monsters both familiar and new inhabit horror by Lauren Stein and Cadence Mandybura. Plus a new chapter of The Extra Takes the Castle by Mel Anastasiou, and contest winners of the Kingfisher Poetry and Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize.

Genre-busting fiction you can't put down!

Robert J Sawyer has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel of the year. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his novel of the same name. A member of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Rob's latest novel is The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine.

JM Landels is the author of the bestselling Allaigna's Song trilogy as well as the spy novel The Shepherdess, currently serialized in even-numbered issues of this magazine. This story, featuring Allaigna's sister Lauriana, takes place just after the events of Allaigna's Song: Chorale. When she's not writing, editing, or drawing, you can find Jen teaching people to swing swords and ride horses at Academie Cavallo in Langley, BC. You can find @jmlandels on most social media platforms, or at jmlandels.stiffbunnies.com.

Mel Anastasiou writes the Fairmount Manor Mysteries, the Monument Studios Mysteries, and the Hertfordshire Pub Mysteries, available at pulpliterature.com. She won a Literary Titan Gold Book Award and was longlisted for the Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for her novel Stella Ryman and the Fairmount Manor Mysteries. Look for Stella Ryman and the Search for Thelma Hu, available through online booksellers and at Pulp Literature Press.