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SF mag from Canada | 2007-2013, 2020- | Always open to submissions
Publisher of Saros SF
For all of your various FF needs: http://linktr.ee/fusionfragment
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · Oct 27
FF#26 and Saros #4 have arrived!

Get your copies for free (or toss us a few bucks!) all in one handy download at fusionfragment.com/issue-26

Or head downthread for more info on the great stories in these two issues!
The covers of FF#26 and Saros #4, with text reading: FF#26 and Saros #4: Dual Release Day Now Available!
fusionfragment.bsky.social
2026 READING THREAD: If you're interested in what this editor is reading throughout the year, I'm going to drop each book in here as I complete it. I don't name names on the books I dislike, so if you see it on this list, consider it a recommendation.
January 6, 2026 at 3:33 AM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
FF Reading Period Update: We're coming back up to speed as we return from our December reading break. Here's where we're at:

12 stories undergoing additional reads (oldest from Dec. 1)
128 unread stories in queue
Oldest unread is from 9:25 PM ET on Dec. 17
238 subs received in the last 30 days
January 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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staniforthmick.bsky.social
Day 4! I read A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above by Nkereuwem Albert published by @fusionfragment.bsky.social . Wow, loved this one. Robots, class struggle, magic, loved it. Read my full review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/s...
S/D/Y Jan 4 – A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above by Nkereuwem Albert – Fusion Fragment
“Life is not perfect down Below, but with Weyinmi itbecomes life again.” What a beautiful line, and A Treatise of Significance yo Uyo Above is full of those. The world building is immac…
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
THREAD: Some "state-of-the-mag" updates for Fusion Fragment now that 2025 is in the books. And don't worry--no negative news to share! Just wanted to share for the sake of transparency, celebrate, and get the table all set for 2026!

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January 4, 2026 at 4:38 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
The FF Reading Team is back on duty! Lots of responses out over the past few days and the backlog's down to about 150.

Thanks for your patience as we took time in December to recharge!
January 3, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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chubertwrites.bsky.social
A woman copes with the loss of her mother and the challenge of raising her daughter in the most foreign country of all, the Moon. This was a very personal story to write and I'm glad it's out there!

www.fusionfragment.com/issue-24/
Issue #24
“All the Pretty Starships Fly Like This” by J.R. Dewitt: freedom from imperial control / mindships / hot fudge cherry berry”As Big As A Whale” by Avra Margariti: obsession /…
www.fusionfragment.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:04 AM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
Story #1 in Saros #4, edited by @hannahgreer.bsky.social : "Little Shade" by @jlgeorge.bsky.social
"Little Shade" by JL George The cat, little grey shade, arrived the day after my sister died. By that time there was nobody coming to collect the dead. The workers in their orange protective suits, who had been so ubiquitous those first few weeks, were a rare sight. I hadn’t spotted one in weeks, and the council phone lines went unanswered when I called. plague / unresolved grief / cat companion
January 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
Thursday music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week. (Florence returns!)
Albums on repeat at FF HQ #1: Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream #2: Bryde - Like An Island #3: CLT DRP - Nothing Clever, Just Feelings #4: The Psychotic Monks - Silence Slowly and Madly Shines #5: Juanita Stein - Until the Lights Fade
January 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
I've got the day off work, so time to bring back an old favourite, this time using lessons learned from all the great stuff we published in 2025. Let's do this.
1 Like = 1 Tip for getting published in FF (2025 stories edition)
December 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
That's a wrap on 2025 reading, since I don't think I'll get another book done by Wednesday. Here are my faves that I read over the past year.
Fave Books 2025 Katya Apekina - The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish (2018) Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace (1996) Omar El Akkad - What Strange Paradise (2021) Susanna Clarke - Piranesi (2020) Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) Peter Ho Davies - A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (2021) Lisa Ko - The Leavers (2017) Carmen Maria Machado - Her Body and Other Parties (2017) Sophie Mackintosh - Blue Ticket (2020) Celeste Ng - Our Missing Hearts (2022) Paz Pardo - The Shamshine Blind (2023) Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent (2016) Gerardo Sámano Córdova - Monstrilio (2023) A.D. Sui - The Dragonfly Gambit (2024) Catherynne M. Valente - Radiance (2015) Katherena Vermette - The Strangers (2021) Nghi Vo - Siren Queen (2022) Sabrina Vourvoulias - Ink (2012) Aliya Whiteley - The Loosening Skin (2018) Elvia Wilk - Oval (2019)
December 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
Associate Editor Henry received a tie for Christmas and as such will be going full Business Dog in 2026.
A white chihuahua looking up a the camera. He's wearing a tie with a snowman, candy cane, and other various christmasy things on it. He's wearing a tie because he's got an MBA (masters of bark administration).
December 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
Reviewed and recommended in FF#26's From the Archives column by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social:

Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse from Exile Editions, edited by @silviamg.bsky.social

www.exileeditions.com/shop/fractur...
The cover of Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse, which features someone in winter gear, a gas mask and holding a gun.
December 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
FFer Read of the Day: "A Journey Through the Dystopiaverse" by @moparandgalen.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social

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A Journey Through the Dystopiaverse
Will we unite and work together?
strangehorizons.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
Wednesday music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week. (Sorry no Christmas music cuz I worked in a mall in my 20s and it permanently killed Christmas music for me.)
Albums on repeat at FF HQ #1: Hana Vu - Public Storage #2: Juanita Stein - Until the Lights Fade #3: Skye Wallace - Skye Wallace #4: Wallis Bird - Woman #5: Teen Mortgage - Teen Mortgage
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
It's a Christmas miracle! FF#1 has re-launched is now available in an e-reader friendly EPUB format and our new PDF format, along with some fresh cover art from @carlydraws.bsky.social!

www.fusionfragment.com/issue-1/
“The Hound and Her Bride” by Omi Wilde: warriors / mythology / family bonds “Slicer” by Owen Leddy: cyberpunk / memory hacking / relationships “Substance” by Christi Nogle: really big worms / royalty / classic literature “And She Rose in the Sky on a Pillar of Flame” by Bennett North: religious communities / marriage / exploration “After the Fall” by Avra Margariti: androids / mysterious leaders / exiles “The Wings of Moths Like Shining Coins” by Alexandra Seidel: terraforming / grief / letter-writing “Allfather” by Ian Donnell Arbuckle: fatherhood / fear / dreams?
December 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
Check out this thread for more info on a fantastic story!
sylvie-althoff.bsky.social Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 12d
“The New Sound,” my third story of 2025, is a relatively traditional sci-fi short story published in Saros #3. It follows Kath, a trans woman who’s built her life around making music with a cutting-edge aural implant that’s now falling into obsolescence. sarossf.com/issue-3/
Issue #3 - Saros Speculative Fiction
Edited by Em Arata-Berkel “Rewritten in Flesh” by Gio Clairval: obsolescence / biopunk / my body, my choice “The Ladder” by Cailín Frankland: funerary rites / forbidden keys / from underground “The Ne...
sarossf.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
FFer Read of the Day: "The Pelican in its Piety" by @slharris.bsky.social in @reckoningmag.bsky.social

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The Pelican in its Piety | Reckoning
The boy in his Sunday clothes stared at the pelicans scattered blackly on the shore like slick and globous stones, right where the monster had left them. He remembered them flying in great lines above...
reckoning.press
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
FFer Read of the Day: "The Interior" by @christinogle.bsky.social in @3lobedmag.com

www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...
3LBE Magazine - The Interior by Christi Nogle
Professor Murphy looks up at the enormous pull-down screen playing black-and-white video of Coney Island amusements side by side with stills from the workaday world they might have been meant to simul...
www.3lobedmag.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
Story #8 in FF#26: "Once Upon the Crossing of Mars" by @straith.ca

If you need a story with:
-"I hallucinated on Mars and all I got was this t-shirt!"
-carbo-loading
-ecstatic mysteries

Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
"Once Upon the Crossing of Mars" by D.A. Straith The dust clears. The runner leads him through the darkness into a tunnel. He follows. His sacred duty. Random lines shiver, cross and uncross on his HUD. His machined proprioception tells him there are walls on all sides. Oh, yes. He is within. He is truly inside the planet now: part of it. He’s crying again. Thank you, thank you, he murmurs, as he dusts fingers along the channel wall and descends. ultramarathons / belonging / finding truths in the dust
December 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
Wednesday night music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week.
Albums on repeat at FF HQ: #1: Bryde - Like An Island #2: Teen Mortgage - Teen Mortgage #3: Naima Bock - Below a Massive Dark Land #4: Wall of Death - Main Obsessions #5: Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream
December 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
I'm happy to welcome back @breewernicke.bsky.social, whose story "May It Please the Profit" has been acquired for FF#29!

In addition to FF and Saros, Bree's work has also appeared in Bourbon Penn, Haven Spec, and Baffling, just to name a few.
"May It Please the Profit" by Bree Wernicke: the doubting priestess / (really) late-stage capitalism / pondering the orb This text is overlaid on top of a graphic showing gold dollar signs raining down on a black background
December 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
Stay tuned for a full-year wrapup thread in late December, but for now just wanna say I'm massively happy with what we put out this year. 48 (!) original works of fiction this year in FF and Saros.

Check out the Awards Eligibility headers on both the FF and Saros websites for more details.
2025 Awards Eligibility Fusion Fragment: 3 issues, 21 original short stories, 3 original novelettes Saros SF: 4 issues, 16 original short stories, 8 original drabble / drabble sets Also pictured are covers of each issues, roughly arranged into the shape of a H. The H stands for Hell Yeah.
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
Whoever you are, appreciate that handful of people out there who tagged us in various categories for the Chill Subs Best Lit Mags thing. You are either a) the wind beneath my wings, b) the water upon which I float, or c) the fire in my spirit, depending on your elemental preferences.
December 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
fusionfragment.bsky.social
The lineup for FF#28 is finalized! Amazing fiction by: @estrubbe.bsky.social @awritingwall.bsky.social @sophiecasarico.bsky.social @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social Francis Van Ganson @audreyzhou.bsky.social @tuesdaywrites.bsky.social

Coming your way in June 2026!
Table of Contents Fusion Fragment #28 Birdguts - Erin Strubbe Chutes, Slides, and Ladders - Allison Wall Diet Tips for the Apocalypse - Sophie Casarico Grave Bells - Corey Farrenkopf In the Wake of Whales - Claire Jia-Wen Iso E Super - Francis Van Ganson (Non)deterministic Finite Automata - Audrey Zhou u last saw hana in the mageverse - Tuesday Pil
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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ryanelz.bsky.social
Excited and honored to announce that I am the winner of this year's SLF Diverse Writers Grant!
speclit.bsky.social Speculative Literature Foundation @speclit.bsky.social · 21d
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Ryan Lerrik is the winner of the 2025 Diverse Writers Grant for their piece "The Definition of Yearning."

Learn more about them here: speculativeliterature.org/2025/12/15/a...
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM