Android Y1 is heartbroken. He was once a neuroscientist who uploaded his own brain to study it. Now he hates watching his human self take his wife and son for granted while he’s cut off from his loved ones. And just when he’s ready to end it all, his secret lab—home to the only artificial brains in existence—is sold to the high priestess of a Roman temple focused on using them as forced labor in a Martian settlement.

With his android friends facing a grim future, Y1 reluctantly becomes their leader as religious fanatics and greedy investors play with their lives behind the scenes. But when they rise up for freedom, Y1 watches in horror as the high priestess takes his vulnerable human son hostage. Trapped and racing against time, he must find a way to rescue his son and save his wife from the unthinkable—while keeping the androids safe.

Can Y1 turn their cruel captivity into a brighter tomorrow and a new home for his kind?

The Regolith Temple is a gritty science fiction thriller. If you like character-driven drama, fast-paced action, and well-researched technology, you’ll love Roxana Arama’s thoughtful page-turner.

Buy this “must-read for sci-fi fans” (Publishers Weekly) today to find out what uploading your brain would feel like! (No, really. Ever wondered what it’s like to upload a human brain?)

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Rome is marching. Cities and temples are falling. On the outskirts of the empire, Princess Andrada convinces her father to tutor her as his heir despite a ban on women rulers. But her lifelong battle against entrenched customs shatters when she fails the King’s Challenge and is sentenced to death.

To save Andrada from execution, her father marries her off to a neighboring king who doesn’t care about governing. Devastated, the new queen resolves to watch over her country from exile, preparing for the inevitable Roman attack. Although the crystal bell she risked everything to claim during the challenge grants odd wishes, she’s dangerously unarmed against an unloving husband who needs a son from her. And as she falls in love with a medicine woman, her worst enemy is plotting to kill her once and for all.

Will Queen Andrada unite all the warring factions in time to face the mighty Roman Empire?

The Exiled Queen is a gritty and grounded historical fantasy. Pulling together threads from the past of her native Eastern Europe, Roxana Arama reimagines a people on the brink of drastic change. If you like fierce female protagonists, speculative sagas, and dramatic twists, you’ll love this sweeping adventure.

Buy this “rich and rousing…memorable historical fantasy” (Publishers Weekly) today to discover an idea whose time has come!

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Seattle, Washington, 2019. Immigration attorney and single mom Laura Holban is an immigrant herself. Her newest undocumented client is Emilio Ramirez, who was arrested in front of his sons at their high school and scheduled for deportation. What Laura doesn’t know is that Emilio’s birth family was murdered in his home country many years ago.

When Laura files for Emilio’s asylum, false criminal charges prevent his release. Someone is following his family, and an ICE prosecutor threatens to revoke Laura’s US citizenship. None of it makes any sense—until Laura uncovers an international conspiracy involving stolen data and human trafficking. Which puts her teenage daughter and Emilio’s sons in mortal danger.

Now the killers from the past come looking for the man who got away and the lawyer who’s helping him. Can Laura and Emilio find a way to survive—and keep their children safe? If not, who will make it out alive?

Buy this page-turner today! 2024 Independent Press Award Winner. 2023 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner. 2023 NYC Big Book Award Winner.

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Edited by award-winning author and cyberpunk legend Bruce Bethke, STUPEFYING STORIES is the place to read tomorrow’s famous writers today! Stupefying Stories 26 is our annual double-length horror special, and it features 22 all-new stories to thrill and chill you, written by:

• Jamie Lackey – “Blood Apples”
• Gordon Grice – “Stone”
• Allan Dyen-Shapiro – “Midnight Meal at a Kobe Noodle Joint”
• Karin Terebessy – “Bandages”
• Jorge Salgado-Reyes – “Neon Blood”
• Julie Frost – “Beverly Hellbunnies”
• Kevin Berg – “Faceless”
• Anya Ow – “Hungry Ghosts”
• Jesse Dyer – “Losing Things”
• Richard Zwicker – “Possession is Ten/Tenths of the Law”
• Made in DNA – “Something CUTE This Way Comes”
• Cass Sims Knight – “Slugging”
• Nick Nafpliotis – “The Cerberus Protocol”
• Beth Cato – “Water in the Bones”
• Don Money – “Department of Murderous Vixens”
• Chana Kohl – “Murder in the Shuk”
• Patricia Miller – “An Absence of Shadow”
• Robert Hobson – “Watershed”
• Ray Daley – “The Haunted Spaceship”
• Roxana Arama – “All Those Monsters”
• Evan Dicken – “Sunk Ghosts”
• John Lance – “The Mob”

Whether your tastes run to science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, or something so new it doesn’t yet have a name, you’re sure to find it in STUPEFYING STORIES!

The goal of speculative fiction has always been to examine the real world through the lens of the imaginary. By considering what could be, we gain a better understanding of what is. The Colored Lens strives to do exactly that. By publishing short stories and serialized novellas every quarter in genres ranging from fantasy, to science fiction, to slipstream or magical realism, we hope to help our readers see the world just a bit differently than before they came to us. Featuring works by Michael Haynes, Sciascia DeKay, Roxana Arama, Travis Lee, Nick Hartland, Sandra Siegienski, Christine Amsden, Andrew Najberg, Eric Fomley, and Sydney D’Orso. Edited by Dawn Lloyd and Daniel Scott. Henry Fields, Senior Editor.