Editor Scot Noel tells us that our only true enemy is entropy and life, by it's very nature, fights entropy.

Winner of the Rhysling and Elgin Awards in speculative fiction poetry, Mary provides a vision of immense power, freedom, aspiration, and destiny.

This story introduces us to a sisterhood of slayers who dedicated themselves to protecting the world from beasts of the age before, even at great costs to themselves.

Art brings meaning to our lives and to the world, an essence more enduring than life and more powerful than death. It can be memory that gives birth to our greater selves. Lest we forget.

Jean Martin takes us through the streets of our native Pittsburgh in this tale that pits a Russian immigrant against a vampire. While the beast of darkness and blood preys on the weak, our protagonist - a former sharpshooter at Leningrad - is anything but weak.

A humorous story of a successful author inspired by a science-fiction convention.

Only in 2012 did scientists finally agree that nonhuman animals are conscious beings. Now, empathic behavior has been demonstrated in insects. Yes, it’s true!

Our species will one day fade into extinction. Just as we craft our own meaning from the world, let us too create our own sapient successors.

DreamForge commissioned "The Prophetic Vision of Stephen Vincent Benet" after hearing Dr. Eric Leif Davin speaking about it. Benet , who died in 1937, wasn't published in genre magazines, but his stories and poems were often fantastical. In 1943, editor Donald A. Wollheim chose the "By The Waters of Babylon" for inclusion in his path-breaking The Pocket Book of Science Fiction, the first notable paperback science fiction anthology.

Enjoy this tale of the old man who hid music (and the young boy that found it) by 91 year-old author Tom Sheehan, award-winning writer of 35 books who has been honored with 33 Pushcart nominations.

"The Spiral Ranch" is a fantastic SolarPunk adventure where raising cattle has become a high-tech enterprise and not everyone agrees.

Terra LeMay takes the concept of hope and turns our expectations upside down with "Glass Roses." Though it never fades, even our natural yearning for a better world, it seems, can be misused.

Z-Spot is a fun tale of love and decay after the Zombie Apocalypse that shows us that when the world ends, we just need to get on with it!

Smith's Point is a fantasy novelette of fun, wit, and life-long love. (We could have called it "How I Met Your Grandmother and Other Perilous Magical Adventures.")

Editor Scot Noel tells us how DreamForge came to be - and invites you to come along for the ride.

Enjoy this interview with Coordinating Judge, David Farland (aka Dave Wolverton) and learn about the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. Farland won the Grand Prize in 1987 and has been a judge since 1991.

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