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Jewish Futures

Edited by Michael A Burstein, Jewish Futures houses Samantha Katz's first professional publication, "Shema."

Jewish extraterrestrials?

Brisket-eating zombies?

Baby robot golems?

The first Jewish diaspora began nearly three thousand years ago. Those three millennia have informed a rich story-telling tradition that will only continue to expand in the coming centuries. This volume-the literary heir to the Wandering Stars anthologies of the 1970s and '80s (and leading off with a very personal essay by Jack Dann, who edited those books)-extrapolates Jews and Judaism into a wide future. Sometimes moody, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, Publishers Weekly says these "16 appealing stories extrapolating Jewish themes into near- and far-future settings.... open diverse and challenging vistas for sci-fi fans-Jewish and gentile alike."

Between these covers, you'll find tales of the last Jew, Jewish space lasers, and the remarkable connection between brisket and zombies. You'll experience the breath-taking experiences of climbing Mt. Everest while religious, and of competing in futuristic sporting combinations in the Olympics. You'll explore the questions of just what will we do when the artificial intelligences controlling our homes become more religious than we? Or when aliens seek to convert to Judaism, and then try to return to an abandoned Jerusalem on a deserted Earth?

Featuring stories by: Esther Friesner, Harry Turtledove, Leah Cypess, Susan Shwartz, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Robert Greenberger, Randee Dawn, Barbara Krasnoff, Steven H Silver, S.I. Rosenbaum & Abraham Josephine Reisman, Shane Tourtellotte, SM Rosenberg, Riv Begun, E.M. Ben Shaul, Jordan King-Lacroix, and the debut story by New York City high school student Samantha Katz.

Jewish Futures can be bought on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others! Visit the website of Fantastic Books for more details.

RESISTANCE

Edited by Ian Randal Strock, RESISTANCE houses Samantha Katz's second professional publication.

Standing up for what's right can be hard. Meekly knuckling under can be even worse. And when the tyrants in power have a vested interest in keeping you down, the only thing to do is resist.

Resistance at all levels is important—personal, group, and institutional—and must be supported. This anthology is being published as a fund-raiser to preserve and enforce our Constitutional freedoms. Profits earned from the sales of this anthology will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union and Pro Publica, to help continue the fight against tyranny and for freedom.

Join our authors—all of whom donated their work for this important cause—for tales of:
* fighting big business just to control your own image
* protecting a race whose own realm is dying
* robots turning on one of their own
* a trickster god who lives to torment the tormentors
* the dangers of having your brain implant hacked
* the horror of stopping a war
* and many more.

Featuring stories by: E.C. Ambrose, David Brin, Michael A. Burstein, Randee Dawn, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Gregory Frost, Daniel M. Kimmel, Shariann Lewitt, Gail Z. Martin, Susan Shwartz, Hildy Silverman, Cecilia Tan, Michael A. Ventrella, and Jean Marie Ward. And brand-new stories by: Scott Edelman, Ron Kaiser, Samantha Katz, and Allen Steele.

RESISTANCE will be published on May 26th, 2026. Preorder the book on Barnes & Noble or Amazon or website of Fantastic Books for more details and options!

Soul Song

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Investigations! Found family! Evil Corporations! Isn't the planet Kyp a fantastical place?

Kra N'tek knows she's different. She's a superpowered alien, after all, raised on a planet where, despite magic being normal, if anyone knew of her powers, her and her family's lives would be in danger. So, she keeps her head down at work and her hood sown to her collar as she patrols the city of Emlytos' streets as the Ghost, determined to do what she can for as many people as she can.

But all of that is about to change on her first day at Kyp Daily, the most prestigious newspaper in the city- nay, in the country.

Allelosin La'dyliap works at Kyp Daily. Allelosin La'dyliap, who is secretly the Ghost's eyes and ears in the press. Allelosin doesn't know who the Ghost is, what is under her hood. Kra should be safe. After all, it's a big paper. What are the odds they'd ever meet?

Click here to view the archive of Soul Song and here to begin reading The Trial of the Ghost, the first book of the Soul Song series, for free!