Part of Series
The best vegan science fiction and fantasy stories of 2019. Seventeen stories of kings made of sand, alien gods, illicit reading, and most of all, growth. Stories drawn from Translunar Travelers Lounge, super / natural, New Orbit, Daily Science Fiction, Triangulation: Dark Skies, Score - an SFF symphony, and Metaphorosis. And they're all vegan-friendly to boot! The Lonely King — Gunnar De Winter Growing Resistance — Juliet Kemp Rooks on Sundays — Jack Neel Waddell The Trader — Damien Krsteski The Soul Farmer's Daughters — Kyle Kirrin Crying in Public — Madi Giovina The Propagator — Simone Kern A Bear, or a Spider, or an Elephant — Edward Ashton The Silence of Mother — Gerald Warfield The Color of My Home is Red Like an Apple — Evan Marcroft There is a City, He Told Me — Evan James Sheldon As An Absence — Joanna Michal Hoyt A Layer Thin As Breath — Thea Boodhoo The Shapeshifter Unraveled — S. Qiouyi Lu The Guardian of Werifest Park — Carly Racklin Earth Epitaph — R. Jean Mathieu L'Appel du Vide — Rajiv Moté Cover art by vegan artist Bonnie Leeman.
Authors
Juliet Kemp (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, writer. They live by the river in London, with their partners, child, and dog. The first book of their fantasy series, The Deep And Shining Dark was on the Locus 2018 Recommended Reads list; the fourth and final book, The City Revealed came out in 2023. Their short fiction has appeared in venues including Uncanny, Analog, and Cast of Wonders; they were short-listed for the WSFA Small Press Award in 2020 and 2023; and they had a story in the 2021 Lambda Awards shortlisted anthology Trans-Galactic Bike Ride. They've also written non-fiction. When not writing or child-wrangling, Juliet knits, climbs, indulges their fountain pen habit, and tries to fit an ever-increasing number of plants into a microscopic back garden. They can be found on Twitter as @julietk, on Mastodon as @juliet@zirk.us, and on Bluesky as @julietk.bsky.social.
R. Jean Mathieu is the fiction writer of all trades. From award-winning stories of the Peace Corps and meditators on Mars (“Gods of War”) to time-traveling mysteries of a Mexican detective solving his own murder (No Time: The First Hour), Mathieu revels in different genres, different voices, and cultural chop suey. Under other noms de plume, he writes romances, thrillers, pulp adventures, Westerns, and mysteries. Mathieu grew up in Morro Bay, California. He enrolled in college at fifteen, where he would spend the next ten years. With an Associate’s degree in International Studies and $100 in his pocket, Mathieu traveled to China, alternately working as a teahouse server, organic farmhand, Hong Kong movie extra, and English teacher. Despite being deported thrice, he won his degree in Sociology (minoring in Business) over his five years in China, refining his craft along the way. From the streets of Shenzhen to the Thousand-Handed Bodhisattva to the color of industrial sunlight in a mountain town, he continues to draw on the experiences and life lessons he learned there. He lives in Morro Bay with his wife Melissa, where they keep a good table when not writing side-by-side or chasing trains to the next adventure. A convinced Quaker, he attends Central Coast Friends Meeting in between writing and publishing his fiction, learning new languages, and practicing Uechi-ryu karate. Besides anthologies and magazines, you can find all his stories at Amazon.com and his commentary at RJeanMathieu.com.
