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Best Vegan SFF
Series · 5 books · 2017-2021

Books in series

Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016 book cover
#2016

Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016

2017

The best vegan science fiction and fantasy stories of 2016. Twelve stories of mysterious aliens, unusual pets, messages from the future, witchcraft, and much more. And what's more, they're all vegan friendly! No skipping over the ugly parts; there are none. Just interesting ideas, good stories, and great writing! Stories include: My Dog is the Constellation Canis Major - Jarod K. Anderson Images Across a Shattered Sea - Stewart C. Baker Rowboat - K. G. Anderson Daughter of the Sea - George Nikolopoulos Tides of Reflection - Mark Rookyard Lift Up Your Cores, O Ye Ships - Tracy Canfield Strix Antiqua - Hamilton Perez May Dreams Shelter Us - Kate O'Connor Spoiler: She Leaves Him - Jack Noble Murder on the Adriana - James Ross Closed Circuit - J. S. Arquin Small Magics - Kelly Sandoval
Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 book cover
#2017

Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017

2018

The best vegan science fiction and fantasy stories of 2017 A baker's dozen of the best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2017 that happen to be vegan-friendly. Mysterious giant birds, fossil snails, an instant prose analyzer, and much more! Bluebird - Benjamin Cort Ligeia is Waiting - Russell Hemmell Oven Game - Paul A. Hamilton Cold Comforts - Graham Robert Scott Lake Oreyd - Damien Krsteski A Nightingale's Map of the City - Suzanne J. Willis Angels at the Border - Ian Rennie Sharpington's Coffers: Current Score 49.8 - Erik Goldsmith Sundown on the Hill - Timothy Mudie Business as Usual - N.R. Lambert Bad News from the Future - Angus Cervantes The Cure for Cancer - Ryan Fitzpatrick The Lost Languages of Exiles - Laura E. Price
Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018 book cover
#2018

Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018

2019

The best vegan science fiction and fantasy stories of 2018. Fifteen stories of gods and monsters, of love and cruelty, of memories and mementos, of futures and pasts. Stories drawn from Clarkesworld, Galaxy's Edge, Abyss and Apex, Escape Pod, Nature, and Metaphorosis. And they're all vegan-friendly to boot! Always Dawn to Forever Night—Luke Elliott Pandora, Rising—George Nikolopoulos All the Colors I Cannot See—L'Erin Ogle Replica—Pauline Yates The Seer at Sunset Hills Shopping Plaza—Katherine Perdue Elegy of Carbon—Benjamin C. Kinney A Cigarette Burn on Your Memory—Bo Balder Twins—Gregory Kane Subtle Ways Each Time—Y.M. Pang Combustion—Kai Hudson In All Possible Futures—Dantzel Cherry Sorry Sorry Sorry and I Love You—L'Erin Ogle Last Contact—Graham Robert Scott It Feels Like Déjà Vu—Phong Quan A House on the Volga—Filip Wiltgren
Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 book cover
#2019

Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019

2020

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.
Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 book cover
#2020

Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020

2021

The best vegan-friendly science fiction and fantasy of 2020. Fourteen stories of aliens, sacrifice, magic, dinosaurs, and hope. And they're all vegan-friendly to boot! Lingua Franca — Amelia Fisher Rekindled — Mikko Rauhala Seven Scraps Unwritten — L. Chan The First Step in Our Evolution — Marisca Pichette The Skin of Aquila Cadens — Chris Panatier Everything But the Moon — Bo Balder The Firmament — Douglas Anstruther The Preserved City — Charles Schoenfeld Where the Old Neighbors Go — Thomas Ha Lighter than Air — Liam Hogan Regret’s Relief — Travis Wade Beaty Old News — Gustavo Bondoni The Chorley — Rachel Ayers The Dinosaur’s Valentine — Abra Staffin-Wiebe Cover art by vegan artist Bonnie Leeman.

Authors

Stewart C. Baker
Stewart C. Baker
Author · 5 books
Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction, poetry, and interactive fiction. His most recent game is the Nebula-nominated The Bread Must Rise, a novel-length comedic fantasy from Choice of Games written with James Beamon. Stewart’s stories and poems have appeared in Asimov’s, Fantasy, Flash Fiction Online, Lightspeed, Nature and other places. Born in England, Stewart has lived in South Carolina, Japan, and Los Angeles, and now lives with his family within the traditional homelands of the Luckiamute Band of Kalapuya in Oregon—although if anyone asks, he’ll usually say he’s from the Internet.
George Nikolopoulos
George Nikolopoulos
Author · 2 books

George Nikolopoulos is a speculative fiction writer from Athens, Greece. His short stories have been published (and/or are pending) in Galaxy's Edge, Nature Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Factor Four, Dream Forge, Grievous Angel, Best Vegan SFF, The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF, Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine, Hybrid Fiction, Five Minutes in Hotel Stormcove, On Spec, Laughing at Shadows, Twenty-two Twenty-eight, Helios Quarterly Magazine, Selene Quarterly Magazine, Gallery of Curiosities, Murder Park After Dark, 99 Tiny Terrors, Unsung Stories, Lite Lit One, Bards & Sages Quarterly, Havok, The Centropic Oracle, StarShipSofa, 600 Second Saga, Antipodean SF, Manawaker Studio's FFP, SF Comet, Mad Scientist Journal, Truancy, Digital Fiction Pub's QuickFic, Sci Phi Journal, 9Tales from Elsewhere, Fifty Flashes, Timeshift, Drabbledark, Martian, Sins and Other Worlds, Angels, Monsters, Gruff Variations, Scarlet Leaf Review, Clash of the Titles, The Lane of Unusual Traders, Sky Castles, Event Horizon, Up and Coming–Stories by the 2016 Campbell-eligible Authors, Szortal, QuarterReads, Stella's Literary Bistro, Diasporic Literature Spot, as well as many magazines and anthologies in Greece and Cyprus. His children's fantasy novelette "The Three Princesses" has been published in Cyprus and his poetry collections "Glass Boats" and "Missed Opportunities" have been published in Greece. He is a member of Codex Writers' Group. He sometimes blogs at georgenikolopoulos.wordpress.com

Abra Staffin-Wiebe
Abra Staffin-Wiebe
Author · 3 books
Abra Staffin-Wiebe loves dark science fiction, cheerful horror, and futuristic fairy tales. Dozens of her short stories have appeared at publications including Tor.com, Escape Pod, and Odyssey Magazine. She lives in Minneapolis, where she wrangles her children, pets, and the mad scientist she keeps in the attic. Discover more of her fiction at her website, http://www.aswiebe.com.
S. Qiouyi Lu
S. Qiouyi Lu
Author · 7 books
S. Qiouyi Lu writes, translates, and edits between two coasts of the Pacific. Their work has appeared in several award-winning venues. They edit the magazine Arsenika and run microverses, a hub for tiny narratives.
James Ross
James Ross
Author · 1 books
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
J.S. Arquin
J.S. Arquin
Author · 1 books

J.S. Arquin is an author, audiobook narrator and producer, podcaster, entertainer, and adventurer. He has lived in, performed in, and explored beautiful, inspiring, and disturbing places all over the world, and currently makes his home in Portland, OR, where he dodges raindrops on his bicycle and sometimes writes about himself in the third person. He is the author of The Crimson Dust Cycle, and has voiced and produced dozens of audiobooks, You can catch his ramblings and some breathtaking speculative fiction on his podcast, The Overcast: www.theovercast.libsyn.com. For a free Crimson Dust Cycle prequel story, sign up for his newsletter at www.arquinworlds.com. You can also find him on Twitter @JS_Arquin.

Paul A. Hamilton
Paul A. Hamilton
Author · 1 books
Paul Hamilton is a writer and technology worker living in Northern California with his wife and two children. His stories feature broken people, reassembled worlds, beautiful monsters, and hideous love. He gets his inspiration by impersonating an old-timey bartender, listening to stories told by lonely strangers. When not writing, he can be found reading, drawing, taking photographs, or riding roller coasters. More from him can be found at http://ironsoap.com/, and on Twitter as @ironsoap.
Juliet Kemp
Author · 5 books

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.

Marisca Pichette
Marisca Pichette
Author · 9 books
Marisca Pichette is an award-winning author of speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her debut collection of speculative verse, RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR, was nominated for the 2023 Bram Stoker and Elgin Awards. Their cli-fi novella, EVERY DARK CLOUD, is out now from Ghost Orchid Press. Marisca lives in Massachusetts.
Jarod K. Anderson
Author · 7 books
Jarod K. Anderson lives in a white house between a forest and a graveyard. He writes and narrates The CryptoNaturalist podcast, a scripted, bi-weekly audio drama about unusual nature (@CryptoNature on Twitter / cryptonaturalist.com). You can find more of Jarod's writing in places like Asimov's, Escape Pod, and Apex Magazine.
N.R. Lambert
N.R. Lambert
Author · 1 books
N.R. Lambert is a speculative fiction author from New York City. Her stories appear or are forthcoming in Lightspeed, Vastarien, The Modern Deity's Guide to Surviving Humanity, Lovecraft Mythos, 99 Tiny Terrors, Fireside Magazine, Cast of Wonders, PseudoPod, Factor Four Magazine, Metaphorosis Magazine, Community of Magic Pens, and Don't Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (HarperCollins, 2020). She has also written for Entertainment Weekly, TIME, LIFE, and Tor.com. She was a 2019 U.S. National Park Service Artist-in-Residence at Fire Island National Seashore. In addition to her work as a pop culture author and freelance copywriter, she volunteers with Read Ahead and 826NYC, and teaches creative writing workshops for young writers at The Center for Fiction.
B Morris Allen
B Morris Allen
Author · 3 books
B. Morris Allen is a biochemist turned activist turned lawyer turned foreign aid consultant, and frequently wonders whether it's time for a new career. He's been traveling since birth, and has lived on five continents. When he can, he makes his home on the Oregon coast. In between journeys, he edits Metaphorosis magazine, and works on his own speculative stories of love and disaster. His dark fantasy novel Susurrus came out in 2017.
K.G. Anderson
K.G. Anderson
Author · 1 books
K.G. (Karen) Anderson is a Seattle speculative fiction author who focuses on short stories with psychological elements. She's a 2013 graduate of the Viable Paradise writers workshop.
Edward Ashton
Edward Ashton
Author · 8 books
Edward Ashton is the author of the novels Mickey7, Three Days in April and The End of Ordinary. His short fiction has appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage company to Escape Pod, Analog, and Fireside Fiction. He lives in upstate New York in a cabin in the woods (not that Cabin in the Woods) with his wife, a variable number of daughters, and an adorably mopey dog named Max, where he writes—mostly fiction, occasionally fact—under the watchful eyes of a giant woodpecker and a rotating cast of barred owls. In his free time, he enjoys cancer research, teaching quantum physics to sullen graduate students, and whittling. You can find him online at edwardashton.com or on Twitter @edashtonwriting.
Kate O'Connor
Kate O'Connor
Author · 3 books

Kate O’Connor was born in Virginia in 1982. She graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott in 2009 and now lives (and occasionally works) in the New York area. Kate has been writing science fiction and fantasy since 2011. In between telling stories, she flies airplanes, digs up artifacts, and manages a kennel full of Airedales.

R. Jean Mathieu
R. Jean Mathieu
Author · 1 books

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.

Travis Wade Beaty
Travis Wade Beaty
Author · 1 books
Travis Wade Beaty grew up in Northeast Indiana, spent a good deal of his twenties in Los Angeles, and now resides in Washington, DC. While he’s had a great many jobs, his favorites have included acting, teaching, and being a stay-at-home dad to two girls and three cats.
Chris Panatier
Chris Panatier
Author · 5 books

Chris lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, daughter, and a fluctuating herd of animals resembling dogs (one is almost certainly a goat). He writes short stories and novels, "plays" the drums, and draws album covers for metal bands. As a lawyer, he goes after companies that poison people. Chris' short fiction has appeared in Metaphorosis, The Molotov Cocktail Magazine, Ghost Parachute, The Ginger Collect Magazine, Tales To Terrify, Trembling With Fear, Ellipsis Zine, Defenestration and others. He's a member of SFWA and HWA.

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