This year’s Hugo Awards nominations are now open. If you are eligible to nominate for this year’s Hugo Award (being presented at LACon V this year, for works appearing in 2025), then now is the time for you to take stock of last year’s offerings and fill out a form! Fortunately, a LOT of our fiction offerings are FREE!
While you are at it (and we encourage you to vote and hope that you do!) you might want to consider one of our own offerings published in November of last year –
THE MARTIAN TRILOGY
John P. Moore, Amazing Stories, Black Science Fiction and the Illustrated Feature Section
which resurrects the first Space Opera stories written by a Black Science Fiction author in 1930.
The book contains Moore’s three stories and valuable commentary, critique and insight by numerous guest authors including:
Lisa Yaszek, Sheree Renee Thomas, Maurice Broaddus, Edward Austin Hall, Bill Campbell, K. Ceres Wright, Chris Barkley, Lisa Wood, Minister Faust, Brooks Hefner, John Jennings, Steve Davidson, Killian Vetter, Val Barnhart, MaxAnthony Mateer, Tanvi Bhatia, Devi “Diya” Patel, Kermit Woodall and Lloyd Penney.
Also included are extensive indexes covering important literary, technological and societal influences impacting the era.
John P. Moore’s stories were likely read by more – far more – readers than the Space Operas appearing in contemporary magazines like Astounding Stories, Science Wonder Stories or Amazing Stories, as the Illustrated Feature Section’s distribution and readership far exceeded that of the pulps.
These stories – uncovered by research suggested by Brooks Hefner’s Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow performed by Dr. Yaszek’s team, reveal Space Opera adventure tales chronicling a trip to Mars, but one that differs from its mainstream contemporaries in intriguing and interesting ways.
Moore’s stories help fill in a gap in the history of Black Science Fiction, demonstrating, at the very least, that Black SF is not a “response” to mainstream science fiction, but, instead, enjoys a developmental history going back to the very beginning of the genre. (Which of course we here at Amazing Stories consider to be April of 1926.)
These stories and the commentary and insight offered by the contributors, help fill in absent chapters in the history of our genre and this book is, we strongly believe, worthy of consideration for the Best Related Hugo Award category.
Other works we produced last year that are also eligible for consideration this year are:
In Short Fiction (all of which you can read for FREE right here), the magazine published the following in 2025:
Designation 957-A by Anson Jones
Merriment by Cat Girczyc
A Singular Infestation by Jack Mackenzie
Motivation by Steve Davidson
Sighted Justice by Dave Creek
Try This One Weird Trick to Stop Fae from Destroying Your Garden by Sarina Dorie
A Grain of Sand by Elana Gomel
The Stone Witch by Tom Thompson
They Scream Brightest Just Before Death by Olin Wish
The Long Dark by Edwin Hayward
Headhaunter by Don deBrandt
Relics of War by David-John Tyrer
Diversity Training by Gary Battershell
Last Rights by Gustavo Bondoni
Tanked by Anna O’Brien
Barnacle Retirement Hotel on the Cliffs by David Hangman
The Physical by Sarah Toups
The First Felumans by Harrison Bae Wein
The Egg by Kenton Erwin
Red Alert by Sarah Arnette
Live Like a Thief by Tom Howard
At the Blednica Research Station by Douglas Kolacki
Collateral Damage by Michael Welt
Perihelion and Retrograde by Brian D. Hinson
Slow Dance at the High School by James van Pelt
Journey to Anasta by Karl El-Koura
1999: The V-Gene by DC Diamondopolous
…a Crack of Lightning by Ian Randal Strock
The Prophecy of the Lord of Brightness by C.B. Droege
The Shipwright of Theseus by Dan Giancioppo
Preservation by Deborah Sale-Butler
Guardian’s Last Move by Ryan C. Cadigan
Mind Over Mind by Tom Easton
The Halting Problem by Arturo Sierra
Galaxy Song Contest by Mary Jo Rabe
Dark Side of the Moon by J. N. Buerk
The Longest Day by Jared Bernard
Parallel Tracks by Dave Creek
Keeping Mum by Kate Orman
Duck Duck Duck by Denisha Naidoo
On the Tour at Great American by Sheila Hartney
To Err is Divine by Mark Bailey
The Gravity of Mars by Mariel Zuchniak
The Space by M. Wollin
The Titans by Karen Redmond
The Horror Writer by Robin Kirman
Shaded Sol by Devin Miller
Speaking Bear Leader’s Quest by James R. Hardin
The Big Red Button by Tom Easton
The Crafts by Raya Yarbrough
Distance and Family and Death By Brian D. Hinson
In longer fiction Amazing Selects published the following in 2025:
The Voyage Of the Heisenberg by Tom Easton
Captain Iris Froud and her crew aboard the Heisenberg are on a mission to test the groundbreaking Uncertainty Drive-an experimental technology that could change the future of space travel. But when they discover a derelict ship floating in the distant reaches of the solar system-one that eerily resembles their own-their routine mission takes a mind-bending turn.
The Cadaver Princess by Chuck Rothman
London, 1830. The city teems with secrets, science, and shadows—and one of those shadows just opened her eyes on an anatomist’s slab.
She says her name is Victoria. She insists she’s a princess. But she’s missing her teeth, wrapped in a burial shroud, and undeniably… dead. Or was.
Storm’s Eye by October K. Santerelli
(Originally published in 2024)
A David Brin’s Out Of Time series YA adventure:
There’s no disease, crime, or war on twenty-fourth-century Earth, and new technology allows humanity to travel across the universe. But the adults can’t go everywhere. Only the teenagers can teleport across space and time, which becomes a problem when disaster strikes, and those kids need help. Fortunately, Operation Hourglass comes to the rescue.
a teen survives a modern-day disaster only to be chosen to lead a space mission hundreds of years in the future.
Tales of Galactic Pest Control edited by David Gerrold and Tom Easton (an original anthology)
Pests are eternal. But in the future, they’re weirder—and a whole lot harder to kill.
In this anthology of original tales from a galaxy-spanning lineup of science fiction authors, you’ll meet bug-hunters on starships, data scrubbers fighting corrupted AIs, and janitors who clean up after cosmic catastrophes. Some fight for credits. Others for survival. A few may even side with the pests.
Contents (Note, some reprints included):
The Real Trouble With Tribbles by David Gerrold
The Legacy by Peter J. Carter
Under Attack by Tom Easton
Infestation by Jay Werkheiser
Trouble Unalloyed by Steven H Silver
The Rattler by Leonid Kaganov
Flies by Nicola Lombardi
Mop-Wielding Hero Of The Eight-Legged Apocalypse by Jenny Perry Carr
Captain Future And The Sand Fleas Of Mars by Allen M. Steele
mutANTS by Stephen L. Antczak
Strange Navigators by Matt Thompson
Det-415 by Jeff Parsons
The Earworm by S. E. M. Ishida
The Gnurrs Come From The Voodvork Out by Reginald Bretnor
Star Sweepers by Dana Gricken
Practical Experience by Ryk E. Spoor
The Trouble With Sprats by Sarah Arnette
Fluff Cycle by Nissa Harlow
Rats by Sarah Smith
White Flag by Brian K. Lowe
Acme Pest Control by Stephen W. Chappell
Love And Death In The American Bedbug by Marleen S. Barr
An Infestation Of Elliotts by Galen Gower
Mad City Blues by A. L. Sirois
Tribbulations by Liam Hogan
Girls Night Out by Henry Herz
Infestation: White House by Ian Randal Strock
Of Mites And Men by Lauren Taylor Bak
Fourteen More To Go by John Leahy
Tangle Of Brilliance by Charles Barouch
In Search Of The Pest by Dave Creek
In The Slime Of Life by Edward M. Lerner
Agenda Item B: Pest Control by Matt Rouse
Amazing Stories Best of 2024 edited by Lloyd Penney
While the content is ineligible, its editor is certainly eligible.
Art
Our cover artists for the year are:
Ron Miller
Bob Eggleton
Kermit Woodall
Other Categories
Our website and our contributors are also worthy of consideration for additional categories.
Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories.
Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
