Steven Barnes Lightspeed 2016 Novelette SF 11,319 words details

The end of the world starts when an ambitious marketing guy gets a cryptic assignment to create an ad campaign to "make ugly sexy."

First ContactColonialismSardonic

Larry Niven & Steven Barnes Analog 2022 ShortStory SF Mystery 7,359 words details

"Taffy’s bedroom was a bit too warm, but I sensed that the chamber itself was cold. Couldn’t feel it of course. It was just a projection from Geneva. And it was probable that none of the people I faced were really at ARM’s Geneva facility at all. The...

Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due Apex 2019 ShortStory Horror 5,501 words details

As Charlotte’s husband sinks into early Alzheimer’s, he becomes more and more obsessed with a cult religious figure known only as The Reverend.

Psychological HorrorRacismDread