More of the Best Indie SFF of 2021

This is an anthology of short stories written entirely by authors of color and featuring diverse characters in coming-of-age YA adventures centered around magic and self-discovery.

This newly published box set contains the novels The Black Parade, She Who Fights Monsters, and The Holy Dark, chronicling the adventures of seer and demon-slayer Jordan Amador and her partner (and lover) Michael as they combat archdemons, ghosts, and any other supernatural baddy who would like to cause hell on Earth.

Jackson Prdye has never been good with actually casting spells, so he’s turned his magic instead to creating enchanted devices as an artificer. But his nextdoor neighbor, Xander Wright, is a pretentious jerk–and worse, an actually good mage–who constantly clashes with him over all the noise. These neighborhood enemies are forced to team up with a strange fever starts tearing through their community, driving mages into murderous rages.

This is a collection of 48 pieces of speculative prose poetry and micro-lit, 22 of which are brand new and never before published. This collection also includes 35 illustrations from Elena Betti.

An anthology of 19 stories by Black speculative fiction authors, this imagines a future where the Singularity is freed from its Eurocentric shackles. Authors in the anthology include Eugen Bacon, Zig Zag Clayborne, Kyoko M, Violette Meier, and more!

At the age of six, Carmen Grey was taken away from her family by three men in black and brought to an underground facility that housed those like her–Clairvoyants. Those who run the facility strip away her identity and carefully train her into a weapon that they aim at their enemies.

The Kingdom of Aves is an oligarchy where most of the bird clans follow the phoenix goddess who united them, and the Order governs the churches and therefore the lives of the people. After successfully solving one mystery, Hawk Prentice Tasifa returns to her university to find a sacred relic has been stolen from the Museum of the Goddess–and her mentor is being framed for the crime. With the Order breathing down her neck, Prentice is on a short timetable to solve this mystery… but all is not as it seems.

For generations the Massey family has lived in the same house, on land that’s belonged to them for even longer. It’s a place where everyone comes for fun in the summer, a place of fun and games. And in the winter? The children have to train for their turn to fight what lives in the basement. No child knows what they will be facing down there–it’s a secret–but winning that battle every solstice is what makes the house the warm, beautiful place it is every other day. But this year something is wrong…

College students Evan and Matt (and Evan’s sister Kate, who’s always been responsible for keeping him in one piece) decide to go spelunking during a holiday in Belgium, and that desire takes them to an unexplored cave in the Ardennes. What they find is a portal to another world, and across its threshold could wait adventure… or death.

Persephone (yes, that Persephone, the queen of the Underworld) finds her mother in the ruins of the forest, having been driven mad by some unknown force. Demeter’s madness manifests widespread death and destruction in the world, and Persephone has little time to stop the destruction before it will be too late. She must either save her mother by delving painfully into her own past… or save the world by committing the ultimate crime.