#sciencefantasy

Francisco Lemoslemos@dice.camp
2026-03-01

This bioengineered soldier has a tactical advantage: can take parts of himself—the potatoes in his head—and throw them behind enemy lines, so they scream, revealing their positions.
Just one of the many uses of its detachable parts.

#worldbuilding #ttrpg #illustration #osr #scifi #art #mastoart #drawing #draw #comics #comic #artwork #characterdesign #sciencefiction #sciencefantasy #monster #nsr #ttrpgart #illustrator

Drawing of a strange creature bio-mechanical wearing medieval-fantasy style armor and bow. Strange potato-like fruits in a bowl instead of head, and its holding one of them, it has a face.
Owen TymeOwenTyme
2026-02-27

Ebook and paperback: books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon

On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links the full moon and catastrophe, revealing the existence of the so-called ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures from the moon that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they become part of the dark harvest?

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(Left) The cover of dark moon, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

In the foreground, a redheaded witch and a dark haired wizard fight back to back, holding some rather large pistols.  The witch is in a black dress and the wizard is in a black robe with golden decorations.  Both looked a bit purple, due to the lighting.  The witch's hair blows on the wind and she wears a necklace of bone beads.

Behind them, there's dust, mist and fog lit by twilight as a moon rises, framing their heads.  Objects that look like shooting stars fall from the moon and there's a few visible impacts.

(Right) A white moon, on a background of the stars of space, with the following quote over the top of it:

“Idiot! You’ve likely killed us both, leaving us stuck out in the open like this.”

“We’ve got incoming. I know you’re angry and I suppose you’ve got every right to be, but we need to defend ourselves.”

“ ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’, for now, and then we decide what to do about the conflict between us.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon
Beneath Ceaseless Skiesbcsmagazine
2026-02-26

BCS #451, second double-issue for Science-Fantasy Month 8:

Bonus stories by Megan Chee and Leah Ning live today, alongside @aimeeogden and Melanie Mulrooney and Ogden podcast, behind cover art by Tyler Edlin.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skiesbcsmagazine
2026-02-25

BCS #452 Science-Fantasy Month 8 double issue ebook out early @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, w both parts of novella by @jasonsanford and story by J.W. Halicks.

(Buying BCS ebooks or ebook subscription gets you BCS stories a week early--in this case, both parts of a novella two weeks early--and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium. Thank you!)

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Owen TymeOwenTyme
2026-02-25

Ebook and paperback: books2read.com/TheThirdWish

Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, to improve their place in history, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?

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(Left) The cover of The Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery.  In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes.

In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible.

(Right Background) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them.  She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center.

The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown.  She has dark eyebrows and blond hair.

Upper right is a planet seen from orbit.

Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow.

Lower right is dandelions among grass.

The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve.

(Right Foreground) The following quote:

He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards!

He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage!

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish
Beneath Ceaseless Skiesbcsmagazine
2026-02-24

Live in BCS #451 Science-Fantasy Month 8: "Bloom Where You Are Planted" by Melanie Mulrooney.

"A couple weeks later, I felt my first flower pulsing just below the surface of my chest. The tingle of energy was like electricity—an awakening, a definition of alive I hadn’t expected. I prayed to the Goddess that I would not turn into one of the rose girls, destined to be put on display. Not a rose, not a rose, not a rose."

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Beneath Ceaseless Skiesbcsmagazine
2026-02-24

Live in BCS #451 Science-Fantasy Month 8 and podcast BCS 358: "Hollow in The Hope" by @aimeeogden ; podcast guest-narrated by @tinaconnolly .

"Sel stares at the imprint. She stares back—unblinking, unmoved, unalive—until Sel can’t bear the silence provoked by this stubborn algorithm for a moment longer. They roll away. “Hopeless,” they say. “I don’t even dare hope for a better father.”"

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Owen TymeOwenTyme
2026-02-23

Ebook and paperback: books2read.com/ForgottenLegends

In a time when science and reason have largely displaced myth and legend, humans stumble on a mysterious space station in unexplored space. Inadvertently angering the ancient, forgotten gods and monsters living inside, war between mankind and the abandoned legends begins, with the fate of the entire galaxy at stake!

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(Left) The cover of Forgotten Legends, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

The covers shows a child in bed, reading a book, while a black, misty, red-eyed monsters lurks under his bed.

The blanket of the bed is made of squares in yellow, red, and two shades of blue, depicting the sun.  The rug on the floor is blue and has toys scattered on it.  The bed's frame is bright red.

The dresser beside the bed has been painted to display a cross-section of a dwarf mine, with the bottom of the four drawers appearing as the interior, the next layer as the surface, the third layer shows white clouds on blue sky and the top layer is the stars of space.  On top of the dresser is a model of a space station that resembles a twenty-sided polygon, which has a light mounted inside the open docking bay, effectively turning the model into a lampshade.

The wall and floor are wood.  The corner of a window is visible above the dresser.

(Right) Many dark-colored flying saucers float in space, near a white star that dominates the background.  The following quote is displayed over the scene:

War trembled in rage, ranting, “Do you not know the indignities they’ve forced on me? They put me in a dress! With sequins!”

“They forced the incarnation of War to sit quietly in the corner, all dressed up, while they talked peace!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/ForgottenLegends
Francisco Lemoslemos@dice.camp
2026-02-21

Another of these bio-robotic creatures.
I wonder why they seem stuck with primitive technology, some taboo? Religion?

#worldbuilding #osr #illustration #ttrpg #comics #comic #ttrpg #artwork #art #mastoart #characterdesign #drawing #draw #dnd #dungeonsAndDragons #scifi #sciencefiction #sciencefantasy #npc

Drawing of a bio-robot with four arms and a huge head fuse with the chest, holding a halberd. A basket fill with roots hangs from its belt.
Owen TymeOwenTyme
2026-02-20

Ebook and paperback: books2read.com/TrollSong

Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?

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(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face.  Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) The background is a snow-covered forest, with a pair of dark silhouettes in it, one small and the other large, like a giant.  The smaller silhouette is of a young woman walking away and the interior is filled with musical symbols, in green, white and two shades of blue.  The larger silhouette is a woman wielding two swords and the interior is full of blood spatter.  The larger one appears to be chasing the smaller one.

The following text is laid over the scene: 

“I can’t die until Lyra takes her last breath! She’ll regret betraying her sisters!”

“There’s no price I won’t pay to see that happen, no pain I won’t endure and I’d sacrifice the whole world to seal her fate!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TrollSong
Francisco Lemoslemos@dice.camp
2026-02-20

BIO+ROBOT+KNIGHT
Feeling the itch to craft a setting around these kinds of beings. Post‑humanism in a dystopian, far-future middle-agey world.

#worldbuilding #osr #illustration #ttrpg #comics #art #mastoart #artwork #characterdesign #rpg #ttrpgart #sciencefantasy #scifi #drawing #draw #artist #comic #concept #sciencefiction #illustrator

Drawing of a bio robot holding an axe, wearing a ragged cape and backpack, and a human mask on its head.
Beneath Ceaseless Skiesbcsmagazine
2026-02-19

New Issue: BCS #451, second of three double-issues for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8!

Science-fantasy stories by @aimeeogden and Melanie Mulrooney today, by Megan Chee and Leah Ning next week (but available in the ebook now), Ogden podcast guest-narrated by @tinaconnolly , science-fantasy cover art by Tyler Edlin.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skiesbcsmagazine
2026-02-19

Live in BCS #451 Science-Fantasy Month 8 & podcast BCS 358 (guest-narrated by @tinaconnolly): "Hollow in The Hope" by @aimeeogden .

"For whatever time they have left, they will have to make their own companionship. They should use those hours wisely, and not in seeking counsel—or worse, comfort—from a woman long dead. “I accept the warning,” Sel says. They need someone to talk to. Someone who might understand. “Proceed.”"

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Owen TymeOwenTyme
2026-02-18

Ebook and paperback: books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics and piloting it gave her. She’s left unable to plot a direct course home. She’s desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever and The Book is in her way…

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(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme.

The black silhouette of a man and woman embracing.  They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side.  The background is the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heart shape that surrounds the couple.  Everything is in shades of blue.

(Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color.  Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover.  Over the top of everything is the following text:

“You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…”

“No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon
Marcus Whitnellmarcuswhitnell
2026-02-17

Hi all, this is a final shout and last chance to grab First Among Equals for 99p

Sending a huge thanks to everyone who's jumped in on the Ghost in the Machine and First Among Equals promotions! As an indie author, your support is very much appreciated

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Beneath Ceaseless Skiesbcsmagazine
2026-02-17

Live in BCS #450 Science-Fantasy Month 8: "Like Thorns on Her Tongue" by @rhiannonheld (sequel to a story in BCS #350).

"No, she’d learned to keep acting in the midst of such spiraling thoughts. A couple of her backup knives were in her bike saddlebag—and her family laughed at her for having so many! Trist made it to her feet and grabbed up the bag. The screams must have come from Maya, up at the orchard."

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Beneath Ceaseless Skiesbcsmagazine
2026-02-16

BCS Archives: "Only the Messenger" Emily C Skaftun in BCS #299 Science-Fantasy Month 5, same world as “A Dirge for the Mirrorbirds” in BCS #450 now.

"She walks toward me on her hind legs, unsteadily, other limbs wiggling awkwardly, and it occurs to me that not only is this the first time I’ve seen her navigate in gravity, it also looks like the first time she’s ever tried it. Or at least the first time in her current form."

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Owen TymeOwenTyme
2026-02-16

Ebook and paperback: books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts

The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…

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(Left) The cover of Legacy of Newts, by Owen Tyme.

In the background dawn, as seen from space, above a blue world.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white.  The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out.  The interior of the line drawing has been filled with the image of a spiral galaxy in red, orange and yellow, with a blue color that shades to white at the center, which lines up with the newt's head.  The galaxy almost looks like fire.

(Right) The background is a blue and orange nebula, with the following text over it:

“You gotta be real strong, real bright, real quick, or real lucky to survive drawing *attention*. Which are you?”

“I’m quick, Amelia is bright, Marta is strong and all three of us have been lucky, after a fashion: if we didn’t have bad luck, then I suppose we wouldn’t have any luck at all.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts

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