Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Story Sunday

The Alphas of Minor Consequence

Ryo Whitefish fishes a depleted stretch, resents the system that fixed his life in place, and risks everything on illegal runs to Minor Consequence, a correctional moon where the descendants ...

by Litro Magazine • 7th June 20267th June 2026

Arts & Culture, Books, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: A SUPERIOR SPECTRE

Angela Meyer’s A Superior Spectre reviewed

by kiran bhat • 17th September 202118th September 2021

Digital Subscription, Fiction, Litro #137: Future Fashions, Technology

From Sri Lanka… With Love

I’d gone to bed in Hong Kong. A night full of regrets. And a do-not-disturb sign left swinging grimly from my hotel room door-knob like the newly hoisted frame of ...

by waleo • 21st February 201715th January 2026

Fiction, Litro #140: Diaries

What Good Looks Like

The school of the future.

by JMitch • 20th February 201511th March 2015

Fiction

Future Fashions: Grakelle

“We hated the ever-changing fashion trends. This was why it was so galling that some of us had to work to provide fashion items for the Ellanois. No one took ...

by LauraKirkbride • 19th September 201419th September 2014

Fiction

Future Fashions: What Will the Future Look Like

“Three months before Futurecon 2022, its organisers contacted me. They commissioned me to write a short story.”

by AidenClarkson • 17th September 201424th September 2014

Litro #137: Future Fashions, Travel&Lifestyle

Imagining the Future

Film fashions have boldly gone where no-one has gone before.

by csmithbfi • 13th September 201413th September 2014

Fiction, Litro #137: Future Fashions

Catwalk

A model finds her moment in the spotlight.

by IvorHartmann • 13th September 201414th September 2014

Fiction, Litro #137: Future Fashions

The Path

An exclusive excerpt from forthcoming novel The Chronicles of Zauba’ah.

by tosincoker • 13th September 2014

Fiction, Litro #137: Future Fashions

Baby Lon and Imp9000 go to Market

Teenage rebellion in a genetically-modified future.

by efetokunbo • 13th September 201413th September 2014

Travel&Lifestyle

So Long, and Thanks for All the Washing Up

Tomorrow is May 25th, otherwise known as Towel Day: a chance to celebrate the life of Douglas Adams. Here, Jon Canter, who knew Adams better than most (they were flatmates), ...

by JonCanter • 24th May 201425th May 2014

Arts & Culture

Feature Film: Under the Skin

Jonathan Glazer’s low budget Sci-Fi, with the allure of Scarlett Johansson and pudgy Glaswegians, is an incredibly daring and unusual film.

by Amy Howerska • 17th March 201418th March 2014

Fiction, Litro Book Club

The Sacred Pond

An exclusive short story by Naomi Foyle, set in the world of her latest novel and our current Book Club pick: Astra.

by nfoyle • 20th February 201420th February 2014

Litro Book Club

Writing with Green Ink and Peanut Butter: SF and Astra

Naomi Foyle discusses the decisions behind her second Science Fiction novel – our current Book Club pick, Astra – and her unlikely move from poetry to SF.

by nfoyle • 13th February 201411th February 2014

Interviews, Litro Book Club

Q&A: Naomi Foyle on Astra: Book One of The Gaia Chronicles

Naomi Foyle – author of Litro’s current Book Club pick, the engaging Astra: Book One of The Gaia Chronicles – tells us about female and teen sexuality in the novel, ...

by eric-akoto • 12th February 201412th February 2014

Interviews

One Man’s Dystopia: an Interview with Wayne Simmons

I had a very clear idea of the world in my mind and, in a way, that gave birth to the characters who in turn gave birth to the story. ...

by dancoxon • 11th December 201311th December 2013

Fiction

Dystopia: Summerblind

“The mouths of the Summerblind twitched at the edges. They smacked their lips and rolled their tongues until they found words. Their murmurs drifted out of alleys and doorways and ...

by agroux • 9th December 20138th December 2013

Travel&Lifestyle

Blade Runner: Misery-fest or Masterpiece?

“When it all boils down, the most perfect example of dystopia, for me, is not to be found in literature, it’s to be found in film. One particular film, in ...

by wsimmons • 30th November 20138th December 2013

Travel&Lifestyle

Orphaned – Sketches from Dystopia

“Dystopia is slower, less pronounced. Things spoil and curdle, the norms change, and what we expect from the world morphs into something new, where the expectations about our quality of ...

by bentanzer • 23rd November 201320th February 2014

Technology, Travel&Lifestyle

Doctor Who: The Curse of the Celery

Confessed Whovian Tim Brook recalls a fascination with Peter Davison’s stick of celery on the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

by TimBrook • 23rd November 201315th January 2026