The Syllble Star is our publishing imprint. We publish captivating science fiction and fantasy stories in unique worlds that are collaboratively produced by diverse groups of writers and creators from around the world.
The Syllble Star is committed to publishing high-quality, innovative, and diverse science fiction and fantasy works. We believe that science fiction and fantasy are powerful tools for exploring new ideas, imagining new possibilities, and creating new worlds. We are excited to share the work of our talented authors and creators with the world.
Syllble Star Magazine is our online magazine of science fiction and fantasy worlds that features stories, essays, poetry, and an Afrofuture corner.
The Syllble Star imprint publishes stories, collaborative novels called micro-novels and experimental works across fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
MAY/JUNE 2023
Read The First Issue Of The Syllble Star: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy Worlds
EDITORIAL
Can Storytelling Be Saved? By Fabrice Guerrier
Cover Art by Dwight Torlay
TWO WORLDS
Parallelia World
Micha By Marsha Clarke
Sabebel By Brynn Yoder
Neptune World
Leaving the Surface of the Earth By Tim Malachy
Blessing of the Sea Hag By Giselle Bodden
STAR PROFILE
Meet Award Winning Science Fiction And Fantasy Writer Nisi Shawls
THE AFROFUTURE CORNER
How Science Fiction Inspired A Black Scientist By Dr. Teman Cooke
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Earth Raiders: A Collaborative Novel
September 2022, Syllble Star Imprint, 126 Pages
Earth Raiders is a dystopian science fiction thriller, set in the year of 2087.
When a series of natural disasters in the not-too distant future causes havoc on Earth, displacing countless millions of people, it seems like the end has come. But human beings have always found a way to survive and thrive, even on a dying planet.
Years after the disasters that brought humanity to the brink, a new group has emerged. The Earthbound have discovered a way to live in harmony with the planet once again and, led by the courageous Micha, they follow his vision of the future, maintaining a primal and spiritual connection to the Earth and restoring some of the land.
But the Earthbound aren’t the only humans to have survived. The Silicons have also made it and their ideas are quite different, driven by powerful and greedy technology companies who have a metaversal vision of the future.
Within this post-apocalyptic world, where the Silicon Raiders seek to digitize people’s bodies and turn them into automatons, Micha knows that the time has come to make a stand against them if he wants to save his people and the entire planet.
But can the Earthbound stand strong against the power they face? And is it possible that those whose bodies have already been digitized can be saved? Micha hopes so but time could be running out.
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At The Helm: a micro-novel by Julia Bingham, Brigitte Cutshall, Dora Hartmann, Micheal Sirjue and Rob Thompson
In this science fiction thriller we enter a world where the Singularity is arriving. Neural brain technologies are evolving at a rapid rate. A hacker gains the power to hack the brain-machine interfaces. We follow the lives of four characters. Each on a unique path in their pursuit of truth and discovery.
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From Without So Within by DA Clark
To be free is to have another government: another authority, an authority that wants you to meet your potential. In From Without So Within, Yvonne wants her dystopian society to meet their potential and she is dedicated to showing them where it is. Yvonne explores what it means to grow up in a society that divides people based on race into either Pandemonium or Euphoria and what happens when you cannot be divided. Yvonne also examines the influence that our environment can have on our mental health. Through self-discovery, love and rebellion Yvonne takes on a new sense of what it means to be Panduphorian. Once Yvonne takes on her own sense of who she is, she begins a mission to show each world what the other is like and dares them to imagine a world that is without the authorities, a world that is unified and one.
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Aminah In Nicaragua by Aminah Merriweather and Mone Gonzalez
In this mother and daughter creative collaboration explore Aminah’s adventures in Nicaragua and why traveling to other cultures creates meaning, greater understanding and self-discovery.
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Golden Veins: Collection of Short Stories by Fabrice Guerrier
When we are faced with choices in life, sometimes we do the right thing and sometimes we do the wrong thing. We face loss like we face danger and we accept what happens always with some degree of fortitude. Whether it is our own impending death or the death of someone close, a fight to save honor or just to survive, everything we do has its own consequence.
Imagine a world where humans are drugged through the water they drink in order to pacify them. Would you adhere to the control for a more peaceful life, or rise against it?
What lengths would you go to in order to escape the racism of the 1940’s south? What dangers would you be prepared to face? Could you really change deep seated opinions and beliefs?
These stories and others are explored in Golden Veins, a collection of 10 short stories that indulge in several genres, from sci-fi and fantasy to magical realism and horror.
Each tale carries themes such as slavery and morality that are set to challenge your thinking and opinions in ways that may surprise you, often giving a different slant on how huge historical events affect the humblest of lives or simply how one person deals with the particular hand that has been dealt.
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Rooted In Time: a micro-novel by Taiwo Adesina, S.A. Borders-Shoemaker and Zeljana Varga
In this female-driven cast of characters, what begins as an extraordinary opportunity for Harper, a Ph.D. Candidate, to research WWI in the Balkans through time-travel becomes a dangerous battleground. Assisted by the solitary doctor, Tori, and the prestigious researcher, Edith Strand, Harper must think on her feet to find a way home. And avoid being murdered in the process.
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The Conscious Objection: a micro-novel by S.A. Borders-Shoemaker and David Newstead
Life inside the Bureau is safe, secure, and prosperous, an achievement Charles R. Bloomington is proud of and seeks to protect. Yet, not everyone sees it in an ideal light. Born inside of the Bureau, Eleana longs for a life of difference and struggles with the values of bodily and mental perfection imposed on the population. Her rebellious inclinations produce one successful escape; only to be later recaptured and brought back. As Charles seeks to effectively treat her symptomatic disdain for authority and return her to the fold as a fully functioning citizen, Eleana plots an unconventional uprising to dismantle the toxic system in play. All the while, the Bureau’s higher authorities begin to perceive Eleana and her allies as existential threats. Before long, everything as Charles and Eleana know it will be flung into chaos, challenging their initial perceptions and the consequences reverberating far and wide.
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Out of Control: a micro-novel by Brian Russell & David Russell
Two companies race to create a controller that converts any car into a self-driving vehicle and earn millions from major automakers. Lead software developers Hera Lanz and Tom Brand from the crosstown rivals are under enormous pressure to be the first to market at any cost. Their battle spills out from cyberspace onto the streets of Miami in this high-stakes thriller.
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The Orion Paradigm: The Encounter by John Cho, Logosou Kudayah, Kat Rosemond and Micheal Sirjue
The year is 2400, humans have begun using neural implants and have long been traveling through out the solar system. Unbeknownst to them, there are advanced alien Septs from around the galaxy moderating life among the Orion. One of the oldest races, the Breen – a race long thought to have been extinct have recently made a resurgence to the Septs upon hearing of the hidden power of humans. Will the humans finally be able to make their mark within the oldest Septs? Or will they be shut down before they can disrupt the Orion Paradigm.
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Caden and the Dangerous Fools: a collaborative novel by Colin Goodwin, Roberta Novis, David Russell and Jwana Nassar
Caden is one of the fortunate ones. His career already seems to be mapped out for him. Becoming an Ambassador for the Department of Lifestyle and Wellbeing would be just the beginning. Promoting the DLW policy of mass access to the stream on their World Tour could pave the way for a prominent role within the Department. But Caden would be under intense scrutiny for him to prove his worth, especially because his Mother is the Department’s Leader. And as he struggles to learn to control his neural implant, Caden is beginning to wonder if accessing the stream is the answer to the challenges the world faces. And throughout all this, only an elderly prosthetics Doctor is encouraging Caden to follow his heart. And that soon leads to him having to choose where his loyalties lie. Set in a future world transformed by climate change, Caden needs to look inside himself for the answers, for it is when he is calm and still that things become clear….
This novel has been written with contributions from four writers. From the USA to Brazil, from Palestine to the UK, four souls so far flung they could perhaps be considered disparate. Each with a lifetime’s worth of experiences, four minds having met to pursue a common passion
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Egypt in a Cup of Tea by Fabrice Guerrier
Syllble Studios Founder, Fabrice Guerrier travelled to Egypt. In this poetry collection read his new found inspiration, meaning and life that captures his experiences. ‘Egypt in a Cup of Tea’ is a meditative exploration of self-discovery into the powers we gain in claiming the riches of our own inner-mythologies. This collection is about the experience of sight, mysticism, self-love, awakening, passion into the inner journey we must embark to reach our greatest soul purpose.
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Free Agents: Espionage On a College Campus by Vlad Edouard, Sam Luebbers and Elena Novak
Set in 1998 Washington DC and Georgetown University, former Soviet spies are left in the cold as the Kremlin fights the Russian old guard to transition from old Communism to new global capitalism. Left unaccounted for, Russian spies still on assignment must find their own way in a Washington beset by the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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Mike’s Coffee by Taiwo Adesina, Valeria Lake and Brittney Jones
Winn’s greatest battle is the one he fights between his two ears. At the center of the conflict he wages with himself is an uncertainty of who he is and what he wants.
Lonnie is strong and beautiful, but also indecisive and unaware of her own abilities. Together they find themselves facing the most important questions of their lives- should they keep an unplanned pregnancy or not?
In emotional accounts highlighted by the presence of young girl, Tyra, both Winn and Lonnie explore what it means to be young, to be loved, and to be confused. At this crossroad, they’re forced to face who they are, the circumstances that have defined them, and the choice that will transform both their lives.
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The Orion Paradigm by John cho, Gabriel P.j Graydou, Fabrice Guerrier, June Johnson, Debo Odegbile and David Russell
Explore a new evolving fictional universe and unique characters – some are human, some are earth beings, and some are aliens – in this collection of short fiction stories. The earth and its inhabitants remain an interesting anomaly from the untrained galactic visitor. They don’t adhere to the Galactic laws and regulations that all others must abide. The earliest forms of these laws and regulations have been established for several hundred thousand years. It can’t be their fault since earth creatures rarely live long enough to even consider their own existence in any serious manner. Some have pondered that their existence is nothing short of accidental, whereas others have wondered if they are not the result of some anonymous joke on the rest of the Galaxy.
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Treading Water by Josh Eiermann and David Russell
With roots in entrepreneurship David and Josh, explore the darker sides to innovation and leadership. The year is 2018, the world has been flooded and the land uninhabitable. Piza a self focused opportunist finds himself in a colony moving back underwater to reclaim the sunken city of Miami. His talents undervalued, craving more independence and financial gain, he strikes out on his own to battle through the ocean, bureaucracy, and his largest challenge, himself.
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The Wall by Fabrice Guerrier, Kevin Amaya and Paul Koch
This futuristic novella, written by a collaborative of three busy DC Washingtonians, depicts a world gone awry. In the not so distant future, a mammoth segment of the Arctic continent collapses into the ocean and devastates the Philippine islands. Sixteen year old Isabel Mendoza and her grandfather are among a handful of survivors transported to America as “Arctic Refugees.” The technologically advanced society that welcomes them claims to have eradicated all forms of social discrimination. They have done so by creating a homogenous society where everyone looks the same and erecting THE WALL, a monolithic structure that protects its borders from outsiders. In a shocking climax, the refugees are attacked by rampaging robots and drones.
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Collection of Collaboratively Written Short Stories By Logan Akinmade, Fabrice Guerrier, David Russell, Yanelis Valdes, Bolton Smith, Jwana Nassar
This collection is something new built out of a process to bring more opportunities that can empower all writers of the future. This is the inaugural collection of short fiction stories that have been fully collaborated through many authors.
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