The U.S. government has been overthrown! After a near-miss of a giant comet, the American people fall under the control of a radical right-wing fundamentalist Christian government, ruled by the Grand Patriarchs, that slowly strips away their freedoms and establishes a rule of law that even Hitler couldn't have dreamed up. Forced into virtual seclusion, Edward Silverberg, a former professor, finds himself on a path that will lead to either his destruction, or the destruction of the Grand Patriarchs...or maybe both.

Crime has always been with us, and probably always will. Future Syndicate looks at what crime might be, and what criminals might be like in the future.

The September 2016 issue of The Fifth Di... features fiction from Robert N. Stephenson, G. O. Clark, Rik Hunik, and Rick Novy. A woman trapped on a conquered planet spends her days harvesting human blood for her alien conquerors, plotting her escape and eventual revenge. An astronaut goes back in time, and hopes to leave his mark on the future. An acid induced parlor trick leads to the creation of living origami goats that eat paper and become a menace...but not as big of a menace as the predator that's created to take care of the goats. And finally, a man becomes a butler for an eccentric...

The Martian Wave: 2016 brings you stories and poems that look at humanity's exploration and colonization of space, with a special emphasis on our solar system. You'll find fiction from E. M. Eastick, Samuel Van Pelt, Lars H. Hoffmann, Francis W. Alexander, Robert N. Stephenson, Guy Stewart, GC Rosenquist, and Benjamin Cooper. You'll also find poetry from David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Christina Sng, Shelly Bryant, Lisa Timpf, and M. C. Childs. Some of what you read will leave you optimistic about our futures, while other stories and poems may leave you doubting our future, but no matter what, The...

The December 2016 issue of The Fifth Di... brings you fiction by Chris Dean, Samuel Van Pelt, Brian "flesheater" Stoneking, and Douglas Kolacki. In this issue, you'll find a doctor who manages to improve humanity by changing it, but is change always a good thing? A man whose sole purpose in life is to help people understand that they're being replaced by robots. A killing machine that's determined to spread destruction thoughout the galaxy. And a man who finds he might actually get a second chance...

Nomadic Delirium and Alban Lake, both publishers of science fiction and fantasy, and all points in between, have collaborated to bring you the very best of what they published in 2015. The selections within come from The Martian Wave and The Fifth Di..., and from Outposts of Beyond and FrostFire Worlds. Their settings might be an inner planet or a world-that-might-be. Their themes are universal, involving choices we all have to make at one point or another in our lives. This is science fiction and fantasy literature at its finest. This is the first anthology of its kind; it won't be the last....

The March 2017 issue of The Fifth Di... starts yet another year of wonderful science fiction and fantasy fiction. This issue brings you fiction from Daniel C. Smith, Melanie Rees, Kate Runnels, and Eamonn Murphy. These stories will have you questioning reality, questioning what's right and wrong in the world, and maybe even questioning what we should tolerate as the world changes around us.

More than a decade ago, Sam's Dot Publishing released a small anthology titled Ecotastrophe that looked at the dangers posed by global climate change. Now, the planet seems in even greater peril, and maybe we are facing Ecotastrophe, but is there time to save ourselves. Ecotastrophe II features startling fiction from Tyree Campbell, Dan Rice, Melanie Rees, Robert J. Mendenhall, Gustavo Bondoni, and Mike Adamson.