Publication date: Spring 2026

Shatter the Sun: Queer Tales of Untold Adventure will be an anthology of pulp heroism in conversation with Samuel R. Delany's Nevèrÿon, Conan and Red Sonja, Imaro and Xena. It will join the shelf beside previous anthologies from editor dave ring and press Neon Hemlock, including Glitter + Ashes, Unfettered Hexes, Luminescent Machinations and, most recently, The Crawling Moon. 

Join us for stories of queer heroes forged and tempered in the fire, fighting dark stars and bright suns, and overthrowing tyranny in all its forms. These tales will invoke swords and sorcery, sweat and sandals, souls and stars. 

• “Return to Sundra” by Elwin Cotman

• “The Butcher of Zed” by Eboni Dunbar

• “Eternal Conquest” by Elly Bangs

• “The Storm's Gift” by Elizabeth Birdsall

• “The White Spire at World's End” by S. A. Chant

• “Ideos Wolf-Footed in the City of Twin Gods” by Robin Duncan

• “The Peacock Wizard and the Cave of the Busty Snake Ladies” by Elias Eells

• “We Are Legend” by LP Kindred

• “Last Bond of the Star-Knife” by Jon Negroni

• “Even Against the Sun” by Hanna A. Nirav

• “One Man's Poison” by Anya Ow

• “Yolk-Wet in the Veld” by Lowry Poletti

• “Beneath the Maggot Star” by Josh Reynolds

• “The Spider-God's Boon” by D.A. Straith

• “Blood of the Godskin” by AP Thayer

• “We Gaze Upon Her With No Eyes” by Kat Weaver & Faye Gabriel

• “The Nature of the Sword” by Jay Wolf

as well as

• the comic “Shattered” by Dante Luiz

• poems by L.X. Beckett

• the solo role-playing game “Beneath His Coils We Bask” by Sharang Biswas

• illustrations by Matthew Spencer

PRAISE

TBA