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Discover imaginative New Worlds of Tomorrow. Discover the new visionaries of imagination.

“The Writers of the Future Contest always finds great stories by the new writers who will be winning Hugo and Nebula awards a few years from now.” —Tim Powers

Featuring 24 Award-winning Short Stories and Illustrations

Essays on writing and illustration by L. Ron Hubbard, Robert Silverberg, and Ron Lindahn

Edited by K.D. Wentworth

Cover art by Stephan Martiniere

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 25 contents:

Introduction by K.D. Wentworth

“Garden of Tian Zi” by Emery Huang
Illustrated by Douglas Bosley

“The Shadow Man” by Donald Mead
Illustrated by Brianne Hills

“Life in Steam” by Grá Linnaea
Illustrated by Ryan Behrens

“On Writing and Science Fiction” by L. Ron Hubbard

“The Assignment of Runner ETI” by Fiona Lehn
Illustrated by A.R. Stone

“The Candy Store” by Heather McDougal
Illustrated by Jamie Luhn

“Risqueman” by Mike Wood
Illustrated by Evan Jensen

“Writers of the Future” by Robert Silverberg

“Gray Queen Homecoming” by Schon M. Zwakman
Illustrated by Tobias A. Fruge

“The Dizzy Bridge” by Krista Hoeppner Leahy
Illustrated by Aaron Anderson

“Gone Black” by Matthew S. Rotundo
Illustrated by Luke Eidenschink

“Persistence of Vision” by Ron Lindahn

“The Reflection of Memory” by C.L. Holland
Illustrated by Oleksandra Barysheva

“After the Final Sunset, Again” by Jordan Lapp
Illustrated by Joshua J. Stewart

“The Farthest Born” by Gary Kloster
Illustrated by Mark Payton

The Year in the Contests

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For over three decades, L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests have discovered and nurtured the new stars of science fiction and fantasy, publishing their works and artwork in the annual

For over three decades, L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers & Illustrators of the Future Contests have discovered and nurtured the new stars of science fiction and fantasy, publishing their works and artwork in the annual anthology.