The story centers on soldier-for-hire Asala Sikou, who’s more worried about taking care of number one than she is about the imminent death of her star system.

One of my favorite recent space operas is The Vela, a Serial Box original written by powerhouse team Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, and SL Huang. This fast-paced fantasy has all the right cliff-hangers to keep you waiting for the next episode. As the story that launched Skovoron’s “Empire of Storms” series, the novel introduces warrior Hope and thief Red, who must team up to take down a corrupt empire. Jon Skovoron’s Hope and Red was originally published in 2016, but the author is back with a serialized version-delivered straight to your podcasting app, narrated by the author. Take a peek at what’s new and what’s ongoing! While the science fiction and fantasy genres have the lead as far as the number of individual serials available for purchase, the serial format has always included realistic fiction and intrigue, as well as expanding into erotic novels. Whatever you enjoy reading, there’s a serial for you to enjoy.įind out more about where you can read online serial fiction here.

Kuili’s Eden Can Wait, or Casey Lucas’s Into the Mire), your favorite comics or television characters in prose ( Marvel’s Black Panther: Sins of the Kingand Doctor Who), and illustrated ( Twice) or audio only ( Hope and Red) fantasies. These stories span genres, including near futuristic sci fi (The Vela or Machina), urban fantasy (Ilona Andrews’s “Innkeeper Chronicles”), heart-pounding stories that will keep you guessing (C. Some feature added features like music or illustrations, making use of transmedia opportunities made possible in the digital world.

Others are developed in a television-style writer’s room. Some rely on a single author who publishes their novel bit by bit, keeping readers hooked. Modern serials make use of both styles of writing. The digital medium is perfect for publishing stories as episodes, and modern readers who are used to receiving stories in an episodic format, thanks to television, may appreciate the medium in a more nuanced way than their historical predecessors. But if that’s true, right now might just be the platinum age of serial fiction. If there was a golden age of serial fiction, it might have been the era when Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mark Twain were publishing their stories-in-installments in print periodicals, with their readers desperately waiting for the next part of the tale.

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