Step into the extraordinary with L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 41—an anthology that promises the unexpected, the thought-provoking, and the unforgettable. Celebrating the best new voices in speculative fiction, this collection offers gripping tales of science fiction, fantasy, and beyond.
Discover Distant Worlds
Explore alien landscapes, futuristic technologies, and hidden realms. From time-traveling adventures to battles for survival in dystopian societies, these stories transport you far beyond the limits of imagination.
Meet Extraordinary Heroes
Follow protagonists who face impossible odds—from a young constable on a harsh alien frontier to a reclusive writer sharing a ride with a sentient car. These characters redefine courage, resilience, and what it means to be human.
Experience Visual Wonder
Every story is brought to life with breathtaking original illustrations. These commissioned works add depth, color, and vibrancy to the collection, making it a visual and literary masterpiece.
Learn from the Legends
Gain inspiration from essays by L. Ron Hubbard, Robert J. Sawyer, and Tom Wood, offering rare insights into storytelling and creative mastery.
Discover Tomorrow's Stars
This volume continues the legacy of Writers of the Future, the competition that has launched myriad bestselling authors. These rising talents are reshaping speculative fiction as we know it.
Whether you love heart-pounding action, thought-provoking “what ifs,” or stories that blur the line between science and magic, Volume 41 is your gateway to new dimensions. With tales and illustrations that linger long after the final page, this anthology invites you to take the leap into worlds uncharted.
Push Beyond the Ordinary. Explore the Extraordinary.
Grab your copy of L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 41 and discover the next generation of visionary storytellers and artists.
With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.Then too, of course, there is all L. Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in the 20th century. Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.Since 1987 she has published over 40 books and more than 120 short stories. Among the novels Nye has written are her epic fantasy series The Dreamland, beginning with Waking In Dreamland, five contemporary humorous fantasies, Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, Higher Mythology (the three collected by Meisha Merlin Publishing as Applied Mythology), Advanced Mythology, The Magic Touch, and three medical science fiction novels, Taylor’s Ark, Medicine Show and The Lady and the Tiger. Strong Arm Tactics is a humorous military science fiction novel, the first of The Wolfe Pack series. Nye wrote The Dragonlover’s Guide to Pern, a non-fiction-style guide to the world of internationally bestselling author Anne McCaffrey’s popular world. She also collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on four science fiction novels, The Death of Sleep, Crisis On Doona, Treaty At Doona and The Ship Who Won, and wrote a solo sequel to The Ship Who Won entitled The Ship Errant. Nye coauthored the Visual Guide to Xanth with bestselling fantasy author Piers Anthony, and edited an anthology of humorous stories about mothers in science fiction, fantasy, myth and legend, entitled Don’t Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear! She wrote eight books with the late Robert Lynn Asprin, License Invoked, a contemporary fantasy set in New Orleans, and seven set in Asprin’s Myth Adventures universe: Myth-Told Tales (anthology), Myth Alliances, Myth-Taken Identity, Class Dis-Mythed, Myth-Gotten Gains, Myth Chief, and Myth-Fortunes. After Asprin’s passing, she published Myth-Quoted and Dragons Deal (Ace Books), third in Asprin’s Dragons series.Her latest books are View From the Imperium (Baen Books), a humorous military SF novel, an e-collection of cat stories, Cats Triumphant (Event Horizon), Dragons Run (fourth in the Dragons series) and Launch Pad, an anthology of science fiction stories co-edited with Mike Brotherton.Over the last twenty or so years, Jody Lynn Nye has taught numerous writing workshops and participated on hundreds of panels covering the subjects of writing and being published at science-fiction conventions. She has spoken in schools and libraries around the north and northwest suburbs. In 2007 she taught fantasy writing at Columbia College Chicago. She also runs the two-day writers workshop at Dragon Con.She lives in the northwest suburbs of Atlanta, with her husband Bill Fawcett, a writer, game designer, military historian and book packager, and a black cat, Jeremy.Jody Lynn Nye became a Writers of the Future judge in 2016. Tim Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, on Leap Year Dayin 1952, but has lived in southern California since 1959. He graduated fromCalifornia State University at Fullerton with a BA in English in 1976; the sameyear saw the publication of his first two novels, The Skies Discrowned and Epitaphin Rust. Tim’s subsequent novels are TheDrawing of the Dark, The Anubis Gates(winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and the Prix Apollo), Dinner at Deviant’s Palace (winner ofthe Philip K. Dick Memorial Award), OnStranger Tides, The Stress of HerRegard, Last Call (winner of theWorld Fantasy Award), Expiration Date,Earthquake Weather, Declare (winner of the World Fantasy Award)and Three Days to Never.His most recent book is HideMe Among the Graves. The Manchester Guardian called Powers “the bestfantasy writer to appear in decades.” Tim has taught at the Clarion ScienceFiction Writers’ Workshop at Michigan State University six times and currentlyteaches the annual Writers of the Future workshop. He has been involved withthe Contest since its early years, serving as one of the instructors (alongwith Algis Budrys and Orson Scott Card) at the very first official WotFworkshop in Sag Harbor. He was formally inducted as a judge in 1993. Powerslives with his wife, Serena, in San Bernardino, California.Dr.Robert J. Sawyer, called “the dean of Canadian science fiction” by TheOttawa Citizen, has won all three of the science fiction field’s top honors forbest novel of the year, the Hugo, the Nebula and the John W. Campbell MemorialAward, as well as eleven Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (Auroras).The ABC TVseries Flash Forward was based onhis novel of the same name. Maclean’s: Canada’s WeeklyNewsmagazine says,“By any reckoning, Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever.”Sawyer’s novels are top-ten mainstream bestsellers in Canada. His twenty-threenovels include Frameshift, Factoring Humanity, Calculating God, Wake and the NeanderthalParallax trilogy: Hominids, Humans, Hybrids. He’s often seenon TV, including such programs as Rivera Live with GeraldoRivera, Canada AM and Saturday Night at the Movies, andhe’s a frequent science commentator for Discovery Channel Canada, CBC Newsworldand CBC Radio. Sawyer holds an honorary doctorate from Laurentian Universityand has taught writing at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, HumberCollege, the National University of Ireland and the Banff Centre. He editsRobert J. Sawyer Books, the science fiction imprint of Red Deer Press. He wasborn in Ottawa in 1960, and now lives near Toronto with his wife, poet CarolynClink.He has served as ajudge since 2005 Australian Sean Williamsis another Contest winner turned successful author and now WotF judge. He isthe author of over one hundred published short stories and fifty novels, andhas been called many things in his time, including “the premier Australianspeculative fiction writer of the age” (Aurealis), the “Emperor of Sci-Fi”(Adelaide Advertiser), the “Lord ofthe Genre” (Perth Writers’ Festival), and the “King of Chameleons” (Australian Book Review) for thediversity of his published output. He is a multiple recipient of the Aurealisand Ditmar Awards and has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, theSeiun Award, and the William Atheling Jr. Award for criticism. He also receivedthe “SA Great” Literature Award in 2000 and the Peter McNamara Award forcontributions to Australian speculative fiction in 2008. Williams hasbeen published around the world in numerous languages, online and in spokenword editions. After winning the Writers of the Future Contest in 1992, he hasnever looked back. He is currently the bestselling science fiction writer inAustralia and is also a #1 New York Times bestseller.Williams lives with his wifeand family in Adelaide. He completed a master’s in creative writing at AdelaideUniversity in 2005 and went on to earn a Masters and PhD in Creative Writingfrom the University of Adelaide. He is a founding board member of theaward-winning Big Book Club Inc., and was recently elected to the role ofOverseas Regional Director in the SFWA. He has been a guest of all the literaryfestivals of Australian capital cities (some of them more than once) andvarious national SF conventions.Sean Williams becamea WotF judge in 2003, only ten years after becoming a Contest winner. TomWood is a fantasy art illustrator who is among the best-selling poster artistsin the US and Canada. The “Tom Wood Fantasy Art” brand has sold millions ofproducts since 2005. Tom’s creations of dragons and medieval, death-defyingwarriors have become iconic images of fantasy culture across America, Europe,and Asia. In addition as a commercial artist, Tom’s clients have includedwell-known companies: Warner Brothers, Disney, NBA, NFL, MLS, Reebok, Gatorade,and the NCAA.His formal education began atthe University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), where he was accepted on a fullacademic scholarship. His first professional work was in the screen-printingindustry, art directing many sports designs. His early career launched and grewduring the desktop revolution of the 1990s, where he quickly mastered hisdigital skills to become an art director and illustrator. This propelled hisextensive freelance career that he maintains today, with his company MeridianDesign Works Corp and Tom Wood Fantasy Art.Tom’s painstaking attentionto detail is the hallmark of his life-like images—images that do not simplytell a story, they transport one to entirely new fantastical realms. Hiscompassion and enthusiasm for the visual arts make him sought after as aspeaker. He spends much of his time outside the studio mentoring students, aswell as appearing at comic cons across the country.Tom has been an Illustratorsof the Future judge since 2021.Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.Since 1987 she has published over 40 books and more than 120 short stories. Among the novels Nye has written are her epic fantasy series The Dreamland, beginning with Waking In Dreamland, five contemporary humorous fantasies, Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, Higher Mythology (the three collected by Meisha Merlin Publishing as Applied Mythology), Advanced Mythology, The Magic Touch, and three medical science fiction novels, Taylor’s Ark, Medicine Show and The Lady and the Tiger. Strong Arm Tactics is a humorous military science fiction novel, the first of The Wolfe Pack series. Nye wrote The Dragonlover’s Guide to Pern, a non-fiction-style guide to the world of internationally bestselling author Anne McCaffrey’s popular world. She also collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on four science fiction novels, The Death of Sleep, Crisis On Doona, Treaty At Doona and The Ship Who Won, and wrote a solo sequel to The Ship Who Won entitled The Ship Errant. Nye coauthored the Visual Guide to Xanth with bestselling fantasy author Piers Anthony, and edited an anthology of humorous stories about mothers in science fiction, fantasy, myth and legend, entitled Don’t Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear! She wrote eight books with the late Robert Lynn Asprin, License Invoked, a contemporary fantasy set in New Orleans, and seven set in Asprin’s Myth Adventures universe: Myth-Told Tales (anthology), Myth Alliances, Myth-Taken Identity, Class Dis-Mythed, Myth-Gotten Gains, Myth Chief, and Myth-Fortunes. After Asprin’s passing, she published Myth-Quoted and Dragons Deal (Ace Books), third in Asprin’s Dragons series.Her latest books are View From the Imperium (Baen Books), a humorous military SF novel, an e-collection of cat stories, Cats Triumphant (Event Horizon), Dragons Run (fourth in the Dragons series) and Launch Pad, an anthology of science fiction stories co-edited with Mike Brotherton.Over the last twenty or so years, Jody Lynn Nye has taught numerous writing workshops and participated on hundreds of panels covering the subjects of writing and being published at science-fiction conventions. She has spoken in schools and libraries around the north and northwest suburbs. In 2007 she taught fantasy writing at Columbia College Chicago. She also runs the two-day writers workshop at Dragon Con.She lives in the northwest suburbs of Atlanta, with her husband Bill Fawcett, a writer, game designer, military historian and book packager, and a black cat, Jeremy.Jody Lynn Nye became a Writers of the Future judge in 2016. CraigElliott is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. He received his educationat the famed Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and studiedunder artists such as Harry Carmean and Burne Hogarth. Craig’s carefullycrafted and arresting images of nature and the human form have captivatedaudiences with their visual and intellectual celebration of the beauty in thisworld and beyond. In addition to his fine artwork, Craig has had a hand indesigning many of today’s most popular animated films from studios such asDisney and Dreamworks. A multi-faceted artist, he is also an accomplishedlandscape architect, sculptor and most recently, jewelry designer. Especiallyknown for his exceptional ability with the human figure and creativecomposition, Craig’s work has evolved into a unique vision informing andinfluencing fine art, print, animation, and commercial worlds.In the animationindustry he has worked primarily for Disney and Dreamworks, designing theiranimated films such as Hercules, Mulan, The Emperor’s New Groove,Treasure Planet, Shark Tale, Flushed Away, Bee Movie, Enchanted, Monsters vs.Aliens, and The Princess and the Frog aswell as other upcoming features.He has been an Illustratorsof the Future judge since 2019.
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