[NEW] Welcome! We're thrilled to announce that the Sci-Fi team is releasing a series of challenges, activities, and stories for the next 15 days to help rejuvenate our community. The Science Fiction Experience will include top tier challenges, mind-boggling discussions, awesome games, and so much more. "Readers familiar with that genre [science fiction] have met the spaceship, the alien, and the mad scientist before. They know more about them than the writer does." -- Ursula K. Le Guin This piece is meant to offer a taste of the science fiction experience-a glimpse into the genre that we hope you'll enjoy. At the very least, we hope it inspires you to check out our Science Fiction Reading List if you haven't already!

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For the month of October, read the spookiest, most fantastic short stories in the orange world of Wattpad. Fright for Fantasy is a collection of tales where magic turns to the dark side, where the world's balance hangs between the living and the dead, and where the line between fantasy, paranormal, and horror blur. Within this anthology, encounter stories of enchantment and supernatural, elemental and occult. Tales that chill our bones or paint a hauntingly beautiful world. Open your doors for creatures of the night---ghosts, witches, nightwalkers---in a lore woven with tragedy, suspense, and intrigue. So, turn out the lights, light a candle, pray to the ancient gods of old, and listen to the songs of ancient ghouls. The frightful fantasy begins now!

[PREVIEW ONLY] No one knows the real identity of the hospital's Plague Saint is sixteen-year-old Winter Pierce. No one knows she's a fraud. And no one knows she's a killer. While floods and heat waves devastate the southern lands, the northern cities face blizzards and plagues. Up until two weeks ago, the Plague Saint of Devil's Pass was a real doctor. But when Winter learned he was only saving the rich and planned to let her mother die, she confronted him. And killed him. The death was an accident, but taking his place to save lives was a choice. Then, Winter's forced to kill again to save her brother. Her double life, already doomed to fail, is complicated further when her assistant insists on tracking down the murderer. Attempting to cover her tracks leaves Winter tangled in a political web. All the while, people are getting sicker, and trying to find the cure leads her to an enemy far smarter and more dangerous than she is. Powerful people want to see Winter fail. There's more to the plagues than meets the eye. Winter is rapidly running out of time, but she's determined to save her brother from death and her city from corruption. And she'll kill anyone who gets in her way.

[PREVIEW ONLY] WATTYS WINNER 2023 | Sixteen-year-old Felix Carver carries the ghosts of magicians in his blood. He can communicate with them and use the magical abilities they wielded against monsters when they were alive. His newfound power would be pretty cool, if the ghosts in question weren't his family and the man who killed them. Death doesn't stop Felix's siblings from finding new ways to annoy him from beyond the grave, nor his parents from doing their best to protect him from the dangerous side of his new life. Felix learns that his family belonged to an organization of magicians called the Bright Guardians, while their killer was a part of the Guardian Uprising that tried to overthrow the organization eight years earlier. The Bright Guardians take Felix in, hoping they can train him to fight monsters and control the ghosts living inside of him. Felix barely understands the magical world his family kept secret from him, but he does make friends with other odd cases at the Bright Academy. Troublemaker Arisa Tamura is struggling to control her ability to animate objects while under the influence of cursed bracelets, while the smart but reserved Mason Briggs is a witch who was transformed into a demon as a last resort to save his life. Together, the three of them realize that Uprising spies are still hiding among the Guardians. They have no idea who they can trust, but they do know who they can't: a Guardian named Ernest Abernathy, who stole a powerful wand from Mason's parents before killing them. Felix, Mason, and Arisa must construct a plan to steal back the wand without any help. If their plan fails, Ernest will turn the Guardians against them and have them locked up, or executed. If they succeed, they'll have one more weapon in the fight against the Uprising's army. Either way, the approaching war is inevitable. Be warned this book contains death, violence, and an above average amount of spiders.