The best vegan science fiction and fantasy stories of 2019.

Seventeen stories of kings made of sand, alien gods, illicit reading, and most of all, growth. Stories drawn from Translunar Travelers Lounge, super / natural, New Orbit, Daily Science Fiction, Triangulation: Dark Skies, Score — an SFF symphony, and Metaphorosis. And they're all vegan-friendly to boot!

The Lonely King — Gunnar De Winter Growing Resistance — Juliet Kemp Rooks on Sundays — Jack Neel Waddell The Trader — Damien Krsteski The Soul Farmer's Daughters — Kyle Kirrin Crying in Public — Madi Giovina The Propagator — Simone Kern A Bear, or a Spider, or an Elephant — Edward Ashton The Silence of Mother — Gerald Warfield The Color of My Home is Red Like an Apple — Evan Marcroft There is a City, He Told Me — Evan James Sheldon As An Absence — Joanna Michal Hoyt A Layer Thin As Breath — Thea Boodhoo The Shapeshifter Unraveled — S. Qiouyi Lu The Guardian of Werifest Park — Carly Racklin Earth Epitaph — R. Jean Mathieu L'Appel du Vide — Rajiv Moté

Cover art by vegan artist Bonnie Leeman.