Langmead and McFarlane join Luna with Stellar Anthology, Our Glorious Progeny
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A huge welcome to the Luna Family for Oliver and Anna! I can finally share that Luna Press will publish Our Glorious Progeny, an anthology edited by by Hugo-nominated author Oliver K. Langmead and British Science Fiction Association Award shortlisted researcher Anna McFarlane.
Luna Press has acquired WEL rights from Alexander Cochran at Greyhound Literary Agents.
Our Glorious Progeny is planned to be released in March 2027.
The Editors comment:
Reproductive rights are under attack all over the world, and reproductive technology is developing at an extraordinary pace. Our Glorious Progeny brings together a selection of world-renowned authors to write the future of human reproduction, inviting speculation on technology, the body, political control, and the very ways we live together as humans, in the tradition of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Octavia Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’.
This anthology of short stories is a collaboration with Lancaster University's Future of Human Reproduction research project, using speculation and science to explore themes like genome editing, artificial wombs, and radical relationship dynamics.
Featuring stories from:
Rachelle Atalla, Vajra Chandrasekera, Hiron Ennes, Tendai Huchu, Hannah Kaner, Cassandra Khaw, Kirsty Logan, Elle Nash, Adam Roberts, Cailean Steed, Lavie Tidhar,
Aliya Whiteley
About the Editors
Oliver K. Langmead’s books have been nominated for a Hugo award, the Philip K. Dick Award, a British Science Fiction Association Award, and a British Fantasy Award. His new book, The Killing of a Chestnut Tree, is coming from Tordotcom in October 2026. His verse-
novel, Calypso, was named one of the best Science Fiction books of 2024 by the Guardian and
Esquire magazine, and his previous novel, Glitterati was named one of New Scientist’s best
Science Fiction books of 2022. City of All Seasons, co-written with Aliya Whiteley, was
published by Titan Books in 2025. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University,
and in late 2018 he was the writer in residence at the European Space Agency’s Astronaut
Centre in Cologne.
Anna McFarlane is the James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Collaborator on the Wellcome Trust-funded Future of Human
Reproduction project at the University of Lancaster. Her second monograph is on representations of pregnancy in science fiction, fantasy and horror and will be published with
Liverpool University Press. She is the editor of many academic collections including the BSFA
award shortlisted The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (2020) and the short story
collection A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: 21 Short Stories of Science Fiction and
Medicine (2017).