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Author Spotlight: D. Thomas MintonIf we are to have any chance at averting a climate disaster, we must do more than just reduce our carbon output---we need to get to carbon zero or...
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Carbon Zero“Is there a problem, officer?” “We’re not the police.” My partner, Enrico, places his palm against the door, ready to test the old man’s resolve. I...
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Book Review: Tonight, I Burn by Katharine J. AdamsChris Kluwe finds light in the characters populating the new dark fantasy novel Tonight, I Burn by Katharine J. Adams. Find out why you might...
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Author Spotlight: Martin CahillIt started as most stories do: a what-if that wouldn’t leave my mind, that demanded an answer. What if you had someone with precognition that...
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Of Death Deserved We Will Not DieThe sweet air of the temple district is what makes the bread taste so good, Mama says. The shafts of sunbeams that come through broken stained...
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The Moment Before the MomentAzahn had been the ninety-third Imperial Foresight to the Dynasty of Silken Flame for only three weeks when he was forcibly retired. His body had...
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Book Review: McSweeney’s 71: The Monstrous and the Terrible (edited by Brian Evenson)This month, Arley Sorg checks out the newest issue of McSweeney's , guest edited by Brian Evenson. It's a little bit literary, a little bit...
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Author Spotlight: Regina Kanyu WangI guess I am not the only one who feels that time flows faster and faster nowadays. The pace of life in the twenty-first century is much faster...
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Dr. Seattle Opens His HeartWhen they flash his sign at the top of the Space Needle, he shoots out from the center of Lake Union and flies high into the sky. A mushroom wave...
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A Record of Lost TimeHow did we end up here? The humans before me had the same physiological traits as I did, yet still we had no means of communicating with one...
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Confession #443 (Comments open)I was sorry even before I got caught. The first inkling that we were not going to get away with it came when we were messing with the AI art...
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Author Spotlight: Osahon Ize-IyamuWhen I was much younger, I wrote a lot of stories that were told in the vein of traditional epic fantasy novels, and I wanted to write a more...
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Last Ritual of the Smoke EatersI didn’t want to eat Joshua, but he turned into dust, and the way things go in Carrucchi village is that if someone turns into ashes you inhale...
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A Review: The Reunion of the Survivors of Sigrún 7Warning! This review contains spoilers . To answer the question on everybody’s mind: No, controversial filmmaker Manuela Riviera’s new documentary...
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Author Spotlight: MKRNYILGLDI’m a working scientist doing biological research. There is some overlap in my day-to-day work and the science of these stories, so doing the...
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The CRISPR Cookbook (Chapter Two): A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Eggs into Weapons of Destruction, to Be Forcibly Implanted into One Patriarchist at a TimeIf you’re reading this, in a self-destructing DM, on the reverse strand of a plasmid, in the recipe binder you found in a deported neighbor’s...
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Book Review: Generation Ship by Michael MammayIf you're looking for your next hard SF read, Chris Kluwe recommends Michael Mammay's Generation Ship .
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Author Spotlight: Jae SteinbacherA friend gave me a zine on the queer language of flowers and flower symbolism. There are a couple nods to these in the story, or to specific color...
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What You Are and the WolfHis long voice weaves itself into your dream with a promise: I’ll come for you. I know you’re not who they think you are . Your mind sharpens as...
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Excerpts from a Scientist’s Notebook: Ancestral Memory in Europan PseudocephalopodsWhen I was five years old, my mother left for Europa as part of the expedition that discovered the Europan Pseudocephalopods , which have a...
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Book Review: Paula Guran’s The Year’s Best Fantasy, Volume 2Arley Sorg talks about the value of Best Ofs and Year's Bests---and explains why Paula Guran's The Year's Best Fantasy, Volume 2 is worth a spot...
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A Small GodA small god once lived far out among the hidden objects that plied the stardust between galaxies. They were not a handsome god, nor an ugly god;...
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Author Spotlight: A.L. GoldfussThe initial spark, the image I built the entire story around, was a scene from the FromSoft game Echo Night where the player must return the eye...
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Where the God-Knives Tread [Part 2]Every Teshiarr metropolis, town, and hamlet had featured an agora, the community centerpiece for shopping, conversing, and joining. It was where...
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Book Review: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel CañasAigner Loren Wilson says: "With her second novel, Vampires of El Norte , Isabel Cañas crafts a suspenseful romantic vampire tale set along the...
