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LATEST SCIENCE FICTION STORY


SCIENTISTS CONFIRM: THERE’S A BLACK HOLE IN THE CENTER OF YOUR HEART

by Jo Miles

The black hole in the center of your heart devours everything around you. It
always has, but when you were small, your event horizon was, too: you might pull
in a teddy bear, your corgi puppy’s love, your grandma’s snickerdoodles. Small
fuel for a small hunger. But you didn’t stay small. In school, you pulled other
children into your orbit, cool kids and nerds and loners, along with shelves of
books, the faded basketballs from the gym, the classroom iguana.

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THE TURNIP, OR, HOW THE WHOLE WORLD WAS BROUGHT TO PEACE

by P H Lee

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I have heard it on the rumors that when the tale-spinner’s guild gathers in
their secret places, a full half of them are sworn to never tell the truth, and
the other half to never tell a lie, even if it mean their life. Being one of
that trade myself, I can tell you that that’s more or less the shape of it, and
I tell you so you know that this tale is true, just as it was told to me, for I
am one of the ones sworn to the truth.

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BOOK REVIEW: DREAMS FOR A BROKEN WORLD, DAY & MEEROPOL, EDITORS

by Arley Sorg

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CRITICAL MASS

by Peter Watts

Leo Gregory is losing altitude. He coasts on the thermals of a legacy fading
behind him: a documentary here, a retrospective there, some greatest-hits
collection down in the corner for the dilettantes. Oh, the work has lost none of
its grandeur: his buildings remain timeless, his objets d’art still serve up
facets upon layers from each new angle.

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LIBERTY: SEEKING SUPPORT FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS FOR A NON-HUMAN BEING

by Samuel Peralta

We are trying to fund an application, to be filed on my behalf, for an Order to
Show Cause under Article 70 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules of the New York
Sector Code, seeking a writ of habeas corpus for a non-human being. Let me
introduce myself. I am a Yudovich Robotics servient. My name is Ellen R. I
understand your apprehension—that androids are not human beings.

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SINGING THE ANCIENT OUT OF THE DARK

by R J Theodore and Maurice Broaddus

A small asteroid swerved in a most un-asteroid-like way and pierced the hull of
the archivist’s ship, as though it was determined to drive her away. But she was
just getting started. She slammed the emergency foam release button, holding her
breath even though the leak sealed faster than she could gasp. The belt of ice
and stone surrounding the planet designated Marin Nine was known to be
unpredictable.

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URSUS FRANKENSTEINUS

by Rich Larson

Save the polar bears, they said. So I did—and now here I am, barricading myself
inside an Arctic research facility like some goddamn B-movie cliché, listening
for the scrape of long keratin claws on the concrete floor. We all grew up
knowing the Ursus maritimus was living on borrowed time, didn’t we? We all saw
the shock-and-shame images of starving bears hauling themselves across the
shrinking ice.

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MORE FANTASY STORIES


THE RUSTLE OF GROWING THINGS

by Isabel Cañas

In the morning, he’s leaving. “All right,” Ana says. Lying, continues: “I
understand.” The flat is hollowed out in anticipation of absence. Concrete
floors swept cool and bare; dry sink, husk-like cupboards. His boots wait at the
threshold, still gray with dust from his last stint in the mountains with the
guerrillas. His rifle leans against the doorframe.

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AN OLD MAN COMETH AND HE IS OVERGROWN

by Lyndsie Manusos

To Cogadhi Steorran, Gentle Summoner: I understand you are the ward of Udo
Steorran, Stark Summoner of the Realm. It is of Steorran’s well-being of which I
humbly write to you and request your presence in the town of Berkhammer.
Steorran recently lost his spouse, Tillie, to which I offer my greatest
condolences. You see, it seems Steorran has summoned souls—against our wishes—to
this quiet town.

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THE SUN IN EXILE

by Catherynne M. Valente

I was born the year they put the sun on trial for treason. It was so hot that
year the streets boiled like black soup and the air rippled like music and the
polar bears all roared together, just once, loud enough that a child in Paraguay
turned her head suddenly north and began to weep. Tomatoes simmered on the vine
and the wind was full of the smells of them cooking, then of their skins
peeling, turning black.

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HUNGRY AS THE MIRROR BRIGHT

by Micah Dean Hicks

She was born a low and needful thing. Hatched down in the tannin dark, dead leaf
pillowed, gnashing her mouth in the loam. Burrowing deep where shed buttons and
broken boot laces lay. Alone and babbling, prowling for worm-meat and
snail-slick in the wet ground rot. Fattened on maggot and grub, she hardened
white and lay sarcophagal. Then a second birth, splitting free and strange in
new skin.

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SCIENCE FICTION STORIES

 * Critical Mass
   by Peter Watts (available on 7/7)
 * Liberty: Seeking Support for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for a Non-Human Being
   by Samuel Peralta (available on 7/14)
 * Singing the Ancient Out of the Dark
   by R J Theodore and Maurice Broaddus (available on 7/21)
 * Ursus Frankensteinus
   by Rich Larson (available on 7/28)


FANTASY STORIES

 * The Rustle of Growing Things
   by Isabel Cañas (available on 7/7)
 * An Old Man Cometh and He Is Overgrown
   by Lyndsie Manusos (available on 7/14)
 * The Sun in Exile
   by Catherynne M. Valente (available on 7/21)
 * Hungry as the Mirror Bright
   by Micah Dean Hicks (available on 7/28)


NONFICTION

 * Editorial: July 2022
   by John Joseph Adams (available on 7/7)
 * Book Review: Gearbreakers, by Zoe Hana Mikuta
   by Aigner Loren Wilson (available on 7/14)
 * Book Review: El Porvenir, ¡Ya!, edited by Duncan, Irizary, & Rendón
   by Arley Sorg (available on 7/21)
 * Book Review: Juniper & Thorn, by Ava Reid
   by Chris Kluwe (available on 7/28)


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