September/October 2023. Check this out! Dean Whitlock ’s harrowing novelette about child labor is intense from start to finish. Kristine Kathryn Rusch has created an equally intense novella about “The Break-in” that doesn’t go quite as planned. You won’t want to miss either of these thrilling tales!
Our annual “Slightly Spooky” issue is packed with spooky stories, some of which are even hard SF! Lavie Tidhar reveals that there’s more than one kind of haunt in “The Ghost Fair”; Anya Johanna DeNiro gives us centuries of encounters with the “Water-Wolf”; in “The Pit of Babel,” Kofi Nyameye proves that humanity will clearly stop at nothing; Christopher Rowe lands “Cynthia in the Subflooring”; Lisa Goldstein plunges her character into an equally difficult situation “In the Fox House”; David Erik Nelson pens some dark “The Dead Letter Office”; Derek Künsken discloses “Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel”; Gregory Feeley dives into the perils of “The Unpastured Sea”; and Michèle Laframboise explains the “Tears Down the Wall.”
Robert Silverberg ’s Reflections brings us “Advertisements for Myself, Again”; in On the Net, James Patrick Kelly explains “My Interview With ChatGPT”; Norman Spinrad ’s On Books considers “Science Fiction Arising”; Kelly Lagor ’s Thought Experiment contemplates “Aliens, Outsiders, and Things.”
NOVELLA The Break-In by Kristine Kathryn Rusch NOVELETTES Deep Blue Jump by Dean Whitlock The Unpastured Sea by Gregory Feeley Tears Down the Wall by Michèle Laframboise The Water-Wolf by Anya Johanna DeNiro The Dead Letter Office by David Erik Nelson
SHORT STORIES The Ghost Fair by Lavie Tidhar The Pit of Babel by Kofi Nyameye In the Fox’s House by Lisa Goldstein Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel by Derek Künsken
POETRY Sphinx by Mary Soon Lee Highrise by David C. Kopaska-Merkel Olympia by Ursula Whitcher When the Mirror Shows Frankenstein’s Monster by Ali Trotta Fragrances of the Night-blooming Space Garden by Katherine Quevedo What Remains by Terri Yannetti
DEPARTMENTS Editorial: Thirty-Seventh Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results by Sheila Williams Reflections: Advertisements for Myself, Again by Robert Silverberg On the Net: An Interview with ChatGPT by James Patrick Kelly Thought Experiment: Aliens, Outsiders, and Things by Kelly Lagor On Books by Norman Spinrad Next Issue The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
September/October 2023. Check this out! Dean Whitlock ’s harrowing novelette about child labor is intense from start to finish. Kristine Kathryn Rusch has created an equally intense novella about “The Break-in” that doesn’t go quite as planned. You won’t want to miss either of these thrilling tales!
Our annual “Slightly Spooky” issue is packed with spooky stories, some of which are even hard SF! Lavie Tidhar reveals that there’s more than one kind of haunt in “The Ghost Fair”; Anya Johanna DeNiro gives us centuries of encounters with the “Water-Wolf”; in “The Pit of Babel,” Kofi Nyameye proves that humanity will clearly stop at nothing; Christopher Rowe lands “Cynthia in the Subflooring”; Lisa Goldstein plunges her character into an equally difficult situation “In the Fox House”; David Erik Nelson pens some dark “The Dead Letter Office”; Derek Künsken discloses “Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel”; Gregory Feeley dives into the perils of “The Unpastured Sea”; and Michèle Laframboise explains the “Tears Down the Wall.”
Robert Silverberg ’s Reflections brings us “Advertisements for Myself, Again”; in On the Net, James Patrick Kelly explains “My Interview With ChatGPT”; Norman Spinrad ’s On Books considers “Science Fiction Arising”; Kelly Lagor ’s Thought Experiment contemplates “Aliens, Outsiders, and Things.”
NOVELLA The Break-In by Kristine Kathryn Rusch NOVELETTES Deep Blue Jump by Dean Whitlock The Unpastured Sea by Gregory Feeley Tears Down the Wall by Michèle Laframboise The Water-Wolf by Anya Johanna DeNiro The Dead Letter Office by David Erik Nelson
SHORT STORIES The Ghost Fair by Lavie Tidhar The Pit of Babel by Kofi Nyameye In the Fox’s House by Lisa Goldstein Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel by Derek Künsken
POETRY Sphinx by Mary Soon Lee Highrise by David C. Kopaska-Merkel Olympia by Ursula Whitcher When the Mirror Shows Frankenstein’s Monster by Ali Trotta Fragrances of the Night-blooming Space Garden by Katherine Quevedo What Remains by Terri Yannetti
DEPARTMENTS Editorial: Thirty-Seventh Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results by Sheila Williams Reflections: Advertisements for Myself, Again by Robert Silverberg On the Net: An Interview with ChatGPT by James Patrick Kelly Thought Experiment: Aliens, Outsiders, and Things by Kelly Lagor On Books by Norman Spinrad Next Issue The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss