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Our January/February 2025 issue starts the new year off with an exciting jolt. We have a huge new novella from James Patrick Kelly.
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Our November/December 2024 issue ends the year under Sean Monaghan’s “Wildest Skies.” This thrilling novella is filled with adventures on a dangerous and deadly alien planet. In Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s far-future novella, a detective investigates an intriguing mystery and some “Death Benefits.”
Mystery and intrigue can also be found aplenty in Peter Wood’s “Murder on the Orion Express”; Jack Skillingstead’s civil servant exposes the real meaning of “The Ledgers”; spend an exciting evening with Mary Robinette Kowal’s new tale and you’ll discover why “Deep Space Has the Beat”; James Maxie’s character discovers the limits of “Mere Flesh” while searching for his father; multiple truths are revealed in Garrett Ashley’s “So Long in Miami”; a young fan-fiction writer tries to find her place in an oppressive world in Dominica Phetteplace’s “Dreamliker”; Zack Be creates a heart-stopping “Start of Something Beautiful”; and Molly Gloss gives us the beautiful and haunting “Wápato.”
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Wildest Skies
by Sean Monaghan
Chapter One
The planet was dead and alive. It was the strangest thing to look down on.
Ed Linklater squeezed his way into the narrow forward observation nacelle. The nacelle was shaped like a coffin, which wasn’t a nice thought. Anyone claustrophobic would never manage. Not for a second. READ MORE
Murder on The Orion Express
by Peter Wood
Year of the Murder
Technically the colonists should have called it year fifty of the one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year voyage to Orion. Ava Martin, the only cop not in stasis, found such designations less than useless. She just referred to this awake time as the Year of the Murder. The first murder on the starship since leaving Earth. READ MORE
