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We have three thrilling novellas crammed into our May/June 2025 issue! The issue opens with Allen M. Steele’s exciting and enigmatic “Hunt for Lemuria 7”!
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Our March/April 2025 issue is bursting with fiction. We have three exciting novellas stuffed into our pages. Kristine Kathryn Rusch opens the issue with a thrilling story about “Weather Duty”; T.R. Napper brings us an intense tale about a rogue AI in “The Hidden God”; and Nancy Kress bookends the issue with Part 1 of a giant novella that exposes the terrifying consequences of coexistence with “Quantum Ghosts”!
Ray Nayler reveals the true horror behind “The Demon of Metrazol”; Rob Chilson attempts to resolve “The Mystery of My Death”; new author Anthony Ha gives us “A Brief History of the Afterlife”; new to Asimov’s author Samantha Murray spins the bittersweet tale of “My Heart a Streak of Light Across the Sky”; and new author Donald McCarthy shocks us with truths about “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.” Zohar Jacobs returns to our pages with a tense story about what it means to be “On the Night Shift,” and Misha Lenau makes good on the promise of “Cryptid or Your Money Back.”
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Weather Duty
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Amala Navarro pulled one of the damp wipes from the dispenser above the counter and wiped the sweat off her face. She’d had to walk the last few blocks in the 110-degree heat because the light rail broke down for the fifth time this week. At least they’d managed to get the doors open. The last time, the doors stayed shut and rescuers had to smash their way in—taking nearly a dozen cars out of commission at a time when the city needed them most. READ MORE
Quantum Ghosts
by Nancy Kress
Part I
“This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.”
—Plato
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PROLOGUE
The motorcade was late. Security, Robert Dayson thought. You couldn’t have too much security, not since the bombings in Atlanta and Portland and Austin. Not with so many fringe groups so threatening about . . . everything. “The Unrest” the media were calling it, a term that seemed to Dayson unfortunately mild, as if country-wide seething dissatisfaction were no more than a bad night’s sleep. No, you couldn’t have too much security. READ MORE
