Table of Contents

May/June 2026 Vol. 50 Nos. 5 & 6

 

NOVELLAS

Hot by Cecelia Holland

NOVELETTES

Failed Attempts at Predation by A.M. Dellamonica

The Girl Who Stole Life by Zhou Wen (Translated by Xueting C. Ni)

The Sky Above the Earth Below by Steve Rasnic Tem

SHORT STORIES

The Language of Machines by Betsy Aoki

A Penrose Dirge by Chris Campbell

Sophie Simpson’s Whizz-Bang Day at World War I by Dale Bailey

Half Inside the Spirit Box by Stephanie Feldman

Unspeakable Knowns by Donald McCarthy

Alpha Gal by Greg Egan

POETRY

Love Letter to Nuclear Fusion by Connor Yeck

Jukebox for the Interplanetary Traveler by Brian U. Garrison

Your Regular College-Town Climate Elegy by Ursula Whitcher

Image as a Stone on the Water by Ruth Berman

DEPARTMENTS

Guest Editorial: A Reader’s Perspective by Piet Nel

Reflections: The End of an Era by Robert Silverberg

On the Net: Tomorrow’s Bots by James Patrick Kelly

Thought Experiment: Iterations in and of Planet of the Apes by Kelly Lagor

On Books by Kelly Jennings

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