Table of Contents

July/August 2026 Vol. XCVI No. 7 & 8

 

NOVELLAS

RED SHIPS, Tom R. Pike

GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY, Meg Elison

NOVELETTES

CASUAL BRUTALITY, Michael T. Kuester

DEAD GOD’S ALGORITHM, Auston Habershaw

THE INHERITANCE, Alyssa Abigail Aquino

CONVERSATIONS WITH CALLIE, OR THE SYNTHESIS OF DISDAIN AND LOVE, Lettie Prell

SHORT STORIES

THE ELEGANT TEST, David Horn

VARIABLES IN THE DRAKE EQUATION, William Preston

SIGHTSEERS, Nikolai Lofving Hersfeldt

DISASTER RELIEF, Jennifer R. Povey

AND HER BONES MADE THE HILLS, Mel Hubahib Loja

FALLING, Jen Downes

THE EEMIAN, J.A. Schultz

CHURN, Andrew Dana Hudson

THE END OF THE LINE, William Paul Jones

A SKY FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, Gregor Hartmann

SCIENCE FACT

WHEN A GREENHOUSE GOES WILD, Kevin Walsh

POETRY

ALONG THE FARTHEST SHORE, Robert Frazier

HOPE IS AN ILLOGICAL CONCEPT, Fiona Perry

READER’S DEPARTMENTS

GUEST EDITORIAL: AS ABOVE, SO BELOW—AND CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR, Howard V. Hendrix

UNKNOWNS, A SLICE OF PI, Alec Nevala-Lee

ALTERNATE VIEW, John G. Cramer

IN TIMES TO COME

THE REFERENCE LIBRARY, Rosemary Claire Smith

BRASS TACKS