Editor’s Note
Stories
Adrienne Bernhard
After Chernobyl
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Fiction
Sumudu Samarawickrama
An aging AI researcher, alone with her robot companion, must make a difficult decision when the android begins to malfunction. Short Story
- March 23, 2020
Fiction
Charlie Jane Anders
“The intake process begins with dismantling her personal space, one mantle at a time.”
- October 30, 2017
Fiction
Theo Costantino
“'I felt no hunger but the habit of food struck me intensely. My nightgown was grubby and torn. My limbs were scraped, spotted with yellow bruises, but I felt no pain.” Short Story
- April 17, 2020
Fiction
Maria Dahvana Headley
In a lost tale of Casanova, the citizens of a country at the center of the Earth must give up their home—and their women—to colonizers. Short Story
- March 26, 2020
Fiction
JR Fenn
Once I learned of the existence of mothers, I decided to order one for myself.
- May 11, 2018
Fiction
Mike McClelland
Years after an extinction event nearly wiped out humanity, a team of scientists search Venezuela for signs of life and evidence of what caused the tragedy. Short Story
- April 2, 2020
Fiction
Maureen F. McHugh
In the aftermath of a flu pandemic that kills most of the population, a survivor, barricaded in Alaska, remembers her life while contemplating a grisly choice. Short Story
- March 18, 2020
Interviews and Essays
Margaret Atwood, Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz interviews Margaret Atwood about The Handmaid's Tale, political dystopias, and Drake.
- June 29, 2017
Peter Ross
From invading Afghanistan to dismantling Confederate monuments, George Orwell has been pressed into the service of all sorts of causes. But the real Orwell remains unknown.
- October 6, 2017
Henry Farrell
We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.
- January 16, 2018
Mark Bould
The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.
- January 22, 2018
