“Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea” by Vanessa Fogg – 4.4
Lightspeed, March 2026 In a mythic First Age, the First Emperor rules an immortal paradise where no winter falls, orchards bloom endlessly, and death is banished from the court. Each…
“Espie Droger Dreams of War” by Matthew Kressel – 3.7
Lightspeed, March 2026 Espie Droger is a young data engineer working in a subbasement office of a government Procurement and Logistics building, surrounded by moldering cardboard boxes and lit by…
“An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War” by JT Petty – 3.6
Lightspeed, March 2026 The story is narrated by an unnamed woman living in a homeless encampment beneath an overpass in August 2019 — a university-educated immigrant sharing a row of…
“About Face” by Teresa Milbrodt – 3.8
GigaNotoSaurus, March 2026 The narrator, a woman in her fifties, opens by establishing the quiet contours of her life with her husband Gerry: the miscarriages that ended their hopes for…
“Scion” by Thomas Ha – 3.4
Clarkesworld, March 2026 On the storm-wracked moon of Rai, an unnamed young lord navigates a vast, labyrinthine manor whose shifting concentric rooms reflect the deteriorating mind of the Levinlord —…
“You Are Invited to Our SPRING CELEBRATION” by Thoraiya Dyer – 3.3
Clarkesworld, March 2026 On a planet of crystalline beings — sentient, ancient, and vast — a narrator known as Unnecessary Expender Of Energy To Satisfy Curiosity raises its child, Awakened…
“Those Who Left History” by Wanxiang Fengnian, trans. Stella Jiayue Zhu – 2.6
Clarkesworld, March 2026 “Those Who Left History” is a multi-voiced speculative fiction told through interleaved diary entries, journalistic reportage, and future historiography. Its central conceit is “spatial closure” technology —…
“Person, Place, Thing” by Marissa Lingen – 3.5
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The story is narrated by Camilla, a subcolony of an alien collective intelligence that has dedicated itself to learning human languages and communication. Camilla takes pride in…
“First Human Ghost on Mars” by R.L. Meza – 2.6
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The narrator is the ghost of an astronaut — later revealed to be Captain Rogers — who died of a stroke before the Mars mission launched but…
“Crosstalk, Elysium” by Carolyn Zhao – 3.3
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The story is narrated by Elysium itself — a Karnarian spaceship — though this revelation unfolds gradually. Elysium orbits a distant fuel station, counting each pass in…
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