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    “Hot” by Cecelia Holland – 4.3

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:April 18, 2026
    • Post category:Asimov's/Four/Novella/Science Fiction

    Asimov's, May/June 2026 “Hot” is a climate collapse novella set in the near-future California coast, following Francie Beuerlein, a teenage girl navigating civilizational breakdown during a catastrophic, lethal heat wave.…

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    “The Trajectory of Memory is Forward” by Rajeev Prasad – 3.4

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:April 9, 2026
    • Post category:Clarkesworld/Novella/Science Fiction

    Clarkesworld, April 2026 “The Trajectory of Memory is Forward” is a sprawling, biopunk novella set in a far-future Earth scarred by climate catastrophe, radical genetic engineering, and centuries of exploitation.…

    Continue Reading“The Trajectory of Memory is Forward” by Rajeev Prasad – 3.4

    “Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. 2” by Jason Sanford – 3.8

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 23, 2026
    • Post category:Beneath Ceaseless Skies/Novella/Science Fiction
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    Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 The story concludes the two-part novella following Lande, a young mountain-touched mechanic working at an Outranger-controlled dreamstone mine deep in the veil — a liminal…

    Continue Reading“Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. 2” by Jason Sanford – 3.8

    “Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. 1” by Jason Sanford – 3.8

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 22, 2026
    • Post category:Beneath Ceaseless Skies/Novella/Science Fiction
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    Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2026 Lande is a nineteen-year-old woman living in a narrow mountain valley under the occupation of the Outrangers, an industrialized outside power that has built a…

    Continue Reading“Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. 1” by Jason Sanford – 3.8

    “Scion” by Thomas Ha – 3.4

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:March 12, 2026
    • Post category:Clarkesworld/Novella/Science Fiction
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    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 —…

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    “What Any Dead Thing Wants” by Aimee Ogden – 3.1

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 19, 2026
    • Post category:Misc./Novella/Science Fiction
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    Adventitious, February 2026 (Originally published in psychopomp, 2024) Hob is a weary exorcism specialist leading a crew tasked with clearing the ghost-life from a freshly terraformed planet — a world…

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    “The Placemat at Baldy’s Diner” by Michael Libling – 4.2

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 16, 2026
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    Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2026 A grief-stricken man named Shore drives aimlessly through New England, barely sleeping, living in his car, haunted by the loss of his daughter and wife.…

    Continue Reading“The Placemat at Baldy’s Diner” by Michael Libling – 4.2

    “The Ghosts of Goldilocks” by Kevin J. Anderson & Rick Wilber – 4.6

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 14, 2026
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    Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2026 Forty years after the damaged generation ship Hind barely managed to land its passengers on the planet Goldilocks, humanity struggles to survive on a world…

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    “Satan’s Slave” by R. Garcia y Robertson – 3.2

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:February 13, 2026
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    Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2026 In a future where slavery has returned to the outer solar system, Diana Spartaca is a gladiator fighting to survive in Nova Roma, a colony…

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    The Legend Liminal by Ren Hutchings – 4.0

    • Post author:johnhamm
    • Post published:January 31, 2026
    • Post category:Four/Novella/Science Fiction
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    Stars and Sabers Publishing Version 1.0.0 Stacey M. Kells and her two brothers, Spencer and Shelton, along with their best friend Faye, set out on a road trip west in…

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