Introduction Sheri Singerling's novelette "Paper Airplane Poet," published in Clarkesword, operates as a companion piece to her debut novel Blessed is the Rot (Book 1 of the Bit trilogy), set…
Introduction Sheri Singerling's short story "Wireworks," published in Clarkesworld (September 2025), represents a significant contribution to the growing body of speculative fiction that interrogates the intersection of artificial intelligence, human…
Introduction Tia Tashiro's "Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler," published in Clarkesworld Magazine in May 2026, represents a remarkable convergence of speculative rigor and intimate emotional portraiture within the short…
Introduction Jamie McGhee's speculative novelette "Skiinfolk," published in Strange Horizons, arrives from a scholar-practitioner whose critical investments are unambiguous: her nonfiction monograph You Mean It or You Don't: James Baldwin's…
Introduction Zhou Wen's novelette "The Girl Who Stole Life," translated by Xueting C. Ni and published in Asimov's Science Fiction (May/June 2026), represents a significant contribution to the growing body…
Introduction Cecelia Holland, whose career spans more than six decades of historical and speculative fiction—her debut novel The Firedrake appeared in 1966—brings to "Hot" (published in Asimov's Science Fiction, May/June…
Introduction Stephanie Feldman's "Half Inside the Spirit Box," published in the May/June 2026 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, arrives as part of a body of work distinguished by its commitment…
Introduction Tania Fordwalker's novelette "D0G," published in Clarkesworld Magazine, arrives at a moment of unusual cultural urgency, when debates surrounding autonomous weapons systems, algorithmic violence, and artificial intelligence have moved…
Introduction Angela Liu's short story "What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom," published in Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Nine (2026), is a formally restrained yet emotionally…
A Critical Academic Review Introduction Sunwoo Jeong's novelette "Permanent Press," published in Uncanny (Issue Sixty-Nine, March/April 2026), arrives as a formally inventive work from a writer already recognized in speculative…