Academic Review Mulrooney, Melanie. "Bloom Where You Are Planted." Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #451, Science-Fantasy Month 8, 19 February 2026. I. Introduction Melanie Mulrooney's short story "Bloom Where You Are…
Introduction "The Garden of Living Flowers," published in Translunar Travelers Lounge (February 2026), is a short work of secondary-world fantasy by Tunvey Mou, an Assamese writer based in Delhi whose…
Introduction R.Z. Held's novelette "Like Thorns on Her Tongue," published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #450 during Science Fantasy Month (February 5, 2026), represents a compelling contribution to the increasingly…
Introduction Published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #450 (February 5, 2026) as part of the magazine's Science Fantasy Month, Emily C. Skaftun's novelette "A Dirge for the Mirrorbirds" represents a…
Introduction Michael Libling's novelette "The Placemat at Baldy's Diner," published in the March/April 2026 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, represents a mature and formally inventive entry in the author's expanding…
Introduction "The Ghosts of Goldilocks," a novella by Kevin J. Anderson and Rick Wilber published in Asimov's Science Fiction (March/April 2026), represents a collaboration between two established science fiction writers…
Introduction James Van Pelt's novelette "A Fierce Need," published in the March/April 2026 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, represents a mature work from an author whose career has been marked…
Introduction "Crisis Actors," co-authored by Maddison Stoff and Corey Jae White and published in Strange Horizons in January 2025, represents a significant entry in contemporary speculative fiction's engagement with surveillance…
Introduction In The Dream Hotel (2025), Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami delivers a chillingly prescient exploration of the intersection between technology, state surveillance, and the human subconscious. Building on her…
Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi is a noir detective novel set in a French colonial city in West Africa during the dry Harmattan season. Plot Overview Boubacar, a down-on-his-luck "chercher"…