“The Girl Who Stole Life” by Zhou Wen, tr. Xueting C. Ni – 4.0
Asimov's, May/June 2026 The story opens with an unnamed narrator standing in an ominous alley, the scent of decay seeping from behind a door, contemplating a woman whose choices led…
“Hot” by Cecelia Holland – 4.3
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.…
“Alpha Gal” by Greg Egan – 3.8
Asimov's, May/June 2026 Elena, an entomologist at a Sydney university, wakes in the middle of the night in anaphylactic shock — swollen eyes, constricted throat, collapsing blood pressure. Her partner…
“Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley [Part 2]” by Ashok K. Banker – 3.8
Lightspeed, April 2026 Part 2 opens with Six-Gun returning to New Providence to find the town has turned against her. Beauchamp has spent the day working his influence, the sheriff…
“Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley [Part 1]” by Ashok K. Banker – 3.5
Lightspeed, April 2026 The narrator — known by the handle Six-Gun Vixen — is a deeply compelling outsider figure: a brown-skinned, six-armed, wolf-eared woman of South Asian origin, shadow-cursed and…
“Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight” by V.M. Ayala – 3.4
Lightspeed, April 2026 Zero Santos — nonbinary, biracial, working-class, and known to the crowds as Saint Zero of the Hollows — is a jousting knight fighting their way through a…
“Empathetic Psychosis” by Justin C. Key – 3.8
Lightspeed, April 2026 Dr. Jason Holloway — psychiatrist, three-time divorcee, recovering alcoholic, and self-diagnosed schizophrenic — arrives in Los Angeles to take on the role of Clinical Director at Margins…
“The Trajectory of Memory is Forward” by Rajeev Prasad – 3.4
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.…
“The Forgetting Code” by Malena Salazar Macía – 3.8
Clarkesworld, April 2026 On an orbital station adrift somewhere in the quiet of space, an old man named Joel has spent his life helping others forget. His gift is technical…
“Shelter” by Nadia W. Aldsen – 3.1
Clarkesworld, April 2026 The story unfolds at Chaska Punku Space Port in the Atacama Desert of Chile, where an unnamed social worker — employed under a punishing contract with the…
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