“Oliana’s Skull” by Robert Reed – 2.9
Asimov's, July/August 2026 Mineas Bad grows up a gifted athlete in the City of Saints, a mortal metropolis on the shore of the Sea of Giants inside the Great Ship,…
“The Hydrological Cycle of Souls, or the Assembler of Scattered Creations” by Minister Faust
Asimov's, July/August 2026 A bus full of kidnapped schoolgirls nose-dives into a reservoir in rural Senegal, and the three gunmen at the front find themselves trapped in rising water while…
“Seeking” by Gregory Marlow – 4.0
Asimov's, July/August 2026 Jacob's phone battery dies at 3:12 a.m. while he watches footage of an alien ship hovering above Shanghai, one of thirty-two massive vessels that have settled over…
“Last Train to Gertrude Stein” by Sandra McDonald – 3.7
Asimov's, July/August 2026 Claudine is over a thousand years old, an immortal who dies and is reborn again and again in the marshes along the Seine, waking each time in…
“Roma Delenda Est” by Alan Smale – 3.4
Asimov's, July/August 2026 An aging Archimedes, kidnapped from newly-fallen Syracuse, is dragged into Hannibal's war camp in Italy in 212 BC. Hannibal has no interest in siege engines—his is a…
“Gumchew” by Zack Be – 3.5
Asimov's, July/August 2026 Harlan Bah drives his elderly father, Simeon, to a Fed-Corp clinic in a frozen Center City to finally get "gummed" — a childhood-standard neurogel brain implant that…
Brother Adalbert’s Last Shift by Karol Lagodzki – 3.7
In a domed underground city called New Chicago, built after the surface became uninhabitable, Brother Adalbert spends his final day as caretaker of a single ancient oak tree enshrined in…
A Flame in the Dark by Sam W. Pisciotta – 4.0
Set in 1775 in the American wilderness, A Flame in the Dark is told through the journal entries and letters of Annette Lacroix, a French naturalist living on the frontier…
“The Scent of Memory” by Zhao Haihong, translated by S. Qiouyi Lu – 3.8
Clarkesworld, May 2026 Shijun wakes on a Greyhound bus crossing the Canadian Rockies, an amber bottle of perfume in his bag and a message from his friend Jiayuan flashing on…
“The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods” by Louis Inglis Hall – 3.4
Clarkesworld, May 2026 The story unfolds as a series of monologues addressed by a refrigerator — designated “Buddy” — to a newly activated light switch on its first day of…
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