“Crosstalk, Elysium” by Carolyn Zhao – 3.3
Clarkesworld, March 2026 The story is narrated by Elysium itself — a Karnarian spaceship — though this revelation unfolds gradually. Elysium orbits a distant fuel station, counting each pass in…
“Bend Like the Palm” by David D. Levine – 3.4
Clarkesworld, March 2026 Diona, a seventy-three-year-old woman living on a small Pacific island nation called the Republic of Ratak and Ralik, detects an unusually severe typhoon approaching. Using her notebook…
“What A Name Does Is Let You Leave” by Meagan Kane – 3.8
Adventitious, February 2026 “What A Name Does Is Let You Leave” is a science fiction short story set aboard a penal station orbiting Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. The narrator…
“Unsettled Nature” by Jordan Kurella – 3.6
Apex, February 2026 Set on the back of a living jackalope — a giant mythical creature whose fur serves as the ground an entire community calls home — “Unsettled Nature”…
“Warren’s Tentacle” by Susan Palwick – 3.3
Lightspeed, February 2026 Warren wakes from surgery after an accident to find that AI surgical bots have drastically altered his body. Rather than simply repairing his injuries, the bots have…
“Sensor Ghosts” by Deborah L. Davitt – 3.5
Lightspeed, February 2026 “Sensor Ghosts” is a science fiction story set on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, where two investigators are sent to check on a research vessel that has gone…
“Death Echoes Overlapping” by Megan Chee – 2.1
Lightspeed, February 2026 The story opens on the necropolis space station of the ancient Tau Andromeda megacivilization, where specially trained keepers harvested “death echoes” — a mysterious energy released at…
“What Might Come of Today” by Leah Ning – 3.4
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 This science fantasy story follows Fray, an eighteen-year-old living in a post-war city built among ruins, where “Rusters” — magic-wielding enforcers — hunt and destroy…
“To Atone for Evil” by Megan Chee – 3.5
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2026 “To Atone for Evil” is a science-fantasy story narrated by an ancient predator — a winged, clawed Hunter from a civilization that once roamed the…
“A Night with Hui ʻEnehanaʻIke” by Maʻemaʻeolehua Matsumoto – 3.4
Strange Horizons, February 2026 Nanea, an IT worker at a Hawaiian organization called a panakō, is assigned to overnight on-call duty during a major system upgrade for her team, Hui…
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