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"The Last Season of Your Life" by Christopher Barzak + "The Test of Time" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

28 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The Stars Look Away From This Vessel" by dave ring + "Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord" by Ada Hoffmann

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The Aerialist" by Yoon Ha Lee + "The Star Where We Meet" by Sam W. Pisciotta

14 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The Knacker Man" by Scott Dalrymple + "Sarah's Laugh" by Melissa A Watkins

07 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Time Management" by P.A. Cornell + "Empathetic Psychosis" by Justin C. Key

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Update on Rules for the Spatiotemporal Use of Campus Spaces" by Andrea Kriz + "[Part 2] Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley" by Ashok K. Banker

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Dad Died on Discord" by Andrew Dana Hudson + "[Part 1] Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley" by Ashok K. Banker

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Hell Is Empty" by J.R. Dawson + "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" by V.M. Ayala

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"When We Loved Giants" by Sara S. Messenger + "Terms of Enlightenment" by Patrick Hurley

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War" by JT Petty + "Lotus Dew for the Emperor's Tea" by Vanessa Fogg

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features "An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War" by JT Petty (2026 by JT Petty) read by Susan Hanfield, and + "Lotus Dew for the Emper...

"The Tide Folk" by Jennifer Hudak + "Espie Droger Dreams of War" by Matthew Kressel

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Eat, Prey, Love..." by Jilly Dreadful + "The Devourers Of War..." by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features "Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest Proposal for Ensuring Gender Equality Through Selective Dietary Practices; or, a Geriatric Millennial...

"Warren's Tentacle" by Susan Palwick + "A Handbook To Spirit-hunting" by Modupeoluwa Shelle

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The Salt and the Cure" by Rukman Ragas + "Sensor Ghosts" by Deborah L. Davitt

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The Worldbuilder" by Phoenix Alexander + "Dream Destinations (From the Lost Traveler's Tour Guide)" by Alexander Weinstein

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Six Sides of a Fairy Tale" by Audrey Zhou + "Death Echoes Overlapping" by Megan Chee

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"A Brief Public Announcement" by Eli Brown + "The Moving Finger" by Adam-Troy Castro

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Academic Neutrality" by M.R. Robinson + "Hunter, Hunter" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Bots All The Way Down" by Effie Seiberg + "Where the Chicken-Footed Dwell" by Marisca Pichette

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Choose Your Own Damnation" by Kehkashan Khalid + "Mother's Hip" by Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The Space Between Us" by P.A. Cornell + "Memories of the MindMine" by David Marino

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"HagioClass" by José Pablo Iriarte + "The Hub Living Among the Stars" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Us, in Another Universe" by A.C. Wise + "Crickets in Lost Light" by Jonathan Olfert

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"You Always Told Her You'd Give Her the World" by Aimee Ogden + "Reality Check" by Nancy Kress

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Cold Burning Light of Her" by Sam W. Pisciotta + "Operation: Grapevine" by Joel W.D. Buxton

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Visible Damage" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman + "How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl" by Tina S. Zhu

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Beneath the Umdlebe Tree (Or: A Vegetable Love Story)" by Modupeoluwa Shelle + "Elegy for Zephyr One" by Gene Doucette

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"How to Setup Your Mourning Robot" by Angela Liu + "In the Zone" by Lisa M. Bradley

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Thaw" by An Owomoyela + "Drosera regina" by A.L. Goldfuss

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Dating Fortune" by Sean McMullen + "Everyone Hates the Auditor" by Megan Chee

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Porniest Porn in Porntown" by Stephen Graham Jones + "Dirge and Gleam" by Micah Dean Hicks

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"At the Bottom of the Bonfire" by Martin Cahill + "O Mechfighter, O Starsinger" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"City of One" by Stephen S. Power + "Human Voices" by Isabel J. Kim

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" by Bogi Takács + "The Girlfriend Experience" by C.Z. Tacks

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Place I Came To" by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko + "Apeiron" by Cadwell Turnbull

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Beginning Before and After The End" by Jake Stein + "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" by Kel Coleman

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Anti-Capitalism vs. the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia + "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" by V.M. Ayala

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Dream Tourists" by Sarah Langan + "Savannah and the Apprentice" by Christopher Rowe

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Dad went out to get the milk" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu + "Feast of Famine" by Adam-Troy Castro

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B..." by David Anaxagoras + "It Might Be He Returns" by Fatima Taqvi

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features "Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Regarding Post-battle Deployment of A. Th...

"Finding Love in a Time Loop: A How-To Guide" by Leah Cypess + "You Knit Me Together in My Mother's Womb" by Paul Crenshaw

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective" by Spencer Nitkey + "Domestic Disputes" by Naomi Kanakia

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"How to Win Against the Robots" by Katherine Crighton + "A Dish Best Served Cold..." by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"What Else, What Else, in the Joyous City? " by sadoeuphemist + "The Lord of Mars" by Meghan McCarron

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" by Marissa Lingen + "A Week at the Raven Feather Salon" by Carrie Vaughn

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"My Mother, the Supervillain" by Benjamin Blattberg + "See Now the Misfortune..." by Lowry Poletti + "When the Faerie King..." by Vanessa Fogg

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Eyes Grown Thick on the World" by Will McMahon + "The Twenty-One Second God" by Peter Watts

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Meaning We Seek" by Nancy Kress + "Ninnagan Says Remember" by Jonathan Olfert

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Where Are They Now?" by Meg Elison + "Through the Machine" by P. A. Cornell

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Temporal Displacement of the Graves" by Russell Nichols + "The Price of Manners" by Martin Cahill

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Shadows on the Pavement" by R. P. Sand + "Rthing it Up: An Oral History" by Gene Doucette

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"TALK: “The Siren Song of the Otherworld Goggles”" by Dominica Phetteplace + "The Other River" by Jon Lasser

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Meditations from the Event Horizon" by Deborah L. Davitt + "The Potter, His Daughter, and the Boy..." by Oyedotun Damilola Muees

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Price of Miracles" by Nigel Faustino + "Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? Part II" by Sarah Langan

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"To Navigate the Night" by Rich Larson + "Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? Part I" by Sarah Langan

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Instructions for Good Boys on the Interplanetary Expedition" by Rachael K. Jones + "The Lexicon of Lethe" by Sunwoo Jeong

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Shift" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman + "Message In a Babel" by Adam-Troy Castro

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe + "Memories of Temperance" by Anya Ow

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Pure of Heart" by Jake Kerr + "Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library" by Cadwell Turnbull

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"My Girlfriend Is a Nebula" by David DeGraff + "What We Don’t Know About Angels" by Kristina Ten

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Books to Take at the End of the World" by Carolyn Ives Gilman + "Some to Cradle, Some to Eat" by Eugenia Triantafyllou

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Standardized Test" by Seoung Kim + "It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand (Part 2)" by Lowry Poletti

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"An Omodest Proposal" by Andrew Dana Hudson + "It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand (Part 1)" by Lowry Poletti

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"After the God Has Moved On" by Kate Elliott + "Chickenfoot Soup" by Marika Bailey

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I Eat The Sky For Us" by Vijayalaxmi Samal + "Dyson Spheres of the Vaba Cluster" by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Exquisite Pull of Relentless Desire" by Will McMahon + "Bone And Marrow, Woven Into Song" by Neon Yang

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"A Heap of Petrified Gods" by Adelehin Ijasan + "Tell Them A Story To Teach Them Kindness" by B. Pladek

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Three Birds That Came Out of Grayson Huff..." by David Anaxagoras + "Get Hyped!" by Gene Doucette

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Sleeping Beauty and the Restless Realm" by Lincoln Michel + "The Godhood of Ima Day" by Cressida Blake Roe +" What We Plan To Do To You" by Adam-Troy Castro

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Inside the House of Wisdom" by Tamara Masri + "Ol' Big Head" by Melissa A. Watkins

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Ancestor Code Error" by Ai Jiang + "The Ones Who Come At Last" by P.H. Lee

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The Last Word" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe + "Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Pt 2)" by Ashok K. Banker

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The Oracular Manifestation of Human Consciousness..." by Aimee Ogden + "We Will Bring Siege..." by Hammond Diehl

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Babywings" by Isabel Cañas + "Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Pt 1)" Ashok K. Banker

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Gelatt and JT Petty | Sully the God

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An excerpt from the unfinished memoirs of Sullivan Kingsley. Text was dictated to and recorded by a Kvasir ScrivenerTM. Any poetic editorializing can ...

Russell Nichols | Autonomy of a Murder

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kenneth Schneyer | Winding Sheets

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gallam didn’t look at the clothes the family provided until he had already prepared the body. “Prepared” was putting it mildly: the man was cove...

"The Life You've Given Me, Rusty" by P.A. Cornell + "Hot Hearts" by Lyndsie Manusos

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Zekelo's Barterhouse & Emporium" by Patrick Hurley + "Caesura" by Ashlee Lhamon

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ai Jiang | Ashes like the Leaves of Tea, Lava like Honey

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mother whispered to us about the beings on Earth she regretted creating; the ones whose only merits are their minds, but their minds rot so easily. | ...

Jae Steinbacher | The Ex Hex

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Talis had a problem. They’d copied the spell incorrectly, in a fury, after seeing photos of their ex with a new date in “their” spot. | © Jae S...

Sagan Yee | Two Motes in the Zeugma Dark

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every date followed the same pattern. After the dinner and drinks, and the long moonlit walk along the canal, Jules would casually remark that the han...

"GaaS" by Meg Elison + "The Mote in Bird's Eye, or Note Attached to a Frozen Corpse Retrieved from Deep Space" by Jon Lasser

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Osahon Ize-Iyamu | We the People Excluding I

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We were in the mines when the world was falling apart. I remember, the earth was cracking, and the plants were going limp, and the world looked dark b...

Gabriela Santiago | Reconstructing “The Goldenrod Conspiracy,” Edina Room, Saturday 2:30-3:30

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Can someone get the doors? Thanks. Please remember we’re on an honor system for chairs—if you’ve eaten today, please leave them for someone who ...

"The Terrible Secret of The Immortal Bards" by Adam-Troy Castro + "A Superior Knot" by Ash Huang

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe | Child of the River

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Archita Mittra | The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain’d

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Resistance" by Cat Rambo + "Under the Skin" by Deborah L. Davitt

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dominique Dickey | Look at the Moon

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We drove out to Joshua Tree for the star party—a gathering of amateur astronomers under a clear, dark sky. It was Holly’s idea, an impromptu adven...

Richard Thomas | The Darkness Between the Stars

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Buddy and I abandoned our hydrogen nomad at the edge of the wastelands before trudging around the rusted chain-link perimeter of the abandoned fairgro...

"Mud Maidens Rise" by K.A. Wiggins + "What's in a Name" by Matthew Hughes

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Carrie Vaughn | Between Above and Below

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Next war, the angel decided, he was going to sit out. Before the dust settled, before hosts rose and fell depending on their actions and inclinations,...

Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko | The Heist for the Soul of Humanity

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vanessa Fogg | The Red Queen’s Heart

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anything can be bought or sold at the Night Market. A dozen hummingbird tongues curled like tiny snails, basted in honey and chili oil and served on a...

"The Only Writing Advice You'll Ever Need to Survive Eldritch Horrors" by Aimee Picchi + "The Aliens Said They Want to Party" by Joel William David Buxton

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This month's Lightspeed Science Fiction Short Shots episode features "The Only Writing Advice You'll Ever Need to Survive Eldritch Horrors" by Aimee P...

"Songs of the Sorrow of Thorns" by Amayah Perveen + "A Guide on How to meet the Deity of Many Faces" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dominique Dickey | The Last Lucid Day

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Oyedotun Damilola Muees | Warning Notes from an Annihilator Machine

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today makes it a decade and a day I have been keeping tabs on you. I started by watching your mother, monitoring all her movements while she housed yo...

Shanna Germain | The Weight of Salt

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve never been so busy. The cave where we work used to be calm and, if not entirely devoid of sound, then split only by the crash of waves at high...

LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)

Activity Overview

Episodes

"The Last Season of Your Life" by Christopher Barzak + "The Test of Time" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

"The Stars Look Away From This Vessel" by dave ring + "Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord" by Ada Hoffmann

"The Aerialist" by Yoon Ha Lee + "The Star Where We Meet" by Sam W. Pisciotta

"The Knacker Man" by Scott Dalrymple + "Sarah's Laugh" by Melissa A Watkins

"Time Management" by P.A. Cornell + "Empathetic Psychosis" by Justin C. Key

"Update on Rules for the Spatiotemporal Use of Campus Spaces" by Andrea Kriz + "[Part 2] Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley" by Ashok K. Banker

"Dad Died on Discord" by Andrew Dana Hudson + "[Part 1] Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley" by Ashok K. Banker

"Hell Is Empty" by J.R. Dawson + "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" by V.M. Ayala

"When We Loved Giants" by Sara S. Messenger + "Terms of Enlightenment" by Patrick Hurley

"An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War" by JT Petty + "Lotus Dew for the Emperor's Tea" by Vanessa Fogg

"The Tide Folk" by Jennifer Hudak + "Espie Droger Dreams of War" by Matthew Kressel

"Eat, Prey, Love..." by Jilly Dreadful + "The Devourers Of War..." by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

"Warren's Tentacle" by Susan Palwick + "A Handbook To Spirit-hunting" by Modupeoluwa Shelle

"The Salt and the Cure" by Rukman Ragas + "Sensor Ghosts" by Deborah L. Davitt

"The Worldbuilder" by Phoenix Alexander + "Dream Destinations (From the Lost Traveler's Tour Guide)" by Alexander Weinstein

"Six Sides of a Fairy Tale" by Audrey Zhou + "Death Echoes Overlapping" by Megan Chee

"A Brief Public Announcement" by Eli Brown + "The Moving Finger" by Adam-Troy Castro

"Academic Neutrality" by M.R. Robinson + "Hunter, Hunter" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

"Bots All The Way Down" by Effie Seiberg + "Where the Chicken-Footed Dwell" by Marisca Pichette

"Choose Your Own Damnation" by Kehkashan Khalid + "Mother's Hip" by Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff

"The Space Between Us" by P.A. Cornell + "Memories of the MindMine" by David Marino

"HagioClass" by José Pablo Iriarte + "The Hub Living Among the Stars" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees

"Us, in Another Universe" by A.C. Wise + "Crickets in Lost Light" by Jonathan Olfert

"You Always Told Her You'd Give Her the World" by Aimee Ogden + "Reality Check" by Nancy Kress

"The Cold Burning Light of Her" by Sam W. Pisciotta + "Operation: Grapevine" by Joel W.D. Buxton

"Visible Damage" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman + "How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl" by Tina S. Zhu

"Beneath the Umdlebe Tree (Or: A Vegetable Love Story)" by Modupeoluwa Shelle + "Elegy for Zephyr One" by Gene Doucette

"How to Setup Your Mourning Robot" by Angela Liu + "In the Zone" by Lisa M. Bradley

"Thaw" by An Owomoyela + "Drosera regina" by A.L. Goldfuss

"Dating Fortune" by Sean McMullen + "Everyone Hates the Auditor" by Megan Chee

"The Porniest Porn in Porntown" by Stephen Graham Jones + "Dirge and Gleam" by Micah Dean Hicks

"At the Bottom of the Bonfire" by Martin Cahill + "O Mechfighter, O Starsinger" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

"City of One" by Stephen S. Power + "Human Voices" by Isabel J. Kim

"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" by Bogi Takács + "The Girlfriend Experience" by C.Z. Tacks

"The Place I Came To" by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko + "Apeiron" by Cadwell Turnbull

"Beginning Before and After The End" by Jake Stein + "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" by Kel Coleman

"Anti-Capitalism vs. the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia + "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" by V.M. Ayala

"The Dream Tourists" by Sarah Langan + "Savannah and the Apprentice" by Christopher Rowe

"Dad went out to get the milk" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu + "Feast of Famine" by Adam-Troy Castro

"Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B..." by David Anaxagoras + "It Might Be He Returns" by Fatima Taqvi

"Finding Love in a Time Loop: A How-To Guide" by Leah Cypess + "You Knit Me Together in My Mother's Womb" by Paul Crenshaw

"Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective" by Spencer Nitkey + "Domestic Disputes" by Naomi Kanakia

"How to Win Against the Robots" by Katherine Crighton + "A Dish Best Served Cold..." by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

"What Else, What Else, in the Joyous City? " by sadoeuphemist + "The Lord of Mars" by Meghan McCarron

"All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" by Marissa Lingen + "A Week at the Raven Feather Salon" by Carrie Vaughn

"My Mother, the Supervillain" by Benjamin Blattberg + "See Now the Misfortune..." by Lowry Poletti + "When the Faerie King..." by Vanessa Fogg

"Eyes Grown Thick on the World" by Will McMahon + "The Twenty-One Second God" by Peter Watts

"The Meaning We Seek" by Nancy Kress + "Ninnagan Says Remember" by Jonathan Olfert

"Where Are They Now?" by Meg Elison + "Through the Machine" by P. A. Cornell

"The Temporal Displacement of the Graves" by Russell Nichols + "The Price of Manners" by Martin Cahill

"Shadows on the Pavement" by R. P. Sand + "Rthing it Up: An Oral History" by Gene Doucette

"TALK: “The Siren Song of the Otherworld Goggles”" by Dominica Phetteplace + "The Other River" by Jon Lasser

"Meditations from the Event Horizon" by Deborah L. Davitt + "The Potter, His Daughter, and the Boy..." by Oyedotun Damilola Muees

"The Price of Miracles" by Nigel Faustino + "Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? Part II" by Sarah Langan

"To Navigate the Night" by Rich Larson + "Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? Part I" by Sarah Langan

"Instructions for Good Boys on the Interplanetary Expedition" by Rachael K. Jones + "The Lexicon of Lethe" by Sunwoo Jeong

"The Shift" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman + "Message In a Babel" by Adam-Troy Castro

"Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe + "Memories of Temperance" by Anya Ow

"Pure of Heart" by Jake Kerr + "Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library" by Cadwell Turnbull

"My Girlfriend Is a Nebula" by David DeGraff + "What We Don’t Know About Angels" by Kristina Ten

"Books to Take at the End of the World" by Carolyn Ives Gilman + "Some to Cradle, Some to Eat" by Eugenia Triantafyllou

"Standardized Test" by Seoung Kim + "It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand (Part 2)" by Lowry Poletti

"An Omodest Proposal" by Andrew Dana Hudson + "It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand (Part 1)" by Lowry Poletti

"After the God Has Moved On" by Kate Elliott + "Chickenfoot Soup" by Marika Bailey

"I Eat The Sky For Us" by Vijayalaxmi Samal + "Dyson Spheres of the Vaba Cluster" by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko

"The Exquisite Pull of Relentless Desire" by Will McMahon + "Bone And Marrow, Woven Into Song" by Neon Yang

"A Heap of Petrified Gods" by Adelehin Ijasan + "Tell Them A Story To Teach Them Kindness" by B. Pladek

"Three Birds That Came Out of Grayson Huff..." by David Anaxagoras + "Get Hyped!" by Gene Doucette

"Sleeping Beauty and the Restless Realm" by Lincoln Michel + "The Godhood of Ima Day" by Cressida Blake Roe +" What We Plan To Do To You" by Adam-Troy Castro

"Inside the House of Wisdom" by Tamara Masri + "Ol' Big Head" by Melissa A. Watkins

"Ancestor Code Error" by Ai Jiang + "The Ones Who Come At Last" by P.H. Lee

"The Last Word" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe + "Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Pt 2)" by Ashok K. Banker

"The Oracular Manifestation of Human Consciousness..." by Aimee Ogden + "We Will Bring Siege..." by Hammond Diehl

"Babywings" by Isabel Cañas + "Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Pt 1)" Ashok K. Banker

Philip Gelatt and JT Petty | Sully the God

Russell Nichols | Autonomy of a Murder

Kenneth Schneyer | Winding Sheets