July-August 2023
Standard Edition + Red Alert Variant + Strange Horizons Variant




To Serve Him
By Shannon Connor Winward
Ren drifted down the market paths. She weighed crater fruits in her palm, poked at featherless fizzants, pinched yellow pine shrubs, and sniffed the resinous perfume they ...

Art Feature: Life Refracted
Art by Sloane LeongFeature by Rob Carroll
Sloane Leong can do it all. She’s an accomplished writer, editor, and artist, with dozens of short stories in publication, an anthology series for which sh...

Art Feature: Butcher Block
Art by Butcher BillyFeature by Rob Carroll
The art of Butcher Billy can accurately be described as a fictional collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jack Kirby that is then reimagined for the Inter...

Payment Unkind
By Andrew Leon Hudson
I connect with JossLyn en route to the mallzone, competitively bidding where to eat.
< like burgers are tokens I joke.
> which will probably be next they send.
< that...

What You Want
By Michael A. Clark
It’s boring being rich.
Maybe that’s why I’m slogging through mud towards the S.P.A.D. idling on a cold, wet French airfield, long before NATO, Brexit, and COVID-19.
It’ll give ...

KAOSU, The Last Moving Country in the World
By Angela Liu
I arrive at KAOSU’s nest-shaped Visitor’s Center two hours early for boarding procedures. The reviews on VoyageAdvisor warned of the rabid fans and shameless paparazzi, but I’m still ...
Issue 016 Authors

Eliane Boey

Michael A. Clark

Robin Rose Graves

Bill Gusky

Robert E. Harpold

Andrew Leon Hudson

Michelle Ann King

Angela Liu

Shannon Connor Winward
Issue 016 Artists

Butcher Billy

Dofresh
Cover Artist

Sloane Leong