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