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		<title>Editorial: May 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Joseph Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to check out the editorial for a rundown of this month's content and for all of John Joseph Adams's media and book recommendations!]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Kluwe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Kluwe recommends <em>Aicha</em>, a book that reminds us why we fight for a better world.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Justin C. Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delia Cullity</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s still a lot of stigma around mental illness. Even the profession that treats it isn’t immune. There would most definitely be the pressure for a psychiatrist with a psychotic disorder to hide their diagnosis from colleagues and patients. So, already, the ‘what if?’ was ripe in my head. I’ve always found the brain, consciousness, and human perception fascinating. It’s what’s drawn me both to being a speculative fiction author and a psychiatrist.]]></description>
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		<title>Time Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>P.A. Cornell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the morning Gwen woke with the ability to manipulate time, it was already too late. She didn’t immediately realize she could stretch or compress time—that would come later. At first, all she knew was Dianne was gone, and she wasn’t coming back.]]></description>
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		<title>Empathetic Psychosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin C. Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<u>Personality Disorder (Not Otherwise Specified)</u>

My patients called me Dr. Holloway. My friends called me Jason. I won’t tell you what my three ex-wives called me but I’m sure you can guess. I was a psychiatrist (and a damn good one seventy percent of the time).

My adult life had been full of restarts, reinventions, and rehabilitations. <i>This</i> new beginning, though . . . this was supposed to be different. I’d taken a job at Margins Treatment Center in sunny Los Angeles as the Clinical Director.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Witch by Marie N’Diaye, translated by Jordan Stump</title>
		<link>https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/book-review-the-witch-by-marie-ndiaye-translated-by-jordan-stump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa A Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melissa A Watkins recommends Marie N’Daiye’s novel in translation <em>The Witch</em> for fans of <em>Weapons </em>and <em>Wild Spaces</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley [Part 2]</title>
		<link>https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-gun-vixen-and-the-machinist-of-doom-valley-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashok K. Banker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun was sinking toward the horizon like a brass penny dropped in muddy water by the time I rode back into New Providence. My Halfie’s mechanical shoes struck sparks off the metal road plates, each impact sending little jolts of pain through my spine. Those hours of riding and tracking had taken their toll, but it wasn’t the kind of tired that sleep could fix. The kind of weary that comes from knowing too much, seeing too clear.]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Rules for the Spatiotemporal Use of Campus Spaces</title>
		<link>https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/update-on-rules-for-the-spatiotemporal-use-of-campus-spaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Kriz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Members of the Community,

As we begin yet another fall semester in the throes of the rogue timestream unleashed on our campus, I cannot help but take a moment to marvel at just how vibrant our community has become. In addition to our current residents, our University’s campus grounds and buildings have come to support thousands of students, staff, affiliates, and visitors from past, future, as well as alternate Universities.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Sauúti Terrors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton, and Cheryl S. Ntumy, eds.</title>
		<link>https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/book-review-sauuti-terrors-eugen-bacon-stephen-embleton-and-cheryl-s-ntumy-eds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arley Sorg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arley Sorg recommends the new Flame Tree Collections anthology <em>Sauúti Terrors.</em>]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Ashok K. Banker</title>
		<link>https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-ashok-banker-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Grove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've always wanted to return to the world of Six-Gun and it was only a matter of time before a new one found me. Before, I was always locked into back-to-back trad publishing contracts (80 books, not counting other commissioned projects!). Now that I'm full indie and have found a loyal, growing readership online, I can't write new stories fast enough to satisfy the demand.]]></description>
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		<title>Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley [Part 1]</title>
		<link>https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-gun-vixen-and-the-machinist-of-doom-valley-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashok K. Banker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Providence sparkled like fool’s gold in the distance, all gleaming spires and whirring clockwork, nothing like the two-bit townships I usually rode through. My Halfie tensed beneath me, his wolf-hackles rising at the stink of machine oil and steam that drifted our way. I dug my spurs in gentle-like, just enough to remind him who was boss without drawing blood. Been doing that less lately—seemed like we were finally reaching an understanding, him and me.]]></description>
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		<title>Dad Died on Discord</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Dana Hudson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we moved Dad to the care facility, his only complaint was the Wi-Fi. “Laggy,” he called it when he was having a good day. “Fucking piece of shit,” he called it the rest of the time.

At first I was relieved. I’d been worried that he’d bristle at the cramped room, like a zoo animal pacing its enclosure in a sad documentary. But he never said a word about the bedsit quarters or the unfamiliar, ever-churning staff.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: April 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/editorial-april-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Joseph Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to check out the editorial for a rundown of this month's content and for all of John Joseph Adams's media and book recommendations!]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: J.R. Dawson</title>
		<link>https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-j-r-dawson-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phoebe Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story is an example of how sometimes we need to make art in order to make sense of what’s happening around us. For context, I’m currently living in Minneapolis during ICE’s Operation Metro Surge. A week after Renee Good’s murder, I was still stuck and paralyzed and I needed to put my energy into something. I needed to put what was going on into words. Because that’s my job.]]></description>
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		<title>Hell Is Empty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.R. Dawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And all the devils are here.

“What’s that from?” Millie asks as she gets her coat.

I stand at the back window, looking out. Usually, you can see the downtown skyline from this position. Today, it’s just the hellmouth. A long tube that looks like an esophagus that’s been yanked out of a kaiju and dangles from the ground. Bloody, meaty, smoking.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: V.M. Ayala</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leighanna DeRouen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m honored <i>Lightspeed</i> enjoyed “Saint Zero” and published it, it’s such a dream home for this story. The idea behind it was a twofold, very random thought sequence: “What if <i>A Knight’s Tale</i> were sapphic?” and then “<i>No</i>, wait, what if it were set in space?” This was followed by a lot of complicated emotions existing in this current political climate (“Saint Zero” was written in 2025, so these emotions have only intensified since), and then realizing this story wasn’t going to end well for either Zero or Silvi.]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight</title>
		<link>https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/saint-zero-of-the-hollows-and-the-eagle-knight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V.M. Ayala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only sound Zero heard in their helmet was their own hyperventilating and the gentle pings from their pegasus.

&#62; waiting . . .

&#62; waiting . . .

&#62; communication received

&#62; confirmation of countdown initiation: 30 seconds

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		<title>Book Review: The Franchise by Thomas Elrod</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Kluwe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Chris Kluwe's review of the upcoming SF/F novel <em>The Franchise</em> by Thomas Elrod.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Sara S. Messenger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delia Cullity</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day in the summer of 2024, I was seized by an intense maternal feeling toward a potential future child. From that came the <i>I will, you will</i>—the first-person future tense which contributes to the prophetic, instructive voice. When I think about parenthood, I think about diaspora, generational trauma, and immigration, and writing from the narrator’s voice, traversing these tensions, felt relieving. I’m finding I write about parent-child relationships a lot.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Patrick Hurley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phoebe Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Terms of Enlightenment” came about after I started dabbling in meditation several years ago. I’d go on Ted Talk or Calm app binges, and during that time, I heard the same Buddhist parables over and over. While listening to “The Tiger &#38; the Strawberries,” I had the (always worthwhile) thought, “How would Terry Pratchett write this?”]]></description>
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		<title>When We Loved Giants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara S. Messenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I beg you, let me tell you about my daughter. My brilliant daughter will be one of the four people who survive their airplane crashing into a giant. Or, more accurately, a giant swiping their airplane out of the sky. Perhaps it meant to catch, or caress. My daughter will never know. Usually airlines predict giants ahead of time, from sightings or seismic activity, but this one was not easily seen and quick as a whip, like my daughter.]]></description>
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		<title>Terms of Enlightenment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Hurley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jay found himself sitting across from a bearded old man in voluminous maroon robes. “Why are you here?” the robed man asked. “I was sentenced to VSIM rehabilitation by my judge-counselor.” “Yes,” replied the robed man. “You would choose the literal interpretation of the question, wouldn’t you?”]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Girl Who Made a Mouse From Her Grandfather’s Whiskers by Kenneth Hunter Gordon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa A Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melissa A. Watkins recommends <em>The Girl Who Made a Mouse From Her Grandfather's Whiskers </em>for your next dose of dreamy speculative fiction.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Vanessa Fogg</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Humphrey Lanham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve always been fascinated by stories of the quest for immortality, and Chinese legends abound with such tales—Taoist sages “spiritually cultivating” their way to immortality and riding away on cranes; emperors poisoning themselves with “immortality” elixirs that contain mercury and arsenic; an emperor who funds multiple failed expeditions to Penglai, the fabled land of immortals.]]></description>
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		<title>Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Fogg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The First Emperor was the first and last of true immortals on earth, and no winter touched his realm. No autumn wind blew. His orchards bloomed and fruited and bloomed again. In his court, death and old age were shut out. And every day, he drank a cup of tea brewed in the dew of lotus flowers, which had been collected that morning from the lotuses that grew in a heaven-touched lake at the easternmost point of his palace grounds.]]></description>
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		<title>An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JT Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<i>This was in August of 2019. A day-old newspaper reported civil wars in Somalia and Yemen. A gunman killed twenty-two people in an El Paso Walmart. Jeffrey Epstein had taken a plea deal, promising to name names, promising to name <b>the name</b></i>.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Midnight Somewhere by Johnny Compton</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arley Sorg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're looking for a horror short-story collection that has a little bit of everything, Arley Sorg recommends Johnny Compton's <em>Midnight Somewhere</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Matthew Kressel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Grove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it’s not obvious, I wrote this story during the period last year when DOGE was tearing apart long-standing US government agencies and firing skilled workers by the tens of thousands for a supposed cost reduction, but really to remove federal oversight from private enterprise.]]></description>
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		<title>The Tide Folk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Hudak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In summer, when the ocean ebbs at dusk, when the sand turns to glass and it becomes impossible to discern the difference between reflection and sky, the Tide Folk emerge from their pools. You might think, if you clamber on the cliffs searching for those tiny ecosystems the sea leaves behind twice a day, that you can see all there is to see—that you could, if you tried, touch the bottom of the pockets of water with your fingertip.]]></description>
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		<title>Espie Droger Dreams of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Kressel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Espie Droger dreams of war. What else can he dream of? There is nothing left. He has dreamed of world travel and expensive Scotch and lithe young women and sudden uncontrollable laughter. But his vitality has seeped from him like fluid from a dying tree. Espie is old. And Espie is tired.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: March 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Joseph Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to check out the editorial for a rundown of this month's content and for all of John Joseph Adams's media and book recommendations!]]></description>
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		<title>The Devourers of War; or, An Excerpt from the Cookbook of the Gods</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that thing you humans say about how your life flashes before your eyes just before you die? I think you guys <i>might</i> be onto something. I have lived for eons but every single day is running through my mind right now. Every trick I ever pulled, every city destroyed in anger, every lover I took to bed. I see them all, clear as day.]]></description>
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		<title>Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest Proposal for Ensuring Gender Equality Through Selective Dietary Practices; or, a Geriatric Millennial’s Guide to #GirlDinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jilly Dreadful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The earliest videos went something like this: disembodied female voices singing strange intonations of the words “girl dinner” in a voice-over effect as the visuals of the video featured dozens of increasingly strange combinations of food. A handful of Cheez-It crackers, grapes, and a stick of string cheese with a line of sriracha along the top? Girl dinner.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Reliquary by Hannah Whitten</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Kluwe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewer Chris Kluwe recommends the underworld horrors in Hannah Whitten's <em>Reliquary</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Susan Palwick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delia Cullity</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inspiration is loosely from our increasing dependence on technology, especially in the setting of biological catastrophe—think about the surge in Zoom usage during Covid—but also from just how bizarre AI responses tend to be.]]></description>
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		<title>A Handbook to Spirit-Hunting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Modupeoluwa Shelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‎ If you are reading this book then you must have either completed your might and magic training or succeeded in killing a spirit hunter and found their copy a spoil (no spirit hunter in their right mind will hand you this book under any circumstances). But whatever means you’ve acquired it, it will guide you into hunting, capturing or, in the worst case scenario, running when you come across any of these spirits.]]></description>
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		<title>Warren&#8217;s Tentacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Palwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AI surgical bots that reconstruct Warren after the accident have no clearer a concept of human anatomy than AI has ever had. He emerges from anesthesia to discover, in stages, two extra fingers on his right hand, a tentacle emerging from the left side of his ribcage, and a third eye, gummed shut by mucus, in the back of his head. Also, one of his feet is backwards.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Hospital at the End of the World by Justin C. Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa A Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewer Melissa A. Watkins recommends <em>The Hospital at the End of the World </em>for fans of <em>There Is No Antimemetics Division</em> and <em>All That We See or Seem</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Deborah L. Davitt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Jeffrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I absolutely <i>love</i> Titan as setting. A few years ago, I wrote a story called “The Djinn of Titan’s Dunes” (<i>Cossmass Infinities</i> #2, May 1, 2020, for anyone interested) in which a pair of researchers stationed on the moon, well, one thinks he’s found life, and he wants to protect it from a grabby Earth.]]></description>
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		<title>The Salt and the Cure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rukman Ragas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The days that followed the godkilling were rife with confusion. The congregation couldn’t come to an agreement: The greatest prophecy of our religion, where our god’s eternal death gives us an eternal home, had come to pass, yet there were no heavenly steps toward a warm hollow or a place to rest our souls.]]></description>
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		<title>Sensor Ghosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah L. Davitt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the hydrocarbon clouds of Titan had rolled back over Kraken Mare, rendering the waves of the methane sea impossibly blue as they lapped at the shore, gradually eroding sharp spires of ice into rounded pebbles. Beatriu Cardona shivered despite the warmth of the rover’s interior as the vehicle plowed along the frigid shore, tanklike treads crushing the ice sand into chevron-shaped tracks.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Volume One  by Michael Kelly, ed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arley Sorg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're looking for a gorgeously curated selection of stories, Arley Sorg suggests you check out <em>The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Volume One</em> edited by Michael Kelly.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Alexander Weinstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Grove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the central questions I’ve been exploring within these destinations is the idea of dreams, both literal and figurative. There’s a way we live in a dreamworld constantly—both from the daydreams we have about the future (locations we dream of moving to, hopes we have for travels, our wishes for better professions or love lives) to the more mystical experiences of wondering whether, as the Buddhists claim, this world is indeed an illusion.]]></description>
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		<title>Dream Destinations (From the Lost Traveler&#8217;s Tour Guide)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Weinstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your guidebook writers acknowledge that there’s been a great deal of debate about how exactly an eighth continent appeared in our midst. Amid some circles, there’s talk of the landmass as an intergalactic spaceship, its presence entering our reality like a sparrow flying through an open window. There are speculations that it rose from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Worldbuilder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phoenix Alexander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The settlement was barely two weeks old, and so her own habitation husk had to serve as an ER room for the man who was carried in from the planet’s surface, screaming and blue-lipped with trauma shock. “What happened?” The doctor listened as the man’s coworker explained how he had been guiding a transportation eelcraft when something huge and obscure rose from the river, crushed him against the bank, and made off.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: February 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Joseph Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to check out the editorial for a rundown of this month's content and for all of John Joseph Adams's media and book recommendations!]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Megan Chee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phoebe Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got the idea to write a story about several different alien planets in their last few days of existence before the apocalypse. I thought it would be interesting to explore snapshots of these alien societies in their final days. Eventually, I got the idea to connect them through some kind of psychic anomaly that brings them together in their moment of death.]]></description>
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		<title>Six Sides of a Fairy Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey Zhou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. KING Once upon a time there was a king who had a daughter that he loved very much, and when she disappeared, he called you to the throne room and requested your services. “Tell me what happened to her,” he said. It had been three days since the Crown Princess Jieqiong had last been [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Echoes Overlapping</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan Chee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the necropolis space station of the Tau Andromeda planetary system, the keepers of the tomb attended to the dead and the dying. They cleansed, prepared, and prayed over the bodies. They performed the last rites, paying intricate attention to the customs of each person’s native community. This was the most sacred of tasks. Carelessness or disrespect was not tolerated; just one mistake meant immediate dismissal.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Kluwe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re a fan of nature, things that go bump in the night, or just like reading extremely well-executed writing, reviewer Chris Kluwe thinks you should do yourself a favor and check out Jarod K. Anderson's <em>Strange Animals</em>.]]></description>
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