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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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		<title>The Moving Finger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam-Troy Castro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a minute, nothing we’ve said to each other and nothing we’ve done with each other will ever matter again. I don’t want her to go. We’ve just made love: spontaneous, unexpected, volcanic, in the way that sometimes occurs between people who are usually more cautious, more guarded, more moved by rational calculation than whim.]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Public Announcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one can deny that the Apollo program of the early 1970s was an embarrassment to our nation: ill-conceived, hostile, and audacious. Not only did the astronauts fail to bring back the severed head of the Moon King, but every one of them fled within hours of having landed, urinating in their suits as they retreated. The assault on the lunar surface stopped short at the planting of a stiff and garish flag.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa A Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a good addition to the ever-growing shelf of books about Black students in magical schools? Melissa A Watkins recommends <em>An Arcane Inheritance</em> for your next thrilling dark academia read.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Humphrey Lanham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to write a story set in space or on a spaceship. My main focus is fantasy so whenever I write science fiction or horror, it is always a bit more challenging. This story was inspired by all the human migration stories and movies I’ve encountered but I wanted to add a twist—what if something went wrong midway?]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Neutrality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.R. Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Amy begins to flay herself during office hours, you aren’t quite sure what to do. You hate office hours. You used to enjoy them, actually, back before the flayings started. Sure, it’s hard sharing your office with three other postdocs, and sure, you could spend these hours more efficiently without constant interruptions from shy undergraduates with a dozen questions already answered on the syllabus.]]></description>
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		<title>Hunter,  Hunter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, like every other day, I wake up expecting to die before night comes. No, I’m not suicidal and I don’t have a death wish. I am just a Hunter. The life expectancy of the average Hunter in the Second Quadrant is ten years, and even that is if they are exceptionally lucky. There are too many ways to die in this line of work; so much that not even the few old-timers like myself and Jess can remember all the deaths we’ve experienced.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms by Darcie Little Badger, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, and Kinsale Drake, eds.</title>
		<link>https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/book-review-beyond-the-glittering-world-an-anthology-of-indigenous-feminisms-and-futurisms-by-darcie-little-badger-stacie-shannon-denetsosie-and-kinsale-drake-eds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arley Sorg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewer Arley Sorg recommends a recent anthology of Native voices, <em>Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Marisca Pichette</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Grove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In general, I love the chicken-footed house from Baba Yaga’s story. I’ve often wondered how the world might look from the house’s point of view. Is it a bystander or set piece? Could it be sentient? While I’ve treated the house as its own character before, this was the first time that Baba Yaga herself was entirely removed from the story. Chicken-footed houses multiplied, and suddenly the forest was not so empty.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: Effie Seiberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Jeffrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a phrase, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down"><u>it’s turtles all the way down</u></a>,” which initially referred to the world theory that there was a flat Earth balanced on the back of a stack of turtles. When asked what was beneath the turtles, this was the answer. So here, it’s if you’re looking at what’s happening on the internet, there’s more and more algorithmically generated content, and it’s algorithms responding to algorithms responding to algorithms responding to algorithms . . . it’s bots all the way down.]]></description>
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		<title>Where the Chicken-Footed Dwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisca Pichette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When she decided to wander through the woods in search of poppy fields and prowling houses, the stepmothers and grandmothers scoffed.

“You’ll be looking for love potions and beauty serums, then. Shallow. I always knew you were an insecure girl.”

“She wants slimmer thighs.”

“She craves wider hips.”

“She knows the boys don’t look twice at her, that she’ll never marry. Sad.”]]></description>
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		<title>Bots All the Way Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Effie Seiberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Once upon a time,” outputted the algorithm, “there was an AI.

“It generated recipes and ingredient descriptions for an online grocery store. The website said that this recipe was not just a squash soup recipe, but it also was a good diet recipe / keto recipe / recipe for autumn nights / five ingredient recipe / easy beginner recipe / recipe to impress your date.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: January 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:05:03 +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: Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phoebe Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s explicitly a response to the ways that trans women are dehumanised, commodified, and othered in this patriarchal society for our lack of reproductive capabilities, which itself is inherently misogynistic, by enforcing a cis woman’s only value as being <i>her</i> reproductive capability, which is neither permanent nor guaranteed. Sadly, a lot of cis women don’t realise this is a shared struggle (read Julia Serano’s <i>Whipping Girl</i>, girl).]]></description>
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		<title>Choose Your Own Damnation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kehkashan Khalid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve gotten a C-minus, and it isn’t your fault. It is also not your fault that your parents are anal, Pakistani immigrants who came to this country with nothing and think a C-minus in tenth grade spells life-long doom. It doesn’t help that your Auntie (your mother’s cousin three times removed) is staying over and caught you watching inappropriate content on your laptop.]]></description>
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		<title>Mother’s Hip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High above the Amazon Rainforest, Hynd circled, her massive wingspan only visible by the shadow she cast on the battlefield below. She felt the wind pass across her wings, whispering of torrential rain coming; not her concern, so far above the clouds, but she packaged the data and shot it down to the comms base at ground level so the grunts would know what was coming.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Spotlight: David Marino</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Humphrey Lanham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I typically need three things to start drafting a story: A setting/premise, a character, and an opening scene, or at least an opening line. If I have all three of those, the story will “catch,” and I can ride it to the end. If I’m missing one of those three, things usually stall out within the first thousand words.]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of the MindMine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Marino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rat was sure the silent, four-eyed skull of a dead god was staring at him. He followed the crowd off the train toward a rickety stand with the word Orientation painted on the front. But he couldn’t stop looking into the giant god’s eyes. Every dead person Rat had seen had eyes like that. Unseeing. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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