// Sanjana Raj
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Sep 17, 2026
Asha is eight pages into the book before the words disappear. There are still hundreds of pages before the end of the book, so they must have had a record of the length of the volume, but lost the text. It’s a common experience in this library, to encounter fragments of things, to have to make educated assumptions about what once was.
// Oyedotun Damilola Muees
// Lightspeed Magazine
// Jul 9, 2026
You know you are fucked when you see fragments of the broken radio on the floor. Your damaged ship lay nose caked into the sand, and coupled with your sprained ankle that hums an excruciating pain, and slight concussion on your head—your chances of survival in this unknown territory has now drastically dropped. In your first year as a space cade...
// H.H. Pak
// Clarkesworld Magazine
// Aug 1, 2026
Of course I could kill him. If I wanted to, I would not hesitate to unhinge my jaw around his neck, skewering his trachea with my tusks and locking my […]
// Adam Pracht
// Escape Pod
// Jul 9, 2026
// Summer Brooks
// Escape Pod
// Sep 3, 2026