OUR SEPTEMBER ISSUE
People often wish they could keep their youth forever, but what if they really could, in an extreme way? And what if somebody else makes that decision for them, to keep the physical and mental advantages of a child while gaining some of the best features of adulthood? That’s what happens in “Evergreen,” Shane Tourtellotte’s lead novelette in our September issue. And, as so often happens, the ramifications of a choice that sounds simple are far more complex and less clear-cut than those who make it—or those for whom it is made—might imagine or wish. . . .
We also have fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee and Eric James Stone, plus the thoroughly engaging conclusion of Barry B. Longyear’s Turning the Grain.
Richard A. Lovett supplies the science fact article, “From Atlantis to Canoe-Eating Trees: Geomythology Comes of Age.” Ideally science relies on careful observation, measurement, and (whenever possible) controlled experiments. But at the scales of prehistory, planetology, and astronomy, some of the most interesting phenomena are out of reach for direct observation and experiment, yet strongly hinted at by folklore and ancient writings. By themselves, those are not science—but they can suggest the existence of events for which evidence can then be found and tested by thoroughly scientific methods. . . .
