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That Far, Uncharted Ocean
Auston Habershaw
A Short Future History of Whales
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Gardeners and Cosmologists
Mario Milosevic
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New year, new fiction! Let’s kick things off right, with our lead story for 2025: “Our Lady of the Gyre,” from Douglas R. Franklin.
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We may be talking about what’s coming up in the wintery final issue of the year, but summer is still a few weeks away as I write this at the end of May. Luckily, the stories next issue are great, whenever you read them!
Our lead story has an unusual contest in an even more unusual place, when a human is enlisted to help some familiar aliens learn how to race sailboats in “The Far Uncharted Ocean,” by Auston Habershaw.
Our primary nonfiction piece in the issue is part fact article, part speculative thought-exercise, in David S. Lindsay’s “Interstellar Paranoia.”
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That Far, Uncharted Ocean
by Auston Habershaw
It was unclear why I was going. At first I thought it was some top secret thing—something above my clearance as an officer in the coast guard. Later, I’d figured out that nobody knew. The navy and air force brass were pissed off every time they saw me at a briefing. I knew that look: what’s this puddle pirate doing here? Couldn’t we find a competent officer in any other branch? I think behind the scenes they were railing against space command and those guys from the State Department about it, but they stood firm. Lieutenant Commander Amos Tambly USCG was the guy they wanted, the guy they needed to make First Contact. READ MORE
A Short Future History of Whales
by Jenny Williams
#Phoebe
Today the obstetrician informed me that you are approximately five and a half inches across—the size of a large avocado, she pointed out, a comparison that makes me almost as squeamish as morning sickness. Why would I want to think of you as something to spread on toast? I prefer knowing that you are only slightly smaller than the eye of a blue whale, and you, too, are developing your senses underwater. READ MORE
