Table of Contents

July/August 2022 Vol. CXXXXII No. 7 & 8

NOVELLA

TRUTA AND PILTA, Shane Tourtellotte

NOVELETTES

PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM, Auston Habershaw

THE DARK AGES, Jerry Oltion

THE MERCY OF THE SANDSEA, T.L. Huchu

ACROSS THE RIVER, A.T. Sayre

SINGLE POINT FAILURE, Sean Monaghan

SHORT STORIES

IN TRANSLATION (LOST/FOUND), Kelsey Hutton

THE TASTE OF SOUND, Steve Toase

EVERYONE THEN WHO HEARS THESE WORDS, Aimee Ogden

A RISKY HARVEST, Geoffrey Hart

SONG OF STARLIGHT, Jennifer R. Povey

RARE EARTHS PINEAPPLE, Michèle Laframboise

KILLING A TIGER, Karl Gantner

BLOOM, Kate Maruyama

WE’RE ALL IN TROUBLE, Joe M. McDermott

MY NASCENT GARDEN, Melanie Harding-Shaw

WHERE THE BUFFALO CARS ROAM, David Cleden

WE MAY BE BETTER STRANGERS, Mjke Wood

FLASH FICTION

WHAT IS GREEN WILL ALWAYS BE, Bruce McAllister

INSIDE OUT, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

SCIENCE FACT

BLACK HOLES AND THE HUMAN FUTURE, Howard V. Hendrix

BIOSIGNATURES—THE SECOND BIGGEST BLUNDER OF SF, Valentin D. Ivanov

SPECIAL FEATURE

ANOTHER “DEADLINE”?, Edward M. Wysocki, Jr

PROBABILITY ZERO

WORSE THAN ONE, Eric James Stone

POETRY

BELTER CATS, Mary Soon Lee

IN PERPETUITY, Bruce Boston

READER'S DEPARTMENTS

EDITORIAL: ENVIRONMENTAL TANSTAAFL, Richard A. Lovett

THE 2021 ANALYTICAL LABORATORY RESULTS

IN TIMES TO COME

THE ALTERNATE VIEW, John G. Cramer

BIOLOG: A.T. Sayre, Richard A. Lovett

GUEST REFERENCE LIBRARY, Sean C. W. Korsgaard

BRASS TACKS

UPCOMING EVENTS, Anthony Lewis