Next Issue

At the risk of being vague for fear of giving anything away, our cover story for next issue, “Consumer,” is a blend of hard SF and grand space opera from Stephen Case that you don’t want to miss!

Our fact article is one I inadvertently promised you for this issue, but the best laid plans of mice and editors, as the saying goes: Michael W. Carroll’s “Homes Away from Home” examines the practicalities of settling and permanently residing on (and in) the Moon.

We also have a thematically complementary Special Feature in “Seeds of Cities,” from M.C. Childs, on the design and planning of future cities (including thoughts on the matter from some SF luminaries, just for this article).

And of course there are plenty of other pieces where those came from: it turns out that big rig trucking has more applications than one might expect in “Rovers,” from Paul Carlson; enclosed living begins to have a deleterious effect on an artist in MB Valente’s “False Light”; the opportunity to explore distant worlds in alien bodies proves both more and less than envisioned, in “To Wear a Golden Sorrow,” by Eric Del Carlo; the last (?) remaining human in a future of ascendant AI bristles, in Tom R. Pike’s “Conscience”; a particularly drastic emergency maneuver in orbit, in “Slingshot” from David Gerrold; and more, from HAB Wilt, Gregor Hartmann, Jay Werkheiser, and others.

You don’t want to miss it!