![]() | The River Boy by Tim PrattFrom the January 2008 issue There once was a woman who wanted more than anything to have a child. She was old, and had outlived her own sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters, too, and since her grandchildren had all been excessively taken with modern ideas and upstart temperance religions, there were no great-grandchildren. […] |
![]() | Debris Ensuing from a Supervortex by Brian AmesFrom the January 2008 issue SD is back, guiding Blake to another memory. There is a grin on SD’s lips. Blake’s medicine smiles as wide as a black-green sky spinning over a storm. But this is a good good good thing, this bird’s mouth that feeds its young his recollections back one by one. The worms […] |
![]() | Interview with Daniel Abraham by Tobias BuckellFrom the January 2008 issue Daniel Abraham is a New Mexico-based writer. His short fiction started appearing in the late 90s in places like Asimov’s, Realms of Fantasy, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Abraham’s story Flat Diane was nominated for the Nebula Award in 2005 and won the 2005 International Horror Guild award, […] |
![]() | Countdown to Singularity: A Conversation with Vernor Vinge by Shaun FarrellFrom the January 2008 issue The Technological Singularity is a popular trope in science fiction that promises the birth of superhuman intelligence. Whether this entity arises as an artificial intelligence or through the amplification of our own brains, humanity may be forced to radically alter its way of life just to survive. |
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![]() | Artist Bio: Ray TohFrom the January 2008 issue
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