Driftings

by Ian McDonald

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton's Law Along the Event Horizon

by Helena Bell

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Effigy Nights

by Yoon Ha Lee

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Wine-Dark Sea: Color and Perception in the Ancient World

by Erin Hoffman

Riding a Whale through an Ocean of Lard: A Conversation with Jesse Bullington

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: Spoiler Alert!

by E. C. Ambrose

2012 Readers' Poll

by Neil Clarke

Winding Down

by Alex Ries

Gravity

by Erzebet YellowBoy

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Wanderers

by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Vacant Spaces

by Greg Kurzawa

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Great Leap Sideways: SF and Social Media

by Mark Cole

Always a New World: A Conversation with Karen Lord

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: Reading and Writing and Moral Judgment

by Daniel Abraham

Editor’s Desk: Upgrades and Reader’s Poll Winners

by Neil Clarke

Concrete 9

by Yang Xueguo

The Weight of a Blessing

by Aliette de Bodard

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution

by A.C. Wise

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

86, 87, 88, 89

by Genevieve Valentine

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Videodrome at Thirty

by Keith Phipps

Accepting a More Profitable Shoe: A Conversation with M. C. Planck

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: Original Sin

by Alethea Kontis

Editor’s Desk: Forwards and Backwards

by Neil Clarke

The Emperor’s Arrival

by David Demaret

Annex

by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

No Portraits on the Sky

by Kali Wallace

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Melt With You

by Emily C. Skaftun

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Spar (The Bacon Remix)

by Kij Johnson

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Guest of Honor

by Robert Reed

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Finisterra

by David Moles

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Gathered in Translation

by Ken Liu

The Military, Magic, and the Misery Ethic: A Conversation with Myke Cole

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: Literatures of Despair

by Daniel Abraham

Editor’s Desk: How Did This Happen?

by Neil Clarke

The Awakening

by Alexandru Popescu

Soulcatcher

by James Patrick Kelly

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Tachy Psyche

by Andy Dudak

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

(R + D) /I = M

by E. Catherine Tobler

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Banquet of the Lords of Night

by Liz Williams

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled . . .

by Michael Swanwick

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

When the Alien Is Us: Science Fictional Documentaries

by Maggie Clark

Assassinating the Reader: A Conversation with Yoon Ha Lee

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: The Singularity is Dead. Long Live the Singularity!

by Craig DeLancey

Editor's Desk: Day of the Wineberry

by Neil Clarke

Desert Dragon

by Julie Dillon

The Urashima Effect

by E. Lily Yu

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

This is Why We Jump

by Jacob Clifton

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Free-Fall

by Graham Templeton

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Mongoose

by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Dead Men Walking

by Paul J. McAuley

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Beyond the Tracks: The Locomotive in Science Fiction Literature

by Jason Heller

Eccentric Relatives and Raw Grief: A Conversation with Susan Palwick

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: The Techs Can Do It

by Daniel Abraham

Editor’s Desk: Publishing Turns Like a Battleship

by Neil Clarke

Rainforest God

by David Melvin

Pockets Full of Stones

by Vajra Chandrasekera

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

I Tell Thee All, I Can No More

by Sunny Moraine

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Across the Terminator

by David Tallerman

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm

by Daryl Gregory

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Dust Assassin

by Ian McDonald

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Spock's Pops: How Operational Research became Wartime Magic!

by Jason S. Ridler

Giving Birth to the Dark Monster: A Conversation with J. M. McDermott

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Faulty Memories of a Time Long Past: A Conversation with Richard Ellis Preston, Jr.

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: My Own Private B-Movie

by Genevieve Valentine

Editor’s Desk: Taking Back July 12th

by Neil Clarke

The Land of Lost Dreams

by Dan Osborne

Cry of the Kharchal

by Vandana Singh

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Shepherds

by Greg Kurzawa

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Found

by Alex Dally MacFarlane

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Lovers

by Eleanor Arnason

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Cilia-of-Gold

by Stephen Baxter

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Candlelit World: The Dark Roots of Myth and Fantasy

by Christopher Mahon

Decadence & Buckets of Blood: A Conversation with Holly Black

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: Circles Rise Again

by Daniel Abraham

Editor's Desk: Returning to the Scene of the Crime

by Neil Clarke

Launch Point

by Julie Dillon

Mar Pacifico

by Greg Mellor

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Promise of Space

by James Patrick Kelly

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker and James Patrick Kelly

One Flesh

by Mark Bourne and Elizabeth Bourne

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Out of Copyright

by Charles Sheffield

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

First Principle

by Nancy Kress

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Aliens, Robots, Spaceships and . . . Popsicles? SF on American Radio, Then and Now

by Mark Cole

Organic Synthesis: A Conversation with Ken Liu

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: I am an Endangered Species

by Alethea Kontis

Editor's Desk: Post-Apocalyptic Publishing

by Neil Clarke

Silent Oracle

by Matt Dixon

The Symphony of Ice and Dust

by Julie Novakova

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Bits

by Naomi Kritzer

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Creature Recants

by Dale Bailey

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Ki-anna

by Gwyneth Jones

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

A Night at the Tarn House

by George R.R. Martin

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Difficulties of an Asteroid Capture Mission

by Karen Burnham

Deep into the Dark: A Conversation with Lavie Tidhar

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: What Are You Doing Here?

by Daniel Abraham

Seven and Counting

by Neil Clarke

Neo Maya

by Raúl Cruz

Mystic Falls

by Robert Reed

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Aftermath

by Maggie Clark

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Never Dreaming (In Four Burns)

by Seth Dickinson

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Manifest Destiny

by Joe Haldeman

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Special Economics

by Maureen F. McHugh

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Sapir-Whorf Must Die

by Anaea Lay

Hard Truths in Our World: A Conversation with Bradley P. Beaulieu

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: What I Did on My Summer Vacation

by Jamie Todd Rubin

Editor’s Desk: Year Seven by the Numbers

by Neil Clarke

Lost in Space

by Piotr Foksowicz

Daedalum, the Devil’s Wheel

by E. Lily Yu

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Of Alternate Adventures and Memory

by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade

by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

10¹⁶ to 1

by James Patrick Kelly

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

The Pure Product

by John Kessel

AUDIO EDITION read by Kate Baker

Druids Reconstructed

by Lee Beavington

A Craftsman of No Small Skill: A Conversation with David Drake

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Another Word: Two and a Half Writers

by Daniel Abraham

Editor’s Desk: Behind the Scenes Tour

by Neil Clarke

Elliptic

by Julie Dillon