Part of the 2025 Hugo Voter Packet (Best Semiprozine nominee).
Contents:
Fiction:
"The Spindle of Necessity" by B. Pladek
"BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE" by Lowry Poletti
"The Aquarium for Lost Souls" by Natasha King
"Nuca" by Ana Hurtado
"Exit Interview" by K.W. Onley
"Frogskin" by M. L. Krishnan
"Those Who Smuggle Themselves Into Slivermoon" by Varsha Dinesh
"Vermilion" by Victor Forna
"A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada" by Íde Hennessy
"The Problem With Feelin’ Flo-Jo’s Glory Pose" by Aurelius Raines II
Poetry:
"Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father" by Angel Leal
"The Universe Is Dying" by Michelle Koubek
"The Final Trick" by Angela Liu
"The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead" by Sarah Titus
"The Languages of Birds" by Mary Soon Lee
"Body Revolt" by Casey Aimer
"SOCIETY’S LEARNERS DICTIONARY ON DEFINING A BOY" by Joemario Umana
"RELIVING: POST TRAUMA OF THE LEKKI TOLLGATE MASSACRE." by Fasasi Ridwan
"The Quickening" by Rachel Pittman
"A Tale of Moths and Home (of bones and breathing) (of extrinsic restrictive lung disease)" by Milo K. Szyszka
Reviews:
Mevlido’s Dreams: A Post Exotic Novel by Antoine Volodine, translated by Gina M. Stamm – by Shinjini Dey
The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow – by Divyansha Sehgal
Scavengers Reign by M. L. Clark
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford – by Dan Hartland
Two Views: Biopeculiar by Gigi Ganguly – by Akankshya Abismruta and Areeb Ahmad
Stolen Hours and Other Curiosities by Manjula Padmanabhan – by Sneha Pathak
Capitalism: A Horror Story by Jon Greenaway – by Aran Ward Sell
Hospital by Han Song – by Subashini Navaratnam
Menewood by Nicola Griffith – by Catherine Rockwood
Star Trek: Lower Decks—Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio – by Abigail Nussbaum
Articles:
In Other Wor(l)ds by Shrinidhi Narasimhan
Africanfuturism Beyond the Future by Jenna Hanchey
Phonetics of Draconic Languages by Leah Nodar
The Portals of the Plague Years by William Shaw
A Letter Dispatched from the Hills of Afghulistan and the Ramparts of Tarouz
by Tanvir Ahmed
Tiger Style And Other (Post)colonial Metamorphoses by Mikko Toivanen
Podcasts:
SH@25 Episode 3: An interview with Arkady Martine, and a reading of her poem 'Cloud Wall' by Kat Kourbeti and Arkady Martine
SH@25 Episode 2: An Interview with Kate Heartfield by Kat Kourbeti and Kate Heartfield
Podcast: A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief by Christopher Blake
Podcast: Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead by KT Bryski
