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Climate Change Special Guest Editor: Lyndsey Croal New Stories Gessica Sakamoto Martini - The Fox, the Hen, and the Green Hills Rhiannon A Grist - A Change of Direction Andrew Knighton - Shelter From the Storm Sara Kate Ellis - If Cooler Heads Christopher R. Muscato - The Best Taco in San Antonio Tania Chen - Pure White, Ocean Glass Greta Colombani - Amaranthine Marisca Pichette - The Leaves Echo what the Body Forgets Thoraiya Dyer - Beirut...

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Once Upon a Biofuture: Tales for a New Millennium is an anthology of stories, from fiction to memoir, written by scientists about a powerful new technology that is re-engineering our world: synthetic biology. The authors, an international group of scientists, are based at the University of Edinburgh - alma mater of Darwin and home of Dolly the Sheep. The stories were recorded and transcribed, or workshopped and edited, by Jessica Fox, the fo...

In Shoreline of Infinity 25 New science fiction stories: E.M. Faulds - A Flight of Birds Simon Nagel - They Came To Hear Him Play His Music When The Sun Went Down Gary Gibson - The President is Possessed Elana Gomel - Danae Poetry: Cat Hellisen - The Death and Resurrection of Mantis-Class Destroyer 'Sentimental Journey', previously 'General Patty Styne', deceased Non-fiction: David L Clements on: "What is Hard Science Fiction?" Book Revie...

StoriesAdriana Weinert - The LibrarianBeatrice Alder - City of Corporate-Sanctioned DelightsBeth Faulds - A Flight of BirdsCallum McSorley - Great NothingJack Schouten - Requiem Played on a DecastringLouise Hughes - RelayMaya Chhabra - The AnchoressRichard Gregson - The Cactus FarmersTim Major - The Living MuseumFlash-fiction Competition Science Fiction Ghost StoriesBen Blow - How the Orchard Became HauntedIda Keogh - The ReminderLeigh Loveday...

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Spotlight on science fiction by trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming writers Guest Editor Eris Young New stories from B.G. Alder - City of Corporate-Sanctioned Delights Beth Martyn - Trans Timelines Danielle Froom - In Search of Rust Freiya Benson - The Last Cup of Coffee in the World Sonia RippenkroegerAwaiting Instructions Poems by Harry Josephine Giles J. Chng Rachel Plummer Interview: KM Szpara Reviews Alien: The Cold Forge ...

Introductions by Ken MacLeod and Pippa GoldschmidtThe first human being in space was Russian. The first man on the Moon was American. However, the space race is a marathon, not a sprint. Startling evidence suggests that the longest rocket flight ever made was a classified Scottish project.Alba ad Astra is a collaborative thought experiment celebrating Scotland's industrial and technological heritage. Documents, photographs and testimonials hav...

A handy pocket sized work for reading reference or just browsing. The book is divided into short chapters covering a general history of pub signs, the roots of the author's own fascination for inn-signs, anthropomorphic signs, religion, mythology and fabulous beasts, Arthurian legend, witches, ghosts, real world science, rockets, pubs named after the great writers, pubs frequented by our literary heroes, pubs referenced in novels, and the end ...

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In Biopolis, we have explored new visions of city living through the lenses of biological research.We invited a selection of prominent writers living in Scotland to engage in conversations with cutting-edge researchers based at the University of Edinburgh in order to create speculative stories about the impact of biotechnology on urban life. The resulting tales of brain simulation, mobile and malleable buildings, bio-recycling, biodesigned spe...

In terms of the scale of the galaxy, both in space and time, we humans are new comers. Though we are newly on the scene, we are already thinking about how to create large structures in space. Recently, analysis of data from one of the stars in the Kepler data set has led to speculation regarding huge artificial structures (called Stapledon/Dyson Spheres) constructed by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. The NASA Kepler space observatory ...

By setting the goal for going to the Moon by the end of 1969, President Kennedy transformed the Soviet/U.S. arms race, with its escalating confrontations, into a "space race." Perhaps the greatest obstacle to going to the Moon was the development of the spacesuit. This is the story of human efforts, specifically the innovation, struggle and sacrifice carried out by otherwise ordinary men and women that culminated in the spacesuit that made the...