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Standalones
Hemlock on Mars — Eric Choi
Essay: Planetary Protection — Giovanni Poggiali
The Dog Star Killer — Renan Bernardo
Essay: That Cold Black Cloud — Stefano Sandrelli
Titan of Chaos — G. David Nordley
Essay: Flying Instead of Diving — Fabian Klenner
Cloudskimmer — Geoffrey A. Landis
Essay: Earth’s Sister Planet — Dennis Höning
The Lament of Kivu Lacus — B. Zelkovich
Essay: Robots in Space are Great — Ania Losiak
Heavy Lies — Rich Larson
Essay: Major Transitions — Stephen Francis Mann
The World of Silver — Tomáš Petrásek
Essay: Wet Wet Wet — William Bains
Spider Plant — Tessa Fisher
Essay: Signs of Life (and How to Find Them) — Tessa Fisher
This is How We Save Them — Deji Bryce Olukotun
Essay: Valuing Life — Erik Persson
The Far Side of the Door — Premee Mohamed
Essay: Space Agriculture — Raymond M. Wheeler
Ranya’s Crash — Lisa Jenny Krieg (translated by Simone Heller)
Essay: You are not Alone! — Jacques Arnould
Spiral — Arula Ratnakar
Essay: Spiraling into the Unknown — Tomáš Petrásek
The Last Cathedral of Earth, in Flight — Tobias S. Buckell
Essay: The Latest Black Hole Planet, in Formation — Amedeo Romagnolo
The Secret History of the Greatest Discovery — Valentin D. Ivanov
Essay: Cooperation without Communication — Valentin D. Ivanov
Human Beans — Eugen Bacon
Essay: Microbial Life and Belonging — Tony Milligan
The Mirrored Symphony — D.A. Xiaolin Spires
Essay: Mirror Images — Dimitra Demertzi
Lumenfabulator — Liu Yang (translated by Ladon Gao)
Essay: Crystal Green Persuasion — Nina Kopacz
Cyclic Amplification, Meaning Family — Bogi Takács
Essay: The Science of Xenolinguistics — Sheri Wells-Jensen
The Diaphanous — Gregory Benford
Essay: Life 2.0 — Geoffrey A. Landis
The Sphinx of Adzhimushkaj — Brian Rappatta
Essay: Finding Common Ground — Philippe Nauny
Defective — Peter Watts
Essay: How did They Know it was Agni? — Joanna Piotrowska
The Dangers We Choose — Malka Older
Essay: The Habitability of Water Worlds — Floris van der Tak
Third Life — Julie E. Czerneda
Essay: The Unveiled Possibilities of Biomaterials in Space — Martina Dimoska
Forever the Forest — Simone Heller
Essay: Astra Narrans — Connor Martini
Still as Bright — Mary Robinette Kowal
Essay: —And the Moon be Still as Bright — José A. Caballero
Devil in the Deep — Lucie Lukačovičová
Essay: Some Like It Hot — Natuschka Lee & Julie Nováková
Deep Blue Neon — Jana Bianchi
Essay: Destined for Symbiosis — Jan Toman