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ISSUE TEN ISSUE TEN

REVOLUTION NIHIL_

We seek eternally to overthrow the systems that undergird our lives—history, property, trauma, and capital. This month we explore the tumultuous rebirth of new orders within our world and within our selves.

THE SMOL BEAN EMPEROR_

BY KARLO YEAGER RODRIGUEZ — Sarah Monette's ``The Goblin Emperor`` is a political fantasy mired in its pursuit of a kinder, gentler neoliberalism.

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NEON NIGHTRIDERS.

The heat-haze beckons, fraying the edges of electric nightlife with the buzz of power lines and the stellarine glimmer of far-off cityscapes. This month our playlist anticipates the summer with the synths and circuitry of yesteryear.

“A time warp scene. A sci-fi story. A dirt-coloured love. You hope for glory.”

— Billy Idol, “Tomorrow People”

FICTION FICTION

SHORT FICTION_

This month we present two short tales of the strange and the unnatural, one smothered in oppressive heat, the other in the shadowed dark of overcast skies.

BY WENDY NIKEL

BY TIM JEFFREYS

ARTICLES ARTICLES

FEATURES_

Overthrow, rebuild, escape, exceed. Our lives are the outcomes of a thousand small revolutions—our world the remnants of the systems we have overturned and outlived. This month we explore the wounds of the past and seek means and opportunity to leave the present in our wake.

BY OWEN MORAWITZ

BY MEL ASHFORD

``WORLD-CHANGING MARVELS TO US, ARE ONLY WALLPAPER TO OUR CHILDREN.``

BRUCE STERLING

BY KONSTANTINA BUHALIS

BY LOUIS EVANS

STAY SHARP STAY SHARP

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