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Unlike this issue, there’s no grand unifying theme for May/June other than “good stories,” but that’s okay: it’ll keep you on your toes!
First up is a bit of classic Schmidtian linguistic science fiction in “Isolate” by Tom R. Pike. We also anchor the issue with what’s likely to be the definitive hard SF take on a classic SFnal “What If . . . ?” scenario, in “Bluebeard’s Womb,” by M.G. Wills, plus a bunch of other fine fiction, including a game of cat and mouse between a jailer and his prisoner, only on a grand scale, in “Momentum Exchange,” by Nikolai Lofving Hersfeldt…
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Bluebeard’s Womb
by M.G. Wills
Seven cushy synthetic uteri hung overhead like golden fruit. Curled in translucent pouches, seven fetal macaque monkeys moved their limbs gently from time to time in a warm amber solution. Their twining umbilical cords delivered perfect nutrient and hormone mixes from the artificial womb technology tree branching up from a columnated glass and steel placenta in the middle of the room.
Jay raised her teacup in a salute. “Your AWT lab is certainly more beautiful than staring down a microscope,” she said. “There’s nothing pretty about my old stem cells and CRISPR-Cas9.” READ MORE
Isolate
by Tom R. Pike
The word for “orphanage” and the word for “convent” are the same in Bastion Dzhermanic, the most dominant natural language of Ares. But Sister Arzhaana, who grew up in such a convent, had been raised as a child to speak Mariner Standard, a formalized version of the language constructed by scholars and dogmatists. In Mariner Standard, “convent” had its own word, derived from the Dzhermanic word for “grace.” Arzhaana learned Bastion Dzhermanic as a young adult, and when reading transcripts of historic court intrigues, it had seemed funny to her when supplicants addressed planetary governors as “your Grace,” which to her looked like “your Convent.” READ MORE
