If you could live your life over and over, with all your memories could you stop the end of the universe?

This week's story: Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh

Hugo Award

Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalist!

Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Finalist!

This week's snack: Chocolate (Devil's Food) Cake! IYKYK

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Grounding your weird fiction with a throughline that cuts right through all the horror to the humanity at all has me crying while reading this week's award-nominated novelette.

This week's story: Uncertain Sons, by Thomas Ha. Published in Uncertain Sons and Other Stories.

• Nebula Award Nominee (novelette)
• Philip K. Dick Award Nominee
• British Science Fiction Association Awards Nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards Nominee in Long Fiction (for title novelette)
• Locus Recommended Reading List
• New York Public Library 'Best of 2025'

This week's snack: Bread Machine Coffee Cake

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Next Week's Story: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

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When a farmhand robot appears at Tantie Merle's house as a gift, she doesn't realize she is on the precipice of change, for not only her life, but the world.

This week's story: Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200, by R.S.A. Garcia Published in Uncanny Magazine

• Nebula Awards 2024 — short story — winner

• Eugie Awards 2024 — finalist

• Ignyte Awards 2024 — short story — nomination

• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2024 — winner

This week's snack: Carrot Cake

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In which gym bros save their community and fall in love.

This week's story: If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You, by John Chu. Published in Uncanny Magazine

• Hugo Awards 2023 — novelette — nomination
• Nebula Awards 2023 — novelette — winner
• Ignyte Awards 2023 — novelette — winner
• Locus Awards 2023 — novelette — winner

This week's snack: Snacky Clusters from Trader Joes

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Next Week's Story: Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200

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When medical information is controlled by a conglomerate, and knowledge behind a paywall can be the difference between life and death, one 'doctor' goes to great lengths to learn and know her alien patient.

This week's story: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, by A. W. Prihandita. Published in Clarksworld

• Winner: 2024 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
• Finalist: 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novelette
• Finalist: 2025 Eugie Award

This week's snack: Five Flavor Pound Cake

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Next Week's Story: If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You

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What if the knowledge to your survival would cost you your friend? And what if that friend was a robot?

This week's story: The Portmeirion Road, by Fiona Moore. Published in Clarksworld

2024 BSFA Award Finalist for Best Short Fiction

This week's snack: Airheads Xtremes Candy

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Next Week's Story: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being

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In the gray space in between terraforming and colonization, an exorcism crew captain confronted by a human ghost has to grapple with his purpose.

This week's story: What Any Dead Thing Wants, by Aimee Ogden. Published in Psychopomp

Nebula Novelette Finalist

This week's snack: Animal Crackers and Frosting

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Next Week's Story: The Portmeirion Road

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If humanity could send only a few select memories out into space, with the hopes of reaching intelligent life, what would you choose to send?

This week's story: Patsy Cline Sings Sweet Dreams to the Universe by Beston Barnett. Published in Strange Horizons

Second Place: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2024

This week's snack: Grilled Cheese Two Ways

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Next Week's Story: What Any Dead Thing Wants (16,300 words)

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