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AUGUST 2024
The Edritch Hypercube
By Simon Kewin
“The cube you found on Spica IV; we’ve found another one. Although this one is … different.”
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The voice from the exploratory vessel Sense of Wonder came through to Tami Edritch in her lab on Earth. She had the jet-black cube in front of her. She’d studied it for years, probing it with every tool at her disposal. It remained inscrutable – apart from those few gravitational fluctuations when its mass unaccountably altered. Became, if the readings were to be trusted, briefly infinite. Which was obviously impossible. Normally, it was a couple of kilogrammes of stone, no apparent internal structure but with swirling etchings on its surfaces. It was ancient, that much she knew. It had been recovered from Founder ruins on Spica IV, the stratification dating it to a million years old.
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“Different how?” she asked.
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There was something like amusement in the voice over the metaspace comms tunnel. “This one … it’s a little bigger.”
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“How much bigger?”
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“Let’s just say I think we’re going to have trouble bringing it to Earth. You might need to come out here.”
FICTION
POETRY
The Edritch Hypercube
by Simon Kewin
The Skyvault Heist
by Anthony W. Eichenlaub
Application Accepted, Part I
by Ana Wesley
Mirror Experiment in
How to Survive Celestial Bodies
by Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi
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Flyaway
by Eva Papasoulioti
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Planetary Almanac: Torus
by Ian Li
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Elegy for Timber
by Nnadi Samuel​
ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS
FROM THE EDITOR
Utopian Perspectives by Yuliia Vereta
Letter from the Editor
by Tristan Evarts
THE VAULT
The World with a Thousand Moons
by Edmond Hamilton
5TH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY
Utopia is not the end of progress, but the first step on an even bigger journey. Dare to leap into a world where hope defines us.
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine’s mission is to publish stories that shine with a more optimistic future, one we all want to believe in. This anthology collects some of the best stories published from 2019-2023.
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Included in this special five year anthology are exclusive interviews with staff and volunteers, introductions to the stories and poems by the authors themselves, and interviews with amazing talent such as James Gurney and Joe Haldeman. This book also includes gorgeous new artwork commissioned especially for this anthology.
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Authors Included: Krysten Lipp * Jessica Andrewartha * Penny Sebring Leigh * Kara Race-Moore * Dawn Vogel * Gabrielle Bleu * Adam Slavny * Loren Hall * Gwen C. Katz * Patrice Sarath * Raima Larter * Calie Voorhis * Alex Singer * Karl El-Koura * Timothy Hickson * Mahmud El Sayed * Andrew Najberg * Clare L. Deming * Nadine Aurora Tabing * Kelly Kurtzhals Geiger * Sterling Warner * LindaAnn LoSchiavo * Louis Gallo * Carmen Lucía Alvarado * Christopher Collingwood * Lisa Timpf * Elizabeth R. McClellan * Lynn White * Avra Margariti * Colleen Anderson * Lorraine Schein * Kim Whysall-Hammond * Eva Papasoulioti * Januário Esteves * Lauren McBride * Brian Hugenbuch * Jordan Hirsch * Beth Cato and Rhonda Parrish