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MARCH 2026
The Blue Horse
By Mackenzie Robin
I was finishing my closing shift at the bar when the Blue Horse galloped in and broke New Arizona for me forever.
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The night had only just become Saturday a few hours earlier, and the thin sky of the planet left barely enough hazy, dusty light to see by. Passers through were rare and the ground was brittle, so I was not the only person who felt the vibration in the ground as it approached. Being a nosy people, several of us stepped out onto the main street to see if we could tell what size of a creature could be making all that noise.
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What we saw was a thing made of thunder and muscle. Dark and all iridescent like gasoline, or a bubble made of night. It ran on four legs and was so fast I would not have gotten a good look at it had it not been cut off by the center of town. Finding its momentum arrested by Monument Cul-de-sac, the creature searched wildly for a way that moved both out and forward. This is when some ladies started screaming, calling back into their houses for their husbands to come deal with whatever it was that was happening. I admit I was also taken aback, and my shoulders were pressed to the outer wall of the bar.
FICTION
The Blue Horse
by Mackenzie Robin
The Love Story of Bex Kyle...
by Catherine Tavares
The Great Unsticking
by Lucian R. Starchild
The Commemoration of the Time...
by Yuliia Vereta
The Weight of Silk
by Joseph Sidari
Blobs of Luck
By Sandy Parsons
POETRY
Orbital Augury
by Heather Blakey
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Sioux Medicine Man in the Quantum Garden
by David Anson Lee
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I Drift Around the Rim of Bottomless Black Sumaneria
by Chris Clemens
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Testimony of the First Game
Michael Hessel-Mial
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To the Eclipse
by Lorraine Schein
SCIENCE CORNER
ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS
Interview with S T Joshi
Meritocracy is WEIRD -and wrong
by Randall Hayes
The Summer of Saucers
by Jessica Grassano
THE VAULT
FROM THE EDITOR
Beyond Lies the Wub
by Philip K. Dick
Letter from the Editor
by Raima Larter
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