Zero in Babel

Future Tense Fiction

Cartoon-style illustration showing a young woman's head, eyes closed, looking downward, shadowed by two ghostly images of women with no eyes, against a warped, checkered background.

Zero in Babel

By E. Lily Yu

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An illustration of an astronaut in low gravity, floating in a space station, surrounded by tentacle-like green plants

Space Leek

By Chen Qiufan

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Illustration of a woman floating in low gravity in a space station.

No Moon and Flat Calm

By Elizabeth Bear

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A human explorer in a spacesuit, against a psychedelic painted background.

The Song Between Worlds

By Indrapramit Das

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An illustration of a hand clasping a bouquet of flowers, with an open book in the background.

The Arisen

By Louisa Hall

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Stylized illustration of two young people facing one another, wearing masks over their mouths, with bright red skin, against a chaotic, colorful abstract background.

Mpendulo: The Answer

By Nosipho Dumisa

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Illustration of a person wearing a virtual-reality headset, looking up at a distorted collection of nightmarish images in shades of red and pink.

Thoughts and Prayers

By Ken Liu

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Illustration of a flying drone-style robot and a crow flying together over a neighborhood.

When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis

By Annalee Newitz

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An illustration showing three identical human heads as piggy banks, with hands putting a coin in one and smashing another with a hammer.

Overvalued

By Mark Stasenko

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A person sitting in a chair, facing away, with a bunch of small helicopter-style drones flying around them against a black background

Burned-Over Territory

By Lee Konstantinou

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