Illustration for the story "Affordances" by Cory Doctorow, showing two people conferring while using handheld devices, against a background of floating facial-recognition displays.

Affordances

By Cory Doctorow

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An illustration of a giant human head, laying on its side, bright blue, in a lab space, with a bunch of human figures on hovering machines tending to it, testing it, and building it.

Double Spiral

By Marcy Kelly

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What the Dead Man Said

By Chinelo Onwualu

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Why Are There So Many Weird Tech Patents?

By Rose Eveleth

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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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Who Gets to Decide What Our Space Settlements Look Like?

By Lindy Elkins-Tanton and Jessy Kate Schingler

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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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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dirt

By Jane C. Hu

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