Persistent Antagonism
Which of these specimens would father her child?
Stories
From the Magazine
Civil Animals
Could death become your only responsibility?
Machine City
They let you set your ceiling till the last minute. Then you’re locked in.
Palace-Fortress
I had done all that history demanded.
Mei Bao’s World
Is this the sea?
Patient Notes
You will forever be chasing reality.
Part of the Country
Hadn’t it closed too quickly, the window of freedom?
Swan River
It does not begin spontaneously, the career of a thief.
Analog Days
It was a time when we had lost the thread of the story.
Nastya
Short fiction by Vladimir Sorokin.
The Ark
“I know you’ll make a good apostle for the Lord.”
Flounder
Would not some good Christian give succor in an Emergency?