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    "here",
    "Amazing Stories",
    "Dactyl",
    "Marco Swims on Titan",
    "Sword of Guilt",
    "Planet Leave KL-28",
    "Analog Science Fact and Fiction",
    "Imprint",
    "Schismogenesis",
    "For Sojourner",
    "Editorial: The Editor’s Page",
    "The Reference Library",
    "Asimov's Science Fiction",
    "Hot",
    "Alpha Gal",
    "Guest Editorial: A Reader’s Perspective",
    "Reflections: The End of an Era",
    "On the Net: Tomorrow’s Bots",
    "On Books",
    "Dinah's Hat",
    "Beneath Ceaseless Skies",
    "Slayer of Dreams",
    "Through the Corpse Door",
    "The City of Tears",
    "The Voice and Her Knife",
    "Boxwood",
    "Clarkesworld Magazine",
    "The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods",
    "Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler",
    "Conquerors",
    "Paper Airplane Poet",
    "Aly",
    "Decimation Circles",
    "The Scent of Memory",
    "Three Curious Animal Strategies for Immortality",
    "Torn From Context: A Conversation with Ray Nayler",
    "Immortal Trauma: A Conversation with Martha Wells",
    "Editor's Desk: The Stars in Our Sky",
    "The Dark",
    "Chicken Finger",
    "Obedient Son",
    "Mercy",
    "Red God Waiting",
    "Dark Horses Magazine",
    "Diabolical Plots",
    "“Afterimage”",
    "Dourglamis",
    "Fabulist Magazine",
    "What a Wonderful World",
    "Esther Lee Deitch",
    "Wigs",
    "Kelly Dignan",
    "A New Day",
    "Amanda Anderson",
    "Spring Flight",
    "Kevlin Henney",
    "A Tyranny of Desire",
    "LeeAnn Perry",
    "Flash Fiction Online",
    "After Enlightenment, the Sewage",
    "Citizens!",
    "This Is Your Village",
    "The Screaming Garden",
    "She Said Yes and a City Died",
    "Soon It Would See Eyelessly, Turn Corners on Its Own",
    "Editorial: The Myth of Civilization",
    "Future Tense Fiction",
    "Golden Rule",
    "The Purpose of Punishment",
    "GigaNotoSaurus",
    "Year of the Tangram",
    "Lightspeed Magazine",
    "The Knacker Man",
    "Sarah’s Laugh",
    "The Star Where We Meet",
    "The Aerialist",
    "The Stars Look Away From This Vessel",
    "Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord",
    "The Test of Time",
    "The Last Season of Your Life",
    "Editorial: May 2026",
    "Author Spotlight: Melissa A Watkins",
    "Author Spotlight: Sam W. Pisciotta",
    "Book Review: The Quarter Queen by Kayla Hardy",
    "Author Spotlight: Ada Hoffman",
    "Book Review: The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed",
    "Author Spotlight: Kristine Kathryn Rusch",
    "Book Review: The Dorians by Nick Cutter",
    "Nature Futures",
    "The imperfect legacy",
    "Origin story",
    "Matter of taste",
    "The futile beauty of flightless birds",
    "Serebral",
    "The CAPTCHA protocol",
    "Neuroflix",
    "Scraping",
    "Sarcophagus",
    "Neon Dystopia",
    "Idol",
    "Hunger",
    "Gen. Ed",
    "New Edge Sword & Sorcery",
    "Nightmare Magazine",
    "Hollow Cast",
    "A Magic Kingdom",
    "consumed",
    "Author Spotlight: Sarah Grey",
    "The H Word: An Intimate Gaze at Headless Horror",
    "Art the Clown attends the Jane Hirschfield poetry reading at the Anchorage Museum",
    "Author Spotlight: Audrey Coble",
    "Plumbing the Depths: The Origins and Omissions of Apocalyptic Horror",
    "Reactor",
    "This Fleshy Side of the Bone",
    "This Is Not My Timeline",
    "The Perpetual Post",
    "Small Wonders Magazine",
    "Trevor is Hungry",
    "A Fine Powder",
    "Windows to the Soul",
    "Clowder",
    "A moment on the lips",
    "Charley Coavins",
    "The Arborist",
    "When Death Comes, Look to The Tower",
    "1,001 Best Hikes on Mars: The Peterson Historic Trail (“Peterson’s Folly”)",
    "Solarpunk Magazine",
    "Strange Horizons",
    "Senescence",
    "Coming Home",
    "Hymn To Scylla",
    "The Dragon",
    "Beetles",
    "Gone",
    "The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub",
    "My Grandmother Turned Dead Souls into Sugar",
    "Death of the Emperor’s Nightingale",
    "How to Get Around It",
    "So This Is A Week",
    "Tempered And Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction",
    "The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan",
    "Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills",
    "Planet of Ghosts and Other Stories by Wesley R. Bishop",
    "The Curve of the World by Vonda N. McIntyre",
    "The Apple and the Pearl by Rym Kechacha",
    "Zoi by Jane Mondrup",
    "Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf by C. L. Clark",
    "Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley",
    "The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png",
    "Radiant Star by Ann Leckie",
    "The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison",
    "The Witch by Marie Ndiaye",
    "The Sunday Morning Transport",
    "The Moon Carver",
    "Alpha and Omega",
    "The Only Thing Older, The Only Thing Wiser",
    "Now is a Kind of Forever",
    "Uncanny Magazine",
    "The Snatchers",
    "The Glass City",
    "Extracted from an unravelled braid",
    "A Mermaid Looks at 40",
    "Empty Music",
    "The Uncanny Valley",
    "The End of This Day’s Business—Or, My Life as Repetitive Epic",
    "The Mopey Ghost Nightmare Girl: The Character of Hari in Three Filmed Versions of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris",
    "Interview: AnaMaria Curtis"
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  "textContent": "The year is trucking right along: the spring flashed right by, and already there's a daunting list of short stories to read. May brings a whole new crop, and I'm looking forward to checking some of these out in the coming weeks.\n\nYou can check out last month's (newly updated!) installment here, and past installments here. Here are the short stories coming out this month. Check back later in the month for a fully updated list!\n\n* * *\n\n## Amazing Stories (May 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Dactyl\" by Humphrey Price\n  * \"Marco Swims on Titan\" by Jeff Gaba\n  * \"Sword of Guilt\" by Robert Marcus\n  * \"Planet Leave KL-28\" by Alex Gurevich\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Analog Science Fact and Fiction (May/June 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Imprint\" by Zach Poulter\n  * \"Carpenter\" by Jay Werkheiser\n  * \"Some Plates Get Eaten\" by Thoraiya Dyer\n  * \"In The Overlap\" by Eric Del Carlo\n  * \"The Cold Embrace\" by C. Stuart Hardwick\n  * \"Camino Mundo\" by Brian Hugenbruch\n  * \"The Enshittification Of Dogs\" by Tom R. Pike\n  * \"Amel And The Bride\" by Julie Duffy\n  * \"Awkward Incident Transpiring While Exploring The Neighborhood\" by Timons Esaias\n  * \"A Lesson In Orbital Mechanics\" by Michael Johnston\n  * \"Children Of A Sunnier Star\" by Gregory Feeley\n  * \"The Two Thousand And Seventieth Time Sara Deletes Her Family\" by J.R. Dewitt\n  * \"Whispers Of Twilight\" by Ken Miura\n  * \"An Arm For Every Tooth\" by Colin Alexander\n  * \"My Next Duchess\" by Anna Kahn\n  * \"Nirvana and Mr. Sparks\" by Kevin J.E. Walsh\n  * \"Telling The Bees\" by Eóin Dooley\n  * \"Hetero Sapiens\" by Sarina Dorie\n  * \"Fossil Record\" by Rick Hollon\n  * \"Schismogenesis\" by E.G. Condé\n  * \"For Sojourner\" by Adegboyega Kayowa\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: The Editor’s Page by Trevor Quachri, Emily Hockaday & Kevin Wheeler\n  * The Reference Library__ by Sean CW Korsgaard\n  * The Doctor Will Scan You Now by Douglas F. Dluzen\n  * The V-2 In Astounding by Edward M. Wysocki, Jr.\n  * In Times To Come\n  * Unknowns Edited by Alec Nevala-lee\n  * Interplanetary Hive by Patrick Berry\n  * Guest Alternate View by Howard V. Hendrix\n  * Alternate View by John G. Cramer\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Asimov's Science Fiction (May/June 2026  _Vol. 50 Nos. 5 & 6_)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Hot\" by Cecelia Holland\n  * \"Failed Attempts at Predation\" by A.M. Dellamonica\n  * \"The Girl Who Stole Life\" by Zhou Wen (Translated by Xueting C. Ni)\n  * \"The Sky Above the Earth Below\" by Steve Rasnic Tem\n  * \"The Language of Machines\" by Betsy Aoki\n  * \"A Penrose Dirge\" by Chris Campbell\n  * \"Sophie Simpson’s Whizz-Bang Day at World War I\" by Dale Bailey\n  * \"Half Inside the Spirit Box\" by Stephanie Feldman\n  * \"Unspeakable Knowns\" by Donald McCarthy\n  * \"Alpha Gal\" by Greg Egan\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * \"Love Letter to Nuclear Fusion by Connor Yeck\n  * \"Jukebox for the Interplanetary Traveler by Brian U. Garrison\n  * \"Your Regular College-Town Climate Elegy by Ursula Whitcher\n  * \"Image as a Stone on the Water by Ruth Berman\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Guest Editorial: A Reader’s Perspective by Piet Nel\n  * Reflections: The End of an Era by Robert Silverberg\n  * On the Net: Tomorrow’s Bots by James Patrick Kelly\n  * Thought Experiment: Iterations in and of Planet of the Apes by Kelly Lagor\n  * On Books by Kelly Jennings\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n##  _The Atlantic_ (May 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Dinah's Hat\" by Stephen King\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Issue # 457 and #458)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Slayer of Dreams\" by Auston Habershaw\n  * \"Through the Corpse Door\" by R.I. Sutton\n  * \"The City of Tears\" by Molly Tanzer\n  * \"The Voice and Her Knife\" by AnaMaria Curtis\n  * \"Boxwood\" by M.E. Bronstein\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Clarkesworld Magazine__(Issue 236, May 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods\" by Louis Inglis Hall\n  * \"Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler\" by Tia Tashiro\n  * \"Conquerors\" by Nick Wolven\n  * \"Paper Airplane Poet\" by Sheri Singerling\n  * \"Aly\" by Grace Chan\n  * \"Decimation Circles\" by Raahem Alvi\n  * \"The Scent of Memory\" by Zhao Haihong, translated by S. Qiouyi Lu\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Three Curious Animal Strategies for Immortality by Gunnar De Winter\n  * Torn From Context: A Conversation with Ray Nayler by Arley Sorg\n  * Immortal Trauma: A Conversation with Martha Wells by Arley Sorg\n  * Editor's Desk: The Stars in Our Sky by Neil Clarke\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## The Dark (Issue 132, May 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Chicken Finger\" by __ NM Whitley\n  * \"Obedient Son\" by __ Kelsea Yu\n  * \"Mercy\" by __ Nelson Stanley\n  * \"Red God Waiting\" by __ Ai Jiang\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Dark Horses Magazine (May 2026, No. 52)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"A Child Without Sin\" by Diana Ionita\n  * \"A Minor Revolution\" by Lee Clark Zumpe\n  * \"A Night At The Castle\" by Lee Clark Zumpe\n  * Vorpal\" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer\n  * \"Dark Timber\" by Lee Clark Zumpe\n  * \"Among The Dead 101\" by Dennis Kohler\n  * \"Psychosomatic\" by Terry Sanville\n  * \"Way Station\" by Michael Fontana\n  * \"The Trade\" by Bradley J. Collins\n  * \"A Rulebook For Ghosts\" by Ausiàs Tsel\n  * \"Circle Of Stones\" by Joe Prosit\n  * \"Drains\" by David Castlewitz\n  * \"Hell Hath No Fury\" by James Callan\n  * \"Lost In The Stacks\" by Peter Emmett Naughton\n  * \"Pyrrhic Proof\" by Mark J. Schultis\n  * \"Releasing The Chesapeake Bay\" by Griffith Pound\n  * \"Ekkle-rog And Menk\" by Taylor Layne\n  * \"Plunge\" by Anuel Rodriguez\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Diabolical Plots (May 2026)\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “Afterimage” by Anna Zumbro\n  * “Dourglamis” by Derek Wagner\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Fabulist Magazine (May 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"What a Wonderful World\" by Esther Lee Deitch\n  * \"Wigs\" by Kelly Dignan\n  * \"A New Day\" by Amanda Anderson\n  * \"Spring Flight\" by Kevlin Henney\n  * \"A Tyranny of Desire\" by LeeAnn Perry\n\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Flash Fiction Online (May 2026)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"After Enlightenment, the Sewage\" by Joelle Killian\n  * \"Citizens!\" by Sasha Brown\n  * \"This Is Your Village\" by Charlie Kieft\n  * \"The Screaming Garden\" by Em Starr\n  * \"She Said Yes and a City Died\" by Liz Levin\n  * \"Soon It Would See Eyelessly, Turn Corners on Its Own\" by John K. Peck\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: The Myth of Civilization by Rebecca Halsey\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Future Tense Fiction (May 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Golden Rule\" by Monica Byrne\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * The Purpose of Punishment by Randy McDonald\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## GigaNotoSaurus__(May 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Year of the Tangram\" by Ichabod Cassius Kilroy\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Lightspeed Magazine (May 2026, Issue 192)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Knacker Man\" by Scott Dalrymple (5/7)\n  * \"Sarah’s Laugh\" by Melissa A Watkins (5/7)\n  * \"The Star Where We Meet\" by Sam W. Pisciotta (5/14)\n  * \"The Aerialist\" by Yoon Ha Lee (5/14)\n  * \"The Stars Look Away From This Vessel\" by dave ring (5/21)\n  * \"Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord\" by Ada Hoffmann (5/21)\n  * \"The Test of Time\" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (5/28)\n  * \"The Last Season of Your Life\" by Christopher Barzak (5/28)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: May 2026 by John Joseph Adams\n  * Author Spotlight: Melissa A Watkins by A Humphrey Lanham (5/7)\n  * Author Spotlight: Sam W. Pisciotta by Robin Jeffrey (5/14)\n  * Book Review: The Quarter Queen by Kayla Hardy by Arley Sorg (5/14)\n  * Author Spotlight: Ada Hoffman by Phoebe Barton (5/21)\n  * Book Review: The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed by Melissa A Watkins (5/21)\n  * Author Spotlight: Kristine Kathryn Rusch by Robin Jeffrey (5/28)\n  * Book Review: The Dorians by Nick Cutter by Chris Kluwe (5/28)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Nature Futures (May 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The imperfect legacy\" by Fei Qi\n  * \"Origin story\" by Alex Shvartsman\n  * \"Matter of taste\" by Mari Harrison\n  * \"The futile beauty of flightless birds\" by Wendy Nikel\n  * \"Serebral\" by Kevin Power\n  * \"The CAPTCHA protocol\" by Shiao Wang\n  * \"Neuroflix\" by John McLaughlin\n  * \"Scraping\" by Laura O’Meara\n  * \"Sarcophagus\" by Dan Peacock\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Neon Dystopia (May 2026)\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Idol\" by Joshua Mannix\n  * \"Hunger\" by Scum\n  * \"Gen. Ed\" by Elle Burnett\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## New Edge Sword & Sorcery (Issues 6 and 7)\n\nBuy here.\n\n### Issue 6 authors:\n\n  * Melissa Burlock\n  * Andrew Whalen\n  * June Orchid Parker\n  * Sarah Macklin\n  * Sara Century\n  * Steve Hugh Westenra\n  * Oliver Brackenbury\n  * Alec Worley\n  * Eric Williams\n  * Bryn Hammond\n  * Robin Marx\n\n\n\n### Issue 7 authors:\n\n  * Dariel R. A. Quiogue\n  * James Enge\n  * Prashanth Srivatsa\n  * Kirk A. Johnson\n  * Larissa Glasser\n  * Jay Wolf\n  * Cora Buhlert\n  * Anthony Perconti\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Nightmare Magazine (May 2026, Issue 164)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Hollow Cast\" by Sarah Grey (5/6)\n  * \"A Magic Kingdom\" by Bruce McAllister (5/23)\n  * \"consumed\" by Ash Vale (5/27)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: May 2026 by Wendy N. Wagner (5/6)\n  * Author Spotlight: Sarah Grey by Carrie Finch (5/6)\n  * The H Word: An Intimate Gaze at Headless Horror by Eugen Bacon (5/13)\n  * Art the Clown attends the Jane Hirschfield poetry reading at the Anchorage Museum by Audrey Coble\n  * Author Spotlight: Audrey Coble by Kevin Figueroa Quiñones (5/20)\n  * Plumbing the Depths: The Origins and Omissions of Apocalyptic Horror by Lizzie Wade (5/27)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Reactor__(May 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"This Fleshy Side of the Bone\" by John Langan\n  * \"This Is Not My Timeline\" by J.R. Dawson\n  * \"The Perpetual Post\" by Isabel J. Kim\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Small Wonders Magazine (May2026, Issue 35)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Trevor is Hungry\" by Sasha Brown\n  * \"A Fine Powder\" by Alicia Maskley\n  * \"Windows to the Soul\" by Gerri Leen\n  * \"Clowder\" by Kila Greene\n  * \"A moment on the lips\" by Brian Hugenbruch\n  * \"Charley Coavins\" by Gretchen Tessmer\n  * \"The Arborist\" by Sara Omer\n  * \"When Death Comes, Look to The Tower\" by Ali Trotta\n  * \"1,001 Best Hikes on Mars: The Peterson Historic Trail (“Peterson’s Folly”)\" by Ron Fein\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Solarpunk Magazine (May / June 2026, Issue 27)\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “Radio Free Luna, Signing Off” by Sylvie Althoff\n  * “Between Mortar and Magic” by Alex Vossler\n  * “What the Sea Remembers” by Dennis Mombauer\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * “Pulsar, Phlox” by Devan Barlow\n  * “The Prayer Shrub” by Zoleikha Baloch\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * “Occupation of Palestine” by Aya Al-Hattab\n  * Repair is Not a Gadget: A Review of _The Wildcraft Drones_ by T.K. Rex by Justine Norton-Kertson\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Strange Horizons (May 2026)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Senescence\" by aegor ray\n  * \"Coming Home\" by Dhiyanah Hassan\n  * \"Hymn To Scylla\" by Elena Goh\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * \"The Dragon\" by Michael Janairo\n  * \"Beetles\" by Ewan Downie\n  * \"Gone\" by Greg Fewer\n  * \"The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub\" by Nico Martinez Nocito\n  * \"My Grandmother Turned Dead Souls into Sugar\" by Mary Salas Robles\n  * \"Death of the Emperor’s Nightingale\" by Shantell Powell\n  * \"How to Get Around It\" by Holly Hunt\n  * \"So This Is A Week\" by Mary Soon Lee\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Tempered And Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction by Shveta Thakrar\n\n\n\n### Reviews\n\n  * Monday: The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan by Martin Petto\n  * Wednesday: Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills by William Shaw\n  * Friday: Planet of Ghosts and Other Stories by Wesley R. Bishop by Tim Lockette\n  * Monday: The Curve of the World by Vonda N. McIntyre by Kate Macdonald\n  * Wednesday: The Apple and the Pearl by Rym Kechacha by Anushree Nande\n  * Friday: Zoi by Jane Mondrup by A. Bristow-Smith\n  * Monday: Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf by C. L. Clark by Catherine Baker\n  * Wednesday: Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley by Duncan Lawie\n  * Friday: The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png by Sneha Pathak\n  * Monday: Radiant Star by Ann Leckie by Cameron Miguel\n  * Wednesday: The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison by Dawn Macdonald\n  * Friday: The Witch by Marie Ndiaye by Akankshya Abismruta\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## The Sunday Morning Transport (May 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Moon Carver\" by Ken Liu\n  * \"Alpha and Omega\" by LaShawn M. Wanak\n  * \"The Only Thing Older, The Only Thing Wiser\" by Scott Edelman\n  * \"Now is a Kind of Forever\" by Kelly Robson\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Uncanny Magazine (May/June 2026, Issue 70)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “The Snatchers” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (5/5)\n  * “The Glass City” by AnaMaria Curtis (5/5)\n  * “Extracted from an unravelled braid” by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (5/5)\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * “A Mermaid Looks at 40” by Fran Wilde (5/5)\n  * “Empty Music” by Prosper Ìféányí (5/5)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * “The Uncanny Valley” by Michael Damian Thomas\n  * “The End of This Day’s Business—Or, My Life as Repetitive Epic” by Una McCormack (5/5)\n  * “The Mopey Ghost Nightmare Girl: The Character of Hari in Three Filmed Versions of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris” by Alex Bledsoe (5/5)\n  * Interview: AnaMaria Curtis by Caroline M. Yoachim (5/5)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nAs always, drop what you've read and would recommend in the comments!",
  "title": "Table of Contents, May 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-01T19:55:49.738Z"
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