Brilliant new short science fiction stories. Pull up a Log – Eris Young Wolf Teeth – Laura Lam Little Sprout – E. B. Siu Dust Bunnies – Vaughan Stanger The King of China's Mirror – Robert Bagnall The Quality of Life – Louis Evans The Bee Bearer – Lyndsey CroalMultiverse – Townes-Thomas, Amelia Gorman and Angela Acosta Reviews – Alliance Rising, The Midnight Circus, Barzakh: The Land In-Between A Textual Analysis of Barzakh – Moussa Ould Ebnou Noise and Sparks – Ruth EJ Booth The Tragedy of Concrete – Emma Levin Q&A with Ian Whates of NewCon Press – Teika Marija Smits asks the questions (Extract) The Double-Edged Sword – Ian Whates

“Sumptuous epic fantasy... sophisticated.” —Publishers Weekly“Dragons have never been so sexy.”—Kate Dylan, author of Mindwalker“Tight, tense, smoldering, and wonderfully queer. —Mike Brooks, author of The God-King ChroniclesLong-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm in the first in this magical new epic fantasy trilogy from a bestselling authorLong ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to a dying world. Centuries later, their descendants worship dragons as gods. But the "gods" remember, and they do not forgive. Thief Arcady scrapes a living on the streets of Vatra. Desperate, Arcady steals a powerful artifact from the bones of the Plaguebringer, the most hated person in Lumet history. Only Arcady knows the artifact's magic holds the key to a new life among the nobles at court and a chance for revenge. The...