Story & Analysis
Speculative fiction is a great way to learn obscure history & science, to say nothing of its value for interrogating society & ethics.
Barnacles
Weird taxes pressure public policy
Berserker Queen
A shortage of wives
The Goose that Guards the Garden Gate
Alternatives to guard dogs
The Apothecary's Daughter
Hyperfeminine healers & the trope of self-sacrifice
Can Androids Cope with Tiny Goats?
Intergalactic teleportation & organic robots
Blame
Food twins and the threat of blights
Opulence
Mercenaries make for a strange army
Haze
Monstrances are an ostensive symbol of sacrifice
Left
Violence can solve problems
Semblance
Creature creation from the blood up
