• FUTURES

Found in translation

Try to stand out from the crowd.
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  1. Gio Clairval

    1. Gio Clairval’s stories have appeared in Weird Tales and Lightspeed/Fantasy, and in anthologies published by HarperCollins, Corvus/Atlantic, and elsewhere. She also translates speculative fiction from German, French, Italian and Spanish into English, notably the anthology The Weird, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.

A modular spaceship with each section shaped like a letter so it spells out the word ‘scarf’ floats above the surface of a planet

Illustration: Jacey

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We were floating around Sweeps-04, normal-like, when some space storm hit us hard. Our ship got all banged up. (My Section is taught only Reproductive Arts, so don’t ask me for details.) There’s a chance that we’ll go kaboom. They’re picking people to be modified to breathe on Sweeps-04. Lombard, the ship’s AI, says I oughta stand out to get picked.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03066-1

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