Retro Shock
When the world's a cyberpunk dystopia, where does the genre go next?
80s cyberpunk predicted the future. But today, can it escape its own past?
All Back Pages
An Even Odyssey
A history of revolt in the East Village
Tompkins Square Park looked like something had happened to it. There was scattered trash and detritus.
A Division of Labor
A science fiction TV drama explores questions of slavery and self in the workplace
In "Severance," work-life balance is given a dystopian spin through tech-induced split personalities.
God is an analogy of which /
I’m not overly fond
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
The Former Essayist
On the decline of Wesley Yang
Whatever happened to Wesley Yang?
From Issue 3
In the Domain of the Unknown
From death mask to CPR manikin, L'Inconnue de la Seine is a mythic symbol of our attempts to grapple with death - or reverse it.
A drowned Victorian teen, her medical manikin doppelganger, and their enduring entanglement with the question: “Can death be undone?”
A Specter Hangs Over the Hamptons Couch
Inside the Outsider Art fair
On perusing the obscene spectacle of the Outsider Art Fair, a communist declares: abolish the art market!
Great minds are not like ordinary people; theydo not wash socks or remember birthdays.They see clear through one aspect of the world, socks and all. The aspect furls and stretches like a catbaked in sunlight. Or molten glasspulled like hot caramel in cool stone hands. I have known three Great...
