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Nicole Berland

Nicole Berland is an instructor and PhD candidate at UNC Chapel Hill, where she studies contemporary science-fiction television seriality. Her writing has appeared in PopMatters, The Carolina Quarterly, INDY Week, The Anarres Project, and several other publications. Visit her website, or find her
on Twitter @nicwinnik.


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Current Issue
21 Nov 2022
Art, Fiction
She Dreams of Moons and Moons 
By: Marisca Pichette
Art by: Johnatan “Johncito” Marques
As far back as I could remember, Oma warned me about the bats. She said they would eat me if they found me exposed at night. But I knew the green light of the moon would protect me, even when I was still smaller than Oma.
Poetry
Gosh, It's Too Beautiful To Exist Briefly In A Parallel Planet 
By: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
The truth is: / she does not have to bend into a ceramic plate to carry us beautifully, & my father / isn't the hand that will break her.
Poetry
Ampersand 
By: Sara S. Messenger
the rattle of the rails, the shuffling-muttering of hundreds of passengers nestled in the one long limb of you
Reviews
Monday: The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang 
By: Zhui Ning Chang
Wednesday: Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media edited by Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery, and Tereza Dědinová 
By: Octavia Cade
Friday: Cabinet of Wrath by Tara Campbell 
By: Eve Morton
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Issue 14 Nov 2022
Fiction
B-ing 
By: Crystal Odelle
Poetry
EXCERPT FROM A PROPOSAL FOR THE NEW CITY 
By: Alyssa Lo
Poetry
Unicorn’s Patience 
By: Emily Jiang
Reviews
Monday: Neom by Lavie Tihar 
By: Redfern Jon Barrett
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Wednesday: The First Binding by R. R. Virdi 
By: Roy Salzman-Cohen
,
Friday: Thunderbird: Book One by Sonia Nimr, translated by M. Lynx Qualey 
By: Sonia Sulaiman
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Issue 7 Nov 2022
Fiction
Sister, Silkie, Siren, Shark 
By: M. A. Blanchard
Poetry
tzedek: the wild hunt. 
By: Elisheva Fox
Poetry
SORRY I DON’T FEEL LIKE TALKING ABOUT GOLF TODAY 
By: Adam Fell
Reviews
Monday: A Mirror Mended by Alix E Harrow 
By: Catherine Baker
,
Wednesday: Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen 
By: A. S. Lewis
,
Friday: We Are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt  
By: Dean Leetal
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Issue 31 Oct 2022
Fiction
Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead 
By: KT Bryski
Fiction, Reprint
A City on Its Tentacles 
By: R.B. Lemberg
Fiction, Reprint
A Whistle on the Drum 
By: Mir Plemmons
Poetry
After a line from Bob Dylan's “Changing of the Guards” 
By: Sydney Sackett
Poetry
Yo, This Ocean Slaps Hard 
By: Maria Kornacki
Poetry
The Birds Singing in the Rocks 
By: Tristan Beiter
Articles, Non-Fiction
How Music Helps Create Sci-Fi/Fantasy Worlds 
By: Mary Fan
Articles, Non-Fiction
Foreword 
By: Maxwell Neely-Cohen
Reviews
Monday: Orlam by P. J. Harvey 
By: Dan Hartland
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Wednesday: The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe 
By: Sessily Watt
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Issue 17 Oct 2022
Poetry
Ineffective 
By: Ken Poyner
Poetry
Set operation of a country in the belly of wa(te)r 
By: Zaynab Bobi
Fiction
Born from the Drowning Forest 
By: James Rowland
Reviews
Monday: Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2021: Part One 
By: M. L. Clark
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Wednesday: Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2021: Part Two 
By: M. L. Clark
,
Friday: The Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2022 
By: Gautam Bhatia
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Issue 10 Oct 2022
Fiction
12 Things A Trini Should Know Before Travelling To A Back In Times Fete™ 
By: R. S. A. Garcia
Poetry
A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse 
By: Marcus Whalbring
Poetry
Miranda 
By: Lauren Parker
Reviews
Monday: To Catch a Moon by Rym Kechacha 
By: Nicole Berland
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Wednesday: Golem, The War of the Worlds, and O-bi, O-ba directed by Piotr Szulkin 
By: Mikko Toivanen
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Friday: The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah 
By: Safia H. Senhaji
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Issue 3 Oct 2022
Fiction
Ants and Wasps 
By: Jay Jellicoe
Poetry
The First Morning in May 
By: Rebecca Buchanan
Poetry
Codename Beast: a sestina 
By: Xander Gershberg
Columns, Non-Fiction
Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Fiction Roundup 
By: Maria Haskins
Reviews
Monday: After the Revolution by Robert Evans 
By: M. L. Clark
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Wednesday: Where You Linger & Other Stories by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam 
By: Vivian Wagner
,
Friday: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo 
By: Kristy Wang
Read Issue
Issue 26 Sep 2022
Azimuth, Editorials, Non-Fiction
Foreword: A Way of Seeing 
By: Gautam Bhatia
Poetry
Others’ Apocalyptic Love Stories 
By: Vicky MacDonald Harris
Articles, Non-Fiction
The Ethics of Extractivism in Science Fiction 
By: Emma Johanna Puranen 
Poetry
Blå Jungfrun 
By: Deborah L. Davitt
Articles, Non-Fiction
The Extractive Unconscious in Science Fiction: A Saga of Concrete and Gas 
By: Carina Brand
Poetry
Epistolary Poem 
By: Umang Kalra
Articles, Non-Fiction
“With every future we wish to create, we must first learn to imagine it”: an Interview with Chen Qiufan 
By: Gautam Bhatia
By: Chen Qiufan 陈楸帆
Art, Poetry
I do not wish to carry so much burden 
By: Chukwuma-Eke Pacella
Art by: Maria Carvalho
Articles, Non-Fiction
SF+Extraction: An Interview with the London Science Fiction Research Community 
By: Gautam Bhatia
By: Francis Gene-Rowe
By: Cristina Diamant
Articles, Non-Fiction
On Belters, Beijingers, and Rat-Catchers: Economies of Labor and Extraction in Speculative Fiction 
By: Mason Wong
Reviews
Monday: Seeds for the Swarm by Sim Kern 
By: Amy Nagopaleen
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Wednesday: Negalyod: The God Network by Vincent Perriot, Florence Breton, and Lauren Bowes, translated by Montana Kane 
By: ML Kejera
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Friday: Leech by Hiron Ennes 
By: Seamus Sullivan
Read Issue
Issue 21 Sep 2022
Azimuth, Non-Fiction
In Memoriam: Maureen Kincaid Speller 
By: Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland
Fiction
Mother Hunger 
By: Mary Maxfield
Poetry
Redbud 
By: Samantha Pious
Poetry
Alarm 
By: Betsy Sharp
Reviews
Wednesday: The Hourglass Throne by K. D. Edwards 
By: Adri Joy
,
Wednesday: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
By: Archita Mittra
,
Friday: The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia and The Unbalancing by R. B. Lemberg 
By: Stephen Case
Read Issue
Issue 12 Sep 2022
Poetry
Yours, Stalagmite 
By: Evan Williams
Poetry
A Dinner Party At The End of The World 
By: J.D. Harlock
Fiction
The Poltergeist Rose: An Instructional Guide 
By: J.G. Lynas
Reviews
Monday: The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison 
By: Abigail Nussbaum
,
Wednesday: Memories of Tomorrow by Mayi Pelot, translated by Arrate Hidalgo 
By: Rachel Cordasco
,
Friday: The Junction by Norm Konyu 
By: Aaron Heil
Read Issue
Issue 5 Sep 2022
Fiction
The Crow Husband 
By: Sarah McGill
Poetry
This Is the Poem Fragment the Archeologists Will Find When They Are Excavating University Avenue 
By: Gabriela Santiago
Poetry
The Seller of Apples 
By: Claire Smith
Reviews
Monday: The Dark Between The Trees by Fiona Barnett 
By: Catherine Baker
,
Wednesday: Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology by Taylor Driggers 
By: Debbie Gascoyne
,
Friday: Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel 
By: Eric Primm
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