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Stephen Case

Stephen holds a PhD in the history and philosophy of science and teaches at a liberal arts college in Illinois. His fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, Clarkesworld, and elsewhere. He has published essays on the history of astronomy in Physics Today, American Scientist, and Aeon. Find him online at www.stephenrcase.com.

Stephen Case in our archives

The House of Illusionists and Other Stories by Vanessa Fogg, Non-Fiction, Issue 23 February 2026
New Adventures in Space Opera edited by Jonathan Strahan, Non-Fiction, Issue 14 April 2025
The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey, Non-Fiction, Issue 10 February 2025
Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays edited by Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law, and Susan Forest, Non-Fiction, Issue 13 November 2023
August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White, Non-Fiction, Issue 27 March 2023
The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia and The Unbalancing by R. B. Lemberg, Non-Fiction, Issue 21 September 2022
How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters by Erica L. Satifka, Non-Fiction, Issue 27 June 2022
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Non-Fiction, Issue 28 February 2022
The Tangleroot Palace Stories by Marjorie Liu, Non-Fiction, Issue 24 January 2022
The Fall of Koli by M. R. Carey, Non-Fiction, Issue 20 September 2021
Busted Synapses by Erika L. Satifka, Non-Fiction, Issue 26 July 2021
That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction, Non-Fiction, Issue 7 December 2020
The Book of Koli by M. R. Carey, Reviews, Issue 9 November 2020
Multiverse: An International Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry edited by Rachel Plummer and Russell Jones, Reviews, Issue 16 March 2020
Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell, Reviews, Issue 27 January 2020
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, Reviews, Issue 13 January 2020
The Green and Growing by Erin K. Wagner, Reviews, Issue 16 September 2019
Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre, Reviews, Issue 14 January 2019
Starlings by Jo Walton, Reviews, Issue 9 July 2018
Cosmic Powers: The Saga Anthology of Far-Away Galaxies, edited by John Joseph Adams, Reviews, Issue 19 February 2018
Wicked Wonders by Ellen Klages, Non-Fiction, Issue 11 September 2017
ODY-C: Cycle One by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward, Reviews, Issue 20 March 2017
Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle, Reviews, Issue 26 September 2016

Throne of Men, Wilds of Sky

By: Morgan Wodring

But I am no king, no man. It is a role I assumed in serving, with perfect order, those who scarcely saw fit to name me. Wild and shimmering, I hide from myself no longer. I was born twice from death. It is time to mend what was broken, even if they will not.

The Sound of Trying to Remember

By: Vinita Agrawal
Art by: Romie Stott

They took the verse... and translated its grief into a new alphabet.

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i am learning my new friend’s language / she said do you want to look for frogs sometime

Monday: The Climate Fiction Prize Shortlist 2026

By: Octavia Cade

Friday: Hermits Die on Thursday: Stories of Appalachia and the Dark Ages by Gregory Ariail

By: Tim Lockette

Issue 1 Jun 2026

By: Christine V. Lao

A Funny Thing Happened on the Limbhackers Forum

By: Katharine Tyndall

Critical Friends, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 24: On Oeuvres

By: Duncan Lawie
By: Kate Macdonald
By: Dan Hartland

Happy as a Clam™

By: Katlina Sommerberg

Monday: Tomorrow Brings Joy: Elysium by Mahyar A. Amouzegar and Mahbod Amouzegar

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Wednesday: The Sound of the Dark by Daniel Church

By: Shannon Fay

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Friday: Charmed and Dangerous by Shelly Page

By: Dean Leetal

Issue 25 May 2026

How to Get Around It

So This Is A Week

By: Mary Soon Lee

Articles, Non-Fiction

Tempered And Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction

By: Shveta Thakrar

Podcast: Cold Comfort

By: Louis Inglis Hall
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie

Monday: Radiant Star by Ann Leckie

By: Cameron Miguel

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Wednesday: The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison

By: Dawn Macdonald

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Friday: The Witch by Marie Ndiaye

By: Akankshya Abismruta

Issue 18 May 2026

My Grandmother Turned Dead Souls into Sugar

By: Mary Salas Robles

Death of the Emperor’s Nightingale

By: Shantell Powell
Art by: Romie Stott

Monday: Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf by C. L. Clark

By: Catherine Baker

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Wednesday: Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley

By: Duncan Lawie

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Friday: The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png

By: Sneha Pathak

Issue 11 May 2026

The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub

By: Nico Martinez Nocito

By: Dhiyanah Hassan

Monday: The Curve of the World by Vonda N. McIntyre

By: Kate Macdonald

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Wednesday: The Apple and the Pearl by Rym Kechacha

By: Anushree Nande

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Friday: Zoi by Jane Mondrup

By: A. Bristow-Smith

Issue 4 May 2026

By: Michael Janairo

By: Ewan Downie

Critical Friends, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 23: On Reviewing Debuts

By: Hana Carolina
By: Alex Kingsley
By: Dan Hartland

Monday: The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan

By: Martin Petto

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Wednesday: Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills

By: William Shaw

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Friday: Planet of Ghosts and Other Stories by Wesley R. Bishop

By: Tim Lockette

Issue 20 Apr 2026

By: Megan Branning

The Shut-in on the 55th Floor

By: Abby Nicole Yee
Art by: Romie Stott

Underneath the Underneath

By: Audrey Zhou

Podcast: Four Steps to Hunt a God

By: Athar Fikry
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie

Monday: Krackle’s Last Movie by Chelsea Sutton

By: Hana Carolina

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Wednesday: Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters edited by Randy Brown

By: Thomas E. Simmons

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Friday: Isaac by Allee Mead

By: Alex Kingsley

Issue 13 Apr 2026

By: Crystal Sidell

Dead City Dreaming

By: Joshua Ginsberg

By: Jamie McGhee

Monday: The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey

By: Bill Capossere

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Wednesday: Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel

By: Danielle Hanson

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Friday: Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn

By: Seamus Sullivan

Issue 6 Apr 2026

Many of you have been asking what happens when an angel dies

By: Victoria Ojo

The Houses of the Stars in Heaven

By: Ferdison Cayetano

Critical Friends, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 22: Romancing The Genre

By: Jenny Hamilton
By: Anushree Nande
By: Dan Hartland

Monday: Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre by Joy Sanchez-Taylor

By: Nick Hubble

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Wednesday: When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee

By: Kyle R. Garton

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Friday: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older

By: Safia H. Senhaji

Issue 30 Mar 2026

Azimuth, Editorials

Introduction: Fungal Dreams

By: Gautam Bhatia

Nights and Weekends in the Shoggoth Loop

By: Mary Soon Lee
Art by: Romie Stott

The Cryptogamists

By: Sonya Taaffe

Chronicling the Orbits of Mushrooms

By: Caleb Peiffer

Articles, Non-Fiction

From Cosmic Horror to Solarpunk Futures: The Changing Face of Fungal Speculation

By: Ruthanna Emrys

Columns, Non-Fiction

Climbing the Fungal Ladder: Towards Transcending Barriers

By: Ayida Shonibar

Articles, Non-Fiction

How to Grow a City: Biogenic Architecture and Symbiotic Evolution

By: Maya Horton

Columns, Non-Fiction

Utopian Eukaryotes: Revisiting the jahSepp from Star Trek: Discovery

By: Jordan Hirsch

Columns, Non-Fiction

Fungus, Climate Change, and You: Facts and Speculative Fiction

By: Jason P. Burnham

Columns, Non-Fiction

An STD could save your (chest)nuts

By: Helen Pennington

Monday: Shuten Order

By: Tristan Beiter

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Wednesday: Make-Believe and Artifice by Rose Biggin

By: William Shaw

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Friday: The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter by Brionni Nwosu

By: Nileena Sunil

Issue 23 Mar 2026

Pennsylvania Cryptid

By: Amelia England

Articles, Non-Fiction

That Soft and Gentle Feeling: Relationships In Cosy SFF

By: S.L. Dove Cooper

The O’Neill Cylinder in Geostationary Orbit Above Earth’s Equator

By: Katlina Sommerberg

Monday: Beings by Ilana Masad

By: David Lewis

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Wednesday: The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui

By: Alex Kingsley

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Friday: Monsters in the Archive by Caroline Bicks

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