“Stars Don’t Dream” by Chi Hui, translated from the Chinese by John Chu (Clarkesworld, January 1)
“House on the Edge of the Crater” (“Ház a kráter szélén“) by Gábor Képes, translated from the Hungarian by Anna Kállai (Samovar, January 22)
[reprint] “The House of the Scolopendra” by Nicola Lombardi, translated from the Italian by J. Weintraub (Samovar, January 22)
Your Utopia by Bora Chung, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (Algonquin Books, January 30)
In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be blamed for a crime she witnessed during the event, under the noses of the mysterious celebrity benefactors hoping to live forever. But she can’t be fired—no one can. In “One More Kiss, Dear,” a tender, one-sided love blooms in the AI-elevator of an apartment complex; as in, the elevator develops a profound affection for one of the residents. In “Seeds,” we see the final frontier of capitalism’s destruction of the planet and the GMO companies who rule the agricultural industry, but nature has ways of creeping back to life.
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