Dreamforge Magazine - Anvil Issue 15: Worlds in Transition: Grand Uplift, Part 1 (DreamForge Anvil 2024)

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DreamForge is an independent, small press Magazine of positive Science Fiction and Fantasy. Our goal is to publish fiction and commentary that embody, in one way or another, these essential integrity and decency, compassion and creativity, intelligence and inventiveness, the rule of law and liberty under the law, the dignity of the individual, and the power of synergy to unleash the potential of disparate individuals and communities for the betterment of all. We do not subscribe to hopelessness or futility as a vision of the future or of any setting or situation.

In all worlds and times, our tales revolve around those individuals and groups who bring meaning and value to the world, whose actions are of consequence, and whose dreams are the vanguard of things to come. Whether you call that Solarpunk, Hopepunk, or just DreamForge stories, you’ll find them here. Time and space are indifferent to our existence, yet without our struggles to bring it meaning, the whole of the cosmos is irrelevant. Inside each mind waits a universe. We can be the creators that dream the world.

In Issue 15, we explore changing worlds and see through the eyes of characters whose challenge is to meet change with intelligence, humanity, and the tenacity of our species. We meet AI that promise to solve all our problems and then mysteriously take their leave; travel through a portal where conventional standards of propriety must be left behind; search for desires beyond those of passion and success; puzzle out an n-body problem to find a message as old as the Earth itself; and deal with unknown dangers by using a perfect B-flat.