We start with R R Angell's "A Dog's Life". It's about a dog, a family, and cryo-storage . Our second story is "Cravings" by Steve DuBois. In a near-future America run according to the standard that the neediest are served first, a policeman confronts the sacrifices that that principle requires . The third story this issue, Santiago Belluco's "The Engineering of Alyssa Langley," is a story about a young woman who hires a black-market genetic engineer to reverse the changes her parents illegally foisted on her. But can she really trust him, especially after her modifications turn out to be far different than she expected ? Next we have "Envoy in the Ice" by Dustin Steinacker. This one is a story about humanity's yearly diplomatic visit to a mercurial alien entity who has set up in the Antarctic. It is a reprint that originally appeared in Writers of the Future Vol. 33 . The final story is "Our 500-Year Plan" by James Reinebold. Noboru, a digitized drone control operative on a space ark, attempts to maintain control over his life as his environment begins to lose its fidelity .
We start with R R Angell's "A Dog's Life". It's about a dog, a family, and cryo-storage . Our second story is "Cravings" by Steve DuBois. In a near-future America run according to the standard that the neediest are served first, a policeman confronts the sacrifices that that principle requires . The third story this issue, Santiago Belluco's "The Engineering of Alyssa Langley," is a story about a young woman who hires a black-market genetic engineer to reverse the changes her parents illegally foisted on her. But can she really trust him, especially after her modifications turn out to be far different than she expected ? Next we have "Envoy in the Ice" by Dustin Steinacker. This one is a story about humanity's yearly diplomatic visit to a mercurial alien entity who has set up in the Antarctic. It is a reprint that originally appeared in Writers of the Future Vol. 33 . The final story is "Our 500-Year Plan" by James Reinebold. Noboru, a digitized drone control operative on a space ark, attempts to maintain control over his life as his environment begins to lose its fidelity .