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APRIL / MAY 2024
Untethered
By Bristol Baughan
NPR squawked on her AM/FM alarm clock and somewhere between The World and Morning Edition Margie Hayberry walked to the basement, lifted the lid on the DO NOT TOUCH button, pressed said button, and cast off. Margie’s houseboat at 44 Liberty Dock is one of the few houseboats these days with the ability to, with just the press of a button, float clean away from its mooring. Feeling the old familiar caress of current under her hull, some part of the boat remembered its pre-house days, as it once again, became an anchor-free, seaworthy vessel.
Without any capacity for steering the house, Margie was at the mercy of the wind and sea. You wouldn’t have known it, however, as she went about her morning routine. Her breath labored as she did ten lunges on each side, wobbling a bit due to her bad ankles and the boat finding its way out of the quirky dock lane into the San Francisco Bay.
FICTION
Untethered
by Bristol Baughan
Grief and Other Things a Climate Diplomat Deals with
by Amanda Ilozumba
Succession Plan
by Pauline Barmby
Job Offer
by Alexander Hay
POETRY
Mother Nature's Farewell Tour
by Lisa Timpf
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Love Song with Future Self
by Kevin Kreiger
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How to grow a Home
by Andrew Maust
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Not Quite Venice
by Deborah Davitt
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Ode to an Anaerobic Age
by James Lowell Hall
ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS
FROM THE EDITOR
Antibiotic Alternatives
by Randall Hayes
Nature Tech: Planting Trees
by Jean Paul L. Garnier
Biotech in Sustainable Agriculture and Food...
by Yuliia Vereta
Interview with Jeff Noon
Interview with Selena Middleton
Letter from the Editor
by Lynne Sargent
THE VAULT
The Fate of the Poseidonia
by Clare Winger Harris
5TH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY
Utopia is not the end of progress, but the first step on an even bigger journey. Dare to leap into a world where hope defines us.
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine’s mission is to publish stories that shine with a more optimistic future, one we all want to believe in. This anthology collects some of the best stories published from 2019-2023.
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Included in this special five year anthology are exclusive interviews with staff and volunteers, introductions to the stories and poems by the authors themselves, and interviews with amazing talent such as James Gurney and Joe Haldeman. This book also includes gorgeous new artwork commissioned especially for this anthology.
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Authors Included: Krysten Lipp * Jessica Andrewartha * Penny Sebring Leigh * Kara Race-Moore * Dawn Vogel * Gabrielle Bleu * Adam Slavny * Loren Hall * Gwen C. Katz * Patrice Sarath * Raima Larter * Calie Voorhis * Alex Singer * Karl El-Koura * Timothy Hickson * Mahmud El Sayed * Andrew Najberg * Clare L. Deming * Nadine Aurora Tabing * Kelly Kurtzhals Geiger * Sterling Warner * LindaAnn LoSchiavo * Louis Gallo * Carmen Lucía Alvarado * Christopher Collingwood * Lisa Timpf * Elizabeth R. McClellan * Lynn White * Avra Margariti * Colleen Anderson * Lorraine Schein * Kim Whysall-Hammond * Eva Papasoulioti * Januário Esteves * Lauren McBride * Brian Hugenbuch * Jordan Hirsch * Beth Cato and Rhonda Parrish
