June 2023 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine — Episode notes: Season 1 1.1 SAIL AWAY As our global future spirals into more danger and chaos, La Vie En Mer, a luxury cruise ship with 500 occupied residential apartments, is still sailing. Fearing our earth is becoming uninhabitable, a team of four scientists (Grace, Cara, Kenji and Jackson) who…

June 2023 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine — Tawdry electronic shops and video bars spook neon nightlights across the supply depot. Passerby come for a quick dose of dopamine, some stay for the serotonin of late night eats and the promise of fascinating liaisons with sentient bipeds. T & R Used Books and Curios takes care of a…

June 2023 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine — Night was falling across the Torus Zero arm of the Wheel. Rose, halfway out the Sunside maintenance airlock, wedged a suited knee under the hatch lip and gripped both sides so she could hang still and watch. The Wheel, geosynchronous, was the stable point in Rose’s frame of reference; it…

April 2023 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine — The days of the lone scientific maverick, romantic as they may have been, are over. We live in the era of big data science. In fact, overwhelming amounts of data. In many cases the organizations collecting this data do not have the resources to actually sift through all of it…

April 2023 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine Alien World alien world she hangs her dreamcatcher Evening Tea evening tea viewing Venus from Mars Martian Greenhouse Martian greenhouse the first bluebells bloom Originally published in the April 2023 issue of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine. In non-pandemic times, Greg Schwartz works in…

April 2023 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine — Lucky for them, the snailiens (snail-like aliens) crash-landed in the rural south. Unlucky for farmers who found crop circles eaten in their fields when the sun rose. Once taught to eat kudzu, the snailiens were no longer hunted for their large, colorful shells. After that, they started creating geometric snail-trails…

April 2023 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine — Starship pilot. Mother. Paths I took and paths I didn’t. Most people don’t want to know what might have been. Regret is bearable when it remains vague, but to really see the person you might have become, to walk the path you’d given up — well, that’s scary as hell. …

April 2023 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine — Green and yellow parrots call noisily from slender branches perched on top of spindly tree trunks that have pushed themselves up out of low Martian gravity we stand on a boardwalk perched high in sparse foliage laugh as a flock of blue butterflies flap around us their delicate wings shimmering…

February & April 2023 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine — Luni remembered the moment she was born: the seal cracking like an egg, the hiss of air, the gelatinous tide of amniotic fluid, her limbs unspooling and cooling underneath headlamps round and bright as moons. She kept this story tucked inside and told it only once: to another self of…