By: Karl Taro Greenfeld

He became the world’s foremost expert in opium antiquities.

By: Joshua Glenn

Gary Panter’s JIMBO

By: Jason Gilbert

I was no longer purchasing the Hand; the Hand had been entrusted to me.

By: Malcolm Evans

The blue ribband; how the ship would look dwarfing Nelson’s column…

By: Chapell Ellison

She digs past a mix of decorative pins, figurines and trinkets, toward a sound — a distinct jingling.

By: Joshua Glenn

Philip K. Dick’s A SCANNER DARKLY

By: James Parker

“My eyes ache from seeing./My balls ache from being.”

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL and THE COLOUR OF MAGIC to RONIN.

By: Lynn Peril

“If you don’t know about surfing or don’t like it, you’re too old to go.”

By: Carla Sinclair

Carla Sinclair on FACTSHEET FIVE

By: Andrew Innes

“BUST OF DUCK!” we intoned in our deepest Don Pardo voices.

By: Joshua Glenn

Moebius’s THE AIRTIGHT GARAGE

By: Sean Patrick Walsh

Hunting and pecking and foraging for things to say.

By: Jae Nichelle

She methodically dipped sheet music in the glue and smoothed it out onto the canvas.

By: Bruce Sterling

Afterword to our 2012 edition of Rudyard Kipling’s sci-fi novel.