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Ian Creasey, “Crimes, Follies, Misfortunes, and Love,” Asimov’s, August. Lucas digs out his lock, dumps his pack and secures the door. In the decades that followed, he has kept up a steady stream of fiction, nonfiction, futurist speculations, and critical work, which has won him multiple Ditmar and Aurealis Awards. He said, “It’s starting.

The first thing he has to get used to is the silence in his head. It’s true that the hardest thing to do for love is to give up the beloved. Anita had gazed at it with intense curiosity, almost with reverence. her crazily, like a jigsaw puzzle done wrong—evidence that white psychologists are right, when they say our dre