FICTION “The Fixer” by Paul McAuley “That Which Stands Tends Toward Free Fall” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew “In the Midst of Life” by Nick Wolven “Between Dragons and Their Wrath” by An Owomoyela and Rachel Swirsky “Blood Dauber” by Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore “Mercurial” by Kim Stanley Robinson NON-FICTION “Six Quirks of the Human Genome” by Dan Koboldt “Sapient Animals and Memory Particles: A Conversation with Lawrence M. Schoen” by Chris Urie “Another Word: Very Close Now” by Fran Wilde “Editor's Desk: The Roundup” by Neil Clarke