Space & Time No. 153: August 2026 [ebook]

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The Hermit steps away from the noise not to abandon the world, but to return with clearer vision, steadier hands, and better tools.

In this issue of Space & Time, writers and poets explore what happens when our tools are sharpened, neglected, perfected, misused or begin shaping us in return. A pencil sharpener bends time. An algorithm optimizes happiness by eliminating choice. A translator purchases perfect precision at the cost of her identity. A worker struggles beneath an economy that charges for every human need, while an exoskeleton carries the echo of someone lost.

Across science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative poetry, these works examine craft, technology, language, survival, exhaustion, and transformation. They ask whether mastery makes us more human—and what we may sacrifice in the pursuit of perfection.

Featuring work by Linda D. Addison, Kelly J. Cooper, Anuksha Dey, Andrew Brenza, Xauri’EL Zwaan, Kathryn Ptacek, Kris Schokrowsky, Brian U. Garrison, Callum Borthwick, M. Frost, Domenico Attianese, Cailín Frankland, T. H. Mercer, Simbarashe Chirikure, Blake Jessop, Saroj Kumar Senapati, P. M. Alexander, Hallie Rae, and Angela Yuriko Smith.

Also inside: Word Ninja, the Lonely Books Club, speculative missed connections, classified signals, contributor profiles, and QR codes that help readers connect directly with the authors.

Step into the wilderness. Raise your lantern. Examine what you carry. Then return ready to make what does not yet exist.

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