Hexagon Issue 16 / Spring 2024
Download Hexagon Issue 16 / Spring 2024 – PDF Hexagon Issue 16 / Spring 2024 – EPUB Contents “A Mnemosurgeon’s Tale” – by Melissa Ridley Elmes (3490 words) “Matter of…
African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate
When the writer Nnedi Okorafor coined the term Africanfuturism, she wanted to distinguish sci-fi written about Africa from Afrofuturism, which is focuses on the experiences of Black people in the…
The Barricade
by Joyce Ch’ng
Download Issues of “Weird Tales” (1923–1954): The Pioneering Pulp Horror Magazine
Debuting in 1923, Weird Tales, writes The Pulp Magazines Project, provided “a venue for fiction, poetry and non-fiction on topics ranging from ghost stories to alien invasions to the occult.”…
Mars Express
Mars Express is a 2023 French animated neo-noir science fiction film co-written and directed by Jérémie Périn. In 2200, Aline Ruby, a private detective, and Carlos Rivera, an android replica…
Stages of Rot
The award-winning, Eisner nominated, highly praised debut book from Linnea Sterte (author of A Frog in the Fall). An alien desert comes to life around the body of a dying…
The Garden of Time: the sci-fi short story behind this year’s Met Gala
In an unnamed place and time, a majestic villa overlooks a garden of delicate, glass-stemmed flowers. Home to Count Axel and the Countess, the otherwise elegant landscape is unsettled by…
Five Answers to Questions You Probably Have
a flash fiction story told in the form of a crumpled up note, stuffed inside a geode, hidden in your bedroom wall, from the father you've never met, explaining how…
Better Living Through Algorithms
An Audacious Experiment in Human Happiness was one of the big pull-quotes from Margo’s series. It was how one of the researchers had described it. The professors running the project…
Five Views of the Planet Tartarus
All traitors to the Sibyllines go to Tartarus to receive the only punishment for rebellion: eternal life.