Fiction from
farther afield.

New arrival

Beneath Songdo, a maintenance engineer finds the same impossible noise in two different pumps and follows it toward the limits of his world.

A man returns to a bench beside the water, carrying a book that remembers his wife more readily than he does.

A passenger has booked his passage to another galaxy and made careful plans for the person he intends to be when he gets there.

On a distant moon, an agent hunter discovers that a fugitive machine has better reasons for stealing than his client has for wanting it back.