New year, new fiction! Let’s kick things off right, with our lead story for 2025: “Our Lady of the Gyre,” from Doug Franklin. In his own words, it’s “about the fraught relationship between inhabitants of a seaborne community and an orbital artificial intelligence tasked with mitigating climate change.” It’s a short story, but also the cover—once you get it in your hands, I think you’ll see why.

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