It is 1803—a new 1803. Young Meriwether Lewis, footloose and intrigued, goes to hear a lecture in St. Louis by the venerated old wizard Benjamin Franklin. Franklin’s talk is disrupted by the attack of a winged fire-breathing beast. In the aftermath, Franklin tells the young man that he knows of a great, growing evil that lurks in the uncharted Arcane Territories west of the Mississippi. Using his own vast fortune, Franklin commissions Lewis and his partner William Clark to embark on a voyage of exploration. Accompanied by the brilliant shape-shifting sorceress Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark set off on an unparalleled adventure across a landscape that no European has ever seen.

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The war with the Arduans has ended, and the Arduans have come to call humanity their allies. Most of them. The Arduan warrior caste refuses to accept defeat. Now known as the Kaituni, they are waging a war of extermination against all members of the pan-Sentient Union. What’s more, the Kaituni have an unexpected weapon in their arsenal: the alien Arachnids, once thought driven to extinction. The Kaituni drive the Arachnid fleet ahead of them, inflicting untold damage. The odds look bleak. But Admiral Ian Trevayne and Commodore Ossian Wethermere have faced down long odds in the past. It’s time to take a stand, for Earth, for humanity . . . and for the pan-Sentient Union!

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It was the Big Day, the day simulation programmer Walt Sinclair and the other members of NASA had waited for. He should have been in the control room with the rest of the engineers, programmers, and flight specialists, but instead, Walt was stuck babysitting Oscar Marrow, a pilot from back in the old days. He was something of a celebrity around Mission Control, one of the few from his era still left alive. But that didn't make Walt any happier about being stuck in a windowless office, listening to the public broadcast over an old, static-filled radio while Oscar dozed. But though the promise of Tomorrow belongs to Youth, Walt soon learns that the Past hold valuable lessons—lessons that can't be run in a simulator.

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The dream sequence has been a staple of short stories, novels, television, and motion pictures for years. And of course we all play our own dream sequences on the backs of our eyelids every night, even if we don't remember them upon waking. But for all of our familiarity with dreams—both real and the fictional variety—most of us don't really know what dreams are or how they work. In this month's nonfiction essay Dr. Robert E. Hampson breaks down the whys and hows of our dreams and discusses how authors might better craft accurate dream sequences in their fiction.

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