The New York Review of Science Fiction

NYRSF Issue 317 (January 2015): Table of Contents

• Brian Stableford: Speculative Sex 2: Apes and Supermen
• Mike Barrett: At Large in the Archonate: Matthew Hughes’s Tales of Luff Imbry
• Michael Andre-Driussi: Raving on “The Repairer of Reputations”
• All Those Vanished Engines by Paul Park, reviewed by John Crowley
• Dan’l Danehy-Oakes: Dhalgren at 40
• Terry Thompson: “The Great Rebel”: Promethean Evocationsin E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”
• The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell, reviewed by Greg L. Johnson
• The Hogben Chronicles by Henry Kuttner, edited by Pierce Watters and F. Paul Wilson, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman, reviewed by Darrell Schweitzer
• Mariella Scerri & Victor Grech: The Roles of Women in Murray Leinster’s Med Ship Stories
• Photos
• Editorial: 2014 in Comics for F/SF Readers

Mike Barrett: At Large in the Archonate: Matthew Hughes’s Tales of Luff Imbry

Millions of years in the future, Old Earth is in its penultimate age, quietly and unspectacularly moving towards the closing stages of its existence under the light of a tired orange sun. In a history that is so old it is almost forgotten, most of mankind had left the planet during The First Effloration, using wormholes to leapfrog through The Spray, Earth’s galactic arm, and then settling the one thousand Foundational Domains, which would become the first of the Ten Thousand Worlds. Earth was eventually left virtually deserted for hundreds of thousands of years until the Twelfth Eon when descendants of the original spacegoers returned to the home world, found the habitable parts of it to be immensely pleasing, and began to repopulate the planet, adding the appellation “Old” to its name.