Advances in heritable genome editing, such as with CRISPR-Cas9, promise to ensure that some possible future children with genetic disorders are not created — but at what cost to equality? If only certain kinds of people are brought into existence, do we risk undermining the very foundations of social justice?This groundbreaking volume brings together leading philosophical, ethical, and legal scholars to explore the implications of selecting future children.Examining this ur...

Eleven stories of people across Europe who became unlikely Human Rights Defenders.Across Europe, rising repression is reshaping daily life. Local people helping others are targeted and criminalized for exposing corruption, helping refugees and acting out of kindness.In today’s climate of increasing fear and intimidation, some refuse to look away.Award-winning activist Brian Dooley presents eleven true stories of people who chose courage over safety:...

People said he was emotionless. Cold. But he burned her to the ground every chance he got.Priest Hayes thought he knew everything there was to know about the society of outlaws who ran by their own set of rules, and right now, he'd just taken the gavel. It didn't feel heavy. It felt like it belonged there all along.In his hand.Just like her.But Luna Nox was the one girl he could never have. He knew that the second he fell for her. Bound by a...

She has spent her whole life silencing the magic in her own throat. The Court that took her mother wants to hear her sing.On a world that has been drowning for six hundred years, Maren has one rule: never let them hear the song in her blood. The Salt Court collars singers like cattle and feeds them to the Choir that keeps the dead gods asleep — and it already took her mother. So when the tithe-ship comes for her island, Maren does the unthinkable to protect a child...

The debt comes due at the equinox. The sea has already started collecting.Fifty-seven days. That's what stands between the coast and a 611-year-old bill the founders signed in stolen song — and the price, read at last, is not two throats. It is the tidesong itself, out of every throat alive. Maren has spent her whole war refusing to spend people like coin. Now the only honest way out is to ask 962 free Voiced, one by one, by name, whether to give up the thing that makes them what t...

He held the door until it broke him. She's coming to prove it was never a door at all.The betrayal at the tower saved her life — Maren knows that now, and it changes nothing. Her throat is pinned shut by twelve rings of salt-iron, her rebellion is a remnant on a drowned coast, and the man who did it is still up there, spending what's left of himself on a note that holds nothing. Because that's the proof Maren carries east: since the god came up, the keeping-note keeps no door. The ...

"Determination of the Atomic Weight of Cadmium and the Preparation of Certain of Its Sub-Compounds" by Harry C. Jones is a significant scientific work that delves into the intricate processes involved in determining the atomic weight of cadmium. The book meticulously outlines the experimental methods and analytical techniques employed in the research, providing a comprehensive overview of the chemical properties of cadmium and its sub-compounds. Jones's thorough approach not only enhances ...

The Beatitudes are gifts to the church to share with the world. Yet, some Christians either do not know them or hesitate to practice them. This book asks, are such teachings relevant today? Would they work if we tried them? Can they make any real difference in the world? We must try to keep these goals for living in the world. Do we live in a world of righteousness, justice, and peace? Has seeking secular authority helped the church remake the world? Blessed Living is a book that compares ...

“Anyone who believes that faeries are wee, golden-haired creatures with dragon-fly wings and sweet intentions has never met a real faerie.” –Suzanne J. Willis, “A Silver Thread Between Worlds”Retellings of familiar favourites from new perspectives, and brand new tales share the pages of this collection of fairy stories. Within these tales you’ll find fairy music and food, contracts (making and breaking them), changelings, circles and curses–these stories deliver all the things you ...

The March/April 2026 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Angela Liu, Anjali Sachdeva, Stephen Graham Jones, Theodora Goss, Sunwoo Jeong, and John Wiswell; essays by Samantha Mills, Jim C. Hines, Jane Espenson, and Ai Jiang; poetry by Izzy Wasserstein, Eva Papasoulioti, Marissa Lingen, and Thomas Mixon; interviews with Anjali Sachdeva and Sunwoo Jeong by Caroline M. Yoachim; Broci’s Kuolonuni as the cover; and an editorial by Michael Damian Thoma...

Henry is in the grocery store when he sees a guy who really appeals to him. It’s not like anything he’s ever attempted before. Only later, at home alone, the terror hits. Sticking a note on the fellow’s windshield might not have been such a good idea. A short story of gay romance.

In "Determination of the Atomic Weight of Cadmium and the Preparation of Certain of Its Sub-Compounds," Harry C. Jones presents a meticulous examination of cadmium through empirical scientific methods, underscoring the importance of precision in chemical measurement. The text deftly combines experimental data with a thorough exploration of the properties and reactions of cadmium and its sub-compounds, situated within the broader context of 19th-century chemistry. This work illustrates a pe...