Thirty years ago, the world lost a great literary mind—the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Today, Elizabeth Hyde Stevens revisits the financial conditions that produced this life of pure literature, finding unexpected hope in the darkest period of Borges’ forgotten past.

THE GERNSBACK CONTINUUM How would you feel if those futurescapes of fifty years ago materialized today? A short story about our dreams of technology. by William Gibson

Part 3: When the well goes dry: Soylent Green, Z.P.G., No Blade Of Grass, Silent Running

Part 2: Feeling gravity’s pull

Vlad has grown distant from his wife. His son has trouble at school. And he has to keep his sharp teeth hidden. This short story was acquired and edited for Tor.com by editor Marco Palmieri.