Early science fiction writers and readers conspired to predict our futures, constantly revising outdated speculations and promising startling revelations—Krushna Dande tracks their failed visions.

A letter from the editors.

Grace Lavery makes sure to record the feelings of different kinds of facts in a piece inspired by Kafka’s short story, “Eleven Sons.” This chronicle of eleven species of fact, complete with their blindspots, crotchets, and quiddities, takes us through the psychogeographical territory of our relationship to the factual, which is often a form of desire.