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Features

Between Fiction and Reality by Cathryn M. Mercier
The playground of metafiction in picture books.

Reality Reimagined
We asked fourteen sci-fi/fantasy authors how reality shapes their work.

Worlds, Worries, and Wishes by Tracey Baptiste

Zombies and Ghosts and Aliens, Oh My! by Adrianna Cuevas

The Weight of Longing by Guojing

The Paint by Frances Hardinge

Not a Word Isn’t Coming from the Deep by A.S. King

Magic and Marginalization by Sacha Lamb

A Conversation with Reality by Shaun David Hutchinson

Escapist Fantasies Are Political by Jordan Ifueko

A Club of Science Nerds by Donna Barba Higuera

Reality and Fantasy by Sabaa Tahir

A Hero in the Here and Now by Kamilah Cole

Fantasy vs. Reality by Philip Reeve

Unreal Estate by Neal Shusterman

The Tools of Fantasy by Darcie Little Badger

Real Talk by Shoshana Flax and Grant Snider
An illustrated poem.

Columns

Editorial

Stranger Than Fiction by Elissa Gershowitz
Perception and reality through dizzying times.

A Publisher’s Perspective

A Two-Brained Intersection by Karen Boss
Creativity, commerce, and publishing today.

The Writer’s Page

Evidence! by Deborah Hopkinson
The long road to a short nonfiction book.

Reviews

Book Reviews

Departments

May/June Starred Books

Impromptu

“Reality Reimagined” and Additional Contributor Notes

Index to Advertisers

Index to Books Reviewed

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