SF Stories I’m Reading: TED KOSMATKA “The Art of Alchemy.”

🫧 Open on Bubbles TED KOSMATKA “The Art of Alchemy.” First appeared in Fantasy & Science Fictio n , June 2008. Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade Books, 2009) and The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 Edition , edited by Rich Horton (Prime Books, 2010). There is a recurring th4eme to a certain number of similar stories, perhaps not as many as there used to be, in which an inventor of an improved means of propelling a