Ah, much better. All good science fiction stories. Schroeder's Sun of Suns promises to be a better story than Niven's free-fall tales of the Smoke Ring and Integral Trees.

• Serial Novel (1 of 4): Sun of Suns, by Karl Schroeder - Schroeder gives a new spin on a free-fall world in the tradition of Larry Niven's Integral Trees and Smoke Ring.
• Novella: The Diversification of its Fancy, by John Barnes - A story in Barnes's springer universe (the one from his novel Earth Made of Glass). Giraut Leones dodges assassination attempts, although if he were assassinated he could simply be re-loaded from a backup into a clone body.
• Novelette: The Case of the Contumacious Qubit, by Thomas R. Dulski - A chemistry researcher helps judge a science competition, where he helps a high school scientist search for his missing aunt, also a brilliant scientist.
• Short story: 911-Backup, by Richard A. Lovett - For humans with computer-assisted brains, a hard drive crash can be fatal.
• Science fact: Retirement Home of the Gods, by Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. - Red dwarfs aren't so red.
• Short-short: Keeping Track, by Richard Foss - The invention of time-keeping.