Issue 82

Issues

This is the July 2026 issue of Salon Futura. Here are the contents.


  • Art: The Herring Fishers Pursued by the Bhodry-More: This issue's cover art is by GP Jacomb-Hood and features a strange piece of Scottish folklore

  • Green City Wars: Adrian Tchaikovsky has ridiculous amounts of fun with this charming tale of uplifted animals running a city, and much besides

  • Outlaw Planet: This science fiction novel from Mike Carey reminds Cheryl a lot of one of her favourite Culture novels

  • Daughter of the Hunt: Did Iphigenia die at Aulis? K Arsenault Rivera is firmly in the "Hell, NO!" camp.

  • MetropolCon: This year's Eurocon was in Berlin, a city that Cheryl has long wanted to visit

  • The Mabinogion Set: What does ancient Welsh poetry have to do with mathematical theory? More than you would think. They were sharp cookies, those bards.

  • Finncon 2026: If it is July it must be Finncon. Cheryl has been for her annual sauna.

  • The Queer Bookshelf: Layla McCay has set out to catalogue the world of queer fiction. It is an Herculean undertaking. Cheryl is impressed.

  • The Black Cauldron: Does Lloyd Alexander's book have anything to do with the Disney movie of the same name? Of course not.

  • Editorial: July 2026: Cheryl shares her Worldcon schedule.