After a ghost story to open the issue, a strong SF story.
It’s a bit downbeat – humanity is huddling in enclaves, following the ‘Dust Wars’, and with AIs getting to a level where they evidently choose to ‘wink out’ – some form of AI singularity perhaps. As the story is relatively short, a lot of this explained (not quite info-dumped) but there’s a strong core of humanity in the story as a young man has to dispose of the ashes of his lover. There’s a palpable sense of loss, and a neat Jim Burns illustration to the story.
