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Our special economics-themed feature: Kirsten Bussière on Cory Doctorow's Walkaway; Benjamin Franz on the movie Moon, Madeleine Chalmers on Economic Science Fictions ed. Will Davies, 'Rapparitions,' part-essay, part-speculative future, by AUDINT; Erin Horáková on Diana Wynne Jones's A Tale of Time City; Josephine Wideman on Samuel Delany's Dhalgren; Esko Suoranta on Malka Older's Infomocracy; and Robert Kiely and Sean O'Brien on recent near future short fiction. Lots of extras: a quiz about marvellous money and fantastic finance, economic SF writing prompts, the speculative economist's scrapbook, recommendations from The BSFA Review, an exploration of Universal Basic Income, snippets from interviews with Dave Hutchinson, Laurie Penny, and Florence Okoye. This issue also contains Andy Sawyer's final Foundation Favourites column, as well as our regular columns from Stephen Baxter and Paul Kincaid, plus the BSFA's Claire Boothby on changes to the BSFA Award. Cover art by Ian Long.