Infinite Valley Magazine | Issue 5 | July 2026

July 2026 | Issue No. 5

Attention, Inheritance, and What We Choose to Keep Alive.

Under storm-green skies and amber horizons, three stories ask what holds when systems fail: a family who rediscovers books on a world that forgot them, an observer who learns the stars need witnesses, and androids who decide whether the next generation of humans is worth the risk. This is Infinite Valley — LDS speculative fiction that takes the fantastic seriously.

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• “Lost Things” by Collin Simonsen: Sixteen-year-old Bobbi Ann is learning to read on a ship captained by a father who refuses AI — and has the miscalculated fuel reserves to prove it. When they land on a lush, off-limits world, the family finds more than ruins: a hidden people, decaying books, and a choice between the safety of silence and the risk of bringing stories home. A coming-of-age adventure about analog knowledge, oaths, and what we salvage when the machines fall quiet.
• “Stars, Gravity, Coffee.” by Zary Fekete: Every morning for six years, the same kettle, the same mug — until the pour bends the wrong way. At a high-altitude observatory, tiny gravitational and stellar anomalies track one variable no model wants to name: human attention. As automated systems replace the last observers, the stars start to slip. A quiet hard-SF meditation on measurement, duty, and how long one person can keep watching.
• “Seeds of the Future” by K.A. Warhurst — Featured Story: Superstorms hammer a remote geodesic dome where android tenders GT190 and GT315 maintain generation chambers under the maternal eye of AI companion Dottie. When one unit decides the human embryos they guard are a threat worth ending, duty splits into survival, sacrifice, and a final question: if we were built to serve them, do we still choose their future when they are gone?

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