You really don't want to miss the Aurealis #131 experience! Start with Joshua J Newnes' gentle fable-like tale of caution and hope, 'Secondhand Hearts'; move to J Ashley-Smith's immersive, complex, and fascinating 'In Memoriam'; take in the fast-paced time-travel of Davide Mana's 'A Piece of the Action'; and then pass through the portal into a new world beyond the New World with the conquistadors of Dirk Strasser's Conquist Part 5: 'The Curse of Honour'. And that's before you reach the articles and book reviews. Make sure you read Lynne Lumsden Green's 'The Life and Times of a Steampunk Enthusiast', Claire Fitzpatrick's 'What We Can Learn from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens', and Daniel Thompson's 'The Trouble with Terminators: Issues with Robot Bodies'. This issues' 14 book reviews include Agency (The Peripheral #2) by William Gibson, Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn, Club Ded by Nikhil Singh, Out of Body by Jeffrey Ford, and Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed.