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April/May Issue
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Next month we celebrate all that is fine and good about science fiction in our April/May double issue; a bargain at any price, for it has two excellent novellas on offer, as well as a piquant melange of shorter works, all by some of the best writers in the genre.
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Our lead novella, with a striking cover image courtesy of SF artist Paul Youll, is Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “The Spires of Denon,” a stand-alone addition to her popular “Diving into the Wreck” universe. This time we find a group of archaeologists, a crack duo of cave divers, and a no-nonsense security-leader, all with cloudy motives, somehow working together to comprehend the alien purpose of the titular spires. By story’s end, you’ll find that nothing on Denon is quite what it seems. Next, we have Brian Stableford’s grand conclusion to his series of not-exactly-Elizabethan space operas, “The Great Armada.” Dee, Drake, and the rest of the motley historical cast (with some surprising additions, as well as a golem) must take the initiative against the Selenites directly into space, with the aid of their own flotilla of etheric attack ships. The final battle versus these invaders will surely lead to Fleshcore, arachnid, and human casualties. Who lives? Who dies? Read and find out..
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But that’s not all: SF legend Kate Wilhelm returns with the discomfiting story of “An Ordinary Day with Jason”; Deborah Coates charms with an SF concept straight out of the pleasant dreams of this managing editor: “Cowgirls in Space”; Chris Beckett returns with P.K. Dick-inspired mind-mangler “Atomic Truth”; Nancy Kress gives us a sneak-peek at a future-culture game of telephone in “Exegesis”; Robert Reed considers the merits and dangers of “True Fame”; Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn team up for the nightmare invasion of “The Armies of Elfland”; Jack Skillingstead pens the tale of a desperate, paranoid man’s “Human Day”; and Damien Broderick’s fine “This Wind Blowing, and This Tide” explores a mysterious alien shipwreck on Saturn’s moon Titan with a decidely unusual science team!
Our April/May issue will be on sale at your newsstands on March 3, 2009.
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