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Neo-opsis
Science Fiction Magazine – Issue 16
The sixteenth issue of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine is 8” by 5 ½”, 80 pages. Published on February 24, 2009.
The cover this issue
is Xenobiology 101: Field Trip by
Jim Beveridge. Jim has been
drawing for most of his life. He began freelancing on band posters and album
covers as well as airbrushed award-winning vehicles or anything that needed a
slightly off-centered left-handed aesthetic. In 1991 he started illustrating
for On Spec magazine. His interest now is in the computer as an art
tool, which has led to working in game art and online design. After several
nominations he won an Aurora Award in 2002. His first cover for a full-length
novel was for Lisa Smedman’s The Apparition Trail.
He is also one of the featured artists in Visions From The Edge. Jim's
art is also featured as the CD cover and intro for the documentary as well as
Wheel of Time websites such as Dragonmount.com and www.jamesbeveridge.com
Karl Johanson’s
editorial for this issue is Inspiration From a Point in the Sky, a brief
discussion on the impact of the planet Mercury on literature.
Letters to the Magazine
this issue are from Lindsay Kervin, Marlissa Campbell, Spider Robinson, Janine
Cross, Keving Lauderdale, Christopher
Fletcher and Candas Jane Dorsey.
This issue Karl
Johanson’s A Walk Through the Periodic Chart is titled Curium and
Paper Starships. Karl acknowledges Phillip Freeman for scientific and
mathematic analysis of the ideas presented in this article.
This first story in
issue sixteen is Symphony of Stones (5,200 words), by Hayden Trenholm. Hayden’s short fiction has appeared in Neo-opsis
Science Fiction Magazine, On Spec,
TransVersions, Tesseracts,
Challenging Destiny, Talebones and on
CBC radio. His short stories, “The Luck of Willie Lumen” 2005, “Like Monsters
of the Deep” 2006, and “Lumen Essence” 2007, were nominated for Aurora Awards (Canada’s SF
Awards). Bundoran
Press released Hayden’s new novel, Defining Diana, in 2008. Hayden lives
with his wife, and fellow writer, Elizabeth, in Ottawa where he does research
for the Senator for the Northwest Territories.
The second story is
Welcome to my World (3,776 words), by Jim Gurley. Jim is a fifty-two year
old retired chef living in the deserts of Arizona with his wife and two cats.
Jim has had stories published by Simulacrum, Red Scream, Dawnsky, Nocturnal Ooze, Alien Skin, Aiofe’s Kiss, and several others, including a
story in the Best of Neo-opsis anthology by Bundoran Press.
The third story is
She (871 words), by Josh Skinner. Josh was born in
Calgary, Alberta, but has spent most of his life wandering around the country
that he loves. In-between train stations, he writes. His fiction has appeared
in Bewildering Stories, Flash Me Fiction and others, including
upcoming issues of Worlds of Wonder and Afterburn
SF.
The fourth story is
Diplomacy (7,004 words), by Richard Herr. Richard started with a career
in professional theatre in New York. He migrated into staging corporate
presentations, which business he’s been in for over three decades. He recently
decided to pay occasional visits to fascinating off-world environments and ha s
been churning out humorous sci-fi pieces. “Diplomacy” is from his collection of
tales from a place called The Star Board Café.
The fifth story is
Brought to Life (947 words), by Grace Seybold. Grace has lived in Montreal
for the past seven years, where she spends her time working for a Quaker
environmentalist group and trying to develop super powers by wishing really
hard. Her writing has been published in Aoife’s
Kiss, Polymancer, the Montreal
Gazette and the Tesseracts Twelve
anthology.
The sixth story is Crash
(2,161 words), by Edward P. McDermott. Edward was born in Toronto and
has pursued a professional career during the day, while taking writing courses,
joining writer’s groups, and writing at night. When not writing, he spends his
time sailing and fencing, and working as a movie extra. Currently, Edward may
be sailing his sailboat off the Florida Coast, perhaps in the Bahamas.
News includes
write-ups and photos from Vcon 2008 and
World Fantasy Convention 2008, obituaries for Forrest J Ackerman,
Majel Barrett-Roddenbury and Michael
Crichton, imaging news about the planet Jupiter, and science news about a
surprising, and surprisingly cheap, medical advance.
Reviews this issue
are of the movie Young People Fucking, reviewed by Monday Magazine
Editor John Threllfall, and Hayden Trenholm’s novel Defining Diana,
reviewed by Robert Runté.
The Last Page, written
by Stephanie Ann Johanson, is about how listening to music and audio
books influence her painting and soapstone carving styles.
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