Neo-opsis Issue 34
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Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine Issue 34
The thirtieth-fourth issue of Neo-opsis
Science Fiction Magazine is available
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The cover of issue 34 is It’s Lonely Out in Space by Karl
Johanson.
In this issue’s editorial Karl talks
about where the planet of the apes is.
Letters to the Magazine this issue are from: Mark Silcox, Mark Anthony Brennan, Cat Giczyc,
Ken Ames, Zandra Renwick, Paula Johanson, Valorie Lennox, Kim Schliper, Morgan Irish, Bruce Taylor, Craig Bowlsby, Cath
Jackel and Al Harlow.
Karl Johanson’s
A Walk Through the Periodic Chart is about Copper, with illustrations by by Karl and Stephanie Ann Johanson.
The
first story is Matthew Hughes’ “Arboghasz Dal Axander.”
Matthew writes fantasy, space opera, and crime fiction. He has sold 25 novels
to publishers large and small in the UK, US, and Canada, as well as nearly 100
works of short fiction to professional markets. His latest novels are: Barbarians of the Beyond, an authorized
companion novel to Jack Vance’s Demon Princes series, and Baldemar, a fix-up of
a series of stories that originally ran in The Magazine of Fantasy &
Science Fiction and two anthologies. He has won the Endeavour and Arthur Ellis
Awards, and has been shortlisted for the Aurora, Nebula, Philip K. Dick,
Endeavour, A.E. Van Vogt, Neffy, and Derringer
Awards. He has been inducted into the
Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s Hall of Fame. In order to
live on the earnings of a modern midlist author, he has given up having a
permanent address to become a full-time housesitter. In the past fifteen years, he has lived in
twelve countries and passed through several more. He has no fixed address. Bibliography: https://www.matthewhughes.org/matthew-hughes-bibliography/
The second story is Andrew Knighton’s “The Machine Man.” Andrew is
an author of short stories, comics, history articles, and the fantasy novella
Silver and Gold. Working as a freelance writer, he’s ghostwritten over thirty
novels in other people’s names—yes, it’s a weird job, and no, he can’t tell you
which books. He lives in Yorkshire with a heap of unread books. You can find
him at andrewknighton.com and on Twitter as @gibbondemon.
The
third story is John Taloni’s “Lightspeed
Traffic Jam.” John
has been reading SFF since he was eight and stumbled across a copy of Alexei Panshin’s “Rite of Passage.” His major influences include
Anne McCaffrey and Larry Niven. Taloni is a long-time attendee at SF
conventions, and he met his wife while dressed as a Pernese
dragon rider. Their daughter asked at the age of four if they could watch more
of the show with “the robots that say 'exterminate,' and the entire family has
happily watched Doctor Who together ever since.
The
forth story is, Jim Lee’s “Visiting the Big Sandbox.” Jim is a freelance writer from Windber,
Pennsylvania. He is the associate editor for Market Reports at The Pennwriter Newsletter.
The
fifth story is Liz Westbrook-Trenholm’s
“Homeplus.”
Liz has published or
aired mainstream and speculative short fiction on radio, in magazines and in
anthologies, most recently in Food of Our People (Exile Press), Seasons Among
Us (Laksa Media), Over the Rainbow (Exile Press), Tesseracts 22 (Edge) and
Amazing Stories. She won the Prix Aurora Award for short fiction in 2018, had
stories nominated in in 2019 and 2020, and is
currently nominated with Hayden Trenholm for their co-authored story, Lay Down
Your Hearts (Seasons Among Us, Laksa Media). She lives in Ottawa with her
husband, Hayden Trenholm.
The
sixth story is Xauri’EL Zwaan’s “Tea for Two.” Xauri’EL is a mendicant artist in
search of meaning, fame and fortune, or pie (where available); a Genderqueer
Bisexual, a Socialist Solarpunk, and a Satanist Goth.
Zie has published short fiction, among other places,
in Spectra Magazine, Polar Borealis, Cossmass
Infinities, and the anthologies Strange Economics and Crunchy With Ketchup. Zie lives and writes in a little hobbit hole in Saskatoon,
Canada on Treaty 6 territory with zir life partner
and a multitude of cats.
The
seventh story is Jeremy Schnee’s “In The Shade.” Jeremy lives in Portland, Oregon. His
writing has been published in Buckman Review, Flapperhouse,
and Zizzle. Aside from writing, he likes to garden,
obsess over random nostalgic topics, and spend time with his family. He
recently completed writing his first novel. For more about his writing, check
out www.jeremyschnee.com.
This issue includes a review of She Hulk: Attorney at Law.
Awards news includes a listing for the Hugo
Awards, the Aurora Awards, and the Nebula Awards.
Additional news is about science fiction and
science.
The Last Four Pages is “Fictional
Tech We Might Want… Or Not,” by Karl Johanson.
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