Neo-opsis Issue 30
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Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine Issue 30
The thirtieth issue of Neo-opsis
Science Fiction Magazine is 8” by 5 ½”, 80
pages. Click here to buy your
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The cover of issue 30 is Portals, by Karl Johanson.
Karl’s editorial is “The Importance of Science Fiction.”
This is a transcript of part of a talk he gave at a launch of the Arca-45672 Audio Drama Podcast, which is
written and produced by Claire Scherzinger.
A video of the talk is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUNLU60_feo
Karl Johanson’s A Walk Through the
Periodic Chart is about Super
Heroes Named After Elements. Illustration by Stephanie Ann Johanson. There’s also an aside about a new high
temperature superconductor.
Letters
to the Magazine this issue are from: Shawna
Katan, Ryan McCarty, Al Harlow, Harding McFadden,
August von Orth, Kurt Stallings, Carrol Hammill and Forest Nelson, Craig Bowlsby, Nathaniel Henderson, and Dr. Robert Runté.
The
first story in issue thirty is “Scrapheap
Destiny,” by Andrew Knighton.
Andrew has had over fifty stories published in magazines and anthologies such
as Daily Science Fiction, Wily Writers, and Steampunk Reloaded.
The second story is “The Ninth Iteration”
by Celeste A. Peters. Celeste
has authored six published non-fiction books and penned a growing list of
published short stories. In 2017 she also garnered a Prix Aurora Award
nomination as managing editor of the Enigma
Front: Burnt anthology. Celeste resides in Calgary, Alberta, where she
enjoys the friendship and support of fellow writers in the Imaginative Fiction
Writers Association. www.celestepeters.com.
The third story is “Victory by Water,” by Jocelyn Scott. Jocelyn lives in Toronto, where she is an anomaly: a seventh-generation Canadian. She has lived in various communities in southern Ontario, everything from villages without even one stoplight to the multicultural megalopolis of Toronto. She has an Honours B.A. in English with History Minor from the University of Toronto, and an M.A. in English from the same university. Her travels in Canada include Quebec, BC, and the Yukon; she has travelled frequently in the eastern United States, and has visited the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. She reads constantly in a variety of genres, most notably fantasy and history. She is married with an adult son and daughter, and a little white dog.
The
fourth story is “Big Bad Ships from
Outer Space,” by Jason Lairamore. Jason is a writer of science fiction,
fantasy, and horror who lives in Oklahoma with his beautiful wife and their
three monstrously marvelous children. He is a published finalist of the 2012 SQ
Mag annual contest, the winner of the 2013 Planetary
Stories flash fiction contest, a third place winner of the 2015 SQ Mag
contest, and a recent Semi-Finalist in the Writers of the Future. His work is
featured in over 65 publications, including Perihelion,
Stupefying Stories and Third Flatiron. www.facebook.com/jason.lairamore
The fifth story is “Modiglaini Paints the
World,” by Hayden Trenholm. Illustration by Stephanie Ann Johanson. Hayden has had over 25 short story sales
over the years, including to Neo-opsis, On Spec,
Perihelion SF among others. He’s won
the Aurora Award twice for short fiction. He is currently managing editor of Bundoran Press.
The sixth story is “One Day in
Tom’s Life, with Ice Cream,” by Craig
Bowlsby. Craig’s science fiction work includes
writing for and staring in the video series Commander’s
Log. Craig wrote the play The Hound of London, and was the winner of the
2014 Brian McFarlane Award for outstanding research and writing by the Society
for International Hockey Research.
The final story is “WRASSE” by Catherine Girczyc. Illustration by Stephanie Ann Johanson. Catherine works as a
technical writer by day and pursues creative writing by night. Previously, she
was a TV writer with fifteen television writing credits. In 2016, Polar Borealis published “The Cup”. In 2017, Compostela: Tesseracts 20 published two poems. The
Vancouver Sci-Fi Anthology edited by Ellen Michele includes “Night Market.” https://catscreenwriting.com/list-of-credits/
Reviews this issue are of Beyond: Stories Beyond
Time, Technology, and the Stars (reviewed by Dr. Robert Runté), and Star
Trek Discovery, episode “Project Daedelus”
(reviewed by John W. Herbert).
Awards news includes a listing for the Aurora
Awards, and notes of the passing of Dave Duncan and Vonda N.
McIntire.
Additional news is about science fiction and
science.
The Last Three
Pages is the article “Somehow They Forgot They had
Transporters,” by Karl Johanson. In the movie Galaxy Quest, Ensign Guy at one
point asks the other actors/characters, “Didn’t you guys ever watch the show?”
In this article Karl essentially asks this of the writers of Star Trek Discovery, who seem to
forget important aspects of the Star Trek,
such as that they have Transporters.
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