Neo-opsis Issue 27
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Neo-opsis Science Fiction
Magazine Issue 27
The twenty-seventh issue of Neo-opsis
Science Fiction Magazine is 8” by 5 ˝”, 80 pages.
The cover of issue 27 is Waves, by Karl Johanson.
Karl’s editorial is Who
Are Rey’s parents, some conjectures as to the parentage of the
character Rey in Star Wars the Force
Awakens.
Letters
to the Magazine this issue are from: Alice
Tmej,
Karen Kelly, Anna McCarthy, Morgan Irish, Anna Cherry, Fiona Lehm, and Ryan McCarty.
Karl Johanson’s A Walk Through the
Periodic Chart is about the
element Helium. There is a brief aside
about Carbon in the news. Illustration by Stephanie Ann Johanson.
The
first story in issue twenty-seven is The Hold, by James A. Conan. James is a Toronto based author of speculative
fiction. He studied Politics, History, and International Development at Trent
University.
The second story is Khol Fusion by Jonathan Shipley. Geoff is a Canadian writer
of horror, science fiction - occasionally of a darkly humorous bent - and
roleplaying games.
The
third story is Customer Service by. N J
Magas, who is a Canadian
born speculative fiction writer currently living in
Kyoto, Japan with her partner of five years and a popcorn addicted cockatiel.
Her work has appeared in Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction
and Growing Concerns: An Eco-Horror Anthology. N J is a hermit and prefers to
communicate via email, though she can be poked on twitter @njmagas.
The fourth story is Blanche’s Last Spike by Holly Schofield. Holly has had
stories appear in many publications including Lightspeed, Crossed Genres, Tesseracts,
and Neo-opsis #
25.
The fifth story is The Making of ENSEMBLE-B by Fiona Lehn. Fiona wrote the novelette “The Assignment of Runner
ETI,” which was a winner of the Writers of the Future international writing contest
(2009). Her novella “The Last Letter” was published by Aqueduct Press (2011).
She is a member of SFWA and has an MFA in Creative Writing.
The sixth story is Lucky Thirteen by Alison McBain.
Alison has over thirty short pieces published in magazines and anthologies,
including Flash Fiction Online, Abyss & Apex, Bards and Sages Quarterly and
Frozen Fairy Tales. Her work has received several awards and acclaims,
including the Patricia McFarland Memorial Award from Flash Fiction Chronicles,
honorable mention in Allegory Ezine, first place in
Bop Dead City’s annual flash fiction contest, longlisting for the Equality
Writing Contest, and shortlisting for the Apocalypse Chronicles Writing
Contest.
The seventh story is Minghua’s Curse by Adrian
Halpert. Adrian
is a native of Kingston, Ontario, where he just completed a Master’s Degree in
Latin American History at Queen’s University. When not busy with school, he is
involved with Tae Kwon Do, playing video games, or haunting local coffee shops.
The eighth story is The First Hundred, by Graham Brand. Graham is trained as
a metallurgist, casting gold bars in Zambia before returning to the UK and
drama school. He spent ten years in the theatre, as an actor, musician and
musical director, before becoming a father and switching to IT project
management, which has taken him round the world. He now lives in the Yorkshire
Dales and blogs far less frequently than he should at crosstimers.com.
Reviews this issue are of Jason Borne, and Westworld.
Awards news includes listings for the Sunburst
Awards, the Hugo Awards, the Nebula Awards and the Aurora Awards.
There are write ups on the 2016 conventions KeyCon in Winnipeg
and VCon in
Vancouver, BC.
Additional news is about science fiction and
some recent space discoveries.
The Last Four
Pages is the article The Plumbob Solution, by Karl Johanson. In this article Karl suggests a possible safer
way to launch an Orion type nuclear propulsion spacecraft.
See a review of
this issue at SFRevu:
http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=17268
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