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Neo-opsis Science Fiction
Magazine issue 26
The twenty-sixth issue of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine is 8” by 5 ˝”, 80 pages.
The cover of issue 26 is First Jump, by Ron Saunders.
Ron is an L.A.-based author, poet, and illustrator working across the board.
His works tend to lean heavily on the human condition, generally with a cynical
edge, and with a high sense of drama. He feels self-promotion is nothing more
than compensation, and hopes his works can stand or fall on their own merit. To
that end, there’s plenty to read and ponder on his website at http://ronsandersatwork.com.
Karl’s editorial is Bring
Back Your Dead, which is a discussion on various ways characters are
killed and brought back to life in stories.
Letters
to the Magazine this issue are from: Alycia
Mitchell, Katie McLean, Vaughan Stanger, Dr. Robert Runté, Jo-Anne
McBride, Nina Munteanu,
Melissa Yuan-Innes, James F.
Beveridge, Lynda Williams, Elizabeth Buchan-Kimmerly, Dave Duncan, Lorina Stephens, Alice Tmej, Glenn Morgan, John Jollymore,
Rachel Bonicoff, April S. Burrows, Julia
Bianca, Lea Tassie,
Rob McMurtry, Anna Cherry, Rocket Norton, and Al
Harlow.
Karl Johanson’s A Walk Through the
Periodic Chart is about the
element Hafnium this issue. There
are brief asides about other elements in the news. Illustration
by Stephanie Ann Johanson.
The
first story in issue twenty-six is In Memoriam, by Melinda Selmys. Melinda is a Canadian
writer.
The first poem in issue 26 is Warning, Flashing in Red Overlaid On Your Visor by Beth Cato. Beth is an active
member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Her poetry has
appeared in The Christian Science
Monitor, Star*Line, and The Pedestal
Magazine.
The second story is For Old Times’ Sake by Geoff Gander. Geoff is a Canadian
writer of horror, science fiction - occasionally of a darkly humorous bent -
and roleplaying games.
The
third story is Adland Apparatchiks by O. E. Fine. O. E. Fine has also been
published in Expanded Horizons and Alien Skin Magazine.
The
fourth story is You Just Proved Title Advertising Works by Karl ElKoura. Karl has had stories appear
in Daily Science Fiction, AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review,
and the Triangulation anthology “Lost
Voices.” His story “The Kedari Virus” was published
in Issue 9 of Neo-opsis.
The fifth story is Timely Drop by Melanie Rees. Melanie is is an Australian
writer. Her work has appeared in markets such as Apex, Cosmos online, Aurealis and Daily Science Fiction.
The Sixth story is The Scourge of Humanity by Hayden Trenholm.
Hayden has had over 25 short story sales over the years, including to Neo-opsis, On Spec, PerihelionSF
among others. He’s won the Aurora Award twice for short fiction. He is
currently managing editor of Bundoran Press. Illustration by Karl Johanson.
The Second poem is The Blood High by Christopher Collingwood. Christopher is an Australian poet.
The Third poem is The Sound of a Rasp on Stone, by Karl Johanson.
Accompanying the poem are some photos of soap stone carvings by Stephanie Ann Johanson.
The Fourth poem is Touching (Soapstone) by Stephanie Ann Johanson. Accompanying the
poem are some photos of a raw piece of soapstone transitioning to a completed
carving.
Reviews this issue are of a Prism / Jet / Seeds of Time reunion concert,
the 20th Century Fox movie of The
Fantastic 4 (2015 version), the 20th Century Fox movie The Martian, and of RKO’s live
production of The Rocky Horror Show.
Awards news includes listings for the Sunburst
Awards, the Hugo Awards, the Nebula Awards and the Aurora Awards.
There’s a write up on the 2015 VCon in Vancouver, BC.
Additional news is about science fiction and
some recent space discoveries.
The Last Page is the article Keeping Your Timelines Straight, by
Karl and Stephanie Johanson. This is an article about
some of the ways that time travel is dealt with in fiction.
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