Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine – Issue 23
The twenty-third issue of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine is 8” by 5 ½”, 80 pages, in
print July 2013.
The cover of issue twenty-two
is Goodbye, by
Karl Johanson.
Karl's editorial is his take on “The Best Line in Movie History.”
Letters to the Magazine this issue are from: Billie Milholland, Diane L. Walton, Vaughan Stangler, Jason E. Rolfe, Alycia Mitchell, Edoardo Albert, David Gerrold, Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon, Alice Tmej, and Robin Adams.
This issue Karl Johanson’s
A Walk Through
the Periodic Chart is titled
“Elements Named after People.” Karl discusses elements named after
famous people and some guy named Einstein. Illustration by
Stephanie Ann Johanson.
The first story in issue twenty-three is Spindrift Metamorphosis (8,969 words) by Adria
Laycraft, You can find fiction by her in Hypersonic
Tales, DKA Magazine, and In Places Between. Adria is a
graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writer’s Workshop, a member of the Imaginative
Fiction Writers Association (IFWA), and a slush reader for Edge Press. She
received honors from SAIT in Journalism Arts in 1992, and works as a freelance
copywriter, just recently completing her third ghostwritten non-fiction book.
The second story is The King of the
Shrews (5,968 words) by Dale Carothers Dales work has appeared
in Electric Spec, Aoife’s Kiss, Kaleidotrope
and Silver Moon, Bloody Bullets: An Anthology of Werewolf Tails, and the
anthology Dreams of Steam.
The third story is Chasing Happiness
(3,800 words) by Hayden Trenholm and Liz Westbrook-Trenholm.
Hayden Trenholm has published over 15 short
stories in Talebones, Neo-opsis, On Spec and Challenging Destiny
among others, won the Prix Aurora Prize in 2008 for Best Short Form and was
nominated for Best Long Form Fiction in 2009 for Defining Diana, the first in
the Steele Chronicles trilogy, published by Bundoran
Press. The second and third books in the series are, Steel Whispers, and
Stealing Home.
Elizabeth Westbrook-Trenholm has published or aired short fiction in various
venues, including CBC Radio, On Spec and Parsec. She was also
author of eighty-eight comedic murder mysteries written for Calgary
entertainment company, Pegasus Performances.
The fourth story is And
the Rocks Cried Out (6,000
words) by Russ Colson. Russ lives with his wife,
Mary, on a farmstead in northern Minnesota, far enough from city lights to see the
Milky Way and the aurora borealis. He teaches planetary science, meteorology,
and geology at Minnesota State University Moorhead and in 2010 was selected by
the Carnegie Foundation as US Professor of the Year. He writes variety
nonfiction and speculative fiction stories, publishing in Neo-opsis, Clarkesworld, New Myths,
Aurora Wolf and others.
The fifth story is Ten Thosand and One (5,313 words) by M.
Elisabeth Fortune Elisabeth graduated from the University of Minnesota – Morris, where
she managed to earn a bachelor’s degree in psychology and avoided taking a
single English class. She currently divides her writing time between customer
service emails and speculative fiction. We’ll let you guess which one she
enjoys more. Her short fiction has been published in Nth Zine and Fantasic Frontiers. More information can be
found on her blog at: http://margaretfortune.wordpress.com.
The sixth story is Dead Ringer (781 words) by Tamarah Sheehan Tamarah’s story Stormy Bamboo, was
published by Drollerie Press in 2012. Her stories
have been nominated for the Aurora and ALA Rainbow awards.
Convention write ups this issue are for VCon 37, held in Vancouver, BC in September
2012, and the gaming convention GottaCon 2013,
held in Victoria, BC, in February 2013. (www.vcon,ca
and www.gottacon.com)
This issue notes the passing of Bertie (Joe)
Johanson, father of editor Karl Johanson.
Reviews this issue are of Becoming
Batman by E. Paul Zehr (review by Karl
Johanson) and of Seraphina by Rachel
Hartman (review by Robert Runté).
The Last Two Pages by Karl and Stephanie Ann Johanson
is titled Multimedia, is a discussion of movies which change formats for
effect.
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still available.
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