
CURRENT ISSUE
April/May 2023
Clockwise
By J.S. Johnston
Space is unbelievably boring. Mind numbingly, hallucination inducingly, want-to-jump-out-of-the-airlock boring! Do you know why they call it space? Because there’s nothing but that for trillions of miles all around you. Nothing but empty space. Move a few thousand miles to the left, you’re still in empty space. Move a few thousand miles to the right, it looks exactly the same. Sometimes I wish I’d finally go crazy just for a break in the monotony. All I do is sit at this console and catalog the communications that come through. In the middle of nowhere with nothing else to do.
Back in high school, a guy from the Celestial Guard came and told the whole class how exciting it was to live and work on humanity’s last great frontier. He came with pictures and videos and schematics of spaceships. It did sound unbelievably exciting. You should’ve seen them. Those pictures of planetary nebulae had me mesmerized, with their cotton candy swirls of pinks, blues, oranges, and greens… Glowing matter thrown into space by the god-like forces of dying stars. Makes you want to sign right up, doesn’t it?...MORE
FICTION
Clockwise
by J.S. Johnston
The Conditions For Blooming (Conclusion)
By Nadine Aurora Tabing
The War Machines
by Ray Daley
The Sky Above Io
by Sam W. Pisciotta
ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS
The Line
by Yuliia Vereta
Positive Futures: Citizen Science
by Jean-Paul Garnier
POETRY
Boyhood
By Kim Whysall-Hammond
Martian Greenhouse
by Greg Schwartz
Alien World
by Greg Schwartz
Evening Tea
by Greg Schwartz
The Ancients We Are Told Make Great
by R.K. Rugg
11F35 1k
by Yuliia Vereta
Snaliens Among Us
by Lauren McBride
FROM THE EDITOR
Letter from the Editor
by Jonathan S.
THE VAULT
Transuranic
by Edmond Hamilton
Interview
Interview with Joe Haldeman