What’s in Issue 115
| Novels |
The four explorers emerge from the mountain tunnel and begin a painful descent into the valley. Then, suddenly, disaster strikes: Tala Bar, Gaia, chapter 8: The Valley, part I, installment 2 ; installment 3. Roberto Sanhueza is back with another chapter of Katts and Dawgs. Phydo teams up with his old friend Thomm, and they set off on the trail of a serial killer who murders by the numbers: Part 6: Death at Twilight. |
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| Novella | Harry Stafford’s serial murders draw him into a net of suspicion, and a meeting with a friend suddenly goes drastically wrong. Meanwhile, another victim approaches: Jonathan M. Sweet, The Kestron Lenses, part 5. |
| Serials |
Joel Gn begins a love story that is somewhere between fantasy and science fiction: Roxanne, part 1. Michael Hanson begins an epic battle royal where three heroes armed with magic penetrate an oppressive and deadly dungeon in search of its sinister master: Thaumaturgical Fracas, part 1. |
| Short Stories |
Byron Bailey depicts a battle between a dragon and a man from an unusual point of view: the dragon’s: Unification. Joseph F. Pumilia and Steven Utley show that bug-eyed monster space aliens also write for a living, even if they do have to produce masterpieces: Pulling Through. Norman A. Rubin isn’t writing about misery at all; quite the contrary. It’s all in how you see things: Misery Loves Company. |
| Flash Fiction | Remember those mattress and pillow tags that say “Do Not Remove (or else!)”? Pay heed, pay careful heed, lest Strange Things Begin to Happen! Sean Hower, Quietus. |
| Poetry | Michael Murry continues his poems in the Gaelic bardic style. Mercenaries and profiteers are a part of war, along with the recruits and volunteers: Dragon’s Teeth. |
Departments
| Review Article |
Don Webb and a virtual friend undertake an unconventional reappraisal of Asimov’s strangest novel and assess its place in the author’s works: Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity : part 1 ; conclusion. |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 115 has three options, one of which is out of this world: Turnabouts are Fair Play |
| Letters |
Eric S. Brown is in the path of the hurricanes and writes to us from The Storm Front. Joel Gn describes an exotic cultural rite of passage: Turning 21 in Singapore. José Joaquín Ramos sends us a rather unusual want ad: Help Wanted. |
| The Reading Room |
Jerry Wright reviews Mercedes Lackey’s The Fairy Godmother. |
| Editorial | Jerry Wright, The Price of Cheese |
In Times to Come
Issue 116 will bring us a third war poem from Michael Murry in his Gaelic bardic style; the serials will continue or conclude; and the short stories will surprise and Bewilder us all... as usual !
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