Black Infinity 8: Rocketships, Spacesuits Out

It looks like top billing for me this time, though of course that’s just due to the cover design and my name being shortest. Nor is it the first time. But the real point is that BLACK INFINITY 8 (cf. December 11, August 25, et al.), with its final subtitle ROCKETSHIPS AND SPACESUITS, is now out on Amazon.

For those familiar with this great, (somewhat) retro science fiction magazine, I probably need not say anything more. Nevertheless, to quote fellow author Vonnie Winslow Crist (her story in it, “Below the Surface”) via FaceBook: For classic sci-fi fans, it’s 232 pages (with lots of illustrations): 15 stories celebrating rocketships & spacesuits (including 3 rarely reprinted Ray Bradbury classics). Also stories by Gregory Norris, Kurt Newton, James Dorr, Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson, Alan E. Nourse, Randall Garrett, and others (including me). There are photo-illustrated feature articles on DESTINATION MOON (by film historian Justin Humphreys, curator of the George Pal Estate) and SPACE:1999 (by Gregory L. Norris); Matt Cowan’s popular Threat Watch retro-movie column; a look at the history of rockets and spacesuits in 1950s and ’60s pop culture by Tom English (with a comprehensive list of films); an all new comics story featuring the Last Star Warden by Jason McCuiston, and a classic, rarely seen, “lost” comics story by the legendary Alex Toth. So ring in 2022 with a blast of spaceship goodness.

Technically actually out December 30 2021 by Amazon’s reckoning, my story in it was also my first sale for the year just passed. Titled “Hanging Vines,” it is itself a reprint, originally published in CONADIAN SOUVENIR BOOK for the 52nd World Science Convention in September 1994, and has to do with opening new worlds a bit on the cheap, and the perils that come when one’s landing vehicle is a used spaceship.

But see for yourself, with much much more, by pressing here.