Rockets and Spacesuits Arrival in Saturday’s Mail

That’s ROCKETSHIPS AND SPACESUITS actually, to give BLACK INFINITY #8 its full subtitle (cf. January 11, 1, et al.), and it’s another big 230-plus page issue with lots of stuff in it. Including, to be sure, a story by me.

The story, to get it out of the way, is “Hanging Vines,” originally published in September 1994 in that year’s World Science Fiction Convention’s CONADIAN SOUVENIR BOOK, and as it happens this isue of BLACK INFINITY may speak especially to old-time science fiction fans as well. As Editor Tom English has it in his introduction, “The Romance of Rocketships,” celebrating particularly the 1950s and ’60s: For the science fiction enthusiast, the world had become a pretty cool place. All eyes were raised to the heavens, as people from all walks of life hoped in the future and dreamed of foreign worlds.

So this was reflected both in novels and film, the latter especially noted in English’s introduction — as well as in the issue itself, with a special feature by film historian Justin Humphreys on 1950’s groundbreaking movie DESTINATION MOON, almost in itself worth the issue’s price. But there’s also an article, for younger fans, on “Revisiting SPACE: 1999”; another, “Threat Watch,” on the dangers of space exploration; and of course the stories, fifteen in all this time, including classics by writers like Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson, and three by one of my personal favorites, Ray Bradbury. And authors to watch for in the future too.

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