Black Infinity First Contact Issue Has Arrived!
Or, from the street mail mailbox late Friday afternoon (cf. October 6), a beautiful cover and more than 230 pages, including five pages of story by me. But let’s let the Amazon blurb describe the issue further:
BLACK INFINITY: FIRST CONTACT features 15 strange adventures exploring close encounters with alien life and alien technology by the best writers of yesterday, today and tomorrow, including Robert Silverberg, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Smith, Leigh Brackett, James Dorr, Murray Leinster, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Jason J. McCuiston, Lester Del Rey, Katherine Maclean, Jerome Bixby and others. Includes three special illustrated features: tributes to the original Battlestar Galactica TV series (by author and screenwriter Gregory L. Norris) and producer George Pal’s 1953 movie classic The War of the Worlds (by film historian Justin Humphrey, Curator of the Pal Estate); and a look at First Contact in classic cinema, literature, and television. Plus, illustrations by award-winning artist Allen Koszowski, a vintage 1950s comics story by Wallace (Wally) Wood and Joe Orlando, and much, much more!
My story appears early in the issue, “The Country Doctor,” sandwiched between tales by contemporary writer Gregory L. Norris and Ray Bradbury. Originally published in BOOK OF DARK WISDOM for Summer 2005, it concerns a late night in a small-town New Mexico clinic where an unusual patient has just been brought in. And one thing more, an accompanying military insists that both doctor and nurse will keep the proceedings a secret.
And that’s just one item on a very full contents page, with more information available here.
