Introducing The Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems from Asimov’s Science Fiction and Analog Science…
Reviewers: Download an advance reader’s copy on NetGalley!Now available for Pre-OrderInterstellar Flight Press is delighted to announce our latest poetry book, a very special collaboration with Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
The Heartbeat of the Universe collects poems from the top writers in the science fiction and literary genres, including voices such as Jane Yolen, Bruce Boston, Robert Frazier, Jessy Randall, and many others. These poems, selected by editor Emily Hockaday from the pages of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and Analog Science Fiction and Fact over the past decade, examine the Universe’s smallest particles and largest astral phenomena. These poems travel through time, speak to and from the dead, explore the body and quantum physics, all depicting the human condition and allowing readers to learn more about their universe and themselves.
Editor Biography:Emily Hockaday is the senior managing editor for Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. With Jackie Sherbow, she coedited the horror anthology Terror at the Crossroads. She is the author of the poetry collections In a Body (Harbor Editions, 2023) and Naming the Ghost (Cornerstone Press, 2022), along with six chapbooks. She can be found online at www.emilyhockaday.com.
About the Cover Designer:Joy Brienza lives in a small shoreline town in Connecticut with her family. The cover designer of the anthology, Terror of the Crossroads: Tales of Horror, Delusion and the Unknown, Joy has been at her current job for 11 years as Manager of Design, Websites, and Digital Publishing for Penny Publications, publisher of Dell Magazines and Penny Press books and magazines. Her other creative work also includes designing print, digital, and social media ads, and websites for Asimov’s Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazines, among many other sites. As an artist, Joy has worked in all types of mediums, but especially loves oil painting. In her free time she enjoys spending time at the beach with family and friends.
Reviewers: Download an advance reader’s copy on NetGalley!Now available for Pre-OrderAdvance Praise“The Heartbeat of the Universe gathers poems into a story of the world, past, present, and future, as seen through sound and rhythm, wonder and science. It is a collection that spins and weaves — using both experimental and formal structure — a core connectivity: that we are all, each of us, in every moment, speculative and liminal, and the poetry that recognizes this is truly special. My heartfelt congratulations to the authors and editors of this magnificent book.”
— Fran Wilde, Nebula-winning author and occasional battle-poet
“This collection constitutes an important step in keeping our appreciation of speculative poetry alive and well, with a remarkable sampling of the diverse voices and approaches poets featured in Analog and Asimov’s over the past decade. In an age when so many challenge the role of poetry in science fiction and fantasy, the editors have taken great care to remind us of how much has been achieved, and how more is yet possible. A commendable achievement, and I look forward to returning to this collection in the years ahead.”
— Bryan Thao Worra, former SFPA President (2016–2022)
Contents:Introduction by Emily HockadayThe Sum of Broken Parts Mostly Hydrogen by Jack MartinSomebody I Used to Love Asks Me Who Marie Curie Is by Carly RubinPostulate 2 by Timons EsaiasSparking the Matter by Tod McCoyFay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926–2010) by Jessy RandallSoft Collision by Scott E. Green & Herb KaudererHypothesis/Assertion by Daniel Dexter Villaniatomic numbers by D.A. Xiaolin SpiresMaryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) by Jessy RandallMathematics by John CiminelloAlmost Certainly a Time Traveler by Jarod K. AndersonAfter National Geographic by Jason Kahlerrecipe for time travel in case we lose each other by Kristian MacaronArchaeologists Uncover Bones, Bifocals by a Tricycle by Steven WithrowThe Appeal of Time Travel by Kimberly Jonesbillets-doux by Brittany HauseWhat a Time Traveler Needs Most by Jane YolenAt the Natural History Museum by Bruce BostonTime Traveler at the Grocery Store circa 1992 by Kristian MacaronApocatastasis by Jennifer CrowAbyss inside our young hearts by Yuliia VeretaQuantum Entanglement by Ken PoynerIn Theory by Rebecca SiegelField Notes by Lola HaskinsThree-body by Josh PearceNeurologic by Robert FrazierYes, Antimatter Is Real by Holly Lyn WalrathAll the Weight by Holly L. DayThe Astronaut’s Heart by Robert BorskiCollisions by Kathryn FritzLeaving by Bruce McAllisterQuantum Entanglement by Fred D. WhiteAnsibles by Ursula WhitcherTaxi Ride by Ian GohService Interrupted by Levi M. RubeckPacking for the Afterlife by Mary Soon LeeMessaging the Dead by Betsy AokiAll Saints Day by Lisa BellamyThe Tsuchinoko Always Lies by Megan BranningFinal Dispatch by Robert FrazierSmall Certainties by Sara PolskyWhen Words Take Flight by Bruce BostonMiles To Go Before We Rest by G.O. ClarkAttack of the Fifty-Foot Woman by Ron KoertgeMusic Remembers by Ashok K. BankerFirst Contact by Stuart GreenhouseThe impending apocalypse helps me maintain perspective by Steven DondlingerPast Pluto by Eric PinderWobble by Richard SchiffmanTerra Incognita by Fred D. WhiteThe Dogs of the Soviet Space Program by Christopher CokinosContinuum by G.O. ClarkGalileo Falling by Stuart GreenhouseFlight by Donald M. HasslerHow to Go Twelfth by Mary Soon LeeEcopoiesis by Joe HaldemanInside Voice by Jackie SherbowI Get a Call from My Estranged Father and Let It Go to Voicemail by Aaron SandbergYour Homeworld Is Gone by Leslie J. AndersonThe Three Laws of Poetics by Stewart C. BakerReviewers: Download an advance reader’s copy on NetGalley!Now available for Pre-Order
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