Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 2, Winter 2015/16

Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine #2

by Noel Chidwick (Editor)

Shoreline of Infinity features brand new science fiction stories from writers from all over the world. In this issue we start our new science fiction poetry section, MultiVerse, featuring poems by Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod.

Also: we have an interview with Duncan Lunan, columnist Steve Green talks about originality in films, and we have reviews of recent and forthcoming science fiction books.

We also inculde specially commisioned artwork for all the stories.

Stories

Last Days in the Nanotech War --Duncan Lunan

"We Sell Seashells" --Ryan L Daly

Citizen Erased --Bethany Ruth Anderson

Charlie, A Projecting Prestidigitator --Megan Neumann

Purgatory --Michael Fontana

Death Do Us Part --Tyler Petty

Reliquaries --Steve Simpson

Vanity --Kathy Steinemann

The Republic of David --Anton Rose

A Season of Want --Ken Poyner

The Child with Wings --Ann Craig

Also

Duncan Lunan --Interview by Paul F Cockburn

Border Crossings --Steve Green

MultiVerse

Poems by:

Iain Banks Ken MacLeod

Reviews

Poems --Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod Review: Russell Jones

Gene Mapper --Taiyo Fujii Review: Iain Maloney

Lie of the Land --Michael F. Russell Review: Ian Hunter

The Promise of the Child -- Tom Toner Review: Duncan Lunan

Swords Versus Tanks --M. Harold Page Review: Elsa Bouet

I Am Because You Are --Pippa Goldschmidt, Tania Hershman (editors) Review: Iain Maloney

148 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

I'm Editor-in-Chief of Science Fiction magazine, Shoreline of Infinity (www.shorelineofinfinity.com), published in Scotland.

I've been a reader for as long as I can remember, my tastes tending towards the fantastical rather than the realistic. After all, isn't that the point of a story, to be taken to a different place?

Science Fiction and fantasy is where I have lived and dreamed since I first read Grimm's Stories. My teenage years were spent absorbing every word I could find by the likes of Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Wyndham, Bradbury, McCaffrey, LeGuin, Moorcock, Ballard, Priest.

I loved the early stuff from the 30s and 40s with writers such as E E Smith, Olaf Stapledon and the many other writers who earned their keeping bashing away at typewriters in dark, dust attics.

And my enjoyment in SF continues unabated with the writings of Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, Eric Brown, Peter Hamilton.

And many more. Many, many more.

I've written on and off over the years, dabbling in SF as a teenager when I had some stories published in fanzines. I have recently returned to the words with greater relish, and have released a couple of small collection of tales based on my adopted home town of Edinburgh.

I was shortlisted for a short crime story competition for Bloody Scotland, and the story is available, along with its fellow shortlistees, as an ebook published by Blasted Heath.