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Galaxy's Edge Magazine, Issue 58, September 2022
A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 58, September 2022
Lezli Robyn, Editor
Lauren Rudin, Assistant Editor
Z.T. Bright, Slush Reader
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by Soumya Sundar Mukherjee, Xan van Rooyen, Angela Slatter, Toshiya Kamei, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Mike Resnick, Liu Yanzeng
Jean Marie Ward Interviews Mary Robinette Kowal
Act One by Nancy Kress
Columns L. Penelope, Alan Smale
Recommended Richard Chwedyk
Galaxy’s Edge is a bi-monthly magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by L. Penelope, Alan Smale and Gregory Benford, and book recommendations by Richard Chwydyk.
ISSUE 58, September 2022
Lezli Robyn, Editor
Lauren Rudin, Assistant Editor
Z.T. Bright, Slush Reader
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by Soumya Sundar Mukherjee, Xan van Rooyen, Angela Slatter, Toshiya Kamei, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Mike Resnick, Liu Yanzeng
Jean Marie Ward Interviews Mary Robinette Kowal
Act One by Nancy Kress
Columns L. Penelope, Alan Smale
Recommended Richard Chwedyk
Galaxy’s Edge is a bi-monthly magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by L. Penelope, Alan Smale and Gregory Benford, and book recommendations by Richard Chwydyk.
104 pages, Paperback
Published August 17, 2022
About the author
Lezli Robyn
56 books18 followersI am an Aussie Lass who has recently moved to the United States, and loves writing sf, fantasy, horror, humour and even dabbles in steampunk every now and then. Since my first sale to Clarkesworld, I've made over 25 story sales to professional markets around the world, including Asimov’s and Analog. In 2009 I was a finalist for the AUREALIS AWARD (Aussie) for Best SF Story, and finalist for the 2010 IGNOTUS AWARD (Spanish) for Best Foreign Short Story, as well as a 2010 CAMPBELL AWARD NOMINEE for best new writer. In 2011 I won the Best Foreign Translation ICTINEUS AWARD (Catalan) for "Soulmates", a novelette written with Mike Resnick, and first published in Asimov's Magazine. My first short story collection will be published by TICONDEROGA PRESS in 2013, and I will also be releasing an ARC MANOR Stellar Guild Series book wih the most awarded short story writer of all time, Mike Resnick, in the same year.
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September 12, 2022
Another fine issue with most of the good stories being the reprints.
We get the conclusion of "Act One" by Nancy Kress. It is a novella about genemods which Kress more or less made her career on. In this story gene modifications are still in the early stages, but a rogue group have successfully modified babies with a gene that make them more empathic. What I found interesting with this story is the perspective it is told from. Not directly from those involved with the gene modifications, but here from a manager of an actress preparing for her role in a movie about the first kids with this empathic gene. This is what Kress does best with these kind of stories, telling the stories from a more indirect angle. As the story goes, the manager and the actress gets more directly involved as things spiral out of control.
"The Gods of Mars" by Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick from 1985 tells the story of the first manned mission to Mars that reaches its orbit but can't land yet because of a big dust storm. They wait a few weeks but when the dust clears the planet is not the same anymore. Gone are craters and mountains, instead are canals and maybe water. At least that is what they see with their own eyes because all their electronic instruments says otherwise.
Fun story that combines the pulp romantic view of Mars with the modern one.
"The Incarceration of Captain Nebula" by Mike Resnick is a fun story about a space hero straight out of an E. E. "Doc" Smith story that is held in a psychiatric hospital because clearly no one believes he is here to save the Earth from an evil overlord that want to enslave humans. Pretty straight forward story that might not surprise the experienced sf reader with its ending, but still a fun read.
The best of the original stories comes from Xan van Rooyen with "Make A Memory With Me". It is hard to describe, but it involves technology that makes it possible to remove ones memories and sell them to other people. This makes for a well done story about personal decisions and how to deal with painful memories.
We get the conclusion of "Act One" by Nancy Kress. It is a novella about genemods which Kress more or less made her career on. In this story gene modifications are still in the early stages, but a rogue group have successfully modified babies with a gene that make them more empathic. What I found interesting with this story is the perspective it is told from. Not directly from those involved with the gene modifications, but here from a manager of an actress preparing for her role in a movie about the first kids with this empathic gene. This is what Kress does best with these kind of stories, telling the stories from a more indirect angle. As the story goes, the manager and the actress gets more directly involved as things spiral out of control.
"The Gods of Mars" by Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick from 1985 tells the story of the first manned mission to Mars that reaches its orbit but can't land yet because of a big dust storm. They wait a few weeks but when the dust clears the planet is not the same anymore. Gone are craters and mountains, instead are canals and maybe water. At least that is what they see with their own eyes because all their electronic instruments says otherwise.
Fun story that combines the pulp romantic view of Mars with the modern one.
"The Incarceration of Captain Nebula" by Mike Resnick is a fun story about a space hero straight out of an E. E. "Doc" Smith story that is held in a psychiatric hospital because clearly no one believes he is here to save the Earth from an evil overlord that want to enslave humans. Pretty straight forward story that might not surprise the experienced sf reader with its ending, but still a fun read.
The best of the original stories comes from Xan van Rooyen with "Make A Memory With Me". It is hard to describe, but it involves technology that makes it possible to remove ones memories and sell them to other people. This makes for a well done story about personal decisions and how to deal with painful memories.
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