Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 3, July 2013
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Authors: Mike Resnick [Editor]
Table of Contents
by Mike Resnick
by Heidi Ruby Miller
by Eric Flint
by Laurie Tom
by Barry N. Malzberg
A BRIEF HISTORY OF A WORLD IN THE TIME BEFORE THIS TIME
by Muxing Zhao
by Jack Williamson
JUST ANOTHER NIGHT AT THE QUARTERLY MEETING OF TERRIFYING GIANT MONSTERS
by Brennan Harvey
by C. L. Moore
by Ron Collins
by Michael F. Flynn
Afterword to “Buried Hopes”
A FROZEN FUTURE?Cryonics as a Gamble
By Gregory Benford
by Barry N. Malzberg
WHAT WE NEED
CHAPTER 1: ENCOUNTER ON A LONELY ROAD
CHAPTER 2: ACROSS THE SEA OF DREAMS
by Paul Cook
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
GALAXY’S EDGE MAGAZINE ISSUE 3: JULY 2013
Mike Resnick, Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
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CONTENTS
THE EDITOR’S WORD by Mike Resnick
THE ISLANDS OF HOPE by Heidi Ruby Miller
A SOLDIER’S COMPLAINT by Eric Flint
THE HELD DAUGHTER by Laurie Tom
A GALAXY CALLED ROME by Barry N. Malzberg
A BRIEF HISTORY OF A WORLD IN THE TIME BEFORE THIS TIME by Muxing Zhao
WITH FOLDED HANDS by Jack Williamson
JUST ANOTHER NIGHT AT THE QUARTERLY MEETING OF TERRIFYING
GIANT MONSTERS by Brennan Harvey
TWO FANTASIES by C. L. Moore
THE TEAMMATES by Ron Collins
BURIED HOPES by Michael Flynn
A FROZEN FUTURE by Gregory Benford
FROM THE HEART’S BASEMENT by Barry N. Malzberg
PHOENIX PICK PRESENTS
BOOK REVIEWS by Paul Cook
SERIALIZATION: DARK UNIVERSE by Daniel F. Galouye
LIFEBOAT TO THE STARS AWARD
FINALISTS
Bowl of Heaven
by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven
Twenty Lights to `The Land of Snow’
by Michael Bishop
Tau Ceti
, by Kevin J. Anderson and Steve Savile
A Country for Old Men
by Ben Bova
Lucy
by Jack McDevitt
Blue Remembered Earth
by Reynolds, Alastair
The First Day of Eternity
by Domingo Santos (translated by Stanley Schmidt)
WINNER
| | “Tau Ceti tells of a generation ship approaching that nearby sun-like star of the title, and it does so in an unusual manner, combing a novella by Kevin J. Anderson and a sequel novelette by Steven Savile into one fast-paced, character-rich, technologically accurate adventure story. In the capable hands of both authors, interstellar travel doesn't just seem possible but inevitable, and they bring real depth to the issues of generation ships, the politics surrounding such voyages, and the danger A.E. van Vogt first alerted us to in the classic 'Far Centaurus,' namely that just because you head out first doesn't mean you'll arrive first. Tau Ceti is a terrific work of hard science fiction, and the Lifeboat Foundation congratulates the authors and their editor, Mike Resnick.” |
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THE EDITOR’S WORD
by Mike Resnick
A very special fan letter to start off this, third issue of Galaxy’s Edge
Mike, Shahid—
I’ve just come back from two weeks in Europe, and during this morning’s jet-laggy prowling through the mountain of accumulated mail I came upon
Galaxy’s Edge
#2, with my story in it. I was very impressed indeed with the magazine.
Mike, it’s a beautiful job, from the lively editorial onward. (Especially that editorial!) It’s got the feel of a true prozine, which is not surprising, since you know quite well what a true prozine ought to contain and to look like, and you’ve done it. And, Shahid, it’s a swell production job.
Starting about 1949 I began to collect the s-f magazines, and I put together a complete collection of every one of them from Hugo Gernsback’s first 1926 issue onward. I still have them all, and (though I rarely read them any more) I continue to maintain my complete files of
Analog
and
F&SF
and
Asimov’s
, and, of course, all the now defunct mags like
Galaxy
and
Future
and
Two Complete Science-Adventure Books
(I am not making that last title up, Shahid.) But I don’t bother collecting the recently founded magazines, because their saddle-stitched format doesn’t look good on the shelves and there are too many of them for me to keep track of and in general I just don’t want to bother.
I want to keep a complete run of
Galaxy’s Edge
, though, not only because it shows promise of being a damned good magazine but because in content and layout it summons the feelings that led me to collect all those now-extinct magazines of sixty years ago,
Thrilling Wonder Stories
and
Science Fiction Quarterly
and
Super Science Stories
and all the rest. Shahid, can you ship me a copy of issue number #1? And please keep me on the mailing list. I haven’t written a fan letter to a prozine in maybe fifty years and it’s a nice feeling to be doing it again.
Bob
Mike’s note: Of course we’re sending Bob his hard copy of issue #1.
And look for a wonderful story of his in issue #4.