Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 3, July 2013

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Table of 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 F. Flynn
Afterword to “Buried Hopes”

A FROZEN FUTURE?Cryonics as a Gamble

By Gregory Benford

FROM THE HEART’S BASEMENT

by Barry N. Malzberg
WHAT WE NEED

PHOENIX PICK PRESENTS

CHAPTER 1: ENCOUNTER ON A LONELY ROAD
CHAPTER 2: ACROSS THE SEA OF DREAMS

BOOK REVIEWS

by Paul Cook

SERIALIZATION:Dark Universe

CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN

 

GALAXY’S EDGE MAGAZINE  ISSUE 3: JULY 2013

 

Mike Resnick, Editor

Shahid Mahmud, Publisher

 

Published by Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick

P.O. Box 10339

Rockville, MD 20849-0339

 

Galaxy’s Edge
is published every two months: March, May, July, September, November & January

 

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ISBN:
 978-1-61242-153-7

 

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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.”

 

 
—Coordinating Judge, Robert J. Sawyer

 

Available as:
  
Paperback
   
Kindle Ebook
   
Nook Ebook

 

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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.

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