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Micro 8: Stargazers

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Editorial: Su Sokol / D.F. McCourt / Paul Jarvey + special help from Matt Moore, J.J.S. Boyce, Jonathan Crowe, David Zhang, Dylan Freeman-Grist, and Matt Bin

The Stag

Fiction
BY K.R. Horton

So I won.

Always Let Your Dragon Fly First Class

Fiction
BY Wendy Nikel

Emryr pinches the boarding pass between her claws. Her ruby nostrils flare, and a wisp of smoke—fortunately not large enough to set off any alarms—emerges from one of them. “Economy? You promised this would be an adventure.”

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Sunstroke

Fiction
BY Mark English

We’d ripped the Mess hall and all the barracks out of Orbital to make our Cathedral. We painted everything sky-blue, and mounted a Megawatt halogen lamp at the apex. Here we tremble, rock, cry, and imagine ourselves back on Earth, blessed under the true light.

Lightning Strikes

Fiction
BY Matthew Claxton

Spread her out on a dissection table, and you’d see the artifice, the strangeness. There’s always been as much of the eldritch as of the scientific in her kind, though her designers would never admit it in a peer-reviewed paper. Her bones are carved from mammoth ivory, those white teeth from the opalized fossil jaws of prehistoric crocodiles. Under that butter-smooth skin, she’s all strength and lurking danger.

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Interview with the Author: Tiffany Morris

Editorial
BY Dylan Freeman-Grist

Throughout our Kickstarter campaign for STARGAZERS, we are spotlighting a handful of the authors who made the book possible. Today's interview is with Tiffany Morris, who's extraordinary upcoming piece The World Beyond The Sky explores the importance of stories to identity, and what we take with us when we leave our home behind. Join us in welcoming one of the bastions of Canadian spec fiction and horror.

AE Reviews Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald

Reviews
BY Kyle Menken

The inevitable adaptation will be game of thrones in space.

extraordinary non-traditional narratives

An Exercise in Telling: Sylvain Neuvel’s Themis Files

Reviews
BY Jonathan Crowe

There are risks to attempting a atypical narrative form .... These books are proof that even in our field, which often disparages style in favour of idea, the execution of that idea—how you tell that tale—does in fact matter.

When His Hydraulics Failed and Mighty Casey Did Strike Out: Sports Science Fiction

Editorial
BY J.J.S. Boyce

People spend years or decades of their lives, training and hoping for a chance to run a specific distance a few hundredths of a second faster than everyone else, to vault a centimetre or two higher. Is this monumentally impressive or embarassingly trivial? Neither? Both?

Northern Cross

Fiction
BY David Baker

There was no way to tell where it came from. Sometimes the pillars descended from above; sometimes they rose from beneath the earth. They rarely stayed in one place for long. “It isn’t the one,” said Joel.

Island of Misfit Toys

Fiction
BY C.R. Beideman

Inside a black pantry in the lab among dismal powdered food stuffs, lit only by a red warning light that might never turn green, squatted a trembling human child wrapped in frayed hex-pattern synthetic, oxygen mask covering her gaunt face, who tried not to breathe, which could at any moment force a fit of coughing and give her away.

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The Stag

Fiction BY K.R. Horton

Always Let Your Dragon Fly First Class

Fiction BY Wendy Nikel

Sunstroke

Fiction BY Mark English

Lightning Strikes

Fiction BY Matthew Claxton

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Interview with the Author: Tiffany Morris

Editorial BY Dylan Freeman-Grist

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