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Issue 98 Volume 09 November 2005

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Editorial

Dan Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serialised stories and Long Fiction

Spaced Out
Daniel Sosa
"In what might be considered a worst case scenario in career change, fabulous Earth celebrity Buck Buckley launches his professional space career as second in command of the Theodorus, whether people like it or not."

Distributed Logic
Jesse Gordon
In a world lost to social atrophy, SimpliCITY allowed for unparalleled freedom - but at what cost?

The Point of the Pit
Matthew Maldonado
Three men, employees of the looming Company, pick one another's brains for the purpose behind a mysterious payload that swings into their workplace one day.

Nightwatch: Tinsel Rime
N. J. Kailhofer
The ghosts of Simon's past revisit him in this Christmas future.
[This story contains Adult themes.]

A new shared universe series: Nightwatch, under the direction of Jeff Williams.

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Short Stories

At an Angle
Jeremy Benjamin
Herb Sadatore was a 'Codarfusla' agent. His job was to assess candidates for cerebral implants that would act as autopilots to prevent them from carrying out antisocial acts — or punish them for acts already committed. The weird thing was, some people wanted the implants to let them experience an ersatz nirvana without drugs or meditation. And the way his own life was going, he could almost understand why.

Imprints
Roderick Gladwish
Papic was the most effective interrogator the State had ever had. No one who was strapped into the chair in Papic's interrogation cell held out for long. He told himself that he did it for the State and for his beloved family, protecting them from potential threats. But his current subject wasn't interested in excuses … only in the imprints of suffering left by Papic's many victims.

Mrs. Blumer's Dustbins
Ee Pin Pang
Mrs. Blumer was a firm believer in the value of Standards and Routines. When someone or some thing started tampering with her trash, it drove her crazy — literally.

Testament
Elizabeth Markham
Terrorists had detonated a 'dirty bomb', killing relatively few people quickly — but condemning thousands more to eventual death from cancer, and rendering the Burn uninhabitable. Sara Moipet was one of the Burnt, and now, 10 years after the incident, she had one last chance to tell her story…

The Goblin
Michael Whitney
Ysidroa was something of a rebel among her people — always climbing and exploring places where no one else would go. Then one day, she found a strange, twisted metal house, surrounded by fire, and monsters started to emerge, monsters like — and unlike — the goblins of legend. She feared that they had come to devour her people — but the truth was much worse.

The Stone Curse
Verna McKinnon
Seda was a witch of considerable power and skill, and, she thought, a good person. She had abused her gifts to take revenge on the woman who had stolen the man she loved, only to find that she could not live with what she had done. Now, with the help of Valda, her teacher, she had to undo the damage she had done — no matter what the price.

Too Late the Hero
Gareth D. Jones
Martin Manner had powers beyond those of mortal men — flight, incredible strength, a near-telepathic ability to sense people's distress, and more. With great power came the obligation to use that power to help others — even if nobody seemed to want his help.

Uncle … Uncle!
Robert Starr
Karl Reusmensuen was the wettest of wet blankets. Even his best friends cringed when he came to join them when they were having fun. But Karl had his reasons. Living with his Uncle was — difficult, in ways that he could never explain. Not if he wanted anyone to believe him.

The Kitten Box
Gareth Lyn Powell
What is the true nature of man? And if you knew that, how would you measure it? Willing to bet your life on it?

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Poetry and Filk Music

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Articles and features

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