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Andromeda Spaceways Issue #42

Andromeda Spaceways does it again, with more award winners in another quality bumper issue. First off is Robert Shearman who won the 2008 World Fantasy Award. He's also responsible for writing the Doctor Who episode that brought those dastardly Time Lord hating Daleks back to our small screen! Plus we have Felicity Dowker, winner of 2009 Ditmar Best New Talent award.

How the hell do we do it, you say? Well, we really don't do that much. We just pick the best stories that arrive on our collective astro-boards (that is, the stories you send us) and stick them in the mag!

Apart from writers previously mentioned, the glorious stories in issue #42 come from Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Caroline M Yoachim, Jason K Chapman, Dave Freer, Laura Goodin, Anna Kashina, Alex Kearney, Steven Saus, Ripley Patton, Dave Luckett, Simon Petrie, and Anna Tambour.

To top it off, these startling stories are complemented by the astounding artwork of Tom Godfrey, Rob Jan, and ASIM regular Lewis P. Morley.

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. What would you do without us?!

Fiction
Love Among The Lobelias . . . Rob Shearman
Over The Rim . . . Ripley Patton
Soldiers . . . Dave Lucket
The Name Thieves . . . Laura Goodin
The Hatchling . . . Anna Kashina
Dream (TM) . . . Simon Petrie
Pinked Djinn . . . Dave Freer
Inside Job . . . Jason K Chapman
The Good, The Bad, And The Donkey . . . Alex Kearney
Celebrity Skin . . . Felicity Dowker
The Arms Of Love And Death . . . Anna Tambour
Pageant Girls . . . Caroline M Yoachim

Poetry
Steak . . . Steven Saus
An Open Letter Circulated Across The Web . . . Marcie Lynn Tentchof

Special Features
Tribute to Douglas Adams . . . Robert Jan
Parasitic Worms Of The Living Dead . . . J W Schnarr

Regular Features
Contributor biographies
Acknowledgements

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News:

ASIM issue 41 released
ASIM Publishes Legends of SF Here at Andromeda Spaceways we always strive to bring you the best. So for issue 41 we've brought you not one or two, but three of the best innovative spec-fic writers in the business. We have dazzling new fiction from SF legends Brian Stableford (yes, that's right, that Brian Stableford), Paul Di Filippo, and Australia's own Damien Broderick. These guys have well over 100 years of writing experience between them!

Want more of the best? How about sparkling new writing from award-winners Grant Stone (Sir Julies Vogel Award), and Felicity Pulman (Katherine Susannah Pritchard Award)? Plus we've also got stunning stories from Australian SF stalwart Stephen Dedman, Thoraiya Dyer, Katherine Jennings, Jessica Kaiser, Dave Luckett, and Karin Maric, complemented by the brilliant art of Paul Airhart.

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Reviews:

Review of Market Forces by Richard Morgan
    Richard Morgan is a British SF/fantasy author whose work is tight, thoughtful, and frequently violent. Market Forces, [...] 20 May, 2009
 
Review of Broken Angels and Woken Furies
    There's a rule of thumb I've read of, to the effect that in a novel the writer [...] 20 May, 2009
 
Review of Modern Magic by Anne Cordwainer
Modern Magic is a novel made up of a series of interwoven short stories set in modern America. Together, the [...] 20 April, 2009
 
Review of The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers
Set in a brave new world plagued with doubt, not too far from our own, Avery Cates struggles to be [...] 20 April, 2009
 
Review of Black Oil by David Conyers
Africa is dying. Fresh water is scarce on a planet ravaged by pollution as amputee Joseph Nuwangi tests his luck [...] 15 April, 2009
 
The Company of the Dead by David Kowalski
    Sometimes - oh so rarely - a new writer enters the scene with a novel so strong [...] 22 February, 2009
 
Avalon and The Matrix
Introduction     I will be exploring the idea that recent cinema seems obsessed with the paranoid [...] .. 22 February, 2009
 
Dr Whom or ET Shoots and Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Parodication by A.R.R.R. Roberts
    That full title is a mouthful, isn't it? And if the author's name looks familiar, well, it's [...] 22 February, 2009
 
Blood Ties, Book One of The Castings Trilogy by Pamela Freeman
    Pamela Freeman has established a name for herself as a children's author, though Blood Ties is her [...] 19 February, 2009
 
Another review of Brasyl
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Interviews:

Interview with Greg Bear
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Interview with Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan is one of Britain's leading speculative fiction writers. He's penned five volumes of futuristic, razor-sharp, character-driven SF thrillers [...] 30 September, 2008
 
Interview with Lara Morgan
Lara Morgan is the author of Awakening, The Twins of Saranthium Book One published by Pan Macmillan's Tor imprint on [...] 01 September, 2008
 
Interview with Douglas A Van Belle
Doug Van Belle has appeared thrice in ASIM's pages, with the stories 'A Small Blue Planet for the Pleasantly Insane', [...] 09 July, 2008
 
Interview with Alma Alexander
ALMA ALEXANDER is a novelist whose work has appeared in thirteen languages and more than 20 countries worldwide. Her international [...] March 3, 2008
 
Interview with Jim C. Hines
Readers have dubbed Jim C. Hines the Goblin King. His third novel Goblin War has just been released in the [...] March 2, 2008
 
Interview with Maria V. Snyder
Maria V. Snyder changed careers in 1995 from being a Meteorologist to a Novelist when she began working on her [...] March 2, 2008
 
Interview with Mike Brotherton
Mike Brotherton is a hard science fiction writer publishing novels with Tor. His latest, Spider Star, is being released on [...] March 2, 2008
 
Interview with Robin Hobb
Worlds Apart: speaking with Robin Hobb (and Megan Lindholm) ASIM: Hi Robin, thank you for speaking with us. I began [...] February 18, 2008
 
Interview with Barbara Hambly
Firstly, the standard opening question: what attracted you to writing? All your bios say you began reading fantasy with The Wizard of [...] December 25, 2005