Aphelion

Big double issue for December and January! Lots of stuff to read and comment on before Aphelion begins its fitfeenth year in February!

On behalf of the entire Aphelion editorial staff, I hope you have a very happy holidays and a fabulous new year!

Lester Curtis wrote:Maybe we'll understand gravity one of these days . . . I'd like to think so, anyway.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?r ... id=7410993

Gravity is simple: the Earth sucks.

(Thanks for the link. That's really cool stuff.)

Well, that's fair. As the editor of that section, I'm just glad they're being read.

Perhaps you missed last month's installment:

http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/feature ... ing23.html

This is an ongoing series, so each essay has a particular focus on a specific idea.

Stuff to read, stuff to comment on. Long fiction, short fiction, poetry and features.

Have at it.

I see no reason why you shouldn't hold a contest. The whole point of having a community of writers is being able to bounce ideas off one another.

The long-anticipated September/October issue, with twice as much goodness to devour.

Tuck in, readers, and enjoy!

NPR ran a poll to determine the Top 100 Thriller novels of all time, and our own Seanan McGuire is on the list (writing as Mira Grant) at #74 with FEED. I am so damn proud of her, and it's a well deserved accolade.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =128718927

In an effort to get back onto an early-in-the-month schedule without shortchanging anyone's stories, we bring you this special double issue chock full of goodness. Lots of short stories, lots of poetry, and four (count them) feature articles. Get to reading, folks. Lots to read in the next four weeks.

Every now and then, I run across something that I label "thoughtfood" -- something to just sit and ponder over to see what mysteries it reveals. This is a great essay by Alyssa Rosenberg in The Atlantic magazine on world-building and how it engages (or fails to engage) the reader: http://www.theatla...

The problem is, Tao, that you just took nearly 200 words to explain what your neologism means. That severely limits its ability to catch on, because it's not intuitively obvious. A neologism has to be more than clever, it has to be useful, and the ones that catch on are the ones where you go "Oh, of...

The new issue is online. Lots of fiction, lots of poetry, and a couple of dynamite features. Happy summer solstice everyone! Celebrate with a great heaping plateful of Aphelion!

Fixed. There are times I regret having come up with that little bit.

Yet another exciting month, with stories, poetry, features, and the announcement of Aphelion's first ever story anthology.

Go read. Lots of good stuff ahead.

Lots of good advice, there. As a note of trivia, the original Wear sunscrean essay was by a Chicago Tribune columnist named Mary Schmich, and was written in 1997. You can find it here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-sunscreen-column,0,4054576.column The piece gained nation...

The April issue is online, chock full of fiction, poetry, and essays, including a new Mare Inebrium story, two classic Nightwatch tales, more Thoughts on Writing, and a bunch of other really cool stuff.

Read and Discuss!

Seanan McGuire, whose series of essays on writing have been appearing regularly in Aphelion for the last year and a half, has been nominated for the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Author. The winner will be announced at the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne, Australia, in ...

New issue is online on 3/18/2010, slightly hungover but chock full of goodness. ("Irish whiskey is goodness?" "Amen. Another round, Dan...")

Fiction, poetry, Seanan's Thoughts on Writing, and my thoughts on Seanan's writing.

Read. Digest. Discuss.

The only caveat I want to add about this: Winning a poll is a tremendous amount of egoboo for the person who wins. But it does bugger-all to help them improve as a writer. So, if you vote, great, but don't forget to go to the thread for that story and actually *talk* about it. The entire point of th...

"Writers who thrive in the room are ones who are aware of their own failings. Those who think they have none are both wrong and destructive."
--Amy Berg

The first issue of the 14th year of Aphelion is online! Much delays caused by computer troubles, so much thanks to Robert Moriyama for stepping in at the last moment and putting together our cover, which features our esteemed Senior Editor, Dan Hollifield, celebrating Guy Fawkes Day or some such non...

Vila wrote:As I recall, it was only "Zod" that ever had 111 chapters- or more!

You may well recall correctly. Most of us who remember that story have been trying desperately to forget it.

Oh bother. I'll try and get that fixed at some point.

Lots and lots to see and read, just in time for the Holidays.

Best wishes to all our readers! Let's ring in the old and ring out the new! Wait...strike that...reverse it.

I must say Seanan McGuire really knows what she is talking about and has an easy way of putting it across. Another very professional writer in our ranks! I'd like to see something else by her. Well, for starters, there's her novel Rosemary and Rue , which is in stores now. The second book in that s...

Long awaited, much anticipated, skeptically believed in....it's the November issue. We have long fiction. We have short fiction. We have poetry, and more of our regular columns from Seanan McGuire and McCamy Taylor. Check it out, because it's all here. At least I think it is. If any of it is missing...

Oh, grats grats grats!

Now where's the pictures??

Since there wasn't a single thread talking about the features, I just figured folks weren't done reading September yet. *blinks innocently*

Here's the October issue. Read and enjoy!

The September issue went online at 12:50pm Eastern on September 13, 2009.

All the usual good stuff is here: Novellas, short stories, poems, and a variety of essays and reviews.

Enjoy!