Aphelion

The author informs me that this story is related to a number of previous tales featuring her unusual version(s) of the ubiquitous supernatural creatures that appear in this story (including "Vishnu's Beer Garden", which is probably included in our Beta (Gamma? Upsilon?) Author Index). Given the unus...

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Today is apparently Leonard Nimoy's 82nd birthday. So far, he HAS lived long and prospered. May he continue to do so.

It occurs to me that two stories this month feature used items that come with something extra: "Previously Loved" and "Coils in the Dark". Compare and contrast, and explain which "extra" you would rather have, and why. This essay question will count for 20% of your midterm grade.

My favorite story this month, I think. What "A.I." tried to be, this story is.

I enjoyed the matter-of-fact mingling of alien species of every size, shape and color -- reminded me of "Galaxy" magazine, somehow. The plot was perhaps a little too similar to the upcoming movie "The Host" as well as the various incarnations of "Body Snatchers" (and a couple of short-lived TV serie...

Oops, wrong cue card. Aphelion needs long fiction (7,500 words and up). As you will see when the March issue goes live (tonight?), we had no long fiction subs, or at least none that McCamy felt were publishable. Our short story backlog is also shrinking -- March includes some December subs, and I ma...

We hope to have the March issue up sometime tonight (if not, then tomorrow night), so today is your last chance for extra-easy access to all the stories and poems. (I will be updating the Back Issues index sometime soon (every five years or so, for sure), but breath-holding is not recommended.)

RM

Lester Curtis wrote:Okay, nice enough, and I recognize it from a Flash entry, but -- why is it all in italic?

It figures that the ones where I DON'T check how the HTML version looks are the ones with the messed-up tags...

Tally: one missing </I>, one miscoded (missing /). Looks okay now, I think...

I think the name says it all. Great fun, "if" you edit it down to 5 minutes. You know, even fantasy needs to be believable to some degree. I remember loving this movie when I saw it -- right up until the very last scene, when the Good-guy kid goes back to reality and meets the bullies again. There ...

Lester Curtis wrote:Was it pornographic?

historic in origin and mostly associated with the recreational use of Cave River Valley

No, silly. It portrayed indigenous people at a Pre-Columbian Day barbecue, celebrating freedom from smallpox and siphilis. (They wanted to hold a rodeo, but couldn't find any horses.)

Discovered that the Back Issues for 2012 had some formatting glitches -- missed a "/" in the closing "</h3>" and a "</center>" , so everything after the "Serials and Long Fiction" header was centered and in large, bold text. Fixed the problem -- you can read the indices without sunglasses now. I hav...

Amazing as it might seem, I've written, voted, and already won! Hooray for Bottomdweller! I won with 15 perfect 10s in fact - yeah, that's the ticket. And a publishing house already saw it and offered me 1000$ to print it, no 10,000$ - yeah, that's right. And Beyounce has been hired to do the movie...

Now that the Back Issue index will let you refresh your memories of past stories ("short" and "long") and poetry, you can make "Best of 2012" nominations without data mining (as opposed to "Data, Miming", Brent Spiner's new one-man tribute to Marcel Marceau). You don't want to leave the selection pr...

"Is your Lemonade made from real lemons?" "Are your Girl Scout cookies made from real Brownies?" (girl scouts= Brownies who are pre-G.S.s - see what I did there?) Where is this quote from??? Wednesday Addams (Christina Ricci) in one of the Addams Family movies. (Although I think the line was "...ma...

What about a werewolf-vampire? well thought... :lol: :lol: :lol: And Zombies should be off the list too because a) Ewww! and b) Apparently, that's a thing now. Yes, I agree...after they concluded the horrible Twilight Saga...now it's time of zombies in love...the next stage is about loving Brownies...

If you have FTP access to the Aphelion server, each editorial exists as "editorial.html" in a folder named for the issue number and volume (e.g., ap169v16). I could tell you the userid and password I have been using (so if we screw anything up, we'll just say "it must have been Dan!")...

Hokay, folks 2007 - 2010 poetry documented and sent to Tao for upload. Keep your fingers crossed, folks. I see it. I've been a little distracted again but we'll get there. Hehe I got stuck a couple times reading Mark's poetry! : ) My high end trick DOES take a little bit of concentration to do it r...

Now current up to the Oct. 2012 issue . . . the index shows links for more recent issues, but they take you to Oct. 2012. That will get fixed soon, I'm sure. Tao, Robert, and anyone else in on that project -- my hat's off to you for a great job! Actually, the index links for November 2011 and Decem...

I think I'll go lie down now...

Of course I really should be working on the February issue -- which will be easier now that I can see all the 2012 material without using FTP or searching the directories on my computer...

Er, the previous message should have said "to the end of 2010". However, the Back Issue Index NOW covers up to the end of 2011. Honest.

We now have access to everything up to the December 2010 / January 2011 issue. (Search function on the Back Issue page should be able to find 2010 items.)

Let's hear it for Nate "N. J." Kailhofer! He's coming up on his 68th challenge, and if we can beg and plead with him despite that he only gets about 4-6 entries per month, by about July he will have ruled over his 75th Challenge! We're just not gonna see his like again, so let's hear it for Nate K!...

I will try to get another year added to the Back Issues index this weekend... (he said, after intending to do so for the past several years). Hi Robert, I see you have a couple new issues posted up. Just be careful on the sequencing - for better or worse every other issue goes "up" to get newer, an...

I will try to get another year added to the Back Issues index this weekend... (he said, after intending to do so for the past several years).

And so it begins... I just killed a spam message posted in a November 2007 topic (and spammer's account). The Whois said that the IP address was in California.

We'll see how long it takes for the Global Spam Conspiracy to adjust to the New Forum Order.

I'm at 735 authors and counting! Does your automated stuff use the Back Issues index, or are you looking directly at the ap999v99 folders to get at the old index files? I could start adding to the Back Issues index page, if it helps. Well, in a sense only the output is automated - inbound it's hand...

TaoPhoenix wrote:I'm at 735 authors and counting!

Does your automated stuff use the Back Issues index, or are you looking directly at the ap999v99 folders to get at the old index files? I could start adding to the Back Issues index page, if it helps.

Wormtongue wrote:Hold a Virgil? What do Roma poets have to do with Spam?

I didn't know Virgil was a gypsy...