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Welcome to the direct descendant of Dragon's Lair Webzine:

Issue #7!

Issue 7, Volume 1

Issue 8 will be online September 1st. (or thereabouts)


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Since January 27th 1997


Welcome back for our 7th issue! This one is on time, my vacation is over, and things are almost back to normal. This is a smaller issue than last month, but only because there were fewer submissions. I'd dearly love to have huge issues every month! But, no matter how many stories there are in an issue, rest assured that they are all good ones!

In this issue there are new writers, new chapters in our continued stories, updates on our reports, our letter column, and a new cartoon.

Please visit our letter column and drop us a note. Our writers like to read the Lettercol to look for words of encouragement. Not many of you readers have the time to send e-mail to the writers whose stories you especially enjoyed. Well, that's why our Assistant Editor worked up the Letter Column Page, so folks can let everyone know what kind of job they're doing. Its helped me to realize that I need to do a better job proofreading, something that I did this issue. I may not have caught every mistake, but I caught more of 'em!

I'd like to thank those of you who have sent e-mails for your feedback. Keep those e-mails coming, folks! Without those messages we will never know what we need to improve upon. Hope you like the improvements so far!

We had 520 Readers visit Aphelion in June! Thank you! Please keep coming back for each new issue as it goes online.

Also, there are links to back issues of Aphelion at the bottom of this page. You can still see everything that has appeared in the Zine so far.


I have an e-mail address for submissions, click here to submit a story or just read the submission guidlines. For now I hope everyone will bear with me while I get the Zine on it's feet. Some folks have asked about submitting Poetry: While we do not publish poetry ourselves, there is someone for the poets to turn to- The Writer's Club, a poetry Webzine run by one of our friends from the DALnet IRC Chat network. Visit #the_WritersClub on DALnet and check out the Writer's Club Webpage if you are poetically inclined.

I have been informed that our parent Webzine is going to go back into production! Dragon's Lair Webzine is coming back! Way to go, Roger! I knew you couldn't stay away for very long. When DL is back online I'll link to it the same way I have done for Writer's Club. It's not a Webring, but it'll be similar.

And now, I'll shut up and let you get to reading. Thanks again for visiting. Enjoy yourselves!

If you miss the wavefile that played automatically at the start of our previous issues click here to hear it now.


Aphelion Staff:

  • Senior Editor, Contributing Writer: Dan L. Hollifield
  • Editor Emeritus, Contributing Writer: Roger Bennett
  • Assistant Editor, Columnist: Robert Wynne
  • Babylon 5 Reporter: Denise Chochrek
  • SFTV Schedule Reporter: Lee Whiteside

Writers

  • Contributing Writer: Cris Lawrence
  • Contributing Writer: Neal Williams
  • Contributing Writer: Richie Adams
  • Contributing Writer: Kenneth C. Goldman
  • Contributing Writer: R.J. Steen
  • Contributing Writer: Joe Gensweider
  • Contributing Writer: Brian Gallucci
  • Contributing Writer: Thomas Allen Mays
  • Contributing Writer: Dennis Tallent

Serialized Stories


Stories

  • Lunchtime at the Justice Cafe' By Kenneth C. Goldman ***Rough justice, indeed! A story by an award winning writer.
  • The Pain of Death By Joe Gensweider ***King Arthur and Lancelot face a Demigod.
  • Riding Home By R.J. Steen ***Sometimes, getting home takes teamwork.
  • The End By Brian Gallucci ***A Mind is a terrible thing to waste somebody with.
  • Copilot By Thomas Allen Mays ***A meeting far stranger than most.
  • Flyers By Dennis Tallent ***Freedom is everything!
  • Harold Clones It! By Neal Williams ***Good help is hard to find. (WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE. If strong language offends you, skip this story.)

Features


Links page:Click here to see the Links Page

Submissions Guidlines Page :Click here to see the Submissions Guidelines Page.

copyright 1997 by Dan L. Hollifield

Aphelion Explanations and Thanks Where the name "Aphelion" came from and other info.

Back Issues:

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