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

Welcome back for our 11th issue! I've been working with a few new word processors to help widen the variety of filetypes I can accept submissions in. I'm also playing around with some new HTML editors so as to speed the layout of stories.

If you'd like to be on a mailing list for notification of the update or for the upload of new issues of Aphelion then click here to send me an e-mail. Be sure to put the words Aphelion Mailing List in the Subject line of the e-mail. This mailing list will only be used to notify you of new issues and will never be given out to anyone else... 'cause I hate spam as much as you do!

In this issue there are new writers, new chapters in our continued stories, two new features- The Mare Inebrium shared universe project & a Sci-fi Music Review-, an update on our Sci-Fi TV report, our letter column, and a new cartoon.

However, our letter column is down, so don't even try it. I have the Assistant Editor looking into the problem, hopefully he can fix or re install it.

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!

Also, there is a banner link to a new website, where back issues of Aphelion will be stored from now on, at the bottom of this page. You can still see everything that has appeared in the Zine so far.

Some folks have asked about submitting Poetry: While we do not publish poetry ourselves, there is someone for the poets to turn to-

Dragon's Lair Webzine is back! Way to go, Roger! I knew you couldn't stay away for very long.

Visit The Dragon's Lair Webzine, our sister publication!

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

• The Threat of Valleor Part 2 By Dan L. Hollifield ***An ancient evil vies with an Immortal hero - while innocent lives hang in the ballance.
• Time and Time Again Part 11 By Cris Lawrence ***Danger leads to strange meetings. Nominated for a "Top 10 on the Internet" award!
• Time Matrix Part 4 By D.K. Smith ***People can get addicted to almost anything.
• Trigeminus Part 4 By Dennis Talent ***Aliens among us, what are they really like?
• Witness of the World Part 4 By Chad Cottle ***Memories of a telepathic child.
• The Universe Between Part 4 By Scott Reeves ***Action and adventure when universes meet.
• The Quality of Grace Part 4 By Vasilis Adams A. ***History as it might have been.
• Though the Dark Veil Part 2 By Allen Woods ***High Fantasy as an adventure begins.

• Only the Children By Brian Huisman ***Fighting disease through gene-splicing.
• Robin, sweet Robin By Judith Rau ***A ghost story from a colony world.
• Stealing Time By R.J. Steen ***The morality of time manipulation.
• Anything For You... By Svetlana Gelman ***Perception isn't always clear.
• Rebirth By Karen Martel ***Is it a lie... or just a conspiracy?
• Old Mangles By W. Fraser Sandercombe ***I dreams, there is often a greater truth.
• Their's By Dennis St. John ***They were just following orders... into the jaws of hell.
• Surplus By Larry Miles ***Making the best of what you have.
• A Hope is Born By Joe Gensweider ***A Ghost Riders story and a sequel to the story "Freedom" that was in Aphelion's issue #8.
• You think I care? By Iain McWilliam ***Sometimes a soldier has to decide whether or not his superiors are wrong.
• High Tech Security By Atk. Butterfly ***Is it a case of misdirection, or is this prison really escapeproof?
• T.O.W. By Joe Weinberg ***Museings of an Augmented Soldier.
• See the "Features" section for a new story by Roger Bennett called "Frightening little planet, isn't it?"

• The Mare Inebrium shared universe project I open up my own Spaceport Bar to other writers! This month featuring two of my own stories and a new story by Dragon's Lair Webzine's Editor, Roger Bennett.
• A Word in Your Ear By Robert Wynne ***Rob Wynne holds forth on....whatever comes to mind. ***Poking fun at Micro$oft! The new national pastime!
• Starbase Update SFTV Schedules and News Compiled by Lee Whiteside.
• Dan Hollifield reviews the Sci-fi music CD "The Void" by musician Bjorn Lynne.
• Aphelion Letter Column A place for your opinions. This link works, but the Lettercol doesn't. Robert is trying to fix it.
• Excentrivial Musings The Aphelion Cartoon Page.
• Mare Inebrium Wallpaper Page 51 JPGs you can download and convert to Bitmaps for wallpaper. This is a slow-loading page, but well worth it.
• Links page:Click here to see the Links Page
• Submissions Guidlines Page :Click here to see the Submissions Guidelines Page.
• Aphelion Explanations and Thanks Where the name "Aphelion" came from and other info.

Visit The Writer's Club, an excellent creative writing website.

Visit Dragon's Lair Webzine Our illustrious ancestor webzine, now back online after far too long!

And visit Chad Cottle's "Titan" for more top-notch fiction.

Sideways to the Mare Inebrium, homepage of Aphelion's Editor: Dan Lš Hollifield

Aphelion Webzine is copyright 1997 by Dan L. Hollifield