Pete Von Sholly’s ‘Troop Inspection’ for Far Voyager
Peter Crowther announces some changes for upcoming volumes of Postscripts, and also the contents of the next two issues:
I have to announce a decision with regard to the signed state of our long-running (ten years and counting!) anthology series, Postscripts. After losing three of the multiple-author sheets out of recent issues (we re-did two of them and sent them out a second time, but it still took an age; the third sheet we just gave up on), Nick Gevers and I have decided to stop the signed edition with immediate effect (ie. Issue 32/33). This only affects those folks who’ve forked out their loot on subscriptions but we have a simple answer for that: we’re just going to double the number of volumes left on your sub and (just cos we loves ya) add an extra one. So, if you have three volumes left, we’ll increase your sub to seven (that’s six plus one: thanks, Mathematics Man). If you have six then we’ll increase to 13 (yeah, 12 plus one . . . see, you’re getting the hang of this already). And so on. (There’ll be a quiz next week so pay attention). This will also mean we’ll get the books out a lot faster—indeed, we’re aiming for three volumes in a calendar year . . . and maybe even four.
So, first up we’ve got Far Voyager Postscripts #32/33
- Far Voyager — Ian Sales
- 3 A.M. in the Mesozoic Bar — Michael Swanwick
- Dear Miss Monroe — Andrew Jury
- The Case of the Barking Man — Mel Waldman
- One Hundred Thousand Demons and the Cherub of Desire — Andrew Drummond
- An American Story — Darrell Schweitzer
- Irezumi — John Langan
- Sister Free — Rio Youers
- A Little Off the Top — Tom Alexander
- Sweetheart, I Love You — Mel Waldman
- Winter Children — Angela Slatter
- A Girl of Feather and Music — Lisa L. Hannett
- Thirty Three Tears to a Teaspoon — Alan Baxter
- The Rusalka Salon for Girls Who Like to Get Their Hair Wet — Angie Rega
- The Psychometrist — Suzanne J. Willis
- Sea Angels — Quentin S. Crisp
- Plink — Kurt Dinan
- Xaro — Darren Speegle
- We Are Not Alone — Richard Calder
- The Curtain — Thana Niveau
- Playground — Gio Clairval
- What Once Was Bone — Gary A. Braunbeck
- Darkscapes: Three Journeys to the Night Side — Mel Waldman
- Services Rendered — Bruce Golden
- GW in the Afterlife — Robert Reed
- Eskimo — Andrew Hook
- With Friends Like These — Gary Fry
- An Inspector Calls — Ian Watson
- Confessions — Mel Waldman
- A Legion of Echoes — Alison Littlewood
- Talk in Riddles — Mark Reece
- The Mermaid and the Fisherman — Paul Park
And here’s the lineup for Breakout Postscripts #34/35
- Breakout — John Gribbin
- Josephine Knows Who — Allen Ashley
- The Cicadas — Jessica Reisman and Steven Utley
- Notes on the Future — John Weldon
- Circular Tour — Howard Priestley
- Yesterday’s Dreams — Kaitlin Queen (Keith Brooke)
- Scenes from the City of Garbage and the City of Clay — Paul Tremblay
- Those Who Remain — Kelly Barnhill
- Chasing Gaia — Garry Kilworth
- Endpapers — Lisa L. Hannett
- Holes — Keith Minnion
- In All Your Sparkling Raiment Soar — Robert T. Jeschonek
- A Walk in the Woods — Vaughan Stanger
- A Walk in the Rain — Vaughan Stanger
- Curb — Robert Reed
- Scraps of Paper — Simon Strantzas
- Forever Boys — James Cooper
- Bradbury’s Finger — Greg Quiring
- The Needle, the Stitch, the Night, and the Sky — Kat Howard
- The Ebony Crucifix — Kit Reed
- The House of the Witches — Darrell Schweitzer
- The Aniseed Gumball Kid — Andrew Hook
- The Seven Mirrors — Marly Youmans
- Easy to Imagine — Ian Whates
- The Glasshouse — Emma Coleman
- All the Layers of the World — Steven Utley and Camille Alexa
- Crossed Gates — Adrian Tchaikovsky