The June 2011 issue of Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show (#23) is now available.
Contents of this issue include:
Stories:
“The Discriminating Monster’s Guide to the Perils of Princess Snatching” by Scott M. Roberts (illustrated by James Owen)
“Four Wizards and a Funeral” by Mike Rimar (illustrated by Anna Repp)
“This is My Corporation, Eat” by Lon Prater (illustrated by Kevin Wasden)
“The Hanged Poet” by Jeffrey Lyman (illustrated by Nicole Cardiff)
“Into the West” by Eric James Stone (illustrated by Scott Altmann)
IGMS Audio:
“This is My Corporation, Eat” by Lon Prater, read by Tom Barker
InterGalactic Medicine Show Interviews:
“InterGalactic Interview with Larry Niven” by Darrell Schweitzer
In addition to the issue-specific stories, IGMS offers its regular selection of columns, mostly opinion pieces.
In an unexpected, and unplanned, move, this is a special Writers of the Future-themed issue of the magazine. After being notified separately that their stories would be appearing in this issue, authors Prater, Rimar, Roberts, and Stone realized this was a reunion of authors who appeared six years ago, in the 2005 issue of the contest’s annual anthology, Writers of the Future XXI.
Fiction Editor Edmund Schubert tells SFScope, “the authors were the ones who realized what was going on, and asked to run with it.”
Roberts said “I noticed that we’d all mentioned stories coming out in the same issue and joked that we should call it a reunion.”
In a press release, Schubert said “We regularly receive outstanding submissions from prior winners. What’s really odd is publishing so many from the same year in one issue. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be some kind of record.”
All four writers credit the Writers of the Future contest with fulfilling its mission of finding the next generation of science fiction and fantasy writers and giving their careers the extra momentum needed to continue writing and selling regularly.