IGMS Issue 41
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All of them I found at the right time. I'm always looking for new books to read and writers to learn from. There's this whole canon of words to choose from so we have this advantage of choosing from some truly great teachers. Then I kick myself for not discovering them sooner. Case in point, Walter Moseley's Futureland. That book rocked my world in terms of how to incorporate worldview into story.
SCHWEITZER: Tell me about projects you're working on now or plan for the future.
BROADDUS: I have a massive "sekrit projekt" which I'm working on (Non-Disclosure Agreements and everything!). That should keep me tied up through the end of the year writing-wise. Well, it should. I'm also doing the final prep on Streets of Shadows (Alliteration Ink), an urban fantasy meets crime anthology co-edited with Jerry Gordon and featuring such writers as Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, Kathryn Rusch, and Tim Lebbon. I'm about to release a short story collection tentatively titled Walkers with the Dawn (Blackwyrm Books). I'd keep an eye on the Firefly RPG stuff from Margaret Weis Productions as well as the Storium storytelling game. Be looking for an announcement about my sword and soul novel, Black Son Rising (co-written with Steve Shrewsbury) soon.
Coming up early next year includes me wrapping up Pimp My Airship: The Novel (plus another short story collection of steampunk tales all in the same universe), a science fiction/crime novel tentatively titled Serpent (co-written with Jason Sizemore), plus a middle grade detective novel. There's about a half dozen short stories sprinkled among all of that I've already committed to also. That should be enough to kick off 2015.
SCHWEITZER: Thanks, Maurice.
Letter From The Editor
Issue 41 - September 2014
by Scott M. Roberts
Guest Editor, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show
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Howdy, folks! I'm Scott M. Roberts, and I'm the special guest editor of this issue of Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show. Lemme introduce you to our stories:
In H.G. Parry's "Until We Find Better Magic," a pretty good wizard rescues the world's finest dancer from being dead. That's just the beginning of this charming tale of adventure, magic, life, death, and maybe love, too.
"The Two Kingdoms Woman," by James Beamon, is a lyrical fantasy set in China's past. Sun Renxian is a proud warrior, whose skills are only matched by her ambition for her family. Her brother's ambition matches her own, and his machinations will lead her far from the life she thought to have lived.
If mystical ancient China ain't exotic enough for you, how's about Prohibition-era rural Kentucky? Get there with the help of Marie Vibbert's "The Time Mechanic," a tale of broken time machines, stranded travelers, unexpected mechanics, and likker. Don't hog the jug, now . . .
It's not exactly time travel, but K.C. Norton's "The Far Side of Extinction" posits a world filled with pteradactyls, pliosaurs, dodo, and other wondrous creatures. Pharmacant Tale de Kaant is on the trail of the most wondrous creature of all - the dog.
If you're of a gastronomic bent, let me recommend you to Nick T. Chan and Jennifer Campbell-Hicks's story of "The Temptation of Father Francis." You'll find some good, wholesome nourishment therein - none of that pasty, corporate swill, all gene-modded and guarded by patent police. The food comes with a price, though. Hope you're willing to pay.
Rounding out our IGMS originals is Alex Shvartsman's "The Fiddle Game," which is this issue's audio selection. Maurice the Ghost, former art thief and con man, owns a diner in the anonymous midwest, avoiding the attention of Freddy the Mace, a Mafia-type who has a penchant for magic use and cement overcoats. But some cons are too good to pass up.
And don't miss Darrell Schweitzer's interview with Maurice Broaddus, and the reprint of "Voice of the Martyrs" which first appeared in the Beyond the Sun anthology.
Returning from last issue's hiatus is the ever photogenic Chris Bellamy and his "At the Picture Show: Extended Cut" column. This time, Chris addresses how hard it is to find a good bad guy lately.
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Table of Contents
Until We Find Better Magic
The Far Side of Extinction
The Two Kingdoms Woman
The Time Mechanic
The Temptation of Father Francis
The Fiddle Game
At the Picture Show: Extended Cut
Vintage Fiction - Voice of the Martyrs
InterGalactic Interview With Maurice Broaddus
Letter From The Editor