Space & Time No. 112 Winter 2010

Zombies, virtual realities, ancient horrors, supernatural wrestling and the real reason Chicago burned.

Created as Space & Time’s New York Comic-Con/Halloween issue, Winter 2010 serves up the magazine’s signature mixture of horror, science fiction, fantasy, humor, and the wonderfully strange.

New York Times bestselling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry leads the issue with “Pegleg and Paddy Save the World,” a hilariously gruesome alternate history of the Great Chicago Fire involving whiskey smugglers, Biela’s Comet, one extremely unpleasant Aunt Sophie—and the walking dead.

T. D. Edge takes aim at virtual escapism, technology, and relationships in the satirical “Getting Zoe Fixed,” while Scott Harper brings bloodshed to the wrestling ring in “Fresh Juice.” Richard Harland explores identity, image, and what it means to disappear in “Ceasing to Be Visible,” and John Stephen Walsh’s haunting “Your Bones” ventures into a devastated future where humanity survives beneath the demands of mysterious awakened beings and human bones have become precious currency.

The fiction continues with work from Richard Pitaniello and Patrick Thomas, accompanied by speculative poetry from Devon Barrett, Corrine De Winter, Bruce Boston, Wade German, and G. O. Clark.

Beyond the fiction, Sam Tomaino reviews Peter David’s Tigerheart, while film critic Daniel M. Kimmel examines Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, its remarkable restoration, and why the landmark film deserves to be celebrated unapologetically as science fiction.

Cover art by Alan Beck. Edited by Hildy Silverman, then Editor-in-Chief of Space & Time. Issue No. 112 is also dedicated to the memory of author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre.

A dark, funny, bloody, and distinctly Space & Time snapshot of speculative fiction at the beginning of the 2010s, perfect for collectors and readers who prefer their genre fiction with sharp edges and a little weirdness.