Space & Time No. 113 Winter 2011

Clockwork tricksters, resurrected dead, antimatter romance, strange gods—and a conversation with one of science fiction’s legends.

This fiction-packed Winter 2011 issue of Space & Time opens with Adam Corbin Fusco’s wonderfully devious “The Clockwork Looking Glass, or How Mr. Fox Earned His Stripes,” a steampunk fable in which a clever fox and his marvelous invention encounter something even more cunning. Michael Kelly brings post-apocalyptic horror in “Hark at the Wind,” while Trulie Peterson’s “Atocha” finds an unexpected miracle inside a brutal alien prison.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia takes readers to a Mexico devastated by the resurrected dead in “At the Edge,” where survivors seek refuge among the ancient cave paintings of Baja California. Nicky Drayden delivers science fiction with romantic complications and a wicked sense of humor in “Antimatter Is a Girl’s Best Friend.” The issue also features fiction by M. Landau Friedman, Jakob Drud, T. L. Morganfield, Don Webb, Jeffrey Goddin, Eric Rousey, and Catherine J. Gardner, plus speculative poetry and original artwork.

And for science fiction history fans, there’s “Ben Bova: A Lively Q&A in Front of an Audience of His Fans,” in which the six-time Hugo Award winner looks back on his years editing Analog and Omni, recalls pulling a manuscript called Ender’s Game from the slush pile, and discusses his own career exploring the future.

Cover art by Karl Kofoed.

Edited by Hildy Silverman, then Editor-in-Chief of Space & Time.

An especially rich piece of Space & Time history, packed with distinctive voices, dark imagination, and a fascinating glimpse into the people and stories that helped shape modern speculative fiction.