Space & Time No. 115 Fall 2011

Step back into the strange worlds of Space & Time with Issue No. 115, originally published in Fall 2011, a wide-ranging collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror, poetry, and wonderfully unpredictable speculative storytelling.

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

A highlight of this issue is an interview with Hugo Award-winning author Harry Turtledove, widely known for his meticulously researched alternate-history fiction. Conducted by Stephen Euin Cobb before a live audience at ConCarolinas, the conversation ranges across Turtledove’s writing life, the books and authors that shaped him, his beginnings in publishing, the craft of alternate history, and his collaboration with actor Richard Dreyfuss on The Two Georges.

The fiction lineup includes Don D’Ammassa’s “Misprints,” Kim Antieau’s “Good Neighbors,” Kurt Kirchmeier’s “Along Came a Spider,” Susan Liev Taylor’s “Sanctuary,” Forrest Aguirre’s “Der Automatikmann,” Sandra M. Odell’s “The Magpie,” and Robert A. Jeschonek’s “The Secret of the Ultimate Male Enhancement.”

The issue moves easily from eerie to surreal to darkly funny: a private investigator encounters a woman who should already be dead; the boundaries between the everyday world and folklore begin to collapse; and familiar reality repeatedly proves far less reliable than it first appears.

Also inside, film critic Daniel M. Kimmel takes another look at Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence in “Ersatz Intelligence,” considering the film alongside Blade Runner and its questions about artificial life, humanity, and what it means to be alive. Linda D. Addison returns with her “Word Ninja” column.

The poetry selection includes work by John R. Platt, Darrell Schweitzer, F. J. Bergmann, Richard Fein, Timothy P. Flynn, Jason Sturner, Kurt Newton, G. O. Clark, Gabriele A. Rollé, James S. Dorr, Rick Coonrod, and T. Frazer-Eliot, ranging from vampires and ghosts to strange empires, speculative futures, and mythic gods.

With cover art by Hannah M. G. Shapero, Issue No. 115 is another fascinating snapshot of Space & Time history—eclectic, intelligent, eerie, and never afraid to get weird.

Originally published Fall 2011 · Issue No. 115