Space & Time No. 129: Summer 2017

Space & Time Issue 129: Summer 2017 launches readers into cryptid horror, android heartbreak, alien cities, strange machines, space-station salvage, and speculative poetry from the edges of imagination.

Inside, readers will find a man transformed into something out of a 1970s horror movie, an aging android tied to grief and memory, alien architecture in the ruins of a vented city, mysterious buttons made from bone, starlight, impossible kills, strange streets, broken girls, settlement, machines, monsters, and the unsettling beauty of lives changed by the impossible.

This issue features “How I Became a Cryptid Straight Out of a 1970s Horror Movie” by Paul Michael Anderson, “In Loco Mechanus” by Dan Reade, “Buttons” by Barton Paul Levenson, “The Street” by David Murphy, “Girl Gone Wrong” by J. Monell, “Settling” by Gordon Linzner, and “Nneoma” by Wole Talabi. Also included are works by C. H. Lindsay, Christina Sng, Annette Schlichter, Conner Rice, and more.

Readers will also find Hildy Silverman’s Editor’s Geeble on using speculative fiction to escape and respond to troubled times, Sam Tomaino’s Notes On: The Society for the Preservation of C. J. Henderson, Daniel M. Kimmel’s Take Two on the Movies: Changing the Past, Mary Fan’s Author Self-Portrait, and Linda D. Addison’s Word Ninja column.

For readers who love speculative fiction with retro-futuristic style, monster-movie bite, old-school magazine charm, and sharp emotional undercurrents, Space & Time Issue 129 is a summer ride through the weird, the wondrous, and the dangerously unknown.

The future in your rearview mirror may be closer than it appears.