Whew, our Anniversary Issue is over with.  All our friends dropped in to give us their best wishes.  Now it's back to normal.

But not quite!  We have to come up with an issue that will surprise our readers.  Come to think of it, we have in the issue you've just read, but it was too much an aftermath of the Annish.  Now that things really are back to normal, again I say, we have to transcend that normality and rig out some surprises for the next issue.  We're not going to have readers saying, “I flat expected to be reading what I'm reading now.”

Pushing ahead - Another Step Into Space

     Of course, predicting what's in the next issue does have that effect, but we're not telling you everything that's in it.  Now, our first surprise for the next issue will surprise you now when you hear about it, and that's Lawrence Dreger's “Sing Softly, Divine Wind”, which is on a religious theme.  Then John Grey's “Interplanetary Jet Boys Strike Back” shows you wise-guys in space.  William Rose's “Sailing the Dirac Sea” sounds pretty ordinary to a geographer, but Rose has a certain special touch in describing this voyage.  And as probably will come as a surprise to no one, there's a good article coming up…Richard Edgell's “The Nano-Engineering Revolution”, which ought to be helpful to students of nano-engineering, coming as it does from a person living right next to it—and that helpfulness is a surprise.  This is Surprising Stories, man. Oh, yes, Ryan French will be doing us another cover.

     Do you like our back page art this issue?  We thought we'd give you a drawing the likes of which has never been seen before.  Fantastic, isn't it?

     Writers' Guidelines:  We accept just any old thing, but we like the grammar to be good and more or less error-free manuscripts done in Word Format.  Try to keep them free of obscenity, too.  That's not what we're looking for.  Aim for work that's just a little bit different, something unlike what readers are used to reading. 

Links of Associated Interest

Links to some of our authors and artists

Annals

Fortunato for President issue #4

It Pays to Go to the Moon issue #16

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