Space & Time Winter 2020 #139
The oldest continuously published speculative fiction semi-pro magazine in print returns with Space & Time Issue #139, a Winter 2020 collection of fantasy, horror, science fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, art, and graphic storytelling.
Published at the close of a year defined by fear, division, grief, and unexpected acts of courage, this issue opens with a call to resist the shadows, stand up for those who cannot, and choose heroism in dark times. Inside, readers will find stories and poems of android personhood, digital ghosts, monstrous inheritance, pandemic-era unease, cosmic gods, dragon absence, haunted technology, survival guilt, speculative identity, eerie forests, and strange futures shaped by power, memory, violence, and hope.
Issue #139 features work by Leonard Speiser, Jamal Hodge, John Urbancik, Linda D. Addison, Daniel M. Kimmel, Angela Yuriko Smith, Gerard Sarnat, Alessandro Manzetti, Marsheila Rockwell, Willow Dawn Becker, Austin Gragg, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Dean Schreck, Russell Hemmell, Maxwell I. Gold, Felicia Martinez, Lori R. Lopez, Avra Margariti, Cindy O’Quinn, Mark Levine, Mia Guzina, Carl Taylor, Shikhar Dixit, L. Allen Gillick, Lee Murray, James Harris, Evan Hoffmann, Eric Shapiro, Moaner T. Lawrence, and more.
Also included are Linda D. Addison’s Word Ninja, exploring dark and speculative poetry; Daniel M. Kimmel’s Take Two on the Movies, revisiting Joe Dante’s Explorers and the legacy of youth-centered science fiction cinema; Angela Yuriko Smith’s interview John Palisano: Leading the Horror Industry; Austin Gragg’s Graggonspeak Quarterly; Mark Levine’s graphic short Exterminate; and a feature interview with Shannon A. Thompson on Making Good with Bad Blood.
From Leonard Speiser’s social science fiction story “interference” to Willow Dawn Becker’s android identity tale “The Skin Least Taken,” from Carl Taylor’s “Digital Ghosts, Inc” to Eric Shapiro’s “The Thing About Paul,” Space & Time Issue #139 gathers bold, strange, unsettling, and emotionally resonant speculative work from Space & Time.
