Space & Time Spring/Summer 2023 #143

The oldest continuously published speculative fiction semi-pro magazine in print returns with Space & Time Issue #143, a Spring/Summer 2023 collection of fantasy, horror, science fiction, poetry, reviews, commentary, and literary weirdness.

This issue opens with “Exercise Your Writes,” a timely editorial reflection on disappearing art, banned books, threatened libraries, and the importance of protecting creative freedom. In a deliberately more visually sparse issue, Space & Time asks what is lost when art begins to vanish — and answers with a fierce gathering of inventive voices.

Inside, readers will find infernal landscapes, haunted seas, jellyfish adolescence, cosmic grief, spectral gardens, strange boxes, sentient mountains, post-apocalyptic love, springtime horror, robot romance, fungal dread, found family, and worlds where the boundaries between body, myth, machine, and environment begin to blur.

Issue #143 features work by Linda D. Addison, Brian W. Matthews, Tania Chen, Bailey Loveless, William Shaw, Barry Charman, Alicia Hilton, Naomi Simone Borwein, Steven Withrow, Daniel M. Kimmel, Angela Yuriko Smith, Jay Caselberg, Maxwell I. Gold, Michael Wyatt, T. K. Howell, Jay Sturner, Elad Haber, Wade German, Quincy Alexander, Nathan Cromwell, Briant Laslo, Amanda Worthington, Julie Shiel, and more.

Also included are Linda D. Addison’s Word Ninja, exploring the latest offerings in dark poetry; Daniel M. Kimmel’s Take Two on the Movies, revisiting the 1981 robot romance Heartbeeps; Angela Yuriko Smith’s review of Lori R. Lopez’s The Room at the End of the Hall; Michael Wyatt’s The Mx. Up: Transmissions from Beyond the Binary Writer’s Log; and Briant Laslo’s springtime horror movie picks.

From daemon-haunted war trails to a girl with jellyfish tentacles, from AI-adjacent mountain consciousness to poetry that looks toward ghosts, stars, oceans, and endings, Space & Time Issue #143 delivers bold, unsettling, literary speculative work from Space & Time.