Space & Time Spring 2021 #140

The oldest continuously published speculative fiction semi-pro magazine in print returns with Space & Time Issue #140, a Spring 2021 collection of fantasy, horror, science fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, art, and graphic storytelling.

Published after a year of disruption, uncertainty, and survival, this issue opens with a reflection on compassion, community, missed deadlines, creative resilience, and the renewed importance of keeping speculative literature alive. Inside, readers will find lonely robots, ghosts, goats, ancient priestesses, deadly algorithms, cosmic riddles, strange gardens, degraded mermaids, visionary science, Lovecraftian horror, posthuman futures, and poems that reach through grief, transformation, myth, machine, and wonder.

Issue #140 features work by Mariah Montoya, Scheila Scheffler, Scott J. Couturier, Linda D. Addison, Louis B. Rosenberg, Roy L. Post, Ronald J. Murray, Daniel M. Kimmel, Maxwell I. Gold, L. Allen Gillick, Angela Yuriko Smith, Flavio Troisi, Austin Gragg, Karen Bovenmyer, Blaise Langlois, Manny Blacksher, Nick Marone, Ken Poyner, Carol Edwards, K. G. Anderson, Geoffrey A. Landis, Marge Simon, Alicia Hilton, C. H. Lindsay, Grace Chan, Leonard Speiser, Megan Branning, Pete, Irving Gamboa, Alina Maciuca, Alessandro Manzetti, Stefano Cardoselli, and more.

Also included are Linda D. Addison’s Word Ninja, exploring the latest offerings in speculative and dark poetry; Daniel M. Kimmel’s Take Two on the Movies, revisiting The Day of the Triffids through chaos, catastrophe, and social collapse; Angela Yuriko Smith’s interview Leonard Speiser: Professional Beginner; Feverish Fiction with John Shirley; Leonard Speiser’s Science or Fiction in 50: Mind Reading; Austin Gragg’s Graggonspeak Quarterly; and the graphic novel feature The Horror at Red Hook (pt 1) by Alessandro Manzetti and Stefano Cardoselli.

From Mariah Montoya’s tender post-apocalyptic tale “The Ghost, the Goat, and the Robot” to Louis B. Rosenberg’s chilling AI cautionary story “The Algorithm,” from Grace Chan’s “The Dunes of Ranza” to Nick Marone’s “Director’s Cut,” Space & Time Issue #140 delivers a wide-ranging issue of strange, intelligent, unsettling, and humane speculative work from Space & Time.