Welcome to WEIRD SPACE issue number one!
Our very first cover was done by the talented JON 'JD' FIELDS. More of Mr. Field's artwork and prints can be seen and purchased at his online gallery: www.artofjonfields.com, and he can be contacted by emailing him at cellarartist@hotmail.com
A little about WEIRD SPACE... The new mini-zine came to be for a number of reasons. The first being that there is a certain, specific sort of science fiction that we adore and don't see enough of elsewhere. What kind of sci-fi is that, you ask? Well, to be honest, we can't quite put a name to it--sure it's weird, but there is more to it than just that... much more. Take a look at the series and stories below, and I think you'll come away with an idea of what we're driving at...
Another reason for the inception of WEIRD SPACE was that we wanted to create an ezine that would feature fiction--and fiction of a very adult nature, at that--that might not be necessarily set firmly in the genre of the post-apocalypse. While much of WEIRD SPACE may certainly be apocalyptic in style and tone, these tales are painted with a much broader brush than those found within the pages of AFM. WEIRD SPACE gives us the freedom to explore other areas of fiction, beyond the shattered and empty Earth.
We are very excited to bring you the work of these talented authors and artists, and we look forward to continuing to bring you cutting edge science fiction within the pages of WEIRD SPACE!
--Scott C. Carr
Chief Editor
SERIES
FUCK
STAR, the Continuing Adventures of Eli-X, the Biggest Porn-Star in the Galaxy...
by Hertzan Chimera and Michael
Cornwall Johnson
Part One: Silvertears Off the Sex-Eye --- "They murmured. He didn't know what they were a sayin'. Half of 'em couldn't speak Terran nohow. Bunch of sex-savages. They used to beat the starshit out of him when they found him. Then they clipped off a chipplug and examined it on the central-interface."
The
PHARM
by Wolf Peterson
Prolog Part One: Down and Out In Karadonia --- "Though ingestion, imbibement, and gross overindulgence were indeed at the very heart of our mission, the very concept of food for consumption seemed somehow foreign to us. In any case, it was not worth stopping to eat in the Karadonian Territories. Karadonian culture is hopelessly ecclesiastical, and their cuisine, though highly symbolic, tends to be inedibly bland. No, we had been forced to stop in Karadonia because of the direst of circumstances. Circumstances which were entirely beyond our control--we were lost and needed directions."
SHORT FICTION
Extras
by Gregg Delcurla
""Which ones are extra?" says Kara, slightly overwhelmed by the diversity of the onscreen activity; a small volcano of color and sparkle, white noise and music."
In the
Box
by Hertzan Chimera and Michael Cornwall Johnson
"In three hours I will be in all places in the universe at all times, so the brochure says. I will experience glimpses of passing worlds warping past my consciousness, I will reach out to alien races like a man possessed with Religious fervour. I will rise from the spacegrave like Lazarus and turn the particle physics realm of intergalactic transport inside out. I will taste atoms and molecules and come back to tell the tales."
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