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Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine #10
Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 10, Winter 2017/18
New Stories:
Die Booth – Junk Medicine
Ephiny Gale – Little Freedoms
Serena Johe – Don’t Speak; Don’t Listen
Daniel Rosen – If Thine Eyes Offends Thee
K.E. Macphee – The Apple Bee
Chris Bailey – Sweet Compulsion
Flash-fiction Competition Winners
Winner: Matthew Castle – A Choice for a Golden Age
Runners-up:
Marija Smits – ATU334 The Wise
SK Farrell – Pauline and the Bahnians
Judges report: Eric Brown & Pippa Goldschmidt
Interview with Helen Sedgwick
SF Poetry – Jo-Ella Sarich, Rosemary Badcoe, Rachel Plummer
Noise and Sparks – Ruth EJ Booth
Tales of the Beachcomber, featuring Arthur C Clarke
Book Reviews
Too Light The Lightning, Ada Palmer
New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson
Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan (Editor)
The Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel, Daniel H. Wilson
2084, George Sandison (Editor)
Die Booth – Junk Medicine
Ephiny Gale – Little Freedoms
Serena Johe – Don’t Speak; Don’t Listen
Daniel Rosen – If Thine Eyes Offends Thee
K.E. Macphee – The Apple Bee
Chris Bailey – Sweet Compulsion
Flash-fiction Competition Winners
Winner: Matthew Castle – A Choice for a Golden Age
Runners-up:
Marija Smits – ATU334 The Wise
SK Farrell – Pauline and the Bahnians
Judges report: Eric Brown & Pippa Goldschmidt
Interview with Helen Sedgwick
SF Poetry – Jo-Ella Sarich, Rosemary Badcoe, Rachel Plummer
Noise and Sparks – Ruth EJ Booth
Tales of the Beachcomber, featuring Arthur C Clarke
Book Reviews
Too Light The Lightning, Ada Palmer
New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson
Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan (Editor)
The Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel, Daniel H. Wilson
2084, George Sandison (Editor)
130 pages, Paperback
First published December 8, 2017
6 people want to read
About the author
Noel Chidwick
48 books17 followersI'm Editor-in-Chief of Science Fiction magazine, Shoreline of Infinity (www.shorelineofinfinity.com), published in Scotland.
I've been a reader for as long as I can remember, my tastes tending towards the fantastical rather than the realistic. After all, isn't that the point of a story, to be taken to a different place?
Science Fiction and fantasy is where I have lived and dreamed since I first read Grimm's Stories. My teenage years were spent absorbing every word I could find by the likes of Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Wyndham, Bradbury, McCaffrey, LeGuin, Moorcock, Ballard, Priest.
I loved the early stuff from the 30s and 40s with writers such as E E Smith, Olaf Stapledon and the many other writers who earned their keeping bashing away at typewriters in dark, dust attics.
And my enjoyment in SF continues unabated with the writings of Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, Eric Brown, Peter Hamilton.
And many more. Many, many more.
I've written on and off over the years, dabbling in SF as a teenager when I had some stories published in fanzines. I have recently returned to the words with greater relish, and have released a couple of small collection of tales based on my adopted home town of Edinburgh.
I was shortlisted for a short crime story competition for Bloody Scotland, and the story is available, along with its fellow shortlistees, as an ebook published by Blasted Heath.
I've been a reader for as long as I can remember, my tastes tending towards the fantastical rather than the realistic. After all, isn't that the point of a story, to be taken to a different place?
Science Fiction and fantasy is where I have lived and dreamed since I first read Grimm's Stories. My teenage years were spent absorbing every word I could find by the likes of Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Wyndham, Bradbury, McCaffrey, LeGuin, Moorcock, Ballard, Priest.
I loved the early stuff from the 30s and 40s with writers such as E E Smith, Olaf Stapledon and the many other writers who earned their keeping bashing away at typewriters in dark, dust attics.
And my enjoyment in SF continues unabated with the writings of Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, Eric Brown, Peter Hamilton.
And many more. Many, many more.
I've written on and off over the years, dabbling in SF as a teenager when I had some stories published in fanzines. I have recently returned to the words with greater relish, and have released a couple of small collection of tales based on my adopted home town of Edinburgh.
I was shortlisted for a short crime story competition for Bloody Scotland, and the story is available, along with its fellow shortlistees, as an ebook published by Blasted Heath.
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April 15, 2019
In Pull up a Log Editor-in-Chief Noel Chidwick rightly notes the achievement of the magazine reaching its tenth edition. There are Judge’s Reports by Eric Brown and Pippa Goldsmith on Shoreline’s flash fiction competition followed by a celebration of The Worthy Winners and shortlistees. Three of these stories appear in this edition (see *.) Tales From the Beachcomber riffs on the human fascination with powers of ten via the life and works of Arthur C Clarke, there’s an interview with Helen Sedgwick by Pippa Goldschmidt, in Noise and Sparks: The Company of Bears, Ruth E J Booth lauds the interactions and memories convention going brings, the tolerance it fosters. Reviews considers Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning plus others. Multiverse has poems by Rachel Plummer, Jo-Ella Sarich and Rosemary Badcoe. Parabolic Puzzles challenges the reader to identify twelve SF writers from their photographs and very brief information about them.
Little Freedoms by Ephiny Gale is set in closed room where some sort of endurance test of nine characters is taking place with various tasks to be undertaken – such as not touching, not speaking, not breathing. The winner gains freedom (from an unspecified but clearly onerous existence.) The others are restored to their former state.
Sweet Compulsion by Chris Bailey is told to us rather than shown and overall feels more like a sketch of a story than the complete article. Riddled with quotations from Paradise Lost it features a world in which people’s thoughts are etched onto others’ skin.
In Junk Medicine by Die Booth plastic ownership is outlawed but there are still people willing to pay over the odds for items made from it. This story does for plastic what Number Ten Q Street did for real food.
ATU334 The Wise* by Marija Smits is a future tale of Baba Yaga and an importuner, the titular ATU334.
If Thine Eyes Offend Thee by Daniel Rosen is narrated by Elsa whose ambition was always to be a mermaid. We see the lengths of body reconstruction and skulduggery she will go to to win the Miss Cosmos competition.
Pauline and the Bahnians* by S K Farrell is set on a demilitarised outpost turned into a - possibly illegal - smallholding. Its weapons are still there though.
The narrator of The Apple Bee by K E McPhee is marooned on an island on a mostly water planet, with no communication with the rest of humanity and only potatoes, apples and corn as a food supply.
Don’t Speak; Don’t Listen by Serena Johe explores the ramifications of an implant that prevents the speaker insulting or denigrating anyone.
A Choice for the Golden Age* by Matthew Castle was the overall winner of the flash fiction competition. It’s set on a generation starship which rotates its crew (and holds its genetic cargo permanently) in suspended animation.
Little Freedoms by Ephiny Gale is set in closed room where some sort of endurance test of nine characters is taking place with various tasks to be undertaken – such as not touching, not speaking, not breathing. The winner gains freedom (from an unspecified but clearly onerous existence.) The others are restored to their former state.
Sweet Compulsion by Chris Bailey is told to us rather than shown and overall feels more like a sketch of a story than the complete article. Riddled with quotations from Paradise Lost it features a world in which people’s thoughts are etched onto others’ skin.
In Junk Medicine by Die Booth plastic ownership is outlawed but there are still people willing to pay over the odds for items made from it. This story does for plastic what Number Ten Q Street did for real food.
ATU334 The Wise* by Marija Smits is a future tale of Baba Yaga and an importuner, the titular ATU334.
If Thine Eyes Offend Thee by Daniel Rosen is narrated by Elsa whose ambition was always to be a mermaid. We see the lengths of body reconstruction and skulduggery she will go to to win the Miss Cosmos competition.
Pauline and the Bahnians* by S K Farrell is set on a demilitarised outpost turned into a - possibly illegal - smallholding. Its weapons are still there though.
The narrator of The Apple Bee by K E McPhee is marooned on an island on a mostly water planet, with no communication with the rest of humanity and only potatoes, apples and corn as a food supply.
Don’t Speak; Don’t Listen by Serena Johe explores the ramifications of an implant that prevents the speaker insulting or denigrating anyone.
A Choice for the Golden Age* by Matthew Castle was the overall winner of the flash fiction competition. It’s set on a generation starship which rotates its crew (and holds its genetic cargo permanently) in suspended animation.
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