Galaxy's Edge - Issue 3

The July issue of Galaxy's Edge is now available for free online reading!

This month's contents include both new and reprint stories, by Laurie Tom, Michael Flynn, Brennan Harvey, Jack Williamson, and several others. Gregory Benford is the magazine's science columnist. Paul Cook provides another batch of book reviews.

For a full listing of the 10 stories, novel excerpt, serialization, and columns, go to the Galaxy's Edge home page. You'll be able to read Issue 3 free online until Issue 4 debuts on September 1.

If you'd rather not read online, the magazine can be purchased for reading as a MOBI or epub file, or as a PDF. A print version is also available, and you can get an annual subscription via Weightless Books. (Links for all these options are on the magazine's home page.

We hope you enjoy this latest issue of Galaxy's Edge!

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Some mini-excerpts from various stories:

"You know how it can be done, right? Actually make a big bang. No, I’m not kidding. Look, it’s not really that hard. Theoretically. All you have to do is pack a few kilograms of ordinary matter into a sufficiently small space, really small, considerably smaller than an atomic nucleus. Then, when you release the pressure that constrains it, the thing explodes."

As he walked, he could hear the faintest snick of gears, the moto-robo-electronic zizzing of invisible mechanics in the room around him. Where was he? Who was he? Why was he? He had no idea.

Twelve hundred years had elapsed since the blood had been siphoned out of my body and oxygenated antifreeze had been pumped in to replace it. We’d spent the first of those years accelerating, and presumably the last one decelerating, and the rest—

Her father came from Thana, near Bombay, and her favorite flavor of chewyfrute was watermelon and she’d had five lovers and when she was eleven she had wanted to be a gymnast but instead she had become a biomaterials engineer who at age twenty-nine had volunteered to go to the stars to learn how to grow artificial eyes.

You can read Galaxy's Edge free online or download a digital version (PDF / Mobi / ePub) for $2.99. A print version will be available soon.