Title Page
Pull up a Log
Time for Tea
The Slipping
Lacewing
Into the Head, Into the Heart
It’s Been a Long Day
We Have Magnetic Trees
Pigeon
The Great Golden Fish
Interview: Dee Raspin
The Beachcomber
SF Caledonia
A Voyage to Arcturus
Reviews
MultiVerse
Jane Yolen and Marge Simon: The Grandmaster Special
Parabolic Puzzles
Become a Friend of Shoreline
Back Cover
Pull up a Log
We have such a densely packed issue of Shoreline of Infinity for you that there’s a strong danger that two copies banged together would send a gravitational wave clean across the Universe.
We have the winning entry of our writing competition that helped launch Shoreline back in the summer: take a bow, Dee Raspin, for your beautiful tale, The Great Golden Fish. That’s the Golden Fish on the back cover, by the way, by Stephen Pickering.
We also introduce a new comic character by Mark Toner, the Beachcomber. The Beachcomber explores the shoreline, looking out for weird and wonderful items brought in on the tides of infinity.
In this first tale the Beachcomber stumbles across a curiously eroded copper cylinder, which leads to the retelling of a classic science fiction story.
We have poems from two Grandmasters of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Jane Yolen and Marge Simon, and
Monica Burns continues our SF Caledonia quest to explore early Scottish science fiction. This time she takes a look at David Lindsay and his book A Voyage to Arcturus. Lindsay is thought to have influenced the work of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Iain Maloney, our new reviews editor, has gathered together a whole bunch of reviewers and reviews to give you some ideas for your ‘to read’ pile.
We also introduce a little something to exercise your brain, Parabolic Puzzles by Paul Holmes.
But first, we have a whole flock of new stories for you to savour, and some tasty artwork for seasoning.
Go on, what are you waiting for? Turn over the page and get reading—it’s Time for Tea.
Noel Chidwick
Editor-in-Chief
Shoreline of Infinity
Edinburgh
March 2016
Time for Tea
J.K. Fulton
I’m awake.
