Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #79

Vol 16/No.2

June 2020

 

Story and Author

Tags/Hub Areas

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The Flame by GB Burgess

Le Guinesque, anthropology, religion

Love, compassion, community

****

The Word of the Prophet by Daniel de Leon

Mythology, religion, oppression

Insight, love, perspective, compassion, empathy, suffering

***

Telephone by FJ Doucet

 Teleportation Desire, loneliness, praise ***

Day of Rest by Luke Foster

 Robots, frontier colonisation Sacrifice ***

The Ethnographer by Grace Chan

 Anthropology, aliens, language, physical adaptation Empathy, fighting/overcoming prejudice/oppression ***1/2

Voice of God by Maria Z Medina

 Religion, pagan worship, god the trickster Zen, no desires, acceptantce ***

Root and Branch by James Rowland & Pete Crivellaro

 Tree herders Coming of age, self knowledge, vocation, environmentalism ***

Calamity by NM Whitley

Television, mass psychosis via media, subliminal, ghosts

 Letting go ***

Tane Mahuta by AJ Fitzwater

Environmentalism, living in trees, tree transformation, spiritualismProtest, tenacity, gaia***

The Light Mirror by Anya Leigh Josephs

Behavioural transference, LGBTIQ, sociology, qualitative researchSecond changes, self knowledge, love****

Salvaged Morality by Christopher Collingwood

Space salvage, dead civilisations, recoveryMorality of decay, opportunism, renewal***

Any Day But Today… by Maggie Slater

Superheroes, satire, menstruation, pmtWomen’s rights, humour, empathy, relief***

Strangers of the Shore by Mike Adamson

First contact, colonisation, exploitation

Hope, resistance, solidarity, friendship, justice

*****

Masters of the Wheel by Ron Sanders (poem)

Cyclical universe, fate,
a canticle for leibowitz, post apocalypse, cosmology
Contemplation, cycles***

The Priestess of the Moon, Her Acolyte and How Together They Saved the Sky by Sarah M Goldman

Religion, myth, worship, epistolary, questUnification, love, persistence, supplication*****

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