Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #79

Vol 16/No.2

June 2020

 

Story and Author

Tags/Hub Areas

Therapeutic Tags

Personal Rating

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, spiritualism Protest, tenacity, gaia ***

The Light Mirror by Anya Leigh Josephs

 Behavioural transference, LGBTIQ, sociology, qualitative research Second changes, self knowledge, love ****

Salvaged Morality by Christopher Collingwood

 Space salvage, dead civilisations, recovery Morality of decay, opportunism, renewal ***

Any Day But Today… by Maggie Slater

 Superheroes, satire, menstruation, pmt Women’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, quest Unification, love, persistence, supplication *****

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