Weirdbook No. 34 page 78From Weirdbook No. 34:

Award-winning poet Frederick J. Mayer’s short story, “Zhar’s Outré House,” is a meld of poetry and narrative that delights in description over deed. For example: “The vivacious vixenish lead vocalist gave a fleeting foxy wink to her awaiting, appreciating, but inattentive friends situated in the darkly lit place’s menses red vinyl half-moon shaped booth. Dr. Anne du Voor, whose robust rotundity displayed how an obese form could show no excess fat; Dr. Koh Rei-mi’s, in her prime forties, physique could of been that of a young model for August Rodin and Lady Jones.”

Contents Jim Doherty “Cap Device” Rosemary McCracken “Black Bear Country” Caroline Misner “Fader’s Crates” Leslie Elman “No Quarters” Lance Dean “Rock on the Rocks” Peter DiChellis “Locked Tight” Laird Long “The Sound of Silence” (A You-Solve-It)…

From International Science Fiction No. 1 (Nov. 1967): From Italy, F.C. Gozzini contributes the very short “Witchcraft for Beginners.” It’s about a wonderful new weekly periodical, Witchcraft for Beginners and the two brothers who practice the…

Contents Steve Darnall: Hello, Out There in Radioland! “A Few Moments with . . . Carl Reiner” (uncredited) Dan McGuire “Look Who’s Coming!” Remembering those folks who were part of the neighborhood. Phil Marsh “Band of…

From International Science Fiction No. 1 (Nov. 1967): “They Still Jump” is a story by J.L. Mahe from The Netherlands. It originally appeared in Monda Kultura (World Culture) in Esperanto, from which it was translated by…

Excerpt from the Edd Vick interview, conducted by D. Blake Werts, from The Digest Enthusiast book six: “In 2007, one of my Clarion mates, Rudi Dornemann, started a website to publish a new flash fiction story…

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 138 #7 & 8 Jul/Aug 2018 Contents Marianne J. Dyson’s Guest Editorial: Gender Parity in Space: Now and in the Future The Analytical Laboratory (2017 readers’ vote results) Adam-Troy…