This month we begin the penultimate instalment of The Lake Eerie Lights, where Roy discovers that he is not alone. That’s followed by more news from the wild world of weird publishing. Dave Ludford makes a return to Schlock Webzine with a tale of Side Effects . Anthony Parnassus and MS Swift have a saga of Northmen raiders. On Picklock Lane, Sir Hudibras presides over a poetry contest, whose winner may surprise you. A new doctor learns what’s on the menu for the private patients. Marooned on a floating island of waste plastic, Jay searches, searches, searches—but for what? And a stinkbug flies about its stinky business.
Jeff is visited by a man who wants a patent for his reality designing apparatus. Chris McAuley’s back, this time with Bruce Boxleitner ( Babylon 5 ’s John Sheridan), with another tale from Claudia Christian’s Dark Legacies . Space heroes, elves, dwarves and other cliches abound in the next story, but so does the unexpected. Alyth Sun fights her demons. Nigeria is the setting for another fishy tale from Carlton Herzog. Baseball sluggers become defenders of the Earth. A primitive submersible encounters a dweller in the ocean depths. And Satan returns as Putin’s worst nightmare.
Bruce William Boxleitner is an American actor, and science fiction and suspense writer. He is known for his leading roles in the television series How the West Was Won, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Scarecrow and Mrs. King (with Kate Jackson), and Babylon 5 (as John Sheridan in seasons 2–5, 1994–98).
He is also known for his dual role as the characters Alan Bradley and Tron in the 1982 Walt Disney Pictures film Tron , a role which he reprised in the 2003 video game Tron 2.0, the 2006 Square-Enix/Disney crossover game Kingdom Hearts II, the 2010 film sequel, Tron: Legacy and the animated series Tron: Uprising. He co-starred in most of The Gambler films with Kenny Rogers, where his character provides comic relief.