Compelling Science Fiction Issue 9

by Joe Stech, John Taloni, Amy Power Jansen

This month we have a long six-story issue jam-packed with interesting concepts! John Taloni's story "Fermi's Last Survivor" is a possible explanation for the Fermi Paradox (3850 words). Our second story, "The Fare to Ride the Universe" by Amy Power Jansen, has the most fantasy-flavor of anything we've ever published. It's a tale of introspection (7450 words). The third story in our line-up, Steve Wire's "Catallactics on an Asteroid," is about mining asteroids and artificial intelligence (5333 words). Next we have "Wait Calculation" by Derrick Boden. This one is about members of a generation ship that question their mission (4800 words). Our fifth story is "Urban Fanfare" by Jared Oliver Adams. This near-future story follows a young man who helps his politician mother with an event, in ways he never intended (7200 words). Our final story is "Sounds of the New World" by Hall Jameson, a story about overcoming disabilities in a post-apocalyptic scenario (3500 words).

123 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 30, 2017

Reviews

[Oliver · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed „Fermi‘s last survivor“ by John Taloni, „Catallactics on an Asteroid“ by Steve Wire, and was surpassingly emotionally touched by „The Fare to Ride the Universe“ by Amy Power Jansen (what a name!)

[Jared Adams]

Not a review; contains my story “Urban Fanfare.”