Interstellar Journeys: A Collection of Space Travel Stories

by Gary Hill (Editor, Contributor), Heath D. Alberts (Contributor), Katrina Cooper-Hinton (Contributor)

The introduction of the book written by editor Gary Hill says this:

When it comes to science fiction, space travel is really one of the stones that hold so much of the foundation of the genre. I suppose that traveling through space is probably one of the oldest dreams of humanity, too. It's easy to imagine primitive man thinking one day of traveling among the stars. Sure, they didn't really have a grasp of what those stars were, or how far away they were. That said, the dream of flight seems a universal from before recorded history. For early man, that probably really seemed like the same thing as space travel.

This book collects a number of new stories from some talented writers. While some of those stories have been published in some form before, they are still "new" tales. There are a lot of differing themes and tones presented.

Rounding out the book is a public domain story. It comes from Edgar Allan Poe and is probably one of the earliest true space travel stories.

As a kid, one of my earliest memories was watching the original "Star Trek" when it first aired. I've been a major "...Trek" fan ever since. So, for me a collection of space travel stories seems sort of a culmination of a personal passion.


This book includes the following tales:

"Wizard Song Prologue" by Gary Hill

"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" by Edgar Allan Poe (1835)

"A Graveyard of You" by Eric Danhoff

"The Wind" by Gary Hill

"Life at the Speed of Dogs" by Ian Christopher LeBlanc

"Crimepod" by Heath D. Alberts

"The Stars" by Gary Hill

"Joyride to Planet 9" by John Michael Oró

and

"Biped" by Katrina Cooper-Hinton

166 pages, Paperback

Published February 5, 2019

About the author

Gary Hill has been publishing Music Street Journal (musicstreetjournal.com) since 1998. Since 2018 Hill has published MSJ simultaneously on-line and in book form. He also published all the archives in book form. In 2019 Hill began a series of books under the Music Street Journal banner focused on the Rockford, Illinois music scene titled, "Music Street Journal Local: Rockford Area Music Makers." In August of 2006 his first book The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft was published. Since then several other books (The Concert Photography of Gary Hill, the original edition of Strange Realities: Collected Short Stories and More by Gary Hill Expanded and Revised Edition, Poetry of the Air: A Collection of Love Letters from Musicians to Music and The Suite Music World of Gary Hill and a series of three books The Dark Starr Files) have been released. Wizard Song, his first book length science-fiction piece was released on March 31st, 2020. Hill has also written for cable television (Cops 2.0 on G4), All Music Guide, Demand Media Studios and more. He launched Tale of Wonder and Dread Publishing to release science fiction and horror books in 2018, but published a collection of those types of stories in 2017 titled "Dark Dreams and Worlds." Under the Tales of Wonder and Dread nameplate, Hill has published more than a dozen books including a series on Rockford Illinois cemeteries (Rockford's Final Resting Places), Spooky Rockford and Spooky Rockford Two and Spooky Berwyn. Hill launched Spooky Ventures in 2019 and has been doing video interviews, Spooky News segments and more for the Spooky Ventures YouTube Channel since then.