Interstellar Flight Magazine Best of Year One

From space opera to weird fiction to indie games and NaNoWriMo, this collection represents the best in nonfiction dedicated to geekery. Founded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays on what’s new in the world of speculative genres. With interviews, personal essays, rants, and raves, the authors of Interstellar Flight Magazine explore the vast outreaches of nerdom. In the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, we feature “writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.” This anthology also features excerpts from three new Interstellar Flight Press books: The Manticore’s Vow by Cassandra Rose Clarke, a world of dangerous magic and thrilling adventures with this trio of gorgeous, swashbuckling tales, Twelve by Andrea Blythe, a luscious and fae poetry chapbook based on the fairytale The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and Local Star by Aimee Ogden, a polyamorous space opera with a fast-paced, action-packed adventure that’s sure to punch you in the feels. Table of Contents: The Ones Who Walk Away By Holly Lyn Walrath Monsters Under the Bed (and Outside the Window) by E.D. Walker The Greatest Arsenal: Science Fiction Libraries and Archives by Jeremy Brett Boundary Crossing, Liminality, & the Hungarian Literary Fantastic by T.D. Walker Indie Games and Accessibility: A Personal Odyssey by Archita Mittra Diverse Space Opera, Fight Scenes and NaNoWriMo by E.D. Walker Phantom Fares by Piper J. Daniels Riverdale, Writer’s Block, & Naval Warfare by Holly Lyn Walrath Cats in Science Fiction Films by John Tuttle Unabashedly Hopeful, Heartbroken, & Silly by J.T. Morse Strange Bodies by Presley Thomas Spinning Tales, Chinese Embroidery, & Musical Composition by E.D. Walker Perception, Uncertainty, and Dread: The Horror of Perspective by Caitlin Starling Space Opera Is Having a Moment and We Love It by E.D. Walker Goth Weirdness, Slavic Folklore, & Ohio by J.T. Morse No Room in Narnia by Erin Becker Korean Folklore, Big Space Explosions, & Mathematics by Michael Glazner What Else is there to Say about the Joker? by Archita Mittra and Kaylee Craig Excerpt: The Manticore’s Vow by Cassandra Rose Clarke Excerpt: Twelve by Andrea Blythe Excerpt: Local Star by Aimee Ogden Featuring Interviews with: T. Kingfisher Bogi Takács Valerie Valdes R.F. Kuang Christian McKay Heidicker Elizabeth Lim Emily A. Duncan Yoon Ha Lee