Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #13
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Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #13
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This issue we welcome new contributors and new ideas to the publication, as well as an uncanny host of parasitic lifeforms! Walt Brunston is from Austin, Texas, home of independent cinema and, even more significantly, Ain’t It Cool News! For the last couple of issues Walt has been supplying us with the hilarious cartoon strip, Robots, in a Spaceship, as well as the occasional review of US television. If you have been concerned that he has been palming us off with the same Robots artwork for an issue or two, prepare to make some allowances, because in this issue he presents us with the beginning of what is sure to be seen as his first major work, his first adaptation of an episode from Space University Trent. (Work on this has left him with little time for anything else, but he has tried his best to meet all obligations, hence the shoddy recyling of artwork.) Because of its patchy transmission record, we realise that many readers will be sadly unaware of this series at all – indeed, it seems to be a glaring omission in a number of encyclopedias of science fiction and tv, not to mention its baffling absence from many online reference sites – and so Walt has gone the extra mile to bring us through freshers’ week safely, providing both an episode guide and an introduction to this most unlucky of programmes. Vicki Proserpine is something of a mystery to us, but we know this much: she is the writer of "Ellenore", a historical short story with a twist, based upon Benjamin Constant’s classic novel of misogyny, Adolphe. It isn’t the usual type of thing we publish, and all the better for it! Just in case there isn’t room at the end of the editorial, I must of course welcome back an old friend – Newton Braddell, who is now well-established as our most frequent flyer! Finally, I must talk briefly about the amazing discovery that has been made of a hitherto unsuspected collection of Silver Age Books, novels from all time and space, brought back from another dimension for your enjoyment, that you may savour what might have been. I give you, the Lost Classics of the Silver Age! Guaranteed to amaze and astonish! – SWT Editorial Welcome to the Family News Possible Space University Revival? ~ Alien Beast Injures Galactic Philanthropist Robots, in a spaceship A Call to Metal Arms! Walt Brunston Space University Trent An Introduction to the Show ~ Episode Guide ~ Hyperparasite (Episode 2x09) Walt Brunston Lost Classics of the Silver Age The Mushrooms from Infinity J.B. Greenwood Ellénore After Adolphe, by Benjamin Constant Vicki Proserpine Newton Braddell And His Inconclusive Researches Into The Unknown Tyranny of the Fungal Overlord John Greenwood Helen and Her Magic Cat Steven Gilligan You can get this issue free by clicking on the cover as usual. It is also included in the bound volume of the 2006 issues: Theaker's Quarterly Fiction: Year Three. We have a couple of copies still in stock, for sale to UK readers only at this point: |
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