Pulp Literature Autumn 2023: Issue 40

Genre-busting fiction with Robert J Sawyer, CC Humphreys, Graham J Darling, Mel Anastasiou, Jordan Bray, Cat Girczyc, and JM Landels plus a graphic short from Jordan Bray and the winners of the Magpie Award for Poetry.

• Take a spacewalk into the unknown with American Space Force by cover artist Tais Teng and feature story 'Above it All' by Robert J Sawyer. Dare we look below?
• In the next Fairmount Manor mystery by Mel Anastasiou, Stella Ryman shows us how to receive the kindness of strangers, while in a new chapter of The Shepherdess by JM Landels, Toinette needs to accept the help of her foil. And in 'The Lady M' by Cat Girczyc, it's not always easy to tell friend from foe.
• Explore grief and healing with contest winners that include the Jack Whyte Storyteller Award-winning story by CZ Tacks and Magpie Award-winning poetry from Claire Lawrence, Catherine Lewis, and Mark Cameron.
• As courageously as possible, face two final frontiers in work by Graham J Darling and Jordan Bray, and then return to where it all began with 'Where the Angels Wait' and a bonus start to a new Jack Absolute novel by CC Humphreys.

Robert J Sawyer has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best science-fiction novel of the year. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his novel of the same name. His latest novel is The Oppenheimer Alternative. A member of the Order of Canada, Rob lives in Mississauga.

Chris (CC) Humphreys - born in Toronto, raised in London - has played Hamlet in Calgary and a gladiator in Tunisia, waltzed in London's West End, conned the landlord of the Rovers Return in Coronation Street, patrolled the Sun Hill beat in The Bill, commanded a starfleet in Andromeda, voiced Salem the cat in the original Sabrina, and played a dead immortal in Highlander. He is also a playwright, audiobook narrator, creative writing teacher, and award-winning author of historical fiction and fantasy. He has written twenty-two novels including The French Executioner, the Jack Absolute trilogy, Vlad: The Last Confession, A Place Called Armageddon, Shakespeare's Rebel, Chasing the Wind, and his recent modern thriller One London Day. Plague won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. His most recent book is the World-War-II thriller Someday I'll Find You. He lives on Salt Spring Island, BC. Visit him at www.authorchrishumphreys.com

JM Landels, writer and illustrator of the Allaigna's Song trilogy and co-founder of Pulp Literature wears far too many hats. The strange mix of a degree in Mediaeval English Literature, a misspent youth fronting alternative punk bands Mad Seraphim and Stiff Bunnies, and a career as a childbirth educator and doula informs her work. These days, when she isn't writing, editing or drawing, she can be found heading up the Mounted Combat Program for Academie Cavallo in Langley BC, where she swings swords and rides horses for fun and profit.