Well, it has been quite a learning process. But, finally, the proof corrections are in, re-proofed, agonized over, and, *gulp*, paid for. But the presses are finally rolling on BULL SPEC #1!
Final content for issue #1 (72 pages, 16 in full color):
SHORT FICTION:
- C. S. Fuqua: “Rise Up” (with cover illustration by Mike Gallagher)
- Peter Wood: “Almost a Good Day to Go Outside”
- Natania Barron: “Doctor Adderson’s Lens” (with photo by Tennille Heinonen)
NOVEL EXCERPT:
- Michael Jasper: “A Gathering of Doorways”
GRAPHIC SHORT FICTION:
- Michael Gallagher: “Closed System” (part 1 of 4)
POETRY:
- Kaolin Fire: “Inspired by Windmills”
- Ralan Conley: “Ratang”
ESSAY:
- Josh Whiton: “There Are No Orcs” (translated into Spanish by Itzel Leaf and into French by Andrew Matte)
ART:
- Jamie Keys: “Environments Exercise Part 1”
- Christopher Woods: “The Clairvoyants’ Hotel”
INTERVIEWS:
- D. Harlan Wilson
- Lee Hammock
- Sci-Fi Genre
REVIEWS:
- Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction (by D. Harlan Wilson)
- Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance (by D. Harlan Wilson) (reviewed by J. David Osborne)
- The Windup Girl (by Paolo Bacigalupi) (reviewed by Blue Tyson)
- Panverse One (edited by Dario Ciriello) (reviewed by Charles Tan)
Real, physical copies in real stores and in the mail late this week!
[Update: After the break, the final cover as well as page 2 of Bull Spec #1 which is the “contents” page…]
[final cover]
[contents page]
[Hooray! And per my printer, the first print run is scheduled to ship out tomorrow (Thursday the 11th) morning!]
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