Surprising Stories

Issue # 9           September 2005

Oort Cloud Publications       VacHume Press

Bobo Says: If man didn't have wars, no one would have anything to do.

Editor: John Thiel

Producer: Eric Thiel

Art Editor: Ramos Fumes

Distribution, advertising: Bobo the Robot

Public Relations: Yahres Moulty

Editorial

   By

John Thiel

BEHIND THE SCENEs

By

Eric Thiel

Front Cover by Elizabeth Vogt. Back Cover by Ralph Privoznik.

Fiction

After Image by Lou Antonelli

             Some things are not lost                     art by Maxine Colby

The Search for Spiral Neb by Bob Bolin

                     “Pirate” is a bad name for a man to have.                    art by Peter Zenger

Rip Walton and the Space Pirates by Daniel Slaten

                     Rip was a master of the “Observer Effect.”                   art by Lars Etn

Sacrifice by Herbert Jerry Baker

                    It's not too hard to give up some things…or is it?         art by Gale Tolf

Children of the Plague by Albert J. Manachino

                   Not so easy to live in a post-holocaust world                  art by Maxine Colby

The Lost Continent by Jim Schicatano

                   In the past as in the future, there are many mysteries                 art by De Grosse

The House Where Angela Died by Wade Ogletree

           There was a form of life still there…                                art by Finnian

The Awesome Lavratt, Part Three by Ann Wilkes

           From out of another dimension, a story that renders the reader uneasy, indeed                                 art by Ramos Fumes

 

ARTICLES

Three For the Epic Show by Steve Sneyd

           SF Poetry in book length form

Pure in Mind, Heart, Body and SoulA Life Force at work by Paul Truttman

Mental Hygiene by Jeff Johnson

                                This might help some of you out

 

Features

Sand Storm from Hell

         Views of an apocalyptic disaster

The Intercon Papers by A. R. Yngve

                     Yngve keeps you up to date on a sf convention and a sci-fi            personality

The Computer Corner

The Traders' Nook

The Spaced-Out Library

            Reviews by Elmwood Kraemer

PRINTOUT

            E-mail from readers

AUTHORS ON VIEW

         Bios of our Contributors

Poetry

The Cosmic Alliance by  Joanne Tolson

Cyclops by  Gary Every

Geese in the Night by  Lyn Lifshin

Silver Star by  L.A. Hood

The Eldic Stone by  Herbert Jerry Baker

Star Light, Star Bright by  L.A. Hood

Eich-Pi-El by  Herbert Jerry Baker

Curiosity by  Don Meyerowitz

Earandel by  L.A. Hood

Spirals in the Night Sky by  Joanne Tolson

A Gift of Star-Love by  CDWL

One of a Number by  Paul Truttman

City of the Dead by  Joanne Tolson

Start Counting Downwards by  Peter Layton

Ages Swept By by CDWL

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