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