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    Spectra Magazine - Issue 4: Sci-fi, Fantasy and Horror Short Fiction
    Spectra Magazine - Issue 4: Sci-fi, Fantasy and Horror Short Fiction
    Spectra Magazine - Issue 4: Sci-fi, Fantasy and Horror Short Fiction
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    Spectra Magazine - Issue 4: Sci-fi, Fantasy and Horror Short Fiction

    By Paul Andrews

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    Spectra is the new digital magazine bringing you the best in new sci-fi, horror and fantasy short fiction, news and reviews. With four new stories from established writers and rising talent every issue, Spectra Magazine delivers the cutting edge of digital fiction direct to your favourite eBook platform. Spectra Magazine is the first science fiction, fantasy and horror short fiction publication dedicated to digital reading, delivering the best in genre-based literary entertainment. Each month, four brand new short stories are curated from award-winning genre writers and new talent alike, bringing you electrifying fiction in a host of different styles. We believe that sci-fi, fantasy and short fiction should dazzle and excite even the most seasoned reader, and we only select authors who are sure to blow your mind, ignite your imagination or turn your dreams into nightmares. Written and designed specifically for the e-book generation and e-reader technology, Spectra Magazine is essential for everyone with a passion for science fiction, fantasy, horror, or anyone looking for something fresh and exciting to bring their e-Reader to life. The future of short fiction is here.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpectra
    Release dateDec 6, 2010
    ISBN9781849892537
    Spectra Magazine - Issue 4: Sci-fi, Fantasy and Horror Short Fiction
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    Paul Andrews

    Paul Andrews has been creating novels, novellas and short stories for over twenty years. Though his heart lies with historical fiction, he also dabbles in science fiction, horror, and even a little romance. The "The Man Who Would Not Die," based on the life of Count Saint-Germain, was first novel. He also writes a popular Blog on his website, on Lost and Forgotten History still relevant today. Paul has a graduate degree from Rutgers University and spent many successful years in his 'day job' as a biotech R&D project manager. After working for a time in the ivory towers of Manhattan and Washington D.C, he slowly migrated south to warmer climes and a slower pace of life. He now works, lives and writes in North Carolina with his wife and two cats.

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      Spectra Magazine - Issue 4 - Paul Andrews

      editor@spectramagazine.com

      NEWS FROM ACROSS THE SCI-FI, HORROR AND FANTASY SPECTRA

      BABYLON 5 CREATOR DROPS SUPERMAN, WONDER WOMAN

      JOE MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI OPTS FOR GRAPHICS OVER MONTHLYS

      Neither Superman nor Wonder Woman easily fit into our sci-fi category (maybe fantasy? Nah, probably not that one, either) but the writer of their DC Comics monthlys certainly does. Joe Michael Straczynski was the creator of the short lived, but much loved Star Trek rival, Babylon 5, and that makes him sci-fi all over, and up and down.

      Since his graphic novel debut with the critically acclaimed Superman Earth One, he’s shot to fame in the comic book world, too. Taking the helm at both Superman and Wonder Woman monthly comics in a one year deal with the publishing giant, he’s now stepping away to concentrate more on the graphic novel side of comic writing.

      Another nail in the coffin of paper and print monthlies?

      NEWS FROM ACROSS THE SCI-FI, HORROR AND FANTASY SPECTRA

      DAVID PROWSE -

      DARTH SPOILER

      IN 1978, DARTH VADER ACTOR GAVE AWAY STAR WARS’ BIG SECRET

      George Lucas is pretty good at making things disappear when they get in the way of his Star Wars saga. It wasn’t until the internet ran red with the blood of pirate videos that his agonizing Star Wars Holiday Special once again reared its head, after he successfully saw the light (a little too late) and crushed it like a rebellion uprising.

      So it comes as something of a surprise that, 32-years on, a serious spoiler alert has finally been revealed. Back in 1978, David Prowse was touring California promoting Star Wars, and a short piece in a local newspaper gave away a serious piece of hot gossip from far, far away.

      [Prowse] offered a glimpse of a possible plot for the second sequel, the paper reads. Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker ... are hooked up in a do-or-die lightsaber battle when Luke, get this, learns that Darth is, in fact, get ready for it folks, his long-lost father!

      It’s no wonder the Green Cross Code Man (Prowse, for non-Brits out there) was never invited back for Revenge f the Sith.

      THE AFTERLIVES OF SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT

      BY

      CARL FREDERICK

      While fighting to suppress the tremor in his hand, William Norberg levered the joystick, maneuvering his electric wheelchair through the physics lab and up to Professor Komar’s desk. He also fought against getting his hopes up.

      Looking distinctly uncomfortable, the professor stood. Doctor Norberg, he said, not making eye contact but gazing over the chair as if an invisible nurse were pushing it. Do you think it’s wise for you to... I mean, did you come alone?

      Yes. William spoke the word more harshly than he’d intended.

      Komar winced.

      To lighten the mood and perhaps make the Professor more comfortable, William smiled, and then said, Forget the ‘doctor’. In this town, everybody and his dog has a doctorate. Just call me William.

      Komar gave a smile, clearly forced, and sat.

      I must say I’m intrigued with your proposal, said William. Although you must admit, it sounds rather -

      The physics is sound. Cutting edge relativistic quantum mechanics. Komar seemed defensive. No doubt he’d been given much grief about the experiment. He picked up a piece of chalk from his desk. There was no blackboard in the room, but holding the chalk, the professor seemed more confident. Your world-line, he said in a lecturing voice, unfortunately, is expected to terminate in a few days.

      You mean, said William, that I will soon die.

      That’s what I said. Komar scraped the chalk with a thumbnail, releasing dandruff-like flurries that fell to his desk. In this world-line, you will. Komar gazed with an intense expression that William had only seen before in the eyes of people who’d accosted him with political tracts. The Schrödinger Cat Paradox, he went on. Of course you know it’s resolved by quantum decoherence: increasingly heavier objects increasingly shifting from superpositions to mixtures. He gave a bark of a laugh - a sound William could scarcely distinguish from a clearing of one’s throat. If we could suppress decoherence, we really could have that multitude of cats. He slammed his hand to the desk, breaking the chalk. And we can do it now. I’m sure of it.

      You do know, said William, that I haven’t the fuzziest notion what you’re talking about.

      Komar narrowed his eyes. He appeared puzzled.

      My doctorate, said William, is in Indigenous American Studies.

      Oh! Komar shook his head. You must excuse me. I automatically assume that everyone who visits this lab is a Ph.D. physicist.

      I do try to keep current with science. A sudden deep sadness swept over William; keeping current was over for him now. He took a breath and fought down that little foretaste of death. But with my background in mind, he said, perhaps you could give a simpler explanation.

      Komar nodded. The path of your life in time and space, your world-line, is one of an infinity of your world-lines, each co-existing in a different parallel universe. He leaned forward, looking like a televangelist pleading for souls. And we can move you to any one of them.

      William nodded. Yes, I got that. But why do you need someone who is... who is terminally ill?

      Again, Komar seemed uncomfortable. It’s simpler for us if we take those world-lines which all terminate at the same point, and terminate soon.

      And my line will terminate extremely soon.

      Komar cast his eyes down at his desk. You’ll be advancing science, he said, softly.

      I assume I’ll know if it works, said William. But how will you know?

      We’ll bring you back. Right before you… before you terminate. He gestured expansively at a coffin shaped metal enclosure at the rear of the lab. That device: not only will it allow you to change world-lines, but it also allows us to exert a force on time tracks, extrapolating back from the termination point. Since all non-intersecting curves are topologically equivalent, we’ll be able to pull whatever line you are in, to everywhere touch your own world-line. Komar seemed much more comfortable discussing physics than people. And since a line has an infinitesimal thickness, we will get you back to your original track.

      Where I’ll still be almost at the point of death - even closer, probably.

      I’m sure there’ll still be time to have your family with you.

      I don’t have family. No attachments at all - which I suppose is for the best.

      Well.... Komar brightened. "Look. When you shift to another world-line, you might shift to another you, but many

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