Hyperpowers

By Mark Rookyard, John M. Campbell, Martin Clark, and more

2016

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4.45

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133

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4H02M

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Hyperpowers from Third Flatiron Anthologies, guest-edited by Bascomb James, takes on the challenge of telling short speculative fiction stories that explore space opera and military fiction themes. It contains 16 stories by an international group of contributors. And as usual, our "Grins and Gurgles" humor section allows a light-hearted take on the subject.

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Martin Clark was a British historian noted for his work on modern Italy. After obtaining his degree at Cambridge, Clark gained his PhD at Birkbeck College. In 1965 he was appointed assistant lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He remained there at the politics department until his retirement in 2001.

"Yellow Glad Days" is a science fiction, political satire, the latest work by Sam Bellotto Jr., who is normally known as an author of crossword and cryptogram puzzle books. Bellotto's company, Crossdown, also develops word puzzle computer games and software as well as the puzzles themselves. He operates out of the top floor of his home on Akron Street. Crossdown has garnered the top "People's Choice Award" from the Educational Software Cooperative (ESC) four times between 1998 and 2004. It also won the top award in its category from the Shareware Industry Conference in 2004. Bellotto has been making puzzles professionally since 1979, when he broke into the business by placing his first sale with the Sunday New York Times Magazine under then crossword puzzle editor, the legendary Eugene T. Maleska. According to Bellotto, "You could say I started at the top." Today Bellotto contributes regularly to all the major crossword puzzle markets including Simon & Schuster, The New York Times, and Random House. He also does a weekly crossword feature for a number of high-profile newspapers and has authored several crossword puzzle books. And he is in great demand as a specialist in making topical crosswords, having done individual projects for Xerox, AttorneyYellowPages, and the University of Rochester, to name just a few. Simon & Schuster has called Bellotto one of the top ten constructors in the country. Bellotto's affection for word game puzzles and fondness for science fiction began when he was a high school student in Syracuse, New York, where he grew up. "I was one of those science whiz kids," he recalls, "building rockets, mixing chemicals and peering through microscopes." Bellotto attended Long Island University where he studied journalism, with a minor in music theory. After graduation he took courses in film studies at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Currently, in addition to his regular crossword features and Internet-based word game software business, Bellotto is working on other puzzle books. He lives in Rochester, NY, in a modest two-bedroom house with his black labrador, Petra, and an impressive animated cartoon collection.

Erik B. Scott

Author · 1 books

Erik B. Scott is a professional science fiction writer who resides in Philadelphia PA. His work focuses on themes of what constitutes humanity in a variety of contexts including alien invasions, artificial intelligences and genetic manipulations. You can find more information on this page as well as at his blog http://steampunk-rocker.blogspot.com. To read more, one of Erik's critically acclaimed short stories, The Exterminator, is FREE over at Daily Science Fiction at the following link: http://dailysciencefiction.com/scienc....

Jonathan Shipley

Author · 2 books

Fort Worth writer Jonathan Shipley has never bought into "newer is better." Old houses, old furniture, and old portraits are his way of life, and like many collectors, he cohabits with more antiques than strictly fit into his house. He has had fantasy and science fiction stories published in Dragon Magazine, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, and dozens of recent anthologies. However, he is actually a novel writer at heart and spends most of his writing time on a vast story arc that ranges from Nazi occultism to vampires to futuristic space opera. Several principal characters in this created world are also collectors of portraits, so there is a mirroring back and forth between art and reality throughout the story arc.

Dan Koboldt

Author · 12 books

Dan Koboldt is a genetics researcher who has co-authored more than 90 publications in Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, and other journals. Every fall, he disappears into the woods to pursue whitetail deer with bow and arrow. He lives with his wife and three children in Ohio, where the deer take their revenge by eating all of the plants in his backyard.

Not anybody.

I began writing stories practically as soon as I could hold a pencil. I started with fiction and plays (often inspired by Dr. Who) and a series of secret agent 'novels' influenced by The Avengers and The Man from Uncle, and continued writing throughout a series of jobs before returning to university to get an MA in Linguistics and Literature. I finally got to be a professional writer 20 years ago, freelancing for newspapers, magazines and businesses. I'm now a prize-winning playwright and short story writer (The Jo Cowell Award, Dark Tales, Lymm Festival, Sussex Radio Playwriting etc.), and my work has appeared in various publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including Dark Horizons, QWF, Time for Bedlam and AlienSkin. I'm also Writer in Residence at The Grid artists' studios. When I'm not writing I try to learn to ride (a horse and a bicycle, but not at the same time!), or I let my dogs take me for walks.

William Huggins

Author · 1 books

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