[IGMS Issue 62, April 2018] "Letter From the Editor" by Scott M. Roberts [Stories] "Failing Constructs" by Alter S. Reiss "Pinedaughter's Grove" by Ville Meriläinen "The Robots Karamazov" by Marie Vibbert "For a Rich Man to Enter" by Susan Forest "The Stars beneath the Leaves" by Joshua Ogden "Customer Service Support Ticket at All-American Wizardry Supply and Custom Floor Mat Emporium" by Alex Shvartsman [IGMS Audio] Alex Shvartsman's "Customer Service Support Ticket at All-American Wizardry Supply and Custom Floor Mat Emporium" read by Alethea Kontis [IGMS Interviews] "InterGalactic Interview With the IGMS Editorial Staff" by Scott M. Roberts [Vintage Fiction] "A Crash Course in Fate" by Eric James Stone [Bonus Material] "The Story Behind the Stories" by Alter Reiss "The Story Behind the Stories" by Susan Forest
Authors
Susan Forest grew up in a family of mountaineers and skiers, and she loves adventure. She also loves the big ideas found in SF/F, and finds fast-paced adventure stories a great place to explore how individuals grapple with complex moral decisions. Aurora Award winners, Bursts of Fire and Flights of Marigold, first books in her Addicted to Heaven series, confront issues of addiction in an epic fantasy world of intrigue and betrayal. Susan is also an award-winning fiction editor, has published over 25 short stories (Analog, Asimov's, BCS, & more), and has appeared at many international writing conventions. She loves travel and has been known to dictate novels from the back of her husband's motorcycle. http://speculative-fiction.ca/
Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. He's the author of The Middling Affliction (2022) and Eridani's Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Kakistocracy, a sequel to The Middling Affliction, is forthcoming in 2023. Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist (2015 and 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction. His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were published in 2015. His second collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories followed in 2018. Alex is the editor of over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F.
