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Magazine: Altair

Bibliographic comments: Twice-yearly Australian magazine, each edition limited to 1,000 copies.

• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white.

Altair, #1

Jason Bleckly, Rob Bleckly, Andrew Collings, Robert N. Stephenson, eds.

<  February 1998

Altair Publishing

A5, 152 pages

A$8.95

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Robert N. Stephenson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry and essays are listed.

Fiction: Brendan Carson, Prozac Crusade  //  Ian Watson, Starry Night  //  Mary Soon Lee, Interior Landscape  //  Ben

Jeapes, The Fire Worker  //  Kurt von Trojan, Paradise  //  Brendan Carson, After the Reign  //  Jean-Claude

Dunyach, Come Into My Parlor  //  Loren W. Cooper, The Powers of Lanai  //  Warren Lapine, Don't Jump  //  Michael

Morgan, Eat Your Greens  //  James A. Hartley, Stone Feather  //  Robert Black, Going Home  //  Leonid Reznick,

Right Place, Right Time

Poetry: Dylan Otto Krider, Ode to the Fractal

Essays: Simon Brown, Sean Williams, No Axis, No Boundary  //  Joe Haldeman, Characterization  //  Charles de

Lint, Competitiveness In the Arts  //  Steven C. Raine, The Star Altair  //  Robert J. Sawyer, Writing Great Beginnings  

//  David Bischoff, Let the SF Games Begin

Editors (alphabetically listed): Jason Bleckly  |  Rob Bleckly  |  Andrew Collings  |  Jim Deed  |  Robert N. Stephenson

Language: English

ISSN: 1328-3340

Active: 1998 – 2000

Issues: 6

Websites:  Galactic Central  |  ISFDB  |  SFE4

Altair, #2

Jason Bleckly, Rob Bleckly, Andrew Collings, Jim Deed, Robert N. Stephenson, eds.

<  August 1998

Altair Publishing

A5, 156 pages

A$8.95

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Robert N. Stephenson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, essays and the interviews are listed.

Fiction: Loren W. Cooper, Lives of Ghosts  //  Jerry Bryson, Potato Dreams  //  Martin Crumpton, Illip & the

Incomparably Beautiful Jarita  //  Stephen Dedman, Depth of Field  //  Ian Watson, An Idea Is Born  //  Julian Boote,

Many Happy Returns  //  Dilip Agarwal, Iron Omdurman  //  Kurt von Trojan, The Third Candidate  //  Toby Finch, The

Show Must Go On  //  James A. Hartley, Grievous Music  //  Devon Monk, Silent Allegiance  //  Brendan Carson, The

Book of Eluhaz

Poetry: Tippi N. Blevins, Skull of the Adventurer  //  Kate Humphrey, Siren Soul  //  Kate Humphrey, Night Vigil

Essays: Kate Forsyth, Heroic Fantasy  //  Melisa Michaels, Stalking the Wily Label  //  Robert J. Sawyer, Constructing

Characters  //  Steven C. Raine, Sirius  //  Nicola Griffith, Living Fiction and Storybook Lives

Interviews: Robert N. Stephenson, Lois McMaster Bujold Interview  //  uncredited, Kate Forsyth Interview

Altair, #3

Andrew Collings, Jim Deed, Robert N. Stephenson, eds.

<  February 1999

Altair Publishing

A5, 156 pages

A$8.95

Notes:

  •  Editorial is uncredited.

  •  Only fiction, poetry and essays are listed.

Fiction: Michael Fontana, Mouths  //  Sarah Zettel, Need-Shadow  //  Trent Jamieson, Naked  //  Brendan Carson,

Against the Fall of Night  //  James Van Pelt, Voices  //  Nathan Hobby, Strands of Self  //  Carolyn DeCusatis,

Millenium Eve  //  Judy McCrosky, The Loon's Tears  //  Jennifer Etherton, Johnny Sharman  //  Gerd Maximovič,

Mirror, Mirror  //  Mike Allen, Stolen Souls  //  Ashok Banker, Sacred Light, Celluloid Light  //  Bent Lorentzen, The Last

Potlatch

Poetry: Matt Doeden, As Mortals Pray  //  Marcie Tentchoff, Water's Lament

Essays: Ben Bova, If Life Imitates Art  //  Norman Spinrad, SF and the Beats  //  Robert J. Sawyer, Secret Weapon of

Science  //  Kurt von Trojan, Breaking Writer's Block

Altair, #4

Andrew Collings, Jim Deed, Robert N. Stephenson, eds.

<  August 1999

Altair Publishing

A5, 156 pages

A$9.95

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Robert N. Stephenson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, essays and the interview are listed.

Fiction: Tony Shillitoe, Honour  //  Joe Haldeman, None So Blind  //  Paul Blake, Watching the Angels  //  Koka Li

Kallio, In Chains of Song  //  Stanislaw Lem, Ijon Tichy's Last Journey to Earth  //  Sean Williams, Evermore, or, The

Lies That Bind  //  David Brin, Ickies  //  John Walters, Clear Shining After Rain  //  James A. Hartley, Negative

Density  //  Andrew Burt, Hotel Missouri  //  Robert N. Stephenson, Breaking the Ice  //  Larry Niven, Wisdom  //  

Devon Monk, Scar Born  //  Mary Soon Lee, 1-800-CLONE-ME

Poetry: Arthur C. Clarke, Things You Wouldn't Want to Meet  //  Arthur C. Clarke, Travellers further afield should avoid

at all costs  //  Dylan Otto Krider, Entropy IV: Big Government  //  Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Where Beauty Reigns  //  

Ian Watson, Marsupials in Our Midst: the Explorer of Mirabella Rehearses his Tale  //  Rob Riel, Pome

Essays: Jack McDevitt, Where Do You Get Those Crazy Ideas?  //  Robert J. Sawyer, Show, Not Tell  //  Jean-Claude

Dunyach, The Hitch-Hikers Guide to French Science Fiction  //  Chuck McKenzie, "Laugh, You Alien Scum!" or Why

Writing SF Comedy Is So Damn Hard, and How to Do It

Interview: uncredited, Talking to Chuck McKenzie