Vol. 1

Vol. 1

David Brin – Robert Silverberg – Jerry Oltion – David R. Grigg
Emily Devenport – Eric Del Carlo
Joe Taylor – Bruce Golden

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This magazine is the first in what will hopefully be a really long series. As I’m writing this, Vol. 2 is already in the works, with more unfit stories on the way. This magazine is about fiction that isn’t fit for ‘them’. What do I mean by ‘them’? Who in particular are ‘they’? They are the government. They are your parents. They are your teachers. They are everywhere.

• In David Brin’s fantastic story “The River of Time” scientists are coping with co-existing streams of time as some of them move faster and some slower. It says: “A number of physicists, who thought they’d figured out what was going on, went mad, committed suicide, or quietly changed professions.” And then reality continues to twist: “I have contemplated the possibility that the Universe at one time truly did circle around the Earth…”. And later, much of traditional science is thrown out: “Naturally, we had to begin a total rewrite of physical law.”
• Robert Silverberg brings us another future in his classic story “To See the Invisible Man”. Is this is a stretch of science or a possible reality we may one day encounter?
• In Eric Del Carlo’s story “Sexbot’s Lament” a robot is confused about reality.
• In Jerry Oltion’s “In the Garden, a Late Flower Blooms” the fantasy universe takes over as a woman tries to find her missing husband.
• David R. Grigg’s story “Ever After” gives us more exploration of the quantum possibilities as we go deeper in to the realms of speculation. One character says: “All that quantum stuff, I’d never heard about it before. But you said that your wiz… your scientists, they believe that there are an endless number of worlds, is that right?”
• Joe Taylor’s “Moon Trees, a Gentle Ontology” plays with reality again, convincing us with argument that the unreal is real: “The existence of trees on the moon, hitherto unsuspected, is now a foregone conclusion. How do I know this? Because of my dream.”
• In Emily Devenport’s “Alternate Universe Ernies” at the outset we find: “I’ve seen this idea – maybe on one of my social media sites? – that sometimes our dreams aren’t just flights of fancy or the random firing of synapses as we pass from one brain state to the next. Sometimes they’re glimpses into alternate universes.”
• Lastly, we come to Bruce Golden’s “Iron Man” in which a hero is fighting for freedom against a society that has grown him in a lab.

You have officially entered the unfit universe. Hold on, because here we go.

Daniel Scott White
Sept. 2018