Aphelion Issue 299, Volume 28
October 2024
 
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Hello and welcome to the July 2022 issue of Aphelion! Thank you all for helping keep us going through the past quarter-century!

We have a new Short Story Editor, who is taking over with the July issue. Jean-Paul L. Garnier is his name, and he is the owner of Space Cowboy Books, a science fiction specialty bookstore in Joshua Tree CA, the producer and editor of Simultaneous Times SF podcast, and the current editor of the SFPA's Star*Line Magazine. Fine qualifications, indeed! I will be forwarding to him all the recent submissions I've received, as well as changing the email link for submissions so that they all go to him. Jean-Paul is willing to gift us with six month to a year of his time, so let's make him feel welcome!  

I have been working massive amounts of overtime at the factory. New people to train and only 18 months left before my retirement.  I'm making hay while the sun shines, so to speak. II'm making headway on the fantasy novel, to. So I hope to be able to turn it in to my publisher before Winter sets in. I hope to be allowed to do an oil painting for the cover art. I've been given the go-ahead to do the painting, so we shall see if I still know which end of a brush to hold onto, LOL! If the painting is all I hope it to be, I am promised that it will be given serious consideration. Keep your fingers crossed, folks.

As for personal news; LibertyCon 34 was last month and it was every bit the grand adventure tht LC always has been. This was our first live LC since 2019! Proper protocalls were observed for health and safety, of course. They weren't too intrusive, either. Mostly common sense and thorough cleaning of the panel rooms between panels, tables socially distanced in the Con Suite and hotel restaurants, hand sanitizer stations all over the hotel, and heightened cleaning standards by the hotel staff. It was great fun, and we're looking forward to next year.

As for my wife and I, we'll be attending Hallowcon over Halloween weekend in Dalton GA. as our only other convention appearance this year. I went last year for the first time and completely fell in love with the intimate, "small con" atmosphere. I highly recommend it if you live near enough to Dalton to attend.

The online streaming shows "Stupid O'clock" and "Last Man Standing" are still being uploaded live to YouTube as well as several Facebook pages. There is an archive there of almost two years worth of shows now. They are basically live-streaming chat shows covering a range of topics, modeled on the types of conversations people have during the "after hours" at SF&F conventions. Joe McKeel--the Showrunner of Hallowcon-- and I have our own archives of past shows on our respective YouTube channels. Check 'em out if that sounds like something you'd enjoy I've put links in our Features section that will take you to the YouTube archives of both shows.

With all that said, it's high time I shut up and let you get to reading. 

Enjoy yourselves,

Dan 

 

ON THE COVER

Title: A Fleeting Moment in Time

Courtesy: ESO