http://www.voicesoa.net An Orions' Arm E-zine Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:17:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Editorial: More Short Story: Hanami Park -- M.K. Capriola Serials: The Starlark: Part Four --Steve Bowers Announcements: Orion's Arm Fan Film Contest Reviews: Astropolis, by Sean Williams -- Todd Drashner Imagery: More Works by Skitter. Announcements: Orion's Arm Novella Contest Serial: More Things In Heaven, Part One -- Todd Drashner http://www.voicesoa.net/issue-eight-march-200838-at/ We haven't ever done a thematic issue here at V/FT. But if we arranged our issues in that way, this quarter's theme would be More. A fitting trope, I think, given the transhumanist assumptions of the Orion's Arm setting; consider the groundbreaking work of extropians such as Max More and ... http://www.voicesoa.net/editorial-more/ Another work of art by the talented Skitter: A planetscape... not quite terrestrial: http://www.voicesoa.net/imagery-skitter-2/ M.K. Capriola, Jr. Thanh Truong leapt from the trolley as soon as it came to a stop and hurried over to Yellow Dragon Square. As he turned the corner at the end of the shop row, Thanh halted dead in his tracks. ... http://www.voicesoa.net/hanami-park/ Astropolis: Saturn Returns By Sean Williams Paperback: 319 pages Publisher: Ace Books Language: English ISBN: 978-0-441-01493-4 Plot Summary: In the future depicted in Saturn Returns, the human race headed out to the stars and spent the next 150,000 years or so expanding to fill the galaxy, modifying itself along the way into innumerable forms suited to ... http://www.voicesoa.net/astropolis-saturn-returns/ Vocies/Future Tense is proud to join the The Orion's Arm Universe Project in sponsoring the 2008 Novella Contest. There will be Five (5) winners will be announced in December 2008 at www.orionsarm.com, and here at V/FT. You could win cash and the opportunity to be published in the first annual ... http://www.voicesoa.net/orions-arm-novella-contest/ Steve Bowers January 11, 764 a.t Outer system, Epsilon Indi At last the end of our journey is in sight. The Starlark will shortly ignite the catalysed fusion motors once more, and we will decelerate into the system for six months before making orbit around Indi. I have briefly been outside ... http://www.voicesoa.net/the-starlark-part-four/ Todd Drashner "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --Hamlet, William Shakespeare (Pre-Spaceflight Old Earth) Settled firmly into his seat on the bridge of a warship about to launch, Dayyid Mok Noon found himself thinking back to recent events. It had been only two nights ... http://www.voicesoa.net/more-things-in-heaven-part-one/ Editorial: Meditations At A Convention Serials: The Starlark: Part Three --Steve Bowers Short Story: Travelers' Notes: Walking The Underground -- Todd Drashner Announcements: Orion's Arm Fan Film Contest Reviews: Geodesica: Ascent and Descent, by Sean Williams with Shane Dix -- Todd Drashner Short Story: Solar Anomaly -- Linus Cohen http://www.voicesoa.net/issue-seven-november-2007-38-at/ Steve Bowers July 23 694 a.t. Interstellar space Today we presented the results of the induced-recollection trials to the rest of the unfrozen people on the Starlark. I knew that there were many worried and discontented individuals among them; some refusniks had been awake for twenty years or more. Harlan spoke ... http://www.voicesoa.net/the-starlark-part-three/