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Jupiter SF 23 : Kalyke - out now

My short story "The Darken Loop" appears in the January 2009 issue of Jupiter SF which was released today. It is the second story involving the 3 members of the Axiom Few, and is a prequel to my earlier story The Ceres Configuration, which was published in Jupiter issue 4. Click here to purchase your copy, or subscribe.

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  1. Just sold one to these guys myself. Nice little mag.

    Also interested reading your views on YWO 5000. Quite a different viewpoint to most of the things I've seen written on this subject. Rather refreshing :-)

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  2. Thanks for your comments Kate, and well done for getting your story into Jupiter.

    Are you one of the 5000 too?

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  3. No, not me. My unpublished novels are unpublished for a reason - they weren't good enough :-)

    Hope you're making plenty of sales.

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  4. Enjoed 'Darken Loop'. I do like trying to come up with new ways of avoiding (or creating) pardoxes!

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  5. Thanks Gareth. Yes, you have to tread carefully with time-travel stories. It's always fun to try to make them as water-tight as you can. I'm not sure whether that entirely possible though.

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