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
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