Webzine: Penumbric Speculative Fiction

Editor: Jeff Georgeson

Language: English

ISSN: 2693-­0234

Issues: 2002–2004, 2020 – present

Websites:  Penumbric |  Galactic Central  |  ISFDB

Bibliographic comments: US webzine/PDF magazine publishing speculative fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.

• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white. This bibliography derived from the

issues available at the Penumbric website only.

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 1 no. 3

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

October 2002

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 33 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'It's a Happy, Creepy Time of Year' by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, the graphic feature and the interview are listed.

Fiction: Anita Harkess, The Student's Nightmare  //  Leslie Aguillard, Bill and the Night //  Peri Charlifu, Seeds

Graphic format: Robert Elrod, Life

Interview: 'Building on a Masterpiece', uncredited interview with Kenji Kamiyama and Yoshiki Sakurai

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 1 no. 5

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

April 2003

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 30 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'So I'm Rambling... But It's Important Rambling!' by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, the graphic feature and the essay are listed.

Fiction: Darren Speegle, Escape Theory  //  Leslie Aguillard, You Never Know  //  Vincent W. Sakowski, Home Is

Where the Hearth Is

Poetry: Christina Sng, As She Walked By  //  John Grey, Why He Must Be God

Graphic format: Robert Elrod, Meaningless?

Essay: Jeff Georgeson, The Further Rebirth of Cyberpunk

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 1 no. 6

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

June 2003

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 26 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'The Party's Just Started!' by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, the graphic feature and the interview are listed.

Fiction: Giovanni Agnoloni, The Ex-Girlfriend  //  Greg Beatty, Welcome to Mystery Hill  //  Michael Morris, Mail Call

Poetry: Christina Sng, Succubus  //  Christina Sng, Postwar  //  Christina Sng, After the War  //  Jay Caselberg, The

Taste

Graphic format: Robert Elrod, Sleepwalk: Shallow

Interview: 'Horror and Technology', uncredited interview with Christina Sng

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 2 no. 3

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

October 2003

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 33 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'Another Happy Halloween!' by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry and the essay are listed.

Fiction: John B. Rosenman, The Kissing King  //  Ken Goldman, Kissing Off Amber //  Trent Zelazny, Opportunity

Knocks

Poetry: Christina Sng, In the Beginning  //  Christina Sng, That Evening

Essay: Jeff Georgeson, Idol Ideal

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 2 no. 5

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

April 2004

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 34 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'Penumbric Goes Free! And Other Tales' by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, the graphic feature are listed.

Fiction: Greg Story, The Forest for the Trees  //  Joseph A. Ezzo, Like Stardust Is the Longing for the Days Gone By

Poetry: Bruce Boston, Film Artifact: A Review  //  Christina Sng, Shrunken Monkey Heads  //  Julie Shiel, Revival  //  

John Grey, That New Death Start-up

Graphic format: Jesper Nordqvist, Mondo Mecho

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 4 no. 1

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

June 2020

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 60 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, the graphic features and the interviews are listed.

Fiction: Colleen Donnelly, Projections  //  Grace Wagner, Consumed  //  Mark Anthony Smith, All You Can Eat  //  

Lenore Sagaskie, Angels Don't Wear Denim

Poetry: Christina Sng, The Price of Peace  //  Christina Sng, Venus  //  Christina Sng, The Conjurers

Graphic format: Jesper Nordqvist, Mondo Mecho  //  T. Motley, The Road to Golgonooza

Interviews: 'Writing from Within: Dystopian fiction in a Dystopic World': uncredited interview with Colleen Donnelly  //  

'New Beginnings': uncredited interview with Christina Sng

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 4 no. 2

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

August 2020

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 66 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, the graphic features, the essay and the interview are listed.

Fiction: Hawk and Young, Hadija  //  Callum Pearce, Wings  //  Jay Bechtol, Fall

Poetry: Christina Sng, Metal Rain  //  Kurt Newton, Feral Spring  //  Jamal Hodge, Oaths to Nihilism  //  Christina

Sng, A Paradigm of Magic  //  Grace Wagner, EMP

Graphic format: T. Motley, The Road to Golgonooza  //  Jesper Nordqvist, Mondo Mecho

Essay: Jeff Georgeson, Mythologies: Getting Outside the West

Interview: 'The FuturePresentPast of Afrofuturism': uncredited interview with Ytasha Womack

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 4 no. 3

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

October 2020

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 114 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, the graphic features, the essay and the interview are listed.

Fiction: Eliza J. Brandt, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?  //  Mike Morgan, Something to Watch Over Us  //  Russ

Bickerstaff, Assembly  //  T. M. Morgan, Cusp  //  Gordon Sun, Dr. Know-It-All  //  James Edward O'Brien, Perfect

Daze  //  Agrippina Domanski, The Dog Lover

Poetry: Russell Hemmell, Avatar Love  //  Alexander P. Garza, Interstellar Affairs  //  Grace Wagner, Nuclear War  //  

Jamal Hodge, Of Other Worlds  //  John Grey, Tracking the Clozxil  //  Kurt Newton, Deli Fishing

Graphic format: T. Motley, The Road to Golgonooza  //  Jesper Nordqvist, Mondo Mecho

Essay: Jeff Georgeson, Artificial Intelligence: Angel or Demon? Data or Human?

Interview: 'AI Weirdness': uncredited interview with Janelle Shane

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 4 no. 4

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

December 2020

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 122 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, the graphic features, the essay and the interview are listed.

Fiction: Sarah Connell, Ghost House  //  J. S. Watts, The Sisters  //  Amy Bernstein, Our Best Friend  //  Tim Jeffreys,

10:10 to Throgmorten  //  Elana Gomel, Little Fish  //  Karen Heslop, Gods of the Valley  //  David F. Schultz,

Unraveling

Poetry: Colleen Anderson, Tales Never Told  //  Oliver Smith, Wych-Elm Kings Again  //  Jamal Hodge, The Left-Hand

Path  //  Alexander P. Garza, Dark Solstice  //  Aaron Sandberg, Necromancy (After the Séance Failed)  //  Christina

Sng, The End

Graphic format: T. Motley, The Road to Golgonooza  //  Jesper Nordqvist, Mondo Mecho

Essay: Jeff Georgeson, Oh, Horror, Where Art Thou?

Interview: 'Loving the Grimm': uncredited interview with Cynthia Pelayo

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 4 no. 5

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

February 2021

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 98 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  'The Early-Morning Garden' translated by Toshiya Kamei.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, the graphic feature, the essay and the interview are listed.

Fiction: Bob Ritchie, A Visit from the Beatles  //  Franco Amati, The First Metaphor  //  Cory Swanson, The One I Fell

Into  //  Arasibo Campeche, Regret in Blue Sharp

Poetry: Jennifer Crow, Ghost in Orbit  //  N. C. Krueger, The War God  //  Grace Wagner, Asteroid Impact  //  Avra

Margariti, Radio Silence  //  Colleen Anderson, Red Shoes  //  Anatoly Belilovsky, Apocrypha  //  Umiyuri

Katsuyama, The Early-Morning Garden  //  Darien Dillon, Mnemosyne in Formalin  //  Gerri Leen, The Hit

Graphic format: Jesper Nordqvist, Mondo Mecho

Essay: Jeff Georgeson, My Muse Is My Music

Interview: 'Rockstar Ending': uncredited interview with N. A. Rossi

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 5 no. 1

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

June 2021

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 92 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry and the graphic features are listed.

Fiction: Laura J. Campbell, Sycamore  //  Graham J. Darling, Jon Carver of Barzoom, You Misunderstood  //  

Margaret Karmazin, Triage  //  M. C. Childs, Dear Post Master General of the Noosphere  //  Nathan Ahlgrim, A Seed

Crystal of Control  //  Mary Jo Rabe, If You Lead an Earthling to Water, Who Gets to Drink?  //  Joe Giordano, Sybil

Nightingale  //  Monica Joyce Evans, Peter O'Toole  //  Laurence Klavan, The Freelancer  //  Gustavo Bondini, Form

Follows Function

Poetry: Mary Soon Lee, How to Mourn Kepler's Supernova  //  Peter J. King, Homecoming  //  Jennifer Crow, Ruins

on Korkhan  //  John Grey, A Day in the Life of a Human Guinea Pig  //  Christina Sng, The Eternal Fire

Graphic format: T. Motley, The Road to Golgonooza  //  Jesper Nordqvist, Mondo Mecho

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 5 no. 2

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

August 2021

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 104 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  Only fiction, poetry, the graphic features, the essay and the interview are listed.

Fiction: Steve DuBois, The Commander  //  Lawrence Buentello, Drivers and Their Fares  //  Lauren Marrero, What

Good Girls Do  //  Joe Baumann, The Right Kind of Love, the Wrong Kind of Death  //  S. P. Jenkins, Content  //  

Maxwell I. Gold, The Static and Black Lectures

Poetry: Anton Cancre, Restructant#1  //  Alicia Hilton, April //  Gerri Leen, Amateurs  //  Anatoly Belilovsky, Mercury

Rises  //  Michelle Muenzler, There Can Only Be One Soul Princess  //  Amelia Gorman, The World Needle  //  Frank

Coffman, The Skald Sings of Samhain

Graphic format: T. Motley, The Road to Golgonooza  //  Jesper Nordqvist, Mondo Mecho

Essay: Jeff Georgeson, World-building: Plan It or Pants It, You Need a World to Play In

Interview: 'Portraits by an Artist': uncredited interview with Novyl Saeed

Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. 5 no. 3

Jeff Georgeson, ed.

October 2021

Neomythos Press

Library edition: PDF, 134 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Jeff Georgeson.

  •  'Rocket Ship Temple Blues' is set in Thailand.

  •  Only fiction, poetry and the graphic feature and the interview are listed.

Fiction: Rob Hartzell, Where Phantoms Touch and Spirits Dance  //  Jack Fielding, Rocket Ship Temple Blues  //  

Arlen Feldman, Bit Parts  //  Michael Rook, Boundless Vendettas  //  Jamie Hittman, Hunger in America  //  Tom

Howard, The Body Snatcher  //  Rin Kelly, The Breaking News of Charlie Que

Poetry: Mary Soon Lee, Forms of Address 2050  //  Oliver Smith, Holiday Traffic  //  Anne Carly Abad, The Tuning  //  

Marge Simon, Tomorrow Woman  //  Madeline Barnicle, Letter to a Young Mathematician  //  Rickey Rivers Jr.,

Creator and Creation  //  Brian Hugenbruch, Droplets

Graphic format: Jesper Nordqvist, Mondo Mecho

Interview: 'Angels Ascending': uncredited interview with Anna Mocikat