Free speculative fiction ‘zine Heliotrope‘s fifth issue is a tribute to the mighty Michael Moorcock and boasts articles and short fiction from Bryan Talbot, Lou Anders, Hal Duncan, Catherynne M Valente, Chris Roberson, Paul S Kemp, Rhys Hughes and Neil Gaiman, available online now as as PDF or to read in HTML format, all totally free – result! (via Boing Boing)
“Parallel worlds were nothing new in SF but I’d been introduced to the concept through Mike’s stories and I found the notion fascinating. Ideas flooded my imagination. I saw that here was a great potential for another Arkwright story, a serious story, bigger, more intricate and, more importantly, my own,” Bryan Talbot, from his article The Moorcock Effect, explaining the influence Moorcock had on him, both as a young reader then later as a creator. Hard to underestimate Moorcock’s influence, from creators like Bryan or Hal Duncan’s deliriously mad reality hopping Vellum books to scientists pondering this idea of something called a multiverse, of a multiple angled prism of realities, now a fairly respectable idea in contemporary science. Don’t you love it when an idea germinates in both art and science like that and nurtures new ideas?
Tue, Apr 21, 2009
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