Welcome to the 8th Issue
of James Gunn’s Ad Astra
June 30, 2020 – We hope you enjoy your visit to James Gunn’s Ad Astra. If you would like to be part of our future issues, please read our submissions guidelines and join the conversation.
Begin Your Journey
Blog
Welcome to our blog, which we will grow independently of the issue publication schedule. We are pleased to start with featured articles by speculative fiction author Betsy James.
On Revising
The morning slog through a max of 300 words of a first draft. Ploughing a rocky field with a Neolithic ploughshare, stopping every foot or so to pry up a boulder and roll it over to the growing drystone field wall.
On Rewriting Speculative Fiction
The challenge peculiar to SF: You’re trying to show, not tell. But how do you “show" a world that, to one degree or another, is unknown, unique, and may even operate by physics that are different from the laws your reader subconsciously applies?
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