Issue #16
Featuring Stories by: Lars Schwed Nygård, Richard May, J.A. Prentice, R. Keelan, and Anne Shimeki
Poems by: Michelle Koubek, Erica Leslie Weidner and M. Frost
Welcome to the 16th Issue of James Gunn’s Ad Astra
July 2025 – 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
Letter from the Editor
The Name of Things to Come
At a recent writing workshop, I heard a participant comment on another one’s nomenclature: android, laser, Altair were deemed unimaginative clichés. I found myself in instant disagreement. Here’s why.
Blog
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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