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[Greg Cox]

If you don't have to sweat location description (someplace spare or already well known), or if your characters don't speechify too much, that helps.

Exactly. Setting scenes aboard the Enterprise or Voyager helps because you don't have to explain what the bridge or sickbay looks like, or who Spock or Data or Janeway are. Or even what Khan looks like.

It helps also that the stories are illustrated.

 

[James Swallow]

Indeed, telling a Trek story in roughly 2K words is a real challenge. Even your average short story in an anthology is about twice that length. I'm finding what works is about three scenes and maybe an epilogue, depending. And keeping the cast down to a minimum.

Agreed! The format isn't too dissimilar to a good joke - set-up, detail, punchline.

You can have some fun with structure too - my DS9 story in issue #6 is told entirely through emails, log entries and security recordings.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

You can just throw someone into a situation and then explain what's happening later.

 

[Greg Cox]

You can have some fun with structure too - my DS9 story in issue #6 is told entirely through emails, log entries and security recordings.

I enjoyed that story, btw. Very clever and ambitious.

 

[James Swallow]

I enjoyed that story, btw. Very clever and ambitious.

Cheers Greg!

 

[KRAD]

Did issue #7 come out yesterday like it was supposed to?

 

[elric428]

Did issue #7 come out yesterday like it was supposed to?

Yes I received my issue yesterday in the mail.

 

[Mike Doyle]

Did issue #7 come out yesterday like it was supposed to?

Out of 6 issues so far I’ve had to email them and ask for 3 of them to be sent and had to do the same with 2 digital supplements so who knows.

 

[Greg Cox]

Yes I received my issue yesterday in the mail.

Thanks for the alert. Time to start haunting my mailbox again.

EDIT: Nothing in the mail today. Maybe tomorrow?

 

[KRAD]

Yes I received my issue yesterday in the mail.

Hope you enjoy my story!

 

[Mike Doyle]

Out of 6 issues so far I’ve had to email them and ask for 3 of them to be sent and had to do the same with 2 digital supplements so who knows.

I have just been emailed digital supplement 7 three times. Maybe they’re making up for not sending earlier ones.

 

[Mike Doyle]

Hope you enjoy my story!

Yours is in the digital supplement. I’m about to start it.

I hate to be the one to tell you they’ve got your name wrong in the email (but right in the digital supplement itself).


“This latest edition features a "You Can't
Buy Fate" by Keith Candido,“

 

[KRAD]

 

[Greg Cox]

Just got the Digital Supplement in my email.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I have just been emailed digital supplement 7 three times. Maybe they’re making up for not sending earlier ones.

I only got it twice. But I'm happy to just get it at all, I can live without that third copy!

 

[Mike Doyle]

Read both the stories in the digital supplement and enjoyed them both.

Not sure what’s going on with the illustration at the start of Summer Days Can Last Forever. The story is Janeway, the Doctor and Paris but the drawing to me looks a lot more like Janeway, the Doctor and Kirk.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just got my subscription copy in the mail. Guess it's now safe to reveal that my story, "Scramble," features Dixon Hill and Durango teaming up for hijinks on the holodeck.

 

[bdub76]

Last issue's short stories were so good. Looking forward to this next one.

 

[KRAD]

Read both the stories in the digital supplement and enjoyed them both.

Thank you very kindly. I just wish Aron had lived long enough to see the story.....

 

[Eduardo]

Issue 7 stories:

• The Victim, by John Peel
  Garak, new to Deep Space Nine, takes on an early challenge.

• Scramble, by Greg Cox
  Peril for Captain Picard and Deanna Troi on the holodeck.

• You Can’t Buy Fate, by Keith R.A. DeCandido (digital supplement)
  A DS9 Story.

• Summer Days Can Last Forever, by Michael Collins (digital supplement)
  A Voyager Story.