Andromeda Spaceways
(2005-03-17)PRESS RELEASE
The Andromeda Spaceways Newsletter
Keeping you up-to-date every with everything happening at ASIM!
Terry Pratchett!!
Dave Luckett scored an interview with Terry Pratchett when he visited Australia last year, and we've got the interview to prove it! Check out issue 17 for our six-page feature Terry Pratchett article as well as our usual mix of reviews, articles and many, many pages of the fun fiction goodness you love.
Awards!
ASIM has scored nominations all over the place. Congratulations to all nominees, but in particular to:
~~Barbara Robson, whose science fiction story Absolution in issue 15 was nominated for an Aurealis Award
~~Stephen Dedman, whose story The Whole of the Law in issue 13 was nominated for a Ditmar
~~Les Petersen, who received best artwork Ditmar nominations for the covers of ASIM issues 12 and 16
~~Artist Brian Smith and ASIM member Stuart Barrow who were nominated for a Best New Talent Ditmar.
~~ASIM author and slush reader Barbara Robson who was also nominated for a Best New Talent Ditmar.
New Issue out now!
Issue #17 has hit the shelves: edited by Sally Beasley, this issue includes Dave Luckett's interview with Terry Pratchett. But that's not all!
Fiction
Trouble Leaves a Scent Trail, by Constance Cooper
Impractical Magic, by Gillian Polack
The Team-mate Reference Problem in Final-Stage Demon Confrontation, by ~Constance Cooper
The Red Priest's Homecoming, by Dirk Flinthart
An Alien Abduction, by Mark Patrick Lynch
A Game of Knight Court, by Jason D Wittman
The Memory of Breathing, by Lyn Triffitt
Features
Close Approach: Mars, by Helen Patrice
On Elven Grammar II, by Gillian Polack
The Sorcerer's Realm I, by Sophie Masson
New Members
ASIM is sorry to see Lyn Triffitt leave us, but we've gained Trevor Dadson, Rowena Lindquist and Tara Smith in recent months.
See us at Swancon!
We'll be out in force at Swancon, in Perth, from 24-28 March. And we'll have chocolate for anyone subscribing at the con. Not that we'd try to bribe you. Much. You can spot ASIM members at the Con by their nifty new ~Travel Agent~ teeshirts. Speaking of which~
Teeshirts!
Want an ASIM teeshirt? Let us know! ~ contact celestialcobbler@hotmail.com to put in an order.
We want your feedback!
We love getting letters to publish in the magazine, and we appreciate hearing from our readers about what they liked and didn't like. We also appreciate letters or emails discussing any aspect of speculative fiction that might be of interest to our readers. Send to editor@andromedaspaceways.com
Subscriptions....
Subscribe now! You know you want to. ASIM issues make great presents, and the paper is soft enough that you get at least one additional use for them.
http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/subscribe.htm
That's it for this newsletter - keep an eye out for issue 18 coming in April.
Robbie Matthews,
Editor-in-chief
Zara Baxter,
Newsletter Editor
http://www.andromedaspaceways.com 
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