Best of luck!

As previously posted we have been working with other magazines to get something else for our subscribers. We now have in place the following arrangements to benefit our subscribers.

• Space and Time Magazine will be providing 1/3 of Realms of Fantasy print subscribers with a back issue, 1/3 will receive the Spring 2012 issue and the remainder will receive the Summer 2012 issue. Current Realms of Fantasy electronic-only subscribers will receive e-copies.
• Current Realms of Fantasy print subscribers are also eligible to receive electronic copies of Space and Time Magazine in addition to print, subject to their supplying Space and Time with their email addresses. Send an email to hildy@spaceandtimemagazine.com along with your mailing address from your Realms of Fantasy print subscription.

To read the full release, please visit www.rofmag.com.

If you are a current Realms of Fantasy reader, welcome, and I hope you enjoy your complimentary issue and/or electronic issues.  Please feel free to post in the comments if you have any questions or concerns, or email me directly.

The staff of Space and Time would like to wish you all a wonderful 2012 and thank you for your continued support!

However, the good news is that everything is finally coming together and the draft of the issue is now in my Inbox awaiting my blessing. So, hang on…it’s coming!

5/28/11 12:00 AM Duration: 01:30

Room: Salon A                       Track: Fan

Eye of Argon -  the Reading

Eye of Argon - the Play

“One of the genre’s most beloved pieces of appalling prose” presented in all its theatrical glory.

5/28/11 10:00 AM Duration: 00:50

Room: Salon D                       Track: Readers

A Cthulhu Out of the Hat

Writing Prompts for the Deranged

Panelists and audience write science fiction stories based on the items pulled out of a hat. Panelists will read their stories at the end, audience members will share their resulting stories at noon in the Con Suite.

5/28/11 1:00 PM Duration: 00:50

Room: Salon B                       Track: Fan

Whose program is it, anyway?

We’ll discuss, model, and generally dissect the questionable (and sometimes outrageous) behaviors exhibited by program participants (and the audience!) at diverse conventions. Come prepared to be bored by speakers, experience the effects of panel-hogging, see totally-random subject changes, attacks on the other panelists and the audience, and all those other behaviors that make for poor panel participation. We’ll share stories, advice, and solutions. (Note: while program participants certainly don’t have to come to this, it wouldn’t hurt to check it out, anyway!) Join us for the worst program item ever! (And-oh yes!-the audience gets to vote people off the panel every 10 minutes…)

5/28/11 3:00 PM Duration: 00:50

Room: Salon C                       Track: Film, TV, Film Making

Dr. Who Gab Fest

Fans gather to discuss all things Whoish.

5/28/11 5:00 PM Duration: 00:50

Room: Salon B                       Track: Fan

Readings from the Cthulhu Hat

The Deranged Bestow Their Works on the Rest

Run while you can! The audience members from the 10 AM Panel will be sharing their stories with all available victims. No guarantees of survival if Cthulhu is actually summoned.

5/29/11 2:00 PM Duration: 00:50

Room: Salon B                       Track: Readers

Good and Evil in Genre Literature

Do science fiction, fantasy and horror have underlying moral perspectives? What are they? Do they differ? If so, why?

5/29/11 4:00 PM Duration: 00:50

Room: Salon D                       Track: Film, TV, Film Making

Best SF TV Shows

Audience is invited to help the panel decide which Science Fiction television shows (a) are really science fiction and (b) and THE best.

5/30/11 1:00 PM Duration: 00:50

Room: Salon B                       Track: Readers

Hildy Silverman — Reading

Hildy Silverman — Reading

As thanks, I will send you a link to a free .pdf copy of Issue 106, in which Mark’s excellent, surreal story Hideki Desu appears. Simply send an email to me at hildy@spaceandtimemagazine.com with your name and a copy of your receipt from your donation (the Red Cross sends them electronically), and I will send you the link. In addition, for every one or two year subscription received from now until the end of April, a dollar will be contributed to the relief efforts in Japan.

Here is Mark’s email (edited for relevance and space):

It is very kind of you to think about us at this time.  Everyone is being so kind. Luckily, I live in Kanagawa, which is a little West of Tokyo, so we didn’t get the worst of it.

I was teaching a class of 12 year olds when the earthquake hit.  The entire building shifted, everyone was knocked off their feet, and the quake seemed to go on forever. In fact it was two huge ones in close succession.  I was preparing myself for the worst.

I’ll never forget the experience, especially the look of dread on those kids’ faces.  And it was only a five on the Richter scale where we are.  It was closer to seven in places in the North.

As for the radiation, although traces of radiation have been found in Tokyo, we are nowhere near the critical zone, thankfully.  The British and American media have been in more of a panic than we have here. I think the main problem is that the Japanese government doesn’t tell the foreign media clearly the true situation about a lot of things.  This needs to be resolved in the future and they are working on it.

The entire infrastructure has been affected, but the only thing we are short of here is gas for the car, milk, bread, and cup noodles! Every day we thank God that we are all together and all okay. Unlike those affected in the North. My heart goes out to those thousands of people who lost their homes, families, and lives.

It is one thing to write about this kind of thing.  Another to live it.

A terrible, terrible tragedy.

The Red Cross is, of course, the best place to send money.  That’s what most people over here say, because it gets where it needs to be in the least possible time. And, judging by the way that many hospitals in the North are functioning right now, they need it yesterday. There are doctors and nurses working alone 24 hours a day in sub-zero temperatures, with no rest and appalling hygiene conditions–they have to clean the silt off the equipment before they can use it and there is nowhere near enough medication to go around! And it is not only that there isn’t enough to go around, the problem is getting help and support out to them. So many evacuation sites are in places that cannot be accessed.

There were more earthquakes today.  Only small ones.  Aftershocks. But it is mentally draining. Every small quake sets the heart racing and more than once I have found myself diving under the table for cover only to find it was a two or a three.  We are told to expect another big one soon.  I am constantly on the edge of my seat.  So are my colleagues, Japanese and American.

But, in spite of this, I am optimistic.  At least my family is together and alive and my house is still standing. As I say to everyone who expresses concern, it is not the problem of radiation that takes its toll on the majority of people in Japan, it is when the next quake will be.

Anyway, thank you for your continued interest and support. It sincerely means a lot.

Mark Pearson

Hideki Desu
Issue #106
Red Cross