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June 2009
Welcome.
When I was in high school, I decided that I wanted to be an astonomer. However, the school that offered me the best scholarship didn't offer astronomy as anything other than an elective course in Physical Sciences. So I was faced with a dilemma: do I choose another school where I would have to pay to learn what I wanted to or do I settle on a school that will offer me a comprehensive scholarship? I ultimately settled, choosing Physics as my major and eventually getting a B.S. in Physics. My desire to study astronomy waned, and now that I've read this week's story, maybe that's not such a bad thing.
This week's story is "The Orrery Man" by Brant Danay, and it's out there, both literally and figuratively.
Here's a taste:
He had possessed the greatest orrery on Earth, but he and his spinning replica of the solar system were Terrans no longer. As the Cosmogytron, his observatory/monastery/ spaceship, launched through Earth's ionosphere and into the sidereal beyond, the Orrery Man meditated inside the incandescent sculpture of the Sun which formed the nexus of his model planets. Confined to the sphere of fire opal and molten gold, the Orrery Man felt as though he were being enlightened by a pulsating continuum of claustrophobias and claustrophilias. Like a hybrid of sensory deprivation chambers and sweat lodges it heightened his consciousness, until he could feel the rest of the orrery spinning around him, the mechanical orbits of the nine artificial planets and their one-hundred and seventy-five moons cycling through the planetarium chamber and circling his mind, body, and soul.
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The rest can be found here.
Don't forget, Susurrus Press's first print anthology Neverlands & Otherwheres is now available for purchase. This book is edited by Yours Truly and the Rev. Brian Worley, and contains fantastically woven tales of worlds above, below, behind and beyond our own. Stories by A. H. Jennings, Jennifer Moore, Sylvia Kelso, John Weagly, Mercedes Murdock Yardley, Bruce Golden, Mark Lee Pearson, R. A. Gale, Patricia Russo, Maxwell James, Casey Fiesler, Lisa A. Koosis, and a novella by Kit St. Germain. You can find more information here.
Until next month,
Adicus Ryan Garton, editor Cosmic
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