The nine stories are set in the far future and taking place in the distant reaches of space. Inside you’ll discover a strange world with a planetary ring forged from organic matter, bizarre aliens cataloguing and collecting humans to populate their idea of paradise, Lovecraftian horrors come to life in the heart of a comet, cybernetic monsters hunting humans in the hull of an abandoned star ship, and paranoid space explorers pushed to their limits at the frontier of an uncharted universe.
Stories have been penned by various renowned speculative fiction authors from Australia and the United States, including:
- Cody Goodfellow – editor of Perilous Press and author of Radiant Dawn and Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
- Cat Sparks – fiction editor for Cosmos Magazine and multiple Aurealis Award winning author
- Stephen Dedman – Australian science fiction veteran and author of Shadows Bite and Foreign Bodies
- Shane Jiraiya Cummings – Managing Editor of Horrorscope.com.au and author of Phoenix and the Darkness of Wolves
- Joanne Anderton – author of upcoming speculative fiction novel Debris
The issue will feature an in depth interview with Charles Stross, one of the most imaginative and insightful science fiction authors writing today. Stross has been honoured with two Hugo awards and Locus Reader awards, and has published more than a dozen novels, including Saturn’s Children and The Fuller Memorandum. He talks to David Conyers for Midnight Echo about his Lovecrafitan science fiction horror series, The Laundry, and his latest novel, Rule 34.
A second interview is with Chris Moore, world renowned British science fiction artist best known for his striking covers for Orion Publishing’s SF Masterworks series and for his official wallpaper art for film The Empire Strikes Back. Insights are gained into Moore’s process for achieving his striking and imaginative art, and the many changes he has been facing in the publishing industry since he began illustrating in the 1970s.
The cover for Midnight Echo 6, ‘Strange Behaviour’, is a creation of talented UK artist, Paul Drummond, who will be well-known to readers of Interzone for his striking depictions of star ships, futuristic humans and robots.
Featured interior illustrators include:
- Steve Gilberts – Apex Digest, Space and Time, and Book of Dark Wisdom
- David Lee Ingersoll – The Black Seal and Worlds of Cthulhu
- Olivia Kernot – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
- Nathan Wyckoff – Jumpgates Comics
Further details on Midnight Echo can be found at http://www.australianhorror.com/
Previous issues of Midnight Echo can be purchased at http://www.shop.australianhorror.com/
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I need to apologise for putting out incorrect information about Chris Moore's involvement with The Empire Strikes Back. In my original press release I credited him with doing concept art for the movie, but this is not correct. Chris' involvement was in doing a wallpaper design for ICI in England to be released simultaneously based on characters and scenes in the film.
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