Volume 48, Issue 2
Spring 2025

an astronaut on a dusty red planet
Cover: Mars Discovery
© Pete Kornowski

Wyrms & Wormholes

Moon Rocks

I grew up on Jay Williams’ Danny Dunn series, on Heinlein, on Clarke, on LeGuin. Before that, I remember telling my parents that one day I’d go to the moon; I’d bring back some moon rocks for a mantel that we didn’t have.

I fell into speculative poetry by accident. A fellow writer at a writing group my father-in-law invited me to attend while visiting him offhandedly said, That poem has some speculative elements. Why don’t you submit it to Asimov’s? I didn’t, but that comment opened a wormhole to worlds I never imagined. A decade ago, F. J. Bergmann accepted that short poem for Star*Line. I was hooked

Now I’m embarking on a new adventure: honored to assume the editor position here at Star*Line. There aren’t any moon rocks around here to send home, but I look forward to collecting your gems for the journal.

John Reinhart, Star*Line Editor


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Star*Line Staff:

Editor: John Reinhart
Layout: F. J. Bergmann
Production Manager: F. J. Bergmann
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Table of Contents

Departments

  • Wyrms & Wormholes * John Reinhart
  • SFPA Announcements
  • President’s Message * Brian U. Garrison
  • From the Small Press * Herb Kauderer, Lisa Timpf
  • Stealth SF * “What is Speculative Poetry” * Denise Dumars
  • SpecPo Publishing * Interview with Betsy Aoki * Jean-Paul Garnier

Art

  • Mars Discovery * Pete Kornowski
  • Reception * Denny E. Marshall

Poetry

  • If They Call * Lisa Timpf
  • Hello, Out There * Judith Yarrow
  • A Martian garden story * Diem Okoye
  • spacetime discontinuum * Howard V. Hendrix
  • Main sequence * Simon Kaeppeli
  • Planet X * Barbara Candiotti
  • L^p * Madeline Barnicle
  • [hydrogen] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel
  • [toenail clippings] * LeRoy Gorman
  • Roy Batty, I would have travelled with you * B. Anne Adriaens
  • [zero-g kissing] * Lauren McBride
  • A Column of Black Lace * Denise Dumars
  • Acoustic Abodes * D. A. Xiaolin Spires
  • [sunrise] * LeRoy Gorman
  • Vocal Rest * Sarah Cannavo
  • Aquatint Yonder * Bernardo Villela
  • The Stew * Brian Rosenberger
  • Lights * Nicholas De Marino
  • [teen party] * Jay Friedenberg
  • burnt offerings * arukoya tomais
  • The Laika Martyrology * Meg Smith
  • Woof * Jean-Paul L. Garnier
  • Terran Uptight about Terraforming * Lauren McBride
  • SpaceDepot * Osmani Ochoa
  • Inner View * John H. Dromey
  • Cosmic Bookends * Scout Clancy Batreau
  • sweeping: a unitoum * Crystal Sidell
  • It Still Flies Fine * Gerri Leen
  • Time Signatures * Dana Wall
  • RIP First Explorers * Matthew Wilson
  • Chronovirus * A J Dalton
  • [The White Rabbit] * Sarah Cannavo
  • Evasion * David C. Kopaska-Merkel
  • Misled * Sarah Cannavo
  • [alone with the CEO] * Joshua St. Claire
  • Space Turtle * Randall Andrews
  • Alligators and You * Herb Kauderer
  • Etiquette is Etiquette * Michael H. Payne
  • True Love * Michael H. Payne
  • It is all around * Richard Magahiz
  • Sunstorm * Deborah L. Davitt
  • Evolution in Colony Ship HVAC Systems … * Jason Burnham
  • Celestial Worm * Darius Jones
  • Ziroonderel * S R Tombran
  • Princess Bride * James Arthur Anderson
  • The Truth About Trees * Daniel Ausema
  • Fruit of the Tree * Jamal Hodge
  • Anna’s Hummingbird * Terri Yannetti
  • As My Soul Becomes Water * Devan Barlow
  • [dripping wet] * Sarah Cannavo
  • Moonglade * Nicholas De Marino
  • the new great race * D. A. Xiaolin Spires
  • Old Skipping Rhyme * Silvatiicus Riddle
  • Programmer's SciFaiku * Larina Warnock
  • The Teacher Gains a Demonic Student * Beth Cato
  • Twist * Roger Dutcher
  • Romeroverse * Robert Borski
  • [Exoskeleton] * Elizabeth Fletcher
  • Terror Forming * Philip Madden
  • Magical Science of Little Consequence * Robert Frazier
  • Separate Breeds * Herb Kauderer
  • Sayra and Sojourn * Garrett Carroll
  • Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age * Richard Magahiz
  • Transhuman * Anna Cates
  • Three recipes from the Uncanny Mixologist’s Guide to Home Brewing * Melissa Ridley Elmes
  • Sod Fingers * Murray Eiland
  • Blood Hypotenuse, Ghost Ink * Robert Borski
  • FTL * F. J. Bergmann
  • Timeline Hypernexus Pileup * Pixie Bruner
  • Sparkle * John C. Mannone
  • and holes in the roof to welcome rain * Marisca Pichette
  • Automated Oblivion * Ken Poyner
  • Safe Words for Soft Beings * Lesley Hart Gunn
  • Robot Lullaby * Mary Soon Lee
  • Love Among Water Lilies * Gretchen Tessmer
  • The Blight Sky * Gretchen Tessmer
  • For its hunger could not end * Alper Ghuchlu
  • What If Stephen King Wrote a Declaration to Independence? * Juan Perez
  • Tinnitus * Robert Borski
  • geomancy * Marisca Pichette
  • The Dodos of Deimos * Mary Soon Lee
  • Urgent Meeting of the Earth Creation Gamers * Cynthia Forbes
  • Thawless * Lorraine Schein
  • Galactic Graffiti * John H. Dromey
  • back shout when you wanna get off the ride * Anna Weaver
  • The Cathedral Gargoyle * Kendall Evans
  • [latest brain implant] * Ngô Bình Anh Khoa

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