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It’s October, Issue #47, of Ray Gun Revival magazine. Don’t be afraid to pick it up!

93 pages

The Overlords’ Lair: The Season of Change

When In Greece, Do as the Romans Do, A Tale of Dean the Space Rogue by Andy Heizeler
Fiction
An innocent faces brutal execution on a planet with strange Luddite customs. Dark forces gather among the stars. Dean and the crew of the Tachyon Valkyrie race against the clock to prevent a murder, and of course, turn a healthy profit.

The Forgotten by R. Cruz
Fiction
What motivates the mysterious Warlord to travel the breadth of time and space to help the most dangerous race in the galaxy change their legacy?

The Glorious Revolution by Steve Case
Fiction
The Slushmasters were divided on this story. It has a strange cadence, a unique voice, a construction that almost struck me as epistolary, a dialogue in written letters. Some will hate it. Some will love it.

Blood Test by Ronald Moore
Fiction
Vampires in space. What’s not to like?

The White Knight Is Talking Backwards by Richard Zwicker
Fiction
If the time we live in is insane, it’s our duty to try to find a way out of the asylum.

“RGR Reviews: Book Reviews” by Matthew Winslow
Reviews
Matthew Windows reviews three Starship books from Mike Resnick.

Featured artist , Maxime Desmettre, Canada

Calamity’s Child, Chapter Four: Rites of Passage, Domino, Part Two by M. Keaton
Serial Fiction
Duelists, intrigue, a space firefight, and an uncooperative bounty–it’s all in a day’s work for Ivan and Red.

Thieves’ Honor: Episode Two – Spider’s Web, Part Two by Keanan Brand
Serial Fiction
It takes a ‘pirate’ to show a young woman of privilege that nothing in space is what it seems. In the meantime, Captain Kristoff continues his game of cat-and-mouse with Captain Zoltana.

Deuces Wild, Season Two, Chapter Six, Suicide Run by L. S. King
Serial Fiction
How do you break an unbreakable blockade? Very carefully. And who took the pie?

The Adventures of the Sky Pirate, Chapter 26, The Friar’s Paradox by Johne Cook
Serial Fiction
The Friar of Briar Island must choose between offering sanctuary to Flynn’s fleeing crew or aiding the pursuing Haddirron Navy, whose benevolence the Friar needs to survive out on the edge of things.

This Raygun For Hire, The Vincent Stone Affair by John M. Whalen
Serial Fiction
Hired gun Frank Carson walks into the office of Vincent Stone, CEO of Trans-Sinclair Oil, and gets an offer he can’t refuse.

My full name is John E (for Elliott) Cook, son of John W. Cook. Some close family and friends called me ‘Johnny’ growing up. My career name is John Cook, and my casual name is Johne (with the middle E snugged up against the first name). It’s a deliberately ambiguous pronunciation which can be pronounced with or without the ‘e’ sound. Personally, I think of it as a silent vanity ‘e’, but I know some people who see it and resort to the Johnny sound, and that’s fine. It’s left up to the beholder.

You’ll note that whether or not you choose to use the vanity trailing ‘e’ in my first name, and whether or not you choose to pronounce it, there is no permutation where the trailing ‘e’ ever appears in my last name. There is no ‘Cooke.’ Ever.

That is all.