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If you haven’t heard, Electric Velocipede is nominated for Best Fanzine for the 2009 Hugo Awards!

In honor of that achievement, EV is offering a sales special for the next 50 customers.

Offer includes unmissable items:

EV #15/16

The Sense of Falling by Ezra Pines

An Alternate History of the 21st Century by William Shunn

Psychological Methods to Sell Must Be Destroyed: Stories by Robert Freeman Wexler

Life’s Simple Pleasures by John Klima

Make it yours.

Back issues of EV are also available.

Novelettes:
Corey Brown – Child of Scorn
Claude Lalumière – Destroyer of Worlds
Darren Speegle – Strains of the Lost Oktober

Short Stories:
Olivia V. Ambrogio – Trades
Jayme Lynn Blaschke – A Plague of Banjos
Terry Bramlett – Sallie’s Price
Sheila Crosby – Unreal Estate
Aliette De Bodard – The Dragon’s Tears
Catherine Dybiec Holm – Detours
Robert J. Howe – Season of the Long Now
Alex Dally MacFarlane – Two Coins
Michael Neal Morris – Partita for continuo
Michelle Muenzler – She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Timothy Mulcahy – The Tree Reader
Patrick O’Leary – The Oldest Man on Earth
Erin Pringle – The Floating Order
Alistair Rennie – A Doom of My Own
Patricia Russo – Sitting Round the Stewpot
William Shunn – Timesink
Leslie Claire Walker – The Devil Wears Combat Boots
Jonathan Wood – Notes on the Dissection of an Imaginary Beetle

Poetry:
Catherine Edmunds – Installation
David C. Kopaska-Merkel – Cher Amazon
Shira Lipkin – Wool and Silk and Wood
Rachel V. Olivier – Homemade Rosewater
Rachel V. Olivier – The Story
Terrie Lee Relf – on realizing death is a man
J.C. Runolfson – Now You See her
Rena Sherwood – The Electric Viola Player Wore Black
Rachel Swirsky – Remembering the World

Nonfiction:
Penelope O’Shea – Sampling the Aspic
Lucius Shepard – Blindfold Taste Test

Interview with Cititor SF of Romania.

Romanian version

English version

FEATURES:
- The weird animation of Bill Plympton
- Viktor Koen’s biomechanical visions
- Exclusive excerpt: The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia

INTERNATIONAL FICTION SPOTLIGHT:
- “First Photograph” by Zoran Zivkovic
- “The Gong” by Sara Genge
- “The Dream of the Blue Man” by Nir Yaniv
- “The Wordeaters” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
- “Out of Sacred Water” by Juraj Cervenak
- “Time and the Orpheus” by Chiles Samaniego
- “BleakWarrior Meets the Sons of Brawl” by Alistair Rennie

POETRY:
- “The Monster With the Shape of Me” by Brian J. Hatcher

NONFICTION:
- The Library: Elizabeth Genco talks with author Lauren Groff about writing The Monsters of Templeton
- The Bazaar: Jessica Joslin’s crazy steampunk critters
- Weirdism: Robert Isenberg on the cinema’s latest obsession with apocalyptic futures
- Lost in Lovecraft: Kenneth Hite dives literarily into the Pacific Ocean and pulls up H.P. Lovecraft
- Harvey Pelican & Co.: special offers from the esoterica king

ARTWORK:
- Cover art: “Skelephron” by Viktor Koen
- Illustrations by Steven Archer, Hellstern, Ira Marcks and more

For the Holidays: Pirates of the Caribbean’s Keep to the Code and Fast Ships, Black Sails Join Forces

The Oldest Man on Earth by Patrick O’Leary

Sitting Round the Stewpot by Patricia Russo

Notes on the Dissection of an Imaginary Beetle by Jonathan Wood

All of these stories feature in issue #15/16 of Electric Velocipede.

Cherith Baldry — Dreaming of Angels
Neville Rhys Barnes — Heritage Ocean
Jacey Bedford — The Whitby Jets
Chris Butler — Stone and Stage
Mark Concannon — Thick Hides and Furry Hearts
Deirdre Counihan — Jettisoned
Dayle A. Dermatis — Proof of Devotion
Melanie Fletcher — Lost in Whitby
Esther M. Friesner — How Thorvald the Bloody-Minded Saved Christmas
Stephen Kilbane — Wylde in Whitby
Ruth Nestvold and Jay Lake — Hobdale
Alistair Rennie — Recalled to the Wrath of Penda
Kari Sperring — The Whale’s Daughter
Sue Thomason — The Age of Silver
Karen Williams — Drowning Victims
Liz Williams — Mortal Coil
Neil Williamson — The Codsman and His Willing Shag

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