Mothership Zeta: Issue 1 (Mothership Zeta Magazine #1)

The first ezine effort from the popular podcast production company, Escape Artists, Mothership Zeta offers speculative fiction that has a focus on fun. Fun is subjective, naturally, but we hope these short stories, reviews, and nonfiction pieces offer a look at the lighter side of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Stories by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Fade Manley, and more. Nonfiction by Dr. Pamela Gay and multi-award-winning author James Patrick Kelly.

Welcome to Issue 1 of Mothership Zeta • essay by Mur Lafferty
Welcome to Issue 1 of Mothership Zeta, the magazine dedicated to putting the "fun" back in science function, funtasy, and, uh, funror. • essay by Sunil Patel
The Customer is Always Right • short fiction by Anna Salonen
Q&A: An AI Love Story • short fiction by Fade Manley
Panic Twice, Spin • short fiction by Malon Edwards
Sleeping with Spirits • short fiction by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Bargain • short story by Sarah Gailey
Imma Gonna Finish You Off • (2014) • short story by Marina J. Lostetter
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dwarf Planets • essay by Pamela L. Gay
Why We Love Playing Flight Rising • essay by Mur Lafferty and Kri Dontje and Karen Bovenmyer
The Story Doctor is (In): Sleeping with Spirits • essay by James Patrick Kelly
Series Review: Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody, Egyptologist • essay by Karen Bovenmyer
Places • short fiction by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Favorite 2014-2015 Graphic Novels: Nimona, Finder: Third World, Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: No Normal, Trees and the upcoming Star Wars, Volume 1: Skywalker Strikes and Lady Killer • essay by Adam Gallardo
Tales of a Fourth Grade Shoggoth • short story by Kevin Wetmore
Movie Review: Turbo Kid: Why This BMX Blood Sparkle Unicorn Apocalypse Will Blow Your Mind • short fiction by Alex Acks [as by Rachael Acks]
The Insect Forest • short fiction by Paul DesCombaz
  Review: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell • review by Karen Bovenmyer
  Review: The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey • review by Karen Bovenmyer