Ionospherics 100

Made it. It's a light-year stone. A hundred issues of AntipodeanSF, and still in publication. Amazing. Gives me goosebumps.

But AntiSF is so much more than just a publication place to me. Indeed, while I've blushed with some of the accolades I've received in the past month (thank you, all), accolades aren't what it's all about. I'm shameless in the admission that AntiSF has a political objective above and beyond anything I might do as an editor to encourage new and existing talent.

Frankly, you don't need me to tell you outright what that political objective is. Don't be surprised. It's cloudy, ill-defined, and deliberately different. Speculative (read subversive) stories do far better in this task than any outright plea. The medium is the message is the medium.

Yes, you CAN work it out for yourself.

And I'm not done with you yet. Since I suspect I've hoodwinked contributors and readers alike to serve in a nebulous cause, I really ought to offer my personal thanks.

So:

Special thanks to Edwina Harvey and Rakel Hansen as contributors to the first issue. They provided a much-needed impetus for me to continue the AntiSF project.

Similarly, thanks to my partner Karen, who tirelessly picks up the pieces when I'm not around because I'm editing, designing, or otherwise occupied with AntiSF.

And most of all, thanks to each and every contributor of stories, articles, and artwork. Without your efforts AntipodeanSF would not exist. I truly appreciate the fact that you're all willing to submit without serious recompense other than a guarantee that your efforts will be read.

Finally — our mission remains unchanged: AntipodeanSF still aims to seek out and publish the kind of stories that somehow flip the mind of the reader into another realm — somewhere diametrically opposed to a "normal" point of view. Truly antipodean!

Meanwhile, Issue 200 looms...

Ooroo for now,

Nuke (editor)