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Summary: Continuum, 2005
Continuum is a new magazine (it began with three issues in 2004), formatted much like the small 'zines like Electric Velocipede (though with slightly nicer covers), but aimed at more of an Analog-style range of stories. In 2005 only one issue appeared, #4, dated Fall 2005. This issue included 5 stories, one a novelette, one a short-short, for a total of about 23,000 words of fiction. In addition, three short stories (one a short-short) were posted online at the magazine's website, <http://www.continuumsciencefiction.com/index.htm>, 9000 more words. The editor is Bill Rupp.
Of these 8 stories, my favorites were two from the print issue: "The Gorjun is Free", by Douglas Hoffman; and "Speaking to Mother", by Tom Doyle. In the first, a boy and his father buy a strange device from a flea-market while on the way to visit the man's estranged wife. The device, natch, is apparently of alien origin, leading to unusual affects on reality. In the second, a research team monitoring a black hole detects gravitational anomalies that hint at communication with another universe. The story very nicely marries the pretty cool SFnal ideas with an effective story of a woman's relationship with her husband.
