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Summary: Neo-Opsis, 2005
Neo-Opsis is a Canadian magazine edited by Karl Johanson. The first issue came out in 2003 and three more issues appeared each of the past two years. The focus is on Science Fiction, but they do publish the occasional fantasy story. The three 2005 issues included 18 stories, 2 of them novelettes, 2 of them short-shorts. Just shy of 90,000 words of fiction.
Of the 2 novelettes I found K. Bannerman's "The Mask and The Maze" the more interesting. I don't think the story ended up working, but I was quite intrigued for a while, before a somewhat disappointing ending. The story concerns a powerful man, ruler of much of the world, and his secretary, and how he uses a cruel game ultimately to kill her husband -- leading of course to her revenge. Of the stories I liked "The Man from M.E.S.M.E.R." by Stephen Couch, a humorous piece about an alternate history in which hypnotism gains an early social stronghold; "Golem" by Mark Budman, a fairly straightforward Golem story from the point of view of the creature himself; and Scott Mackay's "The World of One-Ways", about a telepath losing his power
