Issues

Issue Five: Frontier (Summer 2024)

The mission of this issue, to borrow from Star Trek’s James T. Kirk, is “to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Guest edited by Korinne West.

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Issue Four: Arcana (Fall 2023)

An important part of Soft Star’s ethos is curiosity about and reverence for the unknowns of the universe, and magic is a powerful symbol for these unknowns. The stories presented in this issue explore the amazing will of humanity to understand our universe, as well as the limitations of that understanding. There are stories of witchcraft and sorcery, poems about magical technology, reimagined fairy tales, and more.

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Issue Three: Wormhole (Spring 2023)

This issue contains stories of irreversible change, reckoning with fear, contact with the unexpected, expansion of the mind, and bravery in the face of the unknown.

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Issue Two: Aurora (Winter 2023)

Issue Two evokes the tenuous beauty of the aurora, the oppressive expansiveness of bitter cold winter nights under piercing stars, the liminal space between Earth and the beyond, and the moments (both real and fictional) when the mundane is encroached by something larger than ourselves.

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Issue One (Fall 2022)

Throughout history, humans have come face to face with surprises from the universe. Things that they didn’t expect or didn’t think possible. Sometimes that’s scary. But mostly, it’s awe inspiring. Those chance meetings and discoveries are what keeps us going as a species. We want to learn more, to see more, and every time we do it changes our world for the better.