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James Gunn's Ad Astra published its first featured issue in July of 2012. Have a seat, pull up your monitor and enjoy! Start Reading...About Us
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- Submissions are Open! (11/7/2012) - We are currently accepting stories, poems, multimedia, articles and reviews for our next full issue, to be published in June, 2013. Make your submission before March 31, 2013 to be considered for the 2013 Full Issue. Submissions will remain open on an ongoing basis, however, and Ad Astra hopes to begin publishing regularly between full issues. Our ability to do ...
- Editorial – To the Stars, Through Difficulties (6/28/2012) - by Isaac Bell, Issue Editor —I wasn’t aware of the danger when I sat down to dinner with friends at the end of our two-week writing workshop...
- Editorial – The Universal Motivator (6/28/2012) - by Douglas McKinney — In sum, James Gunn’s Ad Astra presents you with thirteen Featured Selections dealing with a broad spectrum of themes centered on communication and information. Just as I did when reading these works for the first time, I hope you will find within them plenty to think about.
- What does “Communication and Information” mean anyway? (6/14/2012) - What do we mean when we talk about "Communication and Information?" That's quite a broad topic, don't you think? After all, everything we say and write is information, and every act of sharing constitutes communication. How can we center the theme of Ad Astra around such a nebulous concept?
- Theme Songs for Strange Creatures (6/14/2012) - Have you ever wondered what an alien song might sound like? Would it even need to be transmitted by sound waves? What if the song is telepathic or carried by a bacterium directly to the audience member’s central processing unit?