Isotropic Fiction #10 (Isotropic Fiction Magazine)

IF10 will grab your imagination and submerge it so far into another dimension, it would take a galaxy positioning system just to plot a route back.

"The Demeter Gyro Disaster," penned by Tory Hoke, sets the tone with a space disaster so quick and punchy that it the surprises within sneak up on the reader. Jay O'Connell's "Snapshot" follows suit, compressing a stranger's long term existential crisis into the course of an hour, all while the chaos of a futuristic New Orleans whorls around them. Just as the engines start to cool, Douglas Sterling presents "The Nearness of You," which develops a slow burning tension that undermines any sense of security.

After that, IF10 returns to Earth to resolve Rabe McGeary's fate in the conclusion of "Endsville, Pop. 2," then moves forward to present day for "Fingernail Moon," another one of Jeff Wood's reality-bending tales.