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Editorial: May The Fourth Be With You

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It looks like I’m a little late in getting the editorial up for you this month. But this time I’m sort of happy I did so, mainly because I can say May the Fourth be with you. That’s right. Happy Star Wars Day. I hope you’re enjoying each and every film and everything else that has spun off from the original trilogy.

Also, speaking of May, did you know that May is National Short Story Month? Go ahead and tell your friends. The more of us who know about it, the more of us there will be who can celebrate short stories together.

And don’t forget to celebrate Towel Day in memory of Douglas Adams at the end of the month (May 25th). I’ll try to have a towel on me.

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We’re Not Niche Enough

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Interstellar Fiction has been around for almost a year now, and we’re all very proud of it’s progress. However, a few of us were chatting and have decided that the magazine is not niche enough. We must go deeper. The decision was to start publishing what I affectionately like to call botrotica: robot erotica. We have noticed the success of books like “Fifty Shades of Gray”, and we’re looking for the next one, only involving robots. So if you’re familiar for “Fifty Shades of Gray”, we’re looking for something like “Fifty Shades of Steel and Circuitry”.

We even have a couple of stories ready to publish next month.

  • 01001100011011110111011001100101: Code of Love
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  • A Longing Circuit
  • Heart of Titanium

They are all promising, especially if you’re into botrotica. And we’re sure that they’ll get your circuits burnin’ and keep all your appendages fully lubed.

If you’d like more information or would like to submit, just follow this link.

April Fool’s!

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Q&A with Michael Hodges

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1. We like having a fun question to get the creativity going. What would you do if you had an army of robots? Would you use them for good or for evil?

Hmmm…if I had an army of robots I would definitely use them for good. My robots would need self-repair skills as well as some sort of moral programming. They’d have to or the entire thing would crumble. I supposed the army would need a committee, too, or else it would come off as a portable tin-pot dictatorship that raised more frowns than smiles. I’d have a few safety robots that would pluck people and animals from roads, and intervene in accidents waiting to happen. I’d have anti-poaching robots that would zap poaching rings. The fun could go on and on.

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