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    Shoreline of Infinity 20: Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine, #20
    Shoreline of Infinity 20: Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine, #20
    Shoreline of Infinity 20: Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine, #20
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    Shoreline of Infinity 20: Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine, #20

    By Noel Chidwick, Bo Balder, Pippa Goldschmidt and

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    Pilot Issue of the new monthly digital Shoreline of Infinity.

    It's an all-women issue to mark International Women's Day.

    New stories from: Bo Balder, Fiona Moore, Laura Watts

    SF poetry from: T.D. Walker

    Article: Transmitting Tales of the Future into the Future, by Pippa Goldschmidt

    Book Reviews:  Cat Hellisen reviews Composite Creatures by Caroline Hardaker

    Art: Stephen Daly, Jackie Duckworth

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShoreline of Infinity Publications / The New Curiosity Shop
    Release dateMar 7, 2021
    ISBN9781393160281
    Shoreline of Infinity 20: Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine, #20
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    Noel Chidwick

    Editor of science fiction magazine, Shoreline of Infinity.

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      Shoreline of Infinity 20 - Noel Chidwick

      Contents

      Celebrating International Women’s Day 2021

      Shoreline of Infinity is Evolving…

      The Ghosts of Trees: Fiona Moore

      The Cuddle Stop: Laura Watts

      Vast Vast Slow: Bo Balder

      Multiverse: T.D Walker

      Transmitting tales of the future into the future: Pippa Goldschmidt

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      About Shoreline of Infinity

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      Celebrating International Women’s Day 2021

      Shoreline of Infinity

      Award-winning science fiction magazine

      published in Scotland for the Universe.

      ISSN 2059-2590

      © 2021 Shoreline of Infinity.

      Contributors retain copyright of own work.

      Submissions of fiction, art, reviews, poetry, non-fiction are welcomed: visit the website to find out how to submit.

      www.shorelineofinfinity.com

      Publisher

      Shoreline of Infinity Publications / The New Curiosity Shop

      Edinburgh

      Scotland

      060321

      Shoreline of Infinity is Evolving…

      You are reading the pilot issue of our new monthly digital edition of Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine. it’s a compact issue, of 3 stories, poems, a book review, a non-fiction piece. – regular fix of science fictional wonderfulness.

      This’ll be the core of every digital edition, what you’ll see every time, but the beauty of digital publishing means that you never know how things will evolve. But there’s one way to find out – reat yourself to a subscription, or make a point to buy yourself a copy every month.

      There are more details of our plans on the Shoreline website

      I’ll step aside, and leave you to read Fiona Moore’s tale, The Ghost of Trees.

      Noel Chidwick

      Editor-in-Chief

      Shoreline of Infinity

      The Ghosts of Trees

      Fiona Moore

      It was Itch’s fertility problems that started it all. Not the ones with getting the cactus splices in Environment Twelve to cross-pollinate, the other ones.

      Seriously, Cee, could you cover the early shift for me so Tina and I can go to the clinic? Dr Shuichi Sakai, brown eyes wide, solemn, innocent. It’s going to take the whole morning, starting from seven, so I can’t cover the midnight to eight.

      As project leader I could have pulled rank, insisted one of the assistants cover it. This close to completion, it would mean eight hours doing nothing but staring at monitor feeds of plant beds and going over reports on promising specimens, suitability for a Martian environment, terraforming utility, et cetera et cetera, for our corporate masters (though come to think of it, half of the project’s funders are governments, so I ought to come up with a better name). But I was spending as little time as I could at our apartment – my apartment – and didn’t mind an excuse to stay late.

      For appearance’s sake, I extracted a promise from Itch that he’d cover some of my teaching when term started, and booked a room near the desert so I didn’t have to go all the way back for the night.

      If I hadn’t, I’d never have seen the ghosts of trees.

      The alarm sounded around 4:45 AM, indicating the failure of a sensor pack in Environment Thirty-Nine.

      The trip out from the base in Area 1 took twenty minutes, all of them confined, cold and clammy: the rover reeked of mouldy vegetables. My biohazard suit reeked of something worse.

      I parked the rover, entered the passcode on the keypad. Outer door. Inner door. Replaced the sensor pack, bagged the old one (it had a suspicious coat of whitish dust, presumably spores or pollen, which might be the cause of the failure), glanced around the black-green interior, the silent rows of plant beds with their cargo of experimental cultivars. Back through the two protective doors again, unzipped my hood to take a few deep breaths of non-reeking cool dry pre-dawn air. And then I saw the trees.

      They looked real: that was what struck me. Like a plantation of pines, the kind you see from the window of a train or a smartcar when you ride through the rural north. About a kilometre square, and close by. Just sitting, branches occasionally waving in

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