Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine issue #49 is now available. (And yes, the cover really is as silly in full size as the smaller version above suggests.) This issue contains my story “The Madison.”

The canonical themes in my stories appear to be love, death and cute animals. If I don’t tag all three of those, I’ll most likely get at least two. In this story we have (spoiler alert!) love and cute animals, but no death.

Belated horrible-realization update: This story contains an utterly stupid, utterly unforgivable, utterly ruinous scientific error. I don’t know where the eff my brain was. I know better, honest. Please don’t read this story.  Anyone. Ever. Really.

Interesting coincidence that sort of makes things better update: A very nice independent SF movie called Astronaut: The Last Push was released in 2012. A part of this movie’s back story is that an unmanned spacecraft has discovered whale-like creatures living under the ice of Europa. The imaging technology used to make this discovery is... (wait for it...) synthetic aperture radar! This is a mistake, and the same one that I made in “The Madison.”— radar cannot see through water or ice. But if this fine little serious-SF movie can make that mistake, maybe it’s not so bad that I did too.