Far Point Magazine (1991-92)

[Calenture]

Not sure how Certain People will react to this post, but one of my stories was in the fourth ish. Which unfortunately also happened to be the last.

Looking down the names, those that are familiar - which seems to be one or two per issue - include Brian Stableford, Larry Niven, Charles Stross (Lovecraftian novels), Sarah Ash (Best New Horror and Interzone, John Brunner, Andy Sawyer, David Hardy.

Keith Page

Issue 1, November/December 1991

Edited by J C H Rigby

Home is a House Called Percy - Stephen Markley
Blind the Mouse - Mark Close
Adam's Offspring - Duncan Long
Conspiracy of Souls - Nicola Ashton
Justice - Brian Stableford
Reprise - Maris Morland
The Crow and the Dragonfly - David Raven
The Door Specialist - Maggie Freeman
Gorilla - Peter C Davies
Do You Love - Jo Raine
The Firing Line - Martyn J Fogg

Other Illustrators: Sarah Bradnam, Roy Courtney-deal

Tony Todd

Issue 2, January/February 1992

Edited by J C H Rigby

A Substitute For Love - D B Normanton
Dream Park: The Voodoo Game - Larry Niven and Steven Barns
The Man Who Shot Dinosaurs - Cyril Bracegirdle
Shadow Casters - Linda Markley
Love 40 - Piers Anthony
Pure Maths - John Timson
The Crystal Man - Peter Spooner
Doppleganger - L D Acaster
Lucifer Falling - Julian Flood
The Dragon, Fly - Gilliam M Paddock

Other artists: Fred Gambino, Mark Farnell, D B Normanton, Rick Byrne, Sarah Bradnam, Russell Morgan, D P Courtice

David Hardy

Issue 2, March/April 1992

Edited by J C H Rigby


Spin Dizzy - John Duffield
Double Year Lost - Peter Hamilton
See Those Eyes - Keith Brooke
Ironbar - Rick Gammack
Cleanest Solution - Martin Wesley
The Odd Man Out - Andrew Wilson
Tell Me What You See, Miss Ellis - Roderick Wilkinson
Joe Grimaldi Meets Shakespeare - Alan Fisk
A Substitute For Love - D B Normanton
Cryptogram - Peter Tennant
The Midlist Bombers - Charles Stross

Other artists: Martin McKenna, Roger Morgan, Simon Davies, Paul Cockburn, D B Normanton, Stewart "Staz" Johnson, D P Courtice

Chris Bulis

Issue 2, May/June 1992

Edited by J C H Rigby

Duallists - David Wade
Metal Picnic - Mike O'Driscoll
A Substitute For Love - D B Normanton
To You From Me - Julia Lucie
The Character Who Was Real - Peter Reveley
Ninufar's Kiss - Sarah Ash
A Break in the Ring - John Brunner
The Hard Man - Andy Sawyer
Miss Ain't Behaving - Jack Wainer
The Price of a Head - Roger B Pyle

Other artists: Ronald Brocklehurst, Mark Farnell, Stella Hunter, Roger Morgan

[David A. Riley]

This was a great magazine. It was a shame when it closed down. You were lucky to get a story in it, Rog. I had one lined up for a future issue!
I wish I still had my copies of this, then I would look up your story, but I sold them some years ago. One of those acts you should know at the time you're going to regret.
David

[Calenture]

davidriley said:

This was a great magazine. It was a shame when it closed down. You were lucky to get a story in it, Rog. I had one lined up for a future issue!

You're the first Vault member to admit seeing this magazine, David.

Did your story appear anywhere else - have we got it reviewed in the Vault anywhere?

My own story in issue 4 was the first of a fantasy series with horror undertones, so probably not many Vault members would approve of it, though it was posted in the original workshop somewhere - I won't put a link; I'll save you the dubious pleasure of reading off a screen.

[David A. Riley]

I can't remember which story this was now, though it will have appeared elsewhere since. It was probably a story called Help-Plants which was eventually published in Aboriginal Science Fiction in the States in 1998. It's also being reprinted in my collection from John Pelan's Midnight House, hopefully later this year.
I liked this magazine. I thought it was far better than Interzone, which was the only other British SF magazine going at the time, which I always thought dreadfully dull.
David