Issue 5 wraps a scientific core with GUD's most eclectic selection to date—including two mini graphic novels and a script that will have you bubbling over with mirth.
It opens with Rose Lemberg's "Imperfect Verse", a tale of poetry, deception, and warring gods; then spans the years to Andrew N. Tisbert's "Getting Yourself On", which sees mankind taken to the stars but suffering new forms of wage-slavery.
There's science fiction that stretches to the fantastic, science that once stretched the fantastic and has now become brilliantly pervasive, and dollops of science in otherwise mundane lives (see "The Prettiest Crayon in the Box").
Of course, it's got fantasy, psychological horror, humor, and drama; poetry serious, sublime, and satirical; and art that stretches from the real, to the surreal, to the violently semi-abstract.
Comprising:
Stories
Imperfect Verse by Rose Lemberg;
Nature's Children by T. F. Davenport;
Lost Lying on Your Back by Steven J Dines;
Aftermath by Isabel Cooper Kunkle;
Fletcher's Lunch by Jason Hardy;
The Tiger Man by Geordie Williams Flantz;
Getting Yourself On by Andrew N Tisbert;
Birthday Licks by Kevin Brown;
The Pearl Diver with the Gold Chain by Paul Hogan;
Liza's Home by Kenneth Schneyer;
The Prettiest Crayon in the Box by Heather Lindsley.
Poetry
Suggestions for Distributing Your Poems by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming;
Deadman on the Titanic by Alicia Adams;
The Grammar of Desire by Paul J. Kocak;
desideratum by Zac Carter;
7 Ways to Fake an Orgasm by Melissa Carroll;
Hidden Things by Taras Castle;
Internal Combustion by Lucy A. Snyder.
Report
The Prophet of Menlo Park by Paul Spinrad.
Script
Sweet Melodrama by Tristan D'Agosta.
Art
Soul Searching by MichaelO (cover);
Tangible-2 (2004) by Jerry Goins;
Infrared 2 by Richard Kadrey;
Bust by Jon Radlett.
Comics
Ada Lovelace: The Origin! by Sydney Padua;
Gunga Din by Joseph Calabrese and Harsho Mohan Chattoraj.