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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 New Flames for an Old Love
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Notes

  • The first story in which Sean Williams used the 'd-mat' technology that would become central to the Twinmaker universe:

    The world of “New Flames” doesn’t quite map onto either Twinmaker’s or The Resurrected Man’s. Marcus deBarrow is never referred to again, and “D-mat” quickly becomes “d-mat”. If you’ve read Crashland and you read this story you’ll see that I changed a lot of the details–including the phrase “loose gluons”, although I’m not sure if “unstable matter” makes any more sense.

    Source:

    Author's website (http://twinmakerbooks.com.au/new-flames/). (Sighted: 18/04/2017)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Doorway to Eternity Sean Williams , Westmead : MirrorDanse Books , 1994 Z44202 1994 selected work novella science fiction Westmead : MirrorDanse Books , 1994 pg. 11-29
    Note:

    Published on author's website.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Leading Edge no. 31 August 1995 11042646 1995 periodical issue 1995 pg. 6-24
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon A View Before Dying Sean Williams , Nedlands : Ticonderoga Publications , 1998 Z203879 1998 selected work short story science fiction Nedlands : Ticonderoga Publications , 1998 pg. 11-26
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Light Bodies Falling Sean Williams , Blackwood : Altair Publishing , 2007 18794144 2007 selected work short story Blackwood : Altair Publishing , 2007
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The View from the End of the World Andromeda Spaceways Magazine Special Issue April Amy Gordon (editor), 2020 19773739 2020 periodical issue

    'Attention all passengers - this is your Captain speaking!

    'If you have been watching the news, you will know that the people of Earth are currently suffering through a pandemic known as “COVID-19.” For those of you who are not students of history, various worlds have experienced similar pandemics in the past such as the “Clone-Killing Nanovirus,’’ the “Great Plague of Middle Earth,” the “Shame” of Betelgeuse 5, and, of course, the always insidious “Cooties.”

    'We here at Andromeda Spaceways take the health and wellbeing of our passengers very seriously and will be following the strict guidelines developed in the wake of the aforementioned pandemics in order to keep everyone safe throughout their journey.'

    Source: Editorial (p.1).

    Special issue of Andromeda Spaceways Magazine containing eleven apocalyptic stories by Sean Williams, released during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author describes the collection as the result of a request by editor Amy Gordon for 'a story or two that might gel with the times' (p.3).

         2020     pg. 82-97
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