TIL that Andromeda Spaceways magazine, formerly known as Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, is no more.

After 25 years, Andromeda Spaceways magazine will be grounding our fleet with issue 100, due December 2025.

We want to thank all our passengers over the years (and really, what is time when you’ve passed through as many black holes as we have?) for allowing us to showcase some of the best speculative fiction from Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world.

I guess that 25 years is a massive run, stretching back to that 20th century some of you may have heard of, but of course I am sad to see the disappearance of a venue for spec fic, especially one that leaned heavily towards my corner of the world.

I wll always be grateful to Tom Dullemond who accepted my story “Bride of the Blob” for ASIM, and then worked on it with me so positively. He gave me confidence and a sense of legitimacy in my work. (And it was only while checking on the spelling of his name just now that I realised that we both had stories in the the anthology At the Edge.)

Thank you Tom. Vale ASM.