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The Starlight SciFaiku Review, Spring 2023

April 2023

Contents

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
5 Essay Non Fiction Editor's Introduction: AI and the Science Fictional Becoming Science Factual Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
7 Interview Non Fiction An Interview with Michael Butterworth Jean-Paul L. Garnier & Michael Butterworth
9 Short Fiction Fiction The Weather App Ronan Cahill
11 Essay Non Fiction Featured Artist: Paulo Sayeg Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
13 Poem Fiction Cosmological Speed Wendy Van Camp
15 Poem Fiction "new line of androids" John J. Dunphy
19 Poem Fiction "were young space cadets once" Katerina Bruno
21 Poem Fiction UFOMontanology Harris Coverley
29 Poem Fiction "photosynthesis" Brian LeBansky
31 Poem Fiction World Wide Webb Patricia Furstenberg
33 Poem Fiction Brocken Specters Carla Stein
41 Poem Fiction "did they understand?" Juan Manuel Perez
45 Poem Fiction "she feels nothing" Kimberly Kuchar
53 Poem Fiction "galactic center" Joshua St. Claire
55 Poem Fiction "If time were a god" Scott Hvidsten
59 Poem Fiction Sacred Desires Jordan Lawson
63 Poem Fiction See the Galaxy's Tallest Buildings! PS Cottier
67 Essay Non Fiction About the Quintessential Science Fiction & Fantasy Quinary of Butterworth, Eggleton, Matthews, Pennington, & Suckling Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
73 Essay Non Fiction That's a Wrap, Publishing Schedule, Deep Space Survival Math, More Art by Yours Truly & Cover Artist Bios Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
13|13.1 Poem Fiction Ode to James Webb Wendy Van Camp
15|15.1 Poem Fiction "android hairdresser" John J. Dunphy
15|15.2 Poem Fiction "restaurant" John J. Dunphy
17|17.01 Poem Fiction "biometrics" Jerome Berglund
17|17.02 Poem Fiction "cloud seeding" Jerome Berglund
17|17.03 Poem Fiction "claws scrabbling" Jerome Berglund
17|17.04 Poem Fiction "man-made lake hostile architecture" Jerome Berglund
17|17.05 Poem Fiction "beehive haircut" Jerome Berglund
17|17.06 Poem Fiction "the American dream :: gamey" Jerome Berglund
17|17.07 Poem Fiction "too hot in light" Jerome Berglund
17|17.08 Poem Fiction "chemtrail comet" Jerome Berglund
17|17.09 Poem Fiction "daggers" Jerome Berglund
17|17.10 Poem Fiction "expecting" Jerome Berglund
19|19.1 Poem Fiction "a starship knows space" Katerina Bruno
19|19.2 Poem Fiction "space missionaries" Katerina Bruno
19|19.3 Poem Fiction "space monk in deep space" Katerina Bruno
19|19.4 Poem Fiction "racing laser blasts" Katerina Bruno
19|19.5 Poem Fiction "moon tycoons have strung" Katerina Bruno
19|19.6 Poem Fiction "a deep space trash gyre" Katerina Bruno
19|19.7 Poem Fiction "my silver spacesuit" Katerina Bruno
19|19.8 Poem Fiction "when I die out here" Katerina Bruno
19|19.9 Poem Fiction "no comms out this far" Katerina Bruno
21|21.1 Poem Fiction R'lyeh Idol Harris Coverley
21|21.2 Poem Fiction Horizon Harris Coverley
21|21.3 Poem Fiction Molecules Harris Coverley
23|23.01 Poem Fiction "Grecian dolphin?" Richard Stevenson
23|23.02 Poem Fiction "alas, the moa" Richard Stevenson
23|23.03 Poem Fiction "the Allegewi" Richard Stevenson
23|23.04 Poem Fiction "Caddy hadda hunch" Richard Stevenson
23|23.05 Poem Fiction "Tazuma's got lots" Richard Stevenson
23|23.06 Poem Fiction "Bigfoot's feet require" Richard Stevenson
23|23.07 Poem Fiction "Abbagoochie" Richard Stevenson
23|23.08 Poem Fiction "De Loy's Ape" Richard Stevenson
23|23.09 Poem Fiction "Could be a gibbon" Richard Stevenson
23|23.10 Poem Fiction "the Orang Bati" Richard Stevenson
23|23.11 Poem Fiction "Old Ned doesn't pose" Richard Stevenson
23|23.12 Poem Fiction "sitting in his cave" Richard Stevenson
23|23.13 Poem Fiction "Does Big Rhodey" Richard Stevenson
23|23.14 Poem Fiction "Dire wolf's in dire straits –" Richard Stevenson
23|23.15 Poem Fiction "mane-less man-eater" Richard Stevenson
23|23.16 Poem Fiction "Sasquatch T-shirt:" Richard Stevenson
23|23.17 Poem Fiction "Nabau's on the nod." Richard Stevenson
23|23.18 Poem Fiction "homo sapiens –" Richard Stevenson
23|23.19 Poem Fiction "Megaconda" Richard Stevenson
23|23.20 Poem Fiction "A petroglyph" Richard Stevenson
23|23.21 Poem Fiction "Ain't doin' stunts though:" Richard Stevenson
25|25.1 Poem Fiction Robot Robin Rose Graves
25|25.2 Poem Fiction A. I. Robin Rose Graves
25|25.3 Poem Fiction Android Robin Rose Graves
25|25.4 Poem Fiction Cyborg Robin Rose Graves
25|25.5 Poem Fiction Frankenstein Robin Rose Graves
25|25.6 Poem Fiction Zombie Robin Rose Graves
27|27.1 Poem Fiction "northern sky" John Grey
27|27.2 Poem Fiction "clones in the workplace" John Grey
27|27.3 Poem Fiction "alien life forms" John Grey
27|27.4 Poem Fiction "dead spaceman" John Grey
27|27.5 Poem Fiction "nuclear winter" John Grey
29|29.2 Poem Fiction "semiconductor" Brian LeBansky
35|35.1 Poem Fiction "James Webb Telescope," Kenneth Pobo
35|35.2 Poem Fiction "All this wanting to" Kenneth Pobo
35|35.3 Poem Fiction "Ninth planet, are you" Kenneth Pobo
35|35.4 Poem Fiction "First let's ask the sun" Kenneth Pobo
35|35.5 Poem Fiction "Mercury and I" Kenneth Pobo
37|37.1 Poem Fiction "ghosted again" Ed Brickell
37|37.2 Poem Fiction "phishing forgiveness" Ed Brickell
37|37.3 Poem Fiction "alone with" Ed Brickell
37|37.4 Poem Fiction "cities blinking out" Ed Brickell
37|37.5 Poem Fiction "that time" Ed Brickell
37|37.6 Poem Fiction "worlds we built with whispers" Ed Brickell
39|39.1 Poem Fiction "forward silence — a" Irina Moga
39|39.2 Poem Fiction "string of small islands —" Irina Moga
39|39.3 Poem Fiction "kneeling in the sand" Irina Moga
39|39.4 Poem Fiction "gravitational" Irina Moga
39|39.5 Poem Fiction "hyper-sleep passing" Irina Moga
39|39.6 Poem Fiction "the quantum breakpoint" Irina Moga
39|39.7 Poem Fiction "stochastic morning" Irina Moga
41|41.1 Poem Fiction "purple rose season:" Juan Manuel Perez
41|41.2 Poem Fiction "cure to Martian flu:" Juan Manuel Perez
41|41.3 Poem Fiction "strange instruction sheet:" Juan Manuel Perez
41|41.4 Poem Fiction "all stable readings" Juan Manuel Perez
41|41.5 Poem Fiction "poison, do not touch" Juan Manuel Perez
41|41.6 Poem Fiction "click, click goes the sound" Juan Manuel Perez
41|41.7 Poem Fiction "those plants are pretty" Juan Manuel Perez
41|41.8 Poem Fiction "lacking oxygen" Juan Manuel Perez
41|41.9 Poem Fiction "appears humanoid" Juan Manuel Perez
43|43.1 Poem Fiction "there is a blue globe" Fabio Sassi
43|43.2 Poem Fiction "human crowds running" Fabio Sassi
43|43.3 Poem Fiction "toner alert blinks" Fabio Sassi
43|43.4 Poem Fiction "I fix my blue wings" Fabio Sassi
45|45.1 Poem Fiction "glitching glamour..." Kimberly Kuchar
45|45.2 Poem Fiction "caught up" Kimberly Kuchar
45|45.3 Poem Fiction "adrift in time..." Kimberly Kuchar
45|45.4 Poem Fiction "a perfect infant" Kimberly Kuchar
45|45.5 Poem Fiction "head in the stars" Kimberly Kuchar
45|45.6 Poem Fiction "with her chin held high" Kimberly Kuchar
45|45.7 Poem Fiction "Honor and glory" Kimberly Kuchar
45|45.8 Poem Fiction "retired hero" Kimberly Kuchar
45|45.9 Poem Fiction "silence now..." Kimberly Kuchar
47|47.1 Poem Fiction "gliding between stars" Albert Schlaht
47|47.2 Poem Fiction "out of a village" Albert Schlaht
47|47.3 Poem Fiction "another pandemic—" Albert Schlaht
47|47.4 Poem Fiction "with her tentacles around me—slow dancing" Albert Schlaht
47|47.5 Poem Fiction "his first kill" Albert Schlaht
47|47.6 Poem Fiction "under twin moons" Albert Schlaht
47|47.7 Poem Fiction "smoke rising" Albert Schlaht
47|47.8 Poem Fiction "first bark" Albert Schlaht
47|47.9 Poem Fiction "sharing a pipe| Albert Schlaht
49|49.1 Poem Fiction "orbiting Ganymede:" Ed Higgins
49|49.2 Poem Fiction "tongue kisses" Ed Higgins
49|49.3 Poem Fiction "16,000-year-old" Ed Higgins
49|49.4 Poem Fiction "White plague Ed Higgins
51|51.1 Poem Fiction "one-way mission to Saturn" Jill Trade
51|51.2 Poem Fiction "he watches his mom" Jill Trade
51|51.3 Poem Fiction "casting a wide net" Jill Trade
51|51.4 Poem Fiction "vacuum energy" Jill Trade
51|51.5 Poem Fiction "little green man" Jill Trade
51|51.6 Poem Fiction "robot assembly line" Jill Trade
51|51.7 Poem Fiction "sitting in the dark" Jill Trade
51|51.8 Poem Fiction "dot to dot" Jill Trade
51|51.9 Poem Fiction "discovering HD1" Jill Trade
53|53.1 Poem Fiction "quantum fluctuations" Joshua St. Claire
53|53.2 Poem Fiction "tachyonic antitelephone" Joshua St. Claire
53|53.3 Poem Fiction "Betelgeuse" Joshua St. Claire
53|53.4 Poem Fiction "cosmic strings" Joshua St. Claire
53|53.5 Poem Fiction "hydrogen bonds" Joshua St. Claire
53|53.6 Poem Fiction "asking the chatbot" Joshua St. Claire
53|53.7 Poem Fiction "Phobos-Deimos conjunction" Joshua St. Claire
53|53.8 Poem Fiction "spiderwebs" Joshua St. Claire
53|53.9 Poem Fiction "Mistake Moon" Joshua St. Claire
57|57.1 Poem Fiction "drifting endlessly" Petro C. K.
57|57.2 Poem Fiction "bioelectric pulse—" Petro C. K.
57|57.3 Poem Fiction "a star burns out..." Petro C. K.
57|57.4 Poem Fiction "winter's" Petro C. K.
57|57.5 Poem Fiction "textpocalypse..." Petro C. K.
57|57.6 Poem Fiction "a new buzz" Petro C. K.
57|57.7 Poem Fiction "the airlock opens" Petro C. K.
57|57.8 Poem Fiction What Is it with Haiku Poets and the Moon? Jerome Berglund & Petro C. K.
59|59.2 Poem Fiction Peter's Mortar Jordan Lawson
59|59.3 Poem Fiction Catacomb Airwaves Jordan Lawson
61|61.1 Poem Fiction "Divide by zero" H. Russell Smith
61|61.2 Poem Fiction "Spaceships and robots" H. Russell Smith
61|61.3 Poem Fiction "Radio pulses" H. Russell Smith
61|61.4 Poem Fiction "Nonlinear time" H. Russell Smith
61|61.5 Poem Fiction "Lamplit farmhouses" H. Russell Smith
61|61.6 Poem Fiction "Robot brain danger" H. Russell Smith
61|61.7 Poem Fiction "Vending machine lunch" H. Russell Smith
61|61.8 Poem Fiction "Red alert in space" H. Russell Smith
61|61.9 Poem Fiction "Time traveling man" H. Russell Smith
65|65.1 Poem Fiction "deep autumn..." Joshua Gage
65|65.2 Poem Fiction "Geiger counter chirps" Joshua Gage
65|65.3 Poem Fiction "Day 13:" Joshua Gage
65|65.4 Poem Fiction "alien library..." Joshua Gage
65|65.5 Poem Fiction "autumn equinox..." Joshua Gage
65|65.6 Poem Fiction "evolutionary mysteries" Joshua Gage
65|65.7 Poem Fiction "what I tell" Joshua Gage
65|65.8 Poem Fiction "NGC-6751" Joshua Gage
71|71.01 Poem Fiction "Blood, a liquid sol" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.02 Poem Fiction "Rain illuminates" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.03 Poem Fiction "Dwarf stars surround us" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.04 Poem Fiction "Stars, the particles" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.05 Poem Fiction "Rayleigh scattering" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.06 Poem Fiction "A distant black hole" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.07 Poem Fiction "Only option left" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.08 Poem Fiction "Intergalactic" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.09 Poem Fiction "Johnson-Nyquist noise" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.10 Poem Fiction "Laser gun blast mode" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.11 Poem Fiction "Martianalists land" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.12 Poem Fiction "Robo-crew on strike" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.13 Poem Fiction "Radiation rainbow" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.14 Poem Fiction "Hear the hard light" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.15 Poem Fiction "Acidic light drips" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.16 Poem Fiction "Celebrity chefs" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.17 Poem Fiction "Intended outcome" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.18 Poem Fiction "New technology" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.19 Poem Fiction "Deep space has got me" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.20 Poem Fiction "Plugged in" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
71|71.21 Poem Fiction "Malware beamed aboard" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
73|73.2 Poem Fiction Deep Space Survival Math Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
73|73.5 Poem Fiction "I have become" Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction The Starlight SciFaiku Review - 2023 Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
Cover Art Non Fiction The Starlight SciFaiku Review, Spring 2023 Michael Alan Alien
2 Interior Art Non Fiction Omulu do Brasil Paulo Sayeg
6 Interior Art Non Fiction OVNIs — UFOs Paulo Sayeg
8 Interior Art Non Fiction Abdução Paulo Sayeg
10 Interior Art Non Fiction Kuribara Collection Paulo Sayeg
12 Interior Art Non Fiction Oxossão Paulo Sayeg
14 Interior Art Non Fiction Petelo Leko Paulo Sayeg
16 Interior Art Non Fiction Tudo em Volta Paulo Sayeg
18 Interior Art Non Fiction O Livro Cidade Paulo Sayeg
20 Interior Art Non Fiction St. Bento Paulo Sayeg
22 Interior Art Non Fiction UAP Paulo Sayeg
24 Interior Art Non Fiction Samuraizada Paulo Sayeg
26 Interior Art Non Fiction Passaró Paulo Sayeg
28 Interior Art Non Fiction Erendira Paulo Sayeg
30 Interior Art Non Fiction Loornnn Paulo Sayeg
32 Interior Art Non Fiction Arere Paulo Sayeg
34 Interior Art Non Fiction Eroborum Paulo Sayeg
36 Interior Art Non Fiction Martian Construct Paulo Sayeg
38 Interior Art Non Fiction Caminhate Noturno Omulu Paulo Sayeg
40 Interior Art Non Fiction Família Paulo Sayeg
42 Interior Art Non Fiction Map to the Elder Flame Donald Guadagni
44 Interior Art Non Fiction They're Always Watching Me, No. 17 Dave Vescio
46 Interior Art Non Fiction Deus Ex Machina Vol. 1 Donald Guadagni
48 Interior Art Non Fiction Coelho Ano Paulo Sayeg
50 Interior Art Non Fiction Omulu Atato Paulo Sayeg
52 Interior Art Non Fiction Cycliste Paulo Sayeg
54 Interior Art Non Fiction Lithografia 2000 Paulo Sayeg
56 Interior Art Non Fiction Canaã Paulo Sayeg
58 Interior Art Non Fiction Corvo Paranoico Paulo Sayeg
60 Interior Art Non Fiction Batumbanda 7 Paulo Sayeg
62 Interior Art Non Fiction Gloriana Paulo Sayeg
64 Interior Art Non Fiction Irikere Paulo Sayeg
66 Interior Art Non Fiction Carvão Ouro Paulo Sayeg
68 Interior Art Non Fiction Special Feature: Art by Bob Eggleton Bob Eggleton
69 Interior Art Non Fiction Special Feature: Art by Rodney Matthews Rodney Matthews
70 Interior Art Non Fiction Special Feature: Art by Bruce Pennington Bruce Pennington
72 Interior Art Non Fiction A Cosmic Flourishing Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
74 Interior Art Non Fiction Batumbanda Marciana Paulo Sayeg
75 Interior Art Non Fiction View from the Starship ML Weintraub
76 Interior Art Non Fiction Sua Cidade Paulo Sayeg
77 Interior Art Non Fiction Sabata in Love Paulo Sayeg
72|72.2 Interior Art Non Fiction The Grapes of Cosmic Wrath Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
73|73.3 Interior Art Non Fiction Face of Interdimensional Shards Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
73|73.4 Interior Art Non Fiction Cosmic Bodybuilder Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
73|73.6 Interior Art Non Fiction Psyclovius Man Justin T. O'Conor Sloane
bc|78 Interior Art Non Fiction Chrysalis Nigel Suckling