| Alien Dimensions #27 is Now Available: Ebook: Alien Dimensions #27 Print: Alien Dimensions #27 This issue: * Alien Dimensions #27: 100,000 Years of Intergalactic Peace * For Stellar Flash fans * Vintage SciFi Podcasts 1-12. * From the Desk |
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| Alien Dimensions #27 Alien Dimensions #27 is now available and is actually the final issue. At this stage there are no plans for an issue #28. So, if you are a member of the 2026 World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) and can nominate in the Hugo awards for 2025 titles, please consider Alien Dimensions’ final issue and the fantastic stories therein. Contents: The Garden at the Edge of the Universe by E. S. Foster The Vicarious by David Castlewitz The Fireball Effect by Lawrence Dagstine Rivers Run Deep by Margaret Karmazin Exploring the Rogue Planet by Geoffrey Hugh Lindop The Star Child by Hana Elizabeth Rose Poltergeist 2.0 by Mord McGhee Hyperspace by Kyle Walker The Batties of Argamatis by Geoffrey Hugh Lindop Stapledon by Humphrey Price (A novella!) The Frozen Galaxy by Neil A. HoganEbook: Alien Dimensions #27 Print: Alien Dimensions #27 One day, it may come back. Yes. It may come back.* For Stellar Flash Fans The story The Frozen Galaxy in Alien Dimensions #27 features a cameo of a Stellar Flash character, essentially setting the narrative within the Stellar Flash universe about 1,000 years into the future, or 100,000 years in the future, depending on your preferred perspective. Alien Dimensions #27 is now available via Amazon, Amazon Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited. Ebook: Alien Dimensions #27 Print: Alien Dimensions #27 Vintage SciFi Podcast |
 Vintage SciFi Podcast Season 1 Australia Advanced; Dialogues of the Year 2032 – Chapters I-V Free  Vintage SciFi Podcast Season 2 The World’s Last Wonder Chapters I-XIV Free |
| Vintage SciFi Podcast is here to take you back over 100 years to the origins of science fiction in newspapers. Check out the 1832 story Australia Advanced: Dialogues for the Year 2032 across 5 issues, or Australia’s First Space Opera from 1901 – The World’s Last Wonder across 7 issues. More Vintage Science Fiction will be released via the podcast format later this year. |
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| From the desk Well, this is it. The year that I’ll be writing my entire PhD thesis, now that I’ve spent much of the past two years on research and making notes. I won’t have time for anything else. Then, I submit in 2026, wait to see what examiners wish me to fix, do that research, rewrite those sections, submit again, and hopefully, by 2027, receive the title of Doctor of Philosophy. It does mean that I won’t have time to do any other reading or writing until I submit. In the meantime, as the Vintage SciFi Podcast is an offshoot of my research into Vintage Science Fiction in Australia, I will be able to continue to produce those, especially as the works that are being restored and converted to audio will later be added to my digital scholarly edition website. So, if you are lamenting the demise of Alien Dimensions, please check out my Vintage SciFi Podcast series in the meantime. For Stellar Flash fans, I’m hoping to get back to writing book 5 in 2027. For those following books being released through the Space Fiction Books and Maldek House imprints, I hope to release another Mable Hartwell Cozy Mystery as well as Space Fiction Collection 4, later in 2025. And that’s all from me, for now. It’s unlikely I’ll send another newsletter out anytime soon. Thank you for all your support over the years. Very much appreciated. I never would have thought when I started Alien Dimensions in October 2016 that it would run until March 2025. It’s all thanks to you. Humbly Neil A. Hogan * Paraphrased from an excerpt from Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) that appeared at the beginning of Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983) (!) |
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Here’s a short bonus video for Alien Dimensions Fans:
All images in Alien Dimensions #27 were created using NightCafe Studio’s ‘AI’ image generation tools, using some of the vocabulary by the authors to generate the images. Usually 18-27 images end up being generated for each picture, before the generation tool finally creates a reasonable approximation of what the author has written. This usually means analysing what is wrong with the images and updating the prompt to compensate. Though, for the Rivers Run Deep image I also had to contend with the preprogrammed ‘male gaze’ as well as the fact that the machine generation tool just did not want to create a fringe or bangs or any kind of hair covering the eyes, or make the female character more alien looking! It also could not understand the concept of a double eyelid, so 63 images later, I settled for an earlier one.
As an experiment, I tried NightCafe’s new image-to-video animation service. This 1 minute video is a compilation of animations generated from the images in Alien Dimensions #27. I’d much prefer to hire an artist but Alien Dimensions’ budget is limited. A professional prozine would have a budget to hire an artist with years of experience that could produce more accurate images in a shorter period of time, and easily correct any misconceptions or misunderstandings. If you have the budget, please invest in artists. If you don’t, use NightCafe Studio or other image generation services like ChatGPT until you do, but be prepared for disappointment! The simple fact is that machine generated art can never recreate exactly what an artist is thinking as it is created from words, not inspiration and skill. Estimated total hours: 47
