Hub Issue 73 - 30 Jan 2009

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Hub Issue 73 (30 Jan 2009) is a fiction-focused magazine edition sponsored by HarperCollins. The issue lists its featured contents, including “Behind Glass” by Simon Strantzas, reviews and a feature section titled “Eye of Harmony” by L.R.G. Carter. Editorial credits outline the publisher and editorial team, followed by announcements about Hub’s new home at HubFiction.com, reader support for donating, Hugo Awards 2009 voting eligibility, and upcoming team updates. The excerpted fiction follows Hawksley inside a corporate building under claustrophobic, anxious tension.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages15

Reading Time23 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Fiction

Reviews

Feature

Hub’s New Home

The Scores on the Doors

Hugo Awards 2009

Next Week

BEHIND GLASS by Simon Strantzas

Sponsored by HarperCollins Hub Issue 73 30 Jan 2009 Publisher: Lee Harris Managing Editor: Alasdair Stuart Commissioning Editor: Ellen J Allen Contents Fiction: Behind Glass by Simon Strantzas Reviews: I, Zombie Saturn Returns The Incredible Hulk, season 1 Feature: Eye of Harmony by L.R.G. Carter Hub’s New Home Don’t forget we’ve moved-from now on you can find us [at](at www.HubFiction.com. Please)[ www.HubFiction.com](at www.HubFiction.com. Please)[. Please](at www.HubFiction.com. Please)[ ](at www.HubFiction.com. Please)amend your Favourites list. Our first home ([www.Hub-Mag.co.uk](www.Hub-Mag.co.uk)) will be maintained for a while, but the new address is where it’s all happening. The Scores on the Doors Huge thanks go to Vaughan Stanger, Ro Smith, Marie Faye Prior and Wendy Reynolds for their generous donations to Hub. These will go toward paying our authors, hosting bills, etc. To donate, please head on over to [HubFiction.com](HubFiction.com) and click on the “Support Hub” link. Donate a one-off payment for as little or as much as you like, or set up an automatic monthly donation of £1 (about US $1.43) Hugo Awards 2009 If you’re eligible to vote in the Hugos this year, remember Hub is eligible to be considered for thesemi-prozine category. Just sayin’... Next Week Next week we welcome a new member to the Hub team – Phil Lunt. Phil will be looking after the overall design of the ‘zine, and making it look as good as it reads! BEHIND GLASS by Simon Strantzas Hawksley’s eye cracked open. He’d had the dream of her betrayal again, and though ten months had passed, it still hadn’t become any easier. He doubted he would ever be free of it, the pain that had crushed the air from him. He no longer believed he could live past it; eventually something would reach down inside of him and dredge it back up, just another in a long list of failures revisited. He kicked his legs violently, desperate to be freed from the top sheet before claustrophobia suffocated him. He wished there were some way to survive without money. All he wanted to do was retreat from the world, but it was impossible. Life had made it so and there was no sense in fighting against it. He had submitted to its power four years earlier and used the economics degree his father had forced on him to find a meagre data-entry job. It had barely paid his bills, but it did not require concentration, a commodity of which Hawksley had run quite short. But the job was gone, the company consumed by a foreign-owned business Hawksley knew very little about. Everyone from the old location was offered a position at the new one, but Hawksley didn’t know anyone who had planned on accepting. Some said the move to the factory district was too far to travel. Others felt the company too low on the corporate ladder and thought their careers might wither and die if tucked away amid hidden lake-front streets indefinitely. There buildings stood indistinguishable from one another, large greyish brown structures that seemed to bend towards Hawksley as he travelled past them and engulf him in shadow. No matter how quickly the bus moved, he could not shake the feeling that the mountains of brick were descending towards him. The address, at the end of a cul-de-sac off Commissioner’s Street, shared little with those crumbling ancient behemoths. Its small rectangular shape was formed of muddy brick and stood only a single story high. It did, however, appear to stretch back an eternity, its true length obscured by the copses oftrees that sprang from neighbouring lots. He walked along the path towards the structure and could smell the lake just beyond the canopy; it filled the air with a claustrophobic dampness, and Hawksley found it clung to his hands like a fishy film. It took some force before the front doors swung open, and once he was inside Hawksley’s vision required a few moments to adjust to what he saw. A vacant reception desk sat between him

FAQs

What is included in Hub Issue 73?

The issue includes fiction (“Behind Glass” by Simon Strantzas), reviews, and a feature section (“Eye of Harmony” by L.R.G. Carter), along with editorial notes and magazine updates.

Where does Hub announce it has moved?

Hub states that the magazine’s new address and where “it’s all happening” is at HubFiction.com, while the old address will be maintained for a while.

How does the issue address Hugo Awards 2009 participation?

It reminds eligible voters that Hub is eligible to be considered for the semi-prozine category and encourages readers to vote accordingly.

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