Starry Messenger The Best of Galileo Author:Charles C. Ryan When Galileo Galilei said "You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it for himself" he might not have had magazine publishing in mind. But he would have been truly honored by the creation of Galileo Magazine of Science & Fiction, a journal dedicated to illuminating the future of man. In its s... more »hort history, Galileo (called "one of the best among SF mags" by the Library Journal) has established itself with its intense commitment to quality, greatly surprising all the experts in the field to become the first successful science fiction magazine since Galaxy began in the 1950s. And just as Galileo is the essence of a burgeoning science fiction field, Starry Messenger is the quintessential Galileo, combining twelve short stories that together represent a wondrous dare to dream.
Charles C. Ryan, the editor of the magazine, has selected the most inspired writing on the scene today. Harlan Ellison's "Django" is a poetic masterpiece; a French gypsy jazz guitarist is chased by Nazi stormtroopers, eluding death while chained to a sinister object that glows in the night. Aloan Dean Foster's "Ye Who Would Sing" is an elemental story of space travel and an untouched, musical forest. Kevin O'Donnell's "Do Not Go Gentle" moves into the mind of a woman who has transcended her own senses; "Brian Aldiss' "Where the Lines Converge" is a blood-curdling tale of the body's secret language. These stories stand on their own as messengers to far-away places--places beyond the boundaries of time and space, where the mind has rarely travelled. To take the dare of Starry Messenger is to travel there with them, and to find those places for oneself.« less