The presses are rolling!

Well, it has been quite a learning process. But, finally, the proof corrections are in, re-proofed, agonized over, and, *gulp*, paid for. But the presses are finally rolling on BULL SPEC #1!

Final content for issue #1 (72 pages, 16 in full color):

SHORT FICTION:

• C. S. Fuqua: "Rise Up" (with cover illustration by Mike Gallagher)
• Peter Wood: "Almost a Good Day to Go Outside"
• Natania Barron: "Doctor Adderson's Lens" (with photo by Tennille Heinonen)

NOVEL EXCERPT:

• Michael Jasper: "A Gathering of Doorways"

GRAPHIC SHORT FICTION:

• Michael Gallagher: "Closed System" (part 1 of 4)

POETRY:

• Kaolin Fire: "Inspired by Windmills"
• Ralan Conley: "Ratang"

ESSAY:

• Josh Whiton: "There Are No Orcs" (translated into Spanish by Itzel Leaf and into French by Andrew Matte)

ART:

• Jamie Keys: "Environments Exercise Part 1"
• Christopher Woods: "The Clairvoyants' Hotel"

INTERVIEWS:

• D. Harlan Wilson
• Lee Hammock
• Sci-Fi Genre

REVIEWS:

• Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction (by D. Harlan Wilson)
• Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance (by D. Harlan Wilson) (reviewed by J. David Osborne)
• The Windup Girl (by Paolo Bacigalupi) (reviewed by Blue Tyson)
• Panverse One (edited by Dario Ciriello) (reviewed by Charles Tan)

Real, physical copies in real stores and in the mail late this week!

[Update: After the break, the final cover as well as page 2 of Bull Spec #1 which is the "contents" page...]

[final cover]

[contents page]

[Hooray! And per my printer, the first print run is scheduled to ship out tomorrow (Thursday the 11th) morning!]