'Escalator To Andromeda' for EC Tubb

ESCALATOR TO ANDROMEDA

: FOR A 1950’s SF WRITER

(to Edwin Charles Tubb

15 October 1919 -

10 September 2010)

he types

"LIFT-OFF:

within 4:42

minutes, no

blue sky"

leans back,

drinks coffee,

exhales nebulae

of cigarette smoke,

stares at the wall and

out beyond the wall

as far as

Andromeda

then,

4:42 minutes

later, he

returns to

the typewriter

Published in:
‘ODYSSEY no.12 (Winter 1992)’ (UK - Jan 1993)
‘THREADS no.4’ (UK - August 1994)
‘MISNOMER Vol.2 no.1’ (USA - July 1994)
‘FANTASY COMMENTATOR no.45/46’ (USA - December 1994)
‘MENTOR no.90’ (Australia - August 1996)
and in the collections:-
‘EUROSHIMA MON AMOUR’ Hilltop Press (UK-Oct 2000)
‘JINGLES FOR DISCORD’ (Bound-into ‘MINOTAUR no.42 vol.9 no.3’)
(USA – September 2004)