Sean Clancy – författare

ARE YOU WANING? WAXING? CRESCENT? FEELING GIBBOUS?

The Planet Scumm Institute for "Skeletaxonomy" is recruiting volunteers for a clinical trial of scummicillin, a probacterial designed to treat symptoms associated with body solidity, three-dimensionality, and organ, uh... having.

If you''ve experienced one of the following, you may be eligible to participate in our study:

• Complications from one or more fullbody skeletal replacements

• Out-of-body experiences brought about by illicit virtual reality "jacking"

• Identity theft by mind-copied synthetics

• Rust, suspension fatigue, or "Tin Man

syndrome"

• Feelings of inadequacy or weaponization while piloting an exo-suit

• Post-expiration quasi-materiality

• Shin splints

• Wombats

• Unexplained head detonation, with or without a pre-explosion fugue

Call the Planet Scumm Institute today for a consultation, at no cost to you.

"SKELETAXONOMY" ISN''T JUST IN OUR NAME-IT''S IN OUR BONES.

(Those of us that have bones, that is.)

Skeletaxonomy is the 12th anthology of short science fiction presented by Spark & Fizz Books, collecting the following stories:

If you''re reading this in hardcopy, then congrats on being totally ripped and possessing the upper-body strength required to lift a double-issue of Planet Scumm! (If you''re reading this digitally then, uh... sick storage medium, brah.)

With this, our tenth issue, Planet Scumm has officially entered double digits, and what better way to celebrate than by packing this issue with a full ten stories? We like to think most issues have a little something for everyone, so it stands to reason that Supergiantx has several somethings for everyone! 

Lethal haute couture and militarized cleaning services? We''ve got that. Titan-sized war machines and megafauna? You''ll find a couple. Plus pet-stealing aliens, exorcism-forhire, world-ending AIs, malevolent doormen, mirror universe tourism, and phantasmal migration.

To be honest, this issue''s so big it''s entirely possible one of Scummy''s brood hid something in there that we didn''t notice. If you hear any odd noises coming out of the table of contents, or notice an occasional bulge under the cover, you might want to proceed with caution.

Actually, forget caution-throw this bad boy wide open! You''re ripped! (Or in possession of at least 16GB of storage space!) If things get dicey, this issue can also serve as a weighty improvised weapon.