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Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems from the UK

Russell Jones

First published 2012
Publisher Penned in the Margins
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages 208
Price £9.99
ISBN 9781908058058

Data from Amazon UK as of 2014-09-17. Divided into four sections: "A Home in Space", "Hold Hands Among the Atoms", "From the Video Box", and "The Ages". Cover design by Henry Simmonds.

Year Reviewer Publication
2013 John Philip Johnson Star*Line, January 2013

Searching by ISBN: 9781908058058

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Preface (Where Rockets Burn Through) Alasdair Gray Essay
13 Introduction (Where Rockets Burn Through) Russell Jones Essay
19 Wormholing Into Elsewhere Steve Sneyd Essay
27 A Question Edwin Morgan Poem
28 O Sarah Westcott Poem
29 space chaplain James McGonigal Poem
30 Challenger: A Different View Jane Yolen Poem
31 Intae the Ooter James Robertson Poem
32 Our Flight to the Moon Jane McKie Poem
33 The Man in the Moon Matthew Francis Poem
41 space poets James McGonigal Poem
43 Out Where Knowledge is Power Steve Sneyd Poem
45 Now, Voyager Jane McKie Poem
46 Alone Against the Night Andrew J. Wilson Poem
47 The Wow! Signal Sarah Hesketh Poem
48 Man-of-war Ian McLachlan Poem
49 Lost Worlds Jane McKie & Andrew J. Wilson & Andrew C. Ferguson Poem
52 Hymn til Venus, Luvis Quene Alan Riach Poem
53 A Barren Moon Simon Barraclough Poem
55 Life on Mars James Robertson Poem
56 Second Coming Jane Yolen Poem
58 Alien Sarah Westcott Poem
59 Rave Quails! Dilys Rose Poem
60 Holidays on LV-426 Andy Jackson Poem
61 The Longer the Journey, the Better the Memory Steve Sneyd Poem
63 Paradise Ian McLachlan Poem
64 The Event Horizon Greg Delanty Poem
67 A Visit Edwin Morgan Poem
68 Celestial Navigation Kelley Swain Poem
69 The UFOlogists Claire Askew Poem
71 We are listening Sarah Westcott Poem
73 Mothership Claire Askew Poem
75 Disunion Jane McKie Poem
76 The Event Tom Chivers Poem
77 Unbuckling the Hunter's Belt Kelley Swain Poem
78 Robot Unicorn Attack Chrissy Williams Poem
79 Planetfall Andy Jackson Poem
80 Devil at the End of Love Chrissy Williams Poem
81 I Look Up Again Ryan van Winkle Poem
82 Green Lake Chrissy Williams Poem
83 Haversham Pond Kelley Swain Poem
84 Love Song of the Bodysnatcher Andy Jackson Poem
85 Future Dating Joe Dunthorne Poem
87 Phantom Limb Ryan van Winkle Poem
88 Jan-og-Jan Malene Engelund Poem
89 The Costume Aiko Harman Poem
91 The Life Scientist Kirsten Irving Poem
93 Red Ribbon Ian McLachlan Poem
94 Savant, Ward 3B Kona Macphee Poem
95 Check-up Kirsten Irving Poem
97 The Last Human Kona Macphee Poem
99 Second Life Ian McLachlan Poem
100 Apotheosis Barnaby Tidman Poem
105 A Dream of Fair Waters Edwin Morgan Poem
107 In Mobius Aiko Harman Poem
110 Torn Page from a Chapter on Ray Guns Jon Stone Poem
111 They are Coming Brian McCabe Poem
112 Catullus 70 Jon Stone Poem
113 Catullus 51 Jon Stone Poem
114 Physics for the Unwary Student Pippa Goldschmidt Poem
115 The Trekker's Wife Claire Askew Poem
117 The Real Hands of a Thunderbird Simon Barraclough Poem
119 Photography Sue Guiney Poem
121 Monochrome Lorraine Mariner Poem
122 The Alphabet: A Found Poem Jane Yolen Poem
123 What Can Be Taught Sue Guiney Poem
125 Infoworship Steve Sneyd Poem
127 Automata Jon Stone & Kirsten Irving Poem
129 What Robots Murmur Through Broken Sleep Jon Stone Poem
132 Poem for Roy Batty Kona Macphee Poem
133 The Last Cigarette Brian McCabe Poem
135 Draft of a Novel John McAuliffe Poem
137 Ice Station Zog W. N. Herbert Poem
143 Merciless Andrew J. Wilson Poem
145 Dr Wha James Robertson Poem
149 Geode Edwin Morgan Poem
150 A Fertile Sea Ken MacLeod Poem
151 The Juggler of Greyfriars Kirkyard Ron Butlin Poem
153 The Circus Ross Sutherland Poem
156 Capsule Nikesh Shukla Poem
158 Succession Ken MacLeod Poem
159 After 300 Years Alan Riach Poem
161 Megara Barnaby Tidman Poem
165 Three Composers Respond to the Politics of Perpetual War Ron Butlin Poem
170 Looking Backward, On The Year 2000 (as it appeared from the year 1970) or The Future, with apologies to Leonard Cohen Ken MacLeod Poem
171 The White Star Hotel Chris McCabe Poem
178 How the Beasts Survive for So Long Aiko Harman Poem
180 Owls Malene Engelund Poem
181 Morning in June Steve Sneyd Poem
184 Kid Alien Ian McLachlan Poem
185 Supper Kirsten Irving Poem
187 inflight memories James McGonigal Poem
189 The Morlock's Arms Ken MacLeod Poem
190 Voyage to the Copier Room Chrissy Williams Poem
191 Mars Attacks! Peter Finch Poem
192 From the Unofficial History of the European Southern Observatory in Chile Pippa Goldschmidt Poem
194 Riddle Edwin Morgan Poem