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Summary: Neo-Opsis, 2004
Neo-Opsis is a Canadian magazine edited by Karl Johanson. The first issue came out in 2003 and three more issues appeared in 2004. The focus is on Science Fiction, but they do publish the occasional fantasy story. The three 2004 issues included 19 stories, all short (3 short-shorts), for a total of about 80,000 words of fiction. The magazine also features a fair amount of non-fiction, most by Karl Johanson, often somewhat humourous in intent.
The stories this year were a bit disappointing to me after a very promising debut issue. Best was Greg Beatty's "Dreamcatcher Bisque" (#3), a sweet and clever short-short about a homeless man who "eats" a "bisque" made from discarded dreamcatchers. I also liked David Soyka's "Talk of the Town", an extrapolation of Jerry Springer-type talk shows to scary and comic effect. Other decent stories came from S. A. Parham, Terry Bramlett, Hayden Trenholm, and Nina Munteanu.
