About Ray Gun Revival

Introduction

The modern world has lost its sense of adventure. In a world that is ever more regulated, legislated, and moderated, people need an outlet from recurring payments, cubicle farms, and restrictions of every kind.

However, the modern world hasn’t lost its capacity for adventure, and it is here that the classic adventure tale delivers its greatest impact. We all need a little escape in ways that we only dimly recognize and can’t begin to measure.

Ray Gun Revival provides just that, a throwback publication that revisits space opera and golden age sci-fi. Our stories focus more on character development than hard science and sail all the wide-open waters between fantasy and harder sci-fi. Think of the original Star Wars stories, Doc Smith's Lensman series, the Warlord of Mars tales from Edgar Rice Burroughs. Think of everything from John Carter and Gully Foyle to Kimball Kinnison and Han Solo.

Ray Gun Revival is about dusting off the pulp adventure stories of old and giving them a fresh spin. We are bringing out the deepest elements of what has traditionally been rather superficial fiction and updating them for a new generation of fiction enthusiasts.

The RGR Spiel

Ray Gun Revival (RGR) is an e-zine (electronic magazine) publication that is targeted to a particular kind of story and not a specific age group. With that said, we assume that those who will find the most interest in these stories will be readers aged 14 to adults.

We believe it is impossible to tell an adventure story without revealing something of the author’s or the character’s moral compass, and we will try to stick to the high road. Stories that do have some kind of rowdy language or anything approaching explicit content will be clearly labeled.

While the RGR Overlords are men and women of faith behind the scenes of the magazine, we believe that the moral struggles, failures, and triumphs inherent in space opera and golden age sci-fi speak for themselves.  Therefore, we intend to wield a collectively light editorial hand and trust that that will bear itself out in the published works.

Ray Gun Revival is mostly about the simple things: well-crafted stories, great characterization, ideas that will carry us away and refresh our reality-wearied minds, a sense of adventure that will take us to another place for a little while.

April, 2006

The Ray Gun Revival Overlords:

Lee S. King, Paul Christian Glenn, Johne Cook

Lackey and Instigator:

Bill Snodgrass

The Ray Gun Revival Overlords (Founders and Editors):

Paul Christian Glenn - PR, sounding board, strong right hand, newshound
Johne Cook - art wrangler, desktop publishing, editorials, chief cook & bottle washer
L. S. King - Lord High Editor, proofreader, beloved nag, muse, webmistress

Ray Gun Radio:

Rick Copple - host, director, producer
Taylor Kent - founder, assistant producer
John "JesusGeek" Wilkerson - assistant producer

The Slushmasters (Submissions Editors):

Shari L. Armstrong, Steve Miller, Alice M. Roelke, Scott M. Sandridge, A. M. Stickel, John M. Whalen, David Wilhelms, Jack Willard

Managing Copyeditor:

A. M. Stickel

Lord High Advisor, Grammar Consultant, Listening Ear/Sanity Saver for Overlord Lee:

Shannon McNear

Proofreader:

Shari L. Armstrong

Serial Authors:

Sean T. M. Stiennon, Johne Cook, Paul Christian Glenn, Lee S. King

Without Whom:

Bill Snodgrass - site host, Web-Net Solutions, admin, webmaster, database admin, mentor, confidante, liaison – Double-edged Publishing

Special Thanks:

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