The Quantum Muse is a venerable speculative fiction webzine with almost as much history as Nuketown. It's had something of a bumpy ride the last few months as one of its founding editors left, and those who remained prepared to move to a new house and welcome a new baby and figure out a way to keep publishing the zine.

They've worked through all that now, and the good news is that you can expect to see the ol'Muse publishing throughout 2007, though at a more relaxed quarterly schedule instead of its traditional frantic monthly one (the "frantic monthly" description is mine; I remember how hard it was to publish monthly fiction back when Nuketown did that).

The Jan/Feb 2007 edition of the Muse sees the science fiction short stories "Red Planet" by Peter Dabbene and "Intro to Intergalactic Conflicts 101: A Course Summary" by Robert Friedman, the fantasy stories "The Last Spell" by Daniel B. Young and "Just Deserts" by Nyki Blatchley and an alternative story called "Manny and Herb Save the World" by Kori Henning.

You can also artwork by Anastasia Korochansckaja and get a full update on the state of the Muse from Mike Gallant in his editorial.