My short story "Book Scouts of the Galactic Rim" has just been published in Menda City Review. The story skirts the boundaries of science fiction and literary fiction, placing the tale well within the slipstream genre (which in many ways simply means the story doesn't fit neatly into any literary genre). My thanks to Terry Rogers for taking a chance with the story and publishing it in his amazing literary journal, which is one of the best designed and most thought-provoking online journals out there.