Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense Issue #12 / Fall 2022

The Impossible Footprint
By DAVID SKINNER
Daredevil Dylal O'Lal desires the impossible: to put his footprint on the surface of the sun! Though most insist it cannot be done, the existence of a young woman who proves to be wholly impervious to flames suggests his ultimate feat is achievable!

Orphan of the Shadowy Moons (Part 3)
By MICHAEL TIERNEY
Having escaped enslavement at Arendahj and returned to the Teluchi Islands, Strazis has before him the momentous task of leading a war of liberation! Many rally to Strazis' cause but his old foe Eirlik has other plans-as does Eirlik's father!

Vran, the Chaos-Warped
(Book 2)
By DAVE RITZLIN
Ripped by magic from the frozen world of the primitive cavemen, Vran finds himself in even stranger environs! Can he track down the foul wizard Foad Misjak within the halls of a giant castle that is teeming with cannibals and magically animated statues!?

Fight of the Sandfishers
By JIM BREYFOGLE
Celzez plans to denounce Teriz, a royal guard of Alness, as a traitor who shirked his duty as the city fell! Jalani hopes Mangos can stop him before it gets him killed!

The Wisdom of Man
By ADAM S. FURMAN
John Knox finds a victim of the experiments of a billionaire working to distill tachyons that can freeze time itself! Can he stop the mad project before it's too late!?

A Long Way to Fall
By DAVID EYK
A murder has occurred on a colony cylinder under hostile occupation: a young officer has been found mangled, every bone broken-how did he fall from the axis?!

Fall of a Storm King
By MISHA BURNETT
The dangerous job of piloting in Saturn's rings requires altering one's perception of time! Luther is one of the best until a minor injury costs him his certification!

Tripping to Aldous
By J. MANFRED WEICHSEL
An interstellar police investigator is in pursuit of murderer Richard Morales! But the trail leads to Aldous, an illicit party planet with a hallucinogenic atmosphere!

Cerulean
By J. THOMAS HOWARD
On the run and dying of thirst on a desert world, Roger Campbell-Thorn finds salvation in a flask of nourishing intoxicant that sends him to the world's distant past!

The Strickland Line
By ALEC CIZAK
The Strickland Line has a bug problem! Journalist Harv Wallender is accosted by a nasty critter... Quite the inconvenience! But then the critter starts to grow...!

New Troops for Old: Jerry Pournelle's Janissaries
By J. COMER

My Name is John Carter (Part 13)
By JAMES HUTCHINGS