This is the first InterNova online issue after a significant hiatus for which I, as the main editor, am very sorry. I think our readers (and authors waiting for a lot of stories to finally be published) deserve an explanation, but allow me to not bore you with what may sound like laments and limit it to the fact that a magazine like this, a pure non-profit project, run by a small team of enthusiasts, is especially vulnerable to unfavorable circumstances, in this case the strained economic situation that has forced me to postpone the continuation of InterNova again and again. Furthermore, several of our supporters had to leave the team and I had to reorganize the editorial staff.
I owe special thanks to our new proofreaders Jim Henderson, Zach Smith and Vaughan Stanger who finally made it possible to pick up things where I had to leave them, all of them noteworthy writers who have appeared or will appear in InterNova themselves. With InterNova online #6 we leave, this time, our usual alternation between general issues with stories from various countries under a loose motto and theme issues about the science fiction production of specific countries and regions. The reason is that two substantial theme issues are coming that require some additional work, one about contemporary science fiction from India and one about German science fiction.
We hope that our readers will enjoy the current issue and forgive us for having been absent so long.
Michael K. Iwoleit