ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, February 16, 1996 TAG: 9602160012
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: RADFORD
Charles Saplak has a new short story in the March issue now on sale of "Science Fiction Age," a slick color magazine of fiction and articles on science, art, movies, books and games in the sci-fi field.
Saplak's story, "Brain Artist, A Romance," involves a love affair between an aspiring comic book artist and a young woman whose artistic talents are so immense that she paints under at least six different names. Unfortunately, it is also a talent which is temporary, for reasons made clear in the story.
Other stories in the issue include work by Ian Watson, Gregory Benford, Resa Nelson, Julie Stevens and Michael Bishop. It also covers a new game based on Ray Bradbury's fictional version of Mars, the art of Richard Powers, and a discussion of the future of nuclear power by Doug Beason and Charles Sheffield.
Saplak, who has taught writing and other courses at New River Community College and elsewhere, now works for Bell Atlantic as a residential service consultant. He joined the Navy after graduating from West Virginia University with a degree in psychology, spent nearly six years circling the world repeatedly aboard an aircraft carrier, and took graduate courses in English at Radford University following his discharge.
His first story was a national winner in the annual "Writers of the Future" competition and was published among the year's other winners in an anthology. He has recently sold other fiction to Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Sword and Sorceress" anthology and to other science fiction magazines including "Transversion" and "Tomorrow."
LENGTH: Short : 36 linesby CNB