‘Red Planet Raygunne and the Answer to Everything’: New Cover Art by Mel Anastasiou

Have Questions, Will Travel

With Red Planet Raygunne and the Answer to Everything, artist Mel Anastasiou pays tribute to Douglas Adams and the literary adventures that await you here.

For the cover of Issue 42 — Mel’s favourite number, obviously — we welcome back our first interstellar explorer, Raygunne. First seen in the title page of Issue 3, Raygunne returned in Issues 22 and 34. Now she’s about to set foot on the Red Planet, hoping she’ll discover the answer to everything.

Red Planet Raygunne and the Answer to Everything

More Issue 42 Adventures Await!

Travelling with us are dragons in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains with ‘La Vitesse’ by feature author Kelly Robson. There’s ninjas in small-town Ontario and on the road to Tuktoyaktuk, with ‘The Newtonbrook Ninja’ by Preston Lang and ‘The Ice Road’ by Trish Gauntlett.

Along for the ride are meddling ghosts and workaday zombie-hunters, with the opening chapters of Take My Hand by Mel Anastasiou, and ‘High Reward’ from Gabriel Craven and Mikayla Fawcett.

We pick up some friends, frenemies, and migrant orphans along the way, with ‘Masquerade’ by Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho, a new instalment of The Shepherdess by JM Landels, ‘Never-ender’ by Krista Jane May, and ‘Octavier’ by Nat Kishchuk.

And rounding out the journey, we’ve got primal horror with ‘Flehmen Grimace’ and ‘Watercolours’, both from EC Dorgan. Plus, there’s a trio of sharp and glittering poems from Leanne Boschman, Patti Palmer-Baker, and Marri Champié.

Set your course to new worlds now …

Pick up your copy of Pulp Literature Issue 42 today!

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Mel Anastasiou loves drawing for Pulp Literature because she loves the stories she illustrates. As our in-house illustrator, her work appears in every issue. She draws in black and white, working from imagination and inspired by details from Renaissance compositions. You can find illustrations, writing tips, and news about her books and novellas at melanastasiou.wordpress.com, and see more of her artwork on Facebook at Bird and Branch Artwork.

Mel also writes the Fairmount Manor Mysteries, the Hertfordshire Pub Mysteries, and the Monument Studios Mysteries. She’s the winner of a Literary Titan Gold award and was longlisted for the Leacock Medal. She also wrote two illustrated thirty-day workbooks: the steampunk-themed The Writer’s Boon Companion and The Writer’s Friend and Confidante. For news on published and upcoming new works, visit her website, melanastasiou.wordpress.com, or visit her on X.