The first ezine effort from the popular podcast production company, Escape Artists, Mothership Zeta offers speculative fiction that has a focus on fun. Fun is subjective, naturally, but we hope these short stories, reviews, and nonfiction pieces offer a look at the lighter side of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Stories by A. Merc Rustad, Sonja Natasha, and T. Kingfisher. Game, movie, and fiction reviews, and nonfiction.Table of Contents:EditorialFiction: You, an Accidental Astronaut by Sonja NatashaFiction: That Time with Bob and the Unicorn by T. KingfisherNonfiction: The Story Doctor Is (In) by James Patrick KellyFiction: The Android's Prehistoric Menagerie by A. Merc RustadFiction: The Elixir of the Not-So-Disgusting Death Smell by Carlie St. GeorgeNonfiction: Dictionary Writing Prompts by Karen BovenmyerFiction: A Bird, a Broad, and a Mess of Kyodatsu by Stephen LickmanNonfiction: Video Game Review: Hatoful Boyfriend Is the Greatest Pigeon Dating Sim in the History of Human and/or Bird Existence by Sunil PatelNonfiction: Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: A New Hope by Rachael AcksFiction: Fire in the Belly by Rachael AcksNonfiction: Comics Review: New and Upcoming Graphic Novels: Skywalker Strikes, Injection, Lady Killer, Bitch Planet, Constantine the Hellblazer Vol. 1: Going Down, and Founding Father Funnies by Adam GallardoFiction: Forty-One Bad Breakups and One Redemptive Reunion by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro