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Artemis #3, Ian Randal Strock Ed., LRC Publications, 1380 East 17 St., Suite 201, Brooklyn, NY 11230-6011, $5 for one, $15 for 4, $24 for 8 ($24$38 for non-US subs), 64 pgs.
This is the Autumn 2000 issue. Artemis magazine publishes fiction and nonfiction set in near-Earth space (although many of the stories deal in some way with the moon) and the first story is indicative of this and of the optimism that pervades most of the magazine. I should add that originally, all of the fiction was to be moon-based, but the magazine has expanded to include other planetary venues.
"Moonlegs" by Pete D. Manison is a story predicated on the idea that the weaker gravity of the moon will make an ideal place for the rehabilitation of humans. Space makes a certain amount of sense, but the one-sixth gravity of the moon provides the resistance that much rehabilitation requires. Manison posits that this lesser gravity will be an ideal place to get people to adjust to prostheses. This in itself does not a story make, so Manison peoples his moon with a...