Aeon #14
The fourteenth issue of Aeon kicks off with “The March Wind” by Davin Ireland. In this story, the Earth is at war with nameless, hostile aliens who have forced the human population into a continuous curfew. In the destroyed shambles of the modern world, suicide has become a fact of everyday life. Vic lives […]
Continue ReadingThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2008
Opening the August 2008 F&SF is “Childrun” by Marc Laidlaw in which bard Gorlen Vizenfirthe comes to the eponymous town where all the children have mysteriously vanished, leaving only a fat, monstrous child reminiscent of the huge baby Boh in Spirited Away. This last child is coddled by the villagers and by the schoolteacher, Ansylla, […]
Continue ReadingBaen’s Universe, Vol 2 Num 6: April 2008
The Vol 2 Num 6 issue of Jim Baen’s Universe is arranged in the usual fashion of SF and fantasy stories, plus a classic story, and finally a couple of “Introducing” stories featuring authors who are not yet professionals in the genre.
Opening the SF section is Tobias Buckell’s “Manumission.” Pepper is indentured to ShinnCo, a […]
Asimov’s, June 2008
Opening the June, 2008, issue of Asimov’s is “Call Back Yesterday” by Nancy Kress. Caitlin, Seena, and Josh are patients in a special ward of those afflicted by Cathcart Syndrome, a condition which causes them to hallucinate visions of people at odd moments. And yet, it seems that there is much more going on […]
Continue ReadingAsimov’s, April/May 2008
The double April/May, 2008, issue of Asimov’s contains stories with a common theme of loss and grief—either the loss of a person or, more drastically, that of a whole way of life.
In “Memory Dog” by Kathleen Ann Goonan, the world has drastically changed after all-out war. Arnold Wentworth is a “smacker,” someone who sends out […]
Asimov’s, February 2008
The February 2008 issue of Asimov’s features six stories, all of which are SF.
The issue starts off with “The Last American” by John Kessel, the biography of Andrew Steele, a ruthless and skilled manipulator whose meteoritic rise to President of the United States is only the latest in a series of incarnations which saw Steele […]
Journal of Mythic Arts, Summer 2007
The Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts is an online magazine which features a wide variety of offerings on folklore themes; fiction, articles, poetry, and art can all be found on the website. The fiction offerings are numerous, many of them from big names.
The theme for the Summer 2007 issue is Young Adult Mythic, […]
Asimov’s, December 2007
The December, 2007, issue of Asimov’s features four SF stories and one fantasy one.
In “All Seated on The Ground” by Connie Willis, aliens have arrived in Denver. The Altari, as they’ve been dubbed (though no one really knows where they’re coming from), seem to be unable to communicate, other than through glares of reprobation—an […]
Realms of Fantasy, October 2007
October’s Realms of Fantasy features its usual movie cover, in this case Michelle Pfeiffer in Stardust. Inside are six short stories and the regular columns on books, movies, and games, as well as an article featuring artist Scott M. Fisher.
The stories themselves vary wildly in time and setting. We move from medieval fantasy (Ruth […]
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