Clarkesworld, March 2008
“The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black” by Jay Lake opens the March, 2008, issue of Clarkesworld. It deals with a man who has sold his life to a gangster on a distant planet as part of his self-imposed penance for losing a mysterious alien artifact, as well […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld, February 2008
The February, 2008, issue of Clarkesworld would have to be perhaps the oddest I’ve read. The oddness didn’t always work for me, but I have to admire its guts.
Stephen Graham Jones opens the issue with “Captain’s Lament,” a story about a sailor and his strange convalescence in a hospital and the new nurse who tends […]
Clarkesworld #16, January 2008
In issue 16 of Clarkesworld, Tim Pratt’s story, “The River Boy,” is a sweet little tale about an old woman anxious to carry on her line by having a child, the bargain she makes in order to do so, and its consequences. Her desire becomes linked to the needs of the people who live in […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld #15, December 2007
Samantha Henderson opens December’s issue of Clarkesworld Magazine with her story, “Curse,” which takes as its opening premise the tale of Rumplestiltzkin—tracing the female protagonist’s future life with the king and her subsequent decisions. I found “Curse” perhaps a little too disjointed to truly care what was happening. The three sections seemed barely connected, and […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld #12, September 2007
“The Ape’s Wife” by Caitlin R. Kiernan tells of Ann Darrow, the woman captured by King Kong in the movie, (or so I assume, not having seen the film). Here, Darrow seems trapped between realities, playing out different versions of her life. In one, she is on the island, and Kong has gone off to […]
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