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Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, #9, July 2008

InterGalactic Medicine Show #9 for July, 2008, offers a mixed bag of work, but starts off strong with a gem by Peter Beagle, “The Tale of Junko and Sayuri.” With excellent control of tone, Beagle gives us the story of Junko, a poor man whose name (we learn) means “genuine,” “pure,” or “obedient.” As Chief […]

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On Spec, #72, Spring 2008

The spring 2008 issue (#72/volume 20, Number 1) of the Canadian magazine On Spec delivers six stories, two poems, and an interesting mix of nonfiction, including an editorial on some favorite On Spec stories of past issues by Managing Editor Diane Walton and Fiction Co-Editor Susan MacGregor. In the case of the current issue, its […]

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Subterranean Online, Spring 2008

The Spring 2008 issue of the Subterranean Press online magazine offers seven stories (arranged in alphabetical order by title, something I’ve never noticed in other magazines), along with an article on Henry Kuttner, a review of Thomas Ligotti’s Teatro Grottesco, and an interview with Sherrilyn Kenyon. This issue also includes “Delilah and the Space […]

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