A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects by Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente’s A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects from Norilana Books collects about two dozen poems, most of them previously published in various print and online venues. The poems largely draw from mythology and fairy tales. Interspersed among them are very short prose pieces, each labeled as being a particular tale […]
Continue ReadingPump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
In a back cover blurb to Paolo Bacigalupi’s collection, Pump Six and Other Stories, Kelly Link refers to the stories within as cautionary tales. That is exactly the right framework to have in mind when reading these stories. They are extrapolative—some rigorously so and some more whimsical. They can be visceral and […]
Continue ReadingShiny #2
Shiny is a PDF e-zine based in Australia of YA speculative fiction. When I was a teacher for a few years, I read a lot of YA speculative books as a way of keeping in touch with what my students might be reading, but I hadn’t read much short fiction that labeled itself as […]
Continue ReadingAliens of the Heart by Carolyn Ives Gilman
Aliens of the Heart is number 19 in Aqueduct Press’s series of Conversation Pieces and collects four works by Carolyn Ives Gilman. The series exists to present texts related to feminist SF, so while there are no accompanying essays or even introductions about how the editors saw these works in a feminist context, that […]
Continue ReadingBandersnatch, edited by Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace
Given the editors of the anthology Bandersnatch—Sean Wallace and Paul Tremblay, who until recently co-edited Fantasy Magazine—it would make sense to expect similar stories to those in the magazine. That would be a mistake here—their selected stories give a different feel to this anthology, and while the broad result is less to my taste, […]
Continue ReadingNew Genre #5
Before the fiction starts, New Genre #5 sets the stage with an essay, “Assimilate This” by Jan Wildt, that is a paean to SF that dares to draw from influences beyond its usual fare. This is no manifesto of any particular school of thought or movement, but simply a celebration of those things SFnal […]
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