Lone Star Stories #28
Issue #28 of the Lone Star Stories webzine begins with “Remember the Allosaur” by Jo Walton, a very short piece which is essentially built around a joke. Fortunately, it’s a very funny joke: Cedric was a cloned allosaur who was bred for the purpose of acting in movies; then he started talking, and demanding bigger […]
Continue ReadingChiZine #37, July-September 2008
A sense of uncertainty floats through the stories of ChiZine #37: uncertainty over where we are, who (or what) we’re reading about, why certain things are happening—and the characters aren’t always much clearer about these matters than we are. The potential is there for some wonderful tales; unfortunately, that potential is not quite fulfilled overall.
“Intertropical […]
Interzone, #217, August 2008
Advance publicity in several forum posts heralds issue #217 of Interzone as “not so Mundane this time,” following as it does from the Mundane SF special issue. And it’s quite right: only two of this issue’s stories are Earth-bound, and those two are outlandish enough that they’re far away from Mundane SF. Whether this contrast […]
Continue ReadingDiet Soap #2
Welcome to the second issue of Diet Soap magazine, which has the theme of “sex and gender.” It begins with “Dream Date” by Chelsea Martin, which may be only three pages long, but leaves an impression that’s disproportionate to its length. A (largely) present-tense, second-person narrative voice addresses the female protagonist as she embarks on […]
Continue ReadingAbyss & Apex, #26, 2nd Quarter 2008
This was my first encounter with Abyss & Apex, a generalist speculative fiction webzine that seeks to publish “powerful stories with emotion that resonates in our minds and hearts long after the first reading” and “stories that stand out from the norm even in a genre that pushes the envelope of normal.” With the five […]
Continue ReadingPostscripts, #14, Spring 2008
PS Publishing must have one of the most diverse lists in the independent press; and their magazine, Postscripts, reflects that diversity: reading an issue is like reaching into the PS bran tub and pulling out a random selection.
Opening issue #14 is “Blackbird” by Robert Reed which, according to its introduction, arose from “wondering what it […]
Something Wicked, Issue 6, Summer 2008
On my personal world map of fantastic fiction, South Africa is one of the areas marked “here be dragons,” because I don’t know what else to put there. If the same applies to you, here to amend that is Something Wicked, South Africa’s only quarterly magazine of science fiction and horror (so here there not […]
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