Strange Horizons, August 2008
One of the classic knocks the literati give against speculative fiction is that the genre exists merely as escapist reading. This silly view holds that it’s wrong to read science fiction or fantasy simply to experience a different world, while the reverse—that it’s quite all right to read a highbrow literary novel and experience a […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, July 2008
It sometimes appears that humanity is fated to eternally ask deep questions while receiving few deep answers in return. Perhaps this is because we humans are very good at posing the big questions—What is the meaning of life? What is the nature of good and evil? Is there a God?—but not so good at finding […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, June 2008
Online speculative fiction magazines are held to a strange standard of success. Even though the best e-zines reach far more readers than most genre print magazines, there are continual questions on the viability of these online publications. One of the most recent regurgitations on this theme came from Simon Owens, who asked on his site, […]
Continue ReadingTales of Moreauvia #1
The subtitle of the new print magazine Tales of Moreauvia instantly stakes out where this intriguing semi-prozine plans to take readers: on “Flights of Historical Fancy.” While this theme might seem to place Tales of Moreauvia on the same ground as the well-established Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction, the difference is that […]
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