The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2009
The February 2009 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction lives up to its name, with stories from both categories and one that could be either (or neither). As usual, the stories are a good mix of the complex and the deceptively simple, with the subjects ranging from ghost cars to shadow-traders, with […]
Continue ReadingThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2008
The December 2008 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction has a variety of stories (well, six) all of which touch on a common theme of reality slippage, where the normal is turned ever so slightly off-kilter and something old becomes something very new indeed. From strange political machinations to the dead rising, […]
Continue ReadingSubtle Edens: An Anthology of Slipstream Fiction, edited by Allen Ashley
Slipstream is a genre that defies classification, in my opinion. In his introduction to Elastic Press’s Subtle Edens: An Anthology of Slipstream Fiction, the editor, Allen Ashley, makes a game attempt, invoking such luminaries as J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, and Robert A. Heinlein as primogenitors of the field. For Ashley, a strong undercurrent […]
Continue ReadingVault of Deeds by James Barclay
James Barclay’s Vault of Deeds is a modestly sized novella from PS Publishing that reads like an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music filtered through Robert Ludlum writing in the style of J. R. R. Tolkien. In Vault of Deeds, Grincheux, hapless scribe-to-the-heroes, and his newest hero-in-training undertake an investigation into the inner workings […]
Continue ReadingPS Showcase #4: Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes by Mark Samuels
PS Showcase 4: Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes is Mark Samuels’s third short fiction collection, after The White Hands and Other Weird Tales (Tartarus Press, 2003) and Black Altars (Rainfall Books, 2003). There is some carryover from the previous two collections (notably the story “Patient 704″), but, for the most part, Glyphotech and Other Macabre […]
Continue ReadingCrimewave 10: Now You See Me
Disappearances, reappearances, and vanishing acts of all stripes are the name of the game for the tenth issue of Crimewave. As with previous issues, there’s a central theme around which the stories all revolve, to one extent or another. Some hit the nail dead on the head, and others flirt with looser interpretations, but all […]
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