Withersin, Death 1.3
Withersin Magazine wraps up its first year of publication with Death 1.3, completing a thematic series that began with Birth 1.1 and continued with Life 1.2. If their tagline is any indication, their next season of Flesh, Bone, and Dust will be just as “dark, different,” and “pleasantly sinister.” And strange. This is one weird […]
Continue ReadingTalebones, #36, Spring 2008
In issue #36 of Talebones, “The Cankerman Shower” by Paul Melko whimsically captures the campy Bat Durston drama (and many of the sexist stereotypes) of the ’50s space westerns that we’ve grown to love. Mr. Cankerman, however, as his name implies, is rotten to the core, and yet lovable in a Han Solo sort of […]
Continue ReadingAberrant Dreams, April 2008
Four new stories and four new poems are offered in the current online issue of Aberrant Dreams, updated mid-April. Additional new material includes a review by Ernest G. Saylor of The Prefect, a novel by Alastair Reynolds, and a “Myles Cabot Presents” interview with Michael Swanwick, author of the Nebula award-winning novel, Stations of the […]
Continue ReadingA Thousand Faces, Issue #4, Spring 2008
A Thousand Faces busts open its second season with another great lineup of superhuman fiction. And the story chosen by editor and publisher Frank Byrns to set the tone for a new year “in the evolution of the superhero genre” is…a reprint! But a reprint with a purpose.
“Heroic Measures” by Matthew Johnson, originally published in […]
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #33
Billed as Australia’s Pulpiest SF Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine is a long running and respected antipodean publication of speculative fiction. The first issue hit the stands in June of 2002, and readers and reviewers have taken notice ever since. The publishing co-op maintains a roughly bimonthly release schedule, with each issue containing about […]
Continue ReadingA Thousand Faces, Issue #3, Winter 2008
A Thousand Faces is self-described as a
“quarterly journal of superhuman fiction [and] is the next step in the evolution of the superhero genre.”
But by “next step,” publisher Frank Byrns isn’t referring to bigger and badder BIFF-BAM-POW fight scenes that most people have come to associate with the ubiquitous comic book medium. Instead, the evolution […]
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