Future Bristol, edited by Colin Harvey
Future Bristol is an anthology of short fiction by nine British writers connected to a city they love, respect, and want to see flourish. And rightly so, for Bristol, England, is a city worthy of both real and fictional exploration, and this volume is a perfect travel guide to get us started. Each story propels […]
Continue ReadingFantasy Magazine, February 2009
February’s issue of Fantasy Magazine contains three original stories of short fantasy and a reprint of Oscar Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose.” These fiction highlights, along with their regular columns, reviews, and video postings—as well as the famous “Blog for A Beer” Friday feature—make Fantasy Magazine one of the premier sites on the web […]
Continue ReadingFantasy Magazine, January 2009
In the January, 2009, offerings from Fantasy Magazine, we discover four oddly curious fiction selections—three originals and, in celebration of Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday, the reprint of “Ligeia,” one of Poe’s earliest short stories, first published in 1838. “Ligeia” is a Gothic-inspired love story, dramatizing the narrator’s anguished obsession for his lost love, Lady […]
Continue ReadingFilter House by Nisi Shawl
Nisi Shawl is not for the casual reader. Not that her stories aren’t entertaining. Many are. But the 14 stories collected in Filter House seem to be crafted for those who read critically as well as for escape. As such, with a couple of exceptions, this collection offers a fulfilling, if challenging repast. In honesty, […]
Continue ReadingPS Showcase #2: Conscientious Inconsistencies by Nancy Jane Moore
Conscientious Inconsistencies by Nancy Jane Moore is the second volume in PS Publishing’s series of “mini-collections of brand new short stories by some of the best and brightest new writers on the genre fiction scene.” And I have to say I was impressed. Although touted in the introduction as a sampling of stories influenced by […]
Continue ReadingNeo-opsis #14
Issue #14 of Neo-opsis, a science fiction print magazine out of British Columbia, includes six short stories among its offerings of “art, opinion, fact and fiction.”
The first piece, “Seek You” by David Routledge, is a lighthearted first contact story featuring an eccentric recluse who is receiving signals from outer space…in his head…in Morse code! […]
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 […]
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