Cemetery Dance #58
Cemetery Dance is 58 issues old, but this was this reviewer’s first experience with the publication. It wasn’t quite what I was expecting.
Magazine-sized with a glossy cover stapled around a low quality pulp paper, the physical magazine is most reminiscent of the comics published by British Marvel in the 1970s. The overall design is straightforward […]
The Aphorisms of Kherishdar by M.C.A. Hogarth
The conceit at the heart of M.C.A. Hogarth’s The Aphorisms of Kherishdar is, you have to concede, both brave and intriguing. The aim is to take a series of flash fiction pieces (nicely referred to here as “incense stories, short but lingering”) and create a guide to the laws, ethics, and customs of an alien […]
Continue ReadingThe Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Two, edited by Jonathan Strahan
Editor Jonathan Strahan opens The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Two with a brief introduction in which he identifies a major challenge facing science fiction and fantasy—the fragmentation of the genre. The point is well made. This reviewer tries to read as much short fiction as possible each year; pretty […]
Continue ReadingAndromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #32
Given that most short fiction magazines don’t struggle past the third or fourth issue, turning out number 32 on a more or less regular schedule of six issues per year must make Australia’s Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine something of an old stager. Thankfully, although the name remains, the original conceit about the magazine being the […]
Continue ReadingInterzone #214, February 2008
This review should start with a declaration of interests. Eagle-eyed readers bored enough to have nothing better to do will note that the name of this reviewer appears in this issue of Interzone. For the last three years I have run Interzone’s annual Readers’ Poll—which basically amounts to eliciting, collecting, and counting the votes submitted […]
Continue ReadingLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, November 2007, No. 21
What’s in a name? What, exactly, should a reader expect when they pick up a magazine called Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet? Pretensions to literary stylings would seem to be a certainty, but does the obscure title also hint at a deliberately obscure approach to story and language? There are those writers whose primary purpose is […]
Continue ReadingThe Maker’s Mark: Remnants, edited by Jon Garrad
The Maker’s Mark: Remnants, edited by Jon Garrad, is, we are told, an exercise in “world-building.” Every story in this volume is set on the same desert planet inhabited by robots that scattered from the City that lies at the centre of their world at some indeterminate time (a “generation” at least) in the […]
Continue ReadingElectric Velocipede #12
Electric Velocipede (No. 12, Spring 2007) is a very well put together little magazine. It is straightforwardly but comfortably designed, there’s nothing in the way of internal art, but the presentation and sensible typography mean that the plain pages of text are easily navigated and contribute to a pleasurable physical experience. The quality of the […]
Continue ReadingCrossTIME Science Fiction Anthology, Vol. VI, edited by Anthony Ravenscroft
The CrossTIME Science Fiction Anthology VI publishes the best of the stories contributed to the Crossquarter Annual Short Science Fiction Contest in 2006. The competition has been running since 2001 and is organised in memory of Paul B. Duquette, a friend of the publisher’s and an sf fan. The Crossquarter competition specifies that it […]
Continue ReadingAnalog, November 2007
For a reader who hasn’t been down these paths in a long time, the question was whether the strange odour in the air when opening the pages of the November 2007 issue of Analog (Vol. CXXVII, no. 11) was the whiff of nostalgia or the tang of formaldehyde.
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