Apex Digest #11
Apex Digest is quickly building a reputation as a strong publication in the small press arena. Issue 11 opens with “Blackboard Sky” by Gary A. Braunbeck, a tale that proves that it’s possible to do hard science fiction with strong characterization well. Several stories in one, almost a mini-novel in scope, “Blackboard Sky” follows […]
Continue ReadingHorror Library, Volume 2, edited by R.J. Cavender and Vincent VanAllen
Horror Library, Volume 2: An Anthology of Terror, edited by R.J. Cavender and Vincent VanAllen, starts out with the short but haunting “A Season of Sleep” by John Rector. The characterization makes this story—Mattie, a young girl left in her parents’ farmhouse to care for her sick brother; Nathan, burning with fever after being […]
Continue ReadingL. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXIII, edited by Algis Budrys
The Writers of the Future Volume XXIII anthology opens beautifully with “Primetime” by Douglas Texter, a humanist tale of a future history channel that brings the past alive through live streaming coverage of history’s highest rating events. Alex, a lower level feed recorder for historical shows catches the attention of the head of the channel […]
Continue ReadingOrson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, October 2007
Reading Steven Savile has always been a pleasure, and “Night of Falling Stars,” the first story in issue #6 of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, is no exception. With lines like “the red sky bleeding to death for another day” Savile wraps not just the story around the reader, but the language itself. […]
Continue ReadingPostscripts, #11, Summer 2007
Postscripts #11 opens strongly with “Cobwebs” by Kealan Patrick Burke, an absolutely chilling tale that starts with Alfred Ross, an aging man, forgotten in Spring Grace Retirement Home. What begins as a sad story of a man watching his friends die and feeling the sting of the world and his family moving past him, waiting […]
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