Reviews
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2008
P.E.Cunningham’s “Monkey See” in the June, 2008, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a lighthearted heroic fantasy tale, complete with wizards, magic, and of course, a talking sword. Ji is a Zhindi warrior. Whilst investigating a potential threat to the Emperor, she arrives at an apparently abandoned village, only to find […]
Continue ReadingWords Written Backwards by Gemma Files
Gemma Files writes dirty, which in her deft hands is a good thing. She’s the author of two collections, Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart, which saw her charting a similar gothic, transgendered, human/monster terrain as that explored in the work of writers like Caitlin R. Kiernan and Poppy Z. Brite. Which is […]
Continue ReadingWarrior Wisewoman, edited by Roby James
In the introduction to Warrior Wisewoman, editor Roby James explains that the anthology is meant to offer stories with strong female protagonists—not characters that could as easily be male as female, but strong women, whose gender informs their actions but does not define them. It seeks to show women protagonists who are both strong and […]
Continue ReadingAndromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #34
With its determinedly pulpy focus on humorous science fiction, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine isn’t going to be mistaken for Granta very often. But that’s okay—sometimes one prefers a beer to a Bordeaux.
There are always a few stories in ASIM that are serious in tone, so each issue has more in the way of […]
Something Wicked, Issue 6, Summer 2008
On my personal world map of fantastic fiction, South Africa is one of the areas marked “here be dragons,” because I don’t know what else to put there. If the same applies to you, here to amend that is Something Wicked, South Africa’s only quarterly magazine of science fiction and horror (so here there not […]
Continue Reading2012, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne
2012, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne, is a themed anthology produced by Australian publisher Twelfth Planet Press with the main conceit that all the tales are set in the year 2012 and address the social/environmental/economic issues and concerns of the world today. And what we have is eleven tales by Australian authors […]
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 […]
Weird Tales #349
Weird Tales #349 is a special edition: it celebrates the magazine´s 85th anniversary. And it begins in great style, featuring a classic name and a regular contributor to Weird Tales since its resurrection in the 1980s: Tanith Lee.
Lee’s story, “Heart of Ice,” tells of Nirsen, an orphan betrayed by the people he lives […]
Dog Versus Sandwich, April 2008
The first offering in April’s Dog Versus Sandwich is “Eat My Stardust” by Sarah Totton. For those unfamiliar with Totton’s fiction, you’re in for a real treat. Her work has an odd quirkiness unlike any I’ve seen. While her style often possesses a childlike innocence, a certain disturbing decadence offsets the naiveté. […]
Continue ReadingWritten Word, #10, April 2008
This month’s Written Word, #10, dives into darkness with fiction that feels so real it’s hard to believe it isn’t true. Readers who are easily disturbed are cautioned, but my comments should in no way be construed as criticism of some very fine writing by authors with the guts to tackle controversial issues.
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