E-zines

Reviews of e-zines.

Clarkesworld Magazine, #13, Oct. 2007

By Andrew Hook ⋅ November 9, 2007

Clarkesworld Magazine is an online ‘zine that’s been running for thirteen issues as I write this, although I must admit I haven’t previously read it. Coming across it for the first time, I had no preconceptions, and I found some intelligent and literate fiction which I admired, but also found myself wanting more.
In “A Dance […]

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Hub #27 - 30

By Marshall Payne ⋅ October 30, 2007

I was only a couple of paragraphs into “House Trainer” by Kenneth B. Chiacchia in Hub #27 when I thought, “Why didn’t I think of this idea?” Much has been written about home AIs, where the house has a personality of sorts, but Chiacchia’s take on it is a real treat.
Joyce has […]

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Hub #8–12

By Paul J. Iutzi ⋅ October 14, 2007

In a world so polluted that the ocean and sky have turned colors you don’t usually see outside of a sixty-four count crayon box, Matthew is…
“One in a Million,” which happens to also be the title of the story in Hub #8.
He’s also special.
And, he’s different from everyone else.
The problem is, when author […]

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Shiny #1

By Shaun C. Green ⋅ October 14, 2007

Shiny is an e-zine all about the fiction. More specifically, it’s all about YA fiction. A brief introduction from its editorial triumvirate explains that they see YA spec fic as being “pretty shiny right now.” It’s an argument that has some support, as evidenced by the sizable list of authors they reel off. So, reasoned […]

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Aeon #11

By Marshall Payne ⋅ October 14, 2007

Aeon #11 is the first issue of this e-zine that I have read, but I must say that I was impressed. Most of the offerings are fantasy to dark fantasy—though the first story is probably best categorized as SF—yet each tale is unique, and I’d recommend it to any reader of speculative fiction. […]

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Strange Horizons, August 2007

By Alex Dally MacFarlane ⋅ October 14, 2007

“Artifice and Intelligence” by Tim Pratt in Strange Horizons is a quirky approach to the artificial intelligence motif. “The vast network of Indian tech support call centers and their deep data banks” have awakened, announcing their sentience and their name: Saraswati. The story follows three people who have been affected by this: Pramesh, who must […]

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Hub #24-26

By Nader Elhefnawy ⋅ October 14, 2007

Ian McHugh’s poetically titled “Requiem in D-Minor (for prions, whale and burning bush)” in Hub #24 elegantly connects all these elements and more. However, long-time readers and viewers of science fiction will find most of the tropes already familiar and may not be surprised by the outcome to which their interconnections eventually lead. […]

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Lone Star Stories #23, October 2007

By Sarah Jackson ⋅ October 14, 2007

Issue 23 of Lone Star Stories contains three pieces of short fiction. The first, “Stickmen” by Forrest Aguirre, is a delicate tale about loss of innocence and growing up. A group of boys on a camping trip create stick figures out of the materials available to them on the forest floor and reveal something […]

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The Town Drunk, October 2007

By Carole Ann Moleti ⋅ October 13, 2007

The October 2007 offering from The Town Drunk, “In the Shadow of the Fryolator” by Lucy A. Snyder, poses the question: Is there anything worse than finding out your prince is an abrasive toad? Answer: Yes, he could be a slimy squid.
Emma Legrasse’s mother told dire tales about single women and their fate. Why […]

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Distillations: An Introduction

By Jennifer Mercer ⋅ October 13, 2007

Welcome to Distillations, a monthly review of Speculative Poetry. The field of Speculative Poetry embraces every subgenre of science fiction and fantasy imaginable in every existing poetry form, plus some made up fresh for the occasion. What it doesn’t include is a lot of words. That means that every letter, every piece of punctuation, […]

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