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Baen’s Universe, Vol. 2, No. 5: February 2008
This issue of Baen’s universe has the usual mix of science fiction and fantasy stories, plus one story in the Introducing section: “End of the Line” by Holly Messinger.
“The Smartest Mob…(a parable about times soon to come)” by David Brin is set in the future after dirty bombs hit Washington and part of […]
Ideomancer, March 2008, Vol 7, Issue 1
The first story in Ideomancer’s March 2008 issue is “Seer of Cities” by Nicole Kornher-Stace. The eponymous boy is climbing a tree in his back garden, only to fall from a rotten branch and seriously injure himself. Paralysed in his legs, he begins dreaming of a city that he sees from his tree. In his […]
Continue Readingshortshortshort.com, Jan/Feb 2008
In “One,” the first shortshortshort.com story of January, 2008, Bruce Holland Rogers presents a video game with a purpose greater than simple entertainment. While this idea has been used before, for instance in the 1984 film, The Last Starfighter, in “One,” Rogers is trying to set the stage for something more complex than simply […]
Continue ReadingAbyss & Apex, #25, 1st Quarter 2008
Issue #25 of Abyss & Apex leans toward the melancholy. Even so, the five stories that comprise the current issue are filled with thought provoking ideas that should ultimately leave the reader in a thoughtful, but far from sad, mood.
“Snatch Me Another” by Mercurio D. Rivera is set in a reality not unlike ours—but with […]
Clarkesworld, February 2008
The February, 2008, issue of Clarkesworld would have to be perhaps the oddest I’ve read. The oddness didn’t always work for me, but I have to admire its guts.
Stephen Graham Jones opens the issue with “Captain’s Lament,” a story about a sailor and his strange convalescence in a hospital and the new nurse who tends […]
Strange Horizons, February 2008
A theme of loss seems to run through the February, 2008, stories at Strange Horizons. The first, “Tokyo Rising” by Lynne Hawkinson, matches loss with whimsy. Tokyo has been destroyed multiple times by Godzilla, Mothra, natural disasters, and more, which eventually results in the city planners considering the site cursed and moving the population […]
Continue ReadingHub Magazine, Issues 43-46
In Issue 43 of Hub, Ian Whates’s “Coffee Break” introduces us to the unflappable Bud, a coffee shop customer who won’t be kept from his beverage. Even an alien invasion force can’t stop Bud from enjoying a cup of coffee on his day off. There’s more to Bud than your average joe-drinking Joe, but not […]
Continue ReadingDog Versus Sandwich, February 2008
The February, 2008, issue of Dog Versus Sandwich offers three stories and one poem that propel this e-zine forward along its stated path of fantastic and surreal storytelling. To evaluate these stories by conventional expectations might lead us awry, so for a better idea of the appropriate yard stick, let me quote here from the […]
Continue ReadingFantasy Magazine Online, February 2008
Three of Fantasy Magazine’s four February, 2008 stories are romances, and all of them involve a certain amount of wandering about in invented histories or surreal environments, some better researched or more convincing than others.
Tomi Two-Hearts and Cinnamon Bear definitely didn’t experience love at first sight in Trent Walters’s “The Fable of Cinnamon and Bitter.” […]
The Town Drunk, February 2008
“The Curse of the Friendly Forest” by Rod M. Santos leads off the February, 2008, issue of The Town Drunk. Sir Duncan enters the Forest of Friendliness hoping to win the favor of the Bright Lady. He needs her help to escape the wrath of The Dark Night who’s out to settle an old score. […]
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