E-zines

Reviews of e-zines.

Strange Horizons, November 2007

By Alex Dally MacFarlane ⋅ January 15, 2008

As seems to be the trend for me, November was another month in which I very much enjoyed most of Strange Horizon’s fiction and didn’t dislike any. The first story of the month is “Bears” by Leah Bobet, and it’s about, well, bears. “Ninety-eight percent of all fictional deaths are directly attributable to being eaten […]

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Clarkesworld #16, January 2008

By Ben Payne ⋅ January 14, 2008

In issue 16 of Clarkesworld, Tim Pratt’s story, “The River Boy,” is a sweet little tale about an old woman anxious to carry on her line by having a child, the bargain she makes in order to do so, and its consequences. Her desire becomes linked to the needs of the people who live in […]

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Hub #35 - 38

By Shaun C. Green ⋅ January 14, 2008

Over the last year, I’ve learned by experience exactly what people mean when they say their lives keep them too busy to read. Now, by this I mean, of course, that while I may have plenty of time in which I could read, sometimes I choose not to because working life forces one to be […]

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The Town Drunk, January 2008

By Carole Ann Moleti ⋅ January 14, 2008

In The Town Drunk for January, 2008, “Panko” by Zdravka Evtimova weaves an interesting tale of a dead donkey whose meat has the magical ability to make even the most downtrodden woman appear “magnificent” to the (human) male asses that happen to be around.
The imagery of a man more devoted to his donkey than to […]

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shortshortshort.com, Nov/Dec 2007

By Douglas Hoffman ⋅ January 2, 2008

Pushcart and Nebula Award-winning author Bruce Holland Rogers gives subscribers a good deal: for ten dollars a year, they receive (by email) three stories a month. As Rogers says, “Thirty-six stories for ten dollars. That’s about twenty-eight cents a story.” They’re short stories, rarely longer than 2000 words, but in today’s nanosecond attention span […]

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Fantasy Magazine Online, December 2007

By Val Grimm ⋅ December 31, 2007

This month’s Fantasy Magazine yields up horror, romance, a re-imagined fairy tale, a prose poem, and a bedtime story. It’s an uneven crop but an interesting one nonetheless. Overall, where December’s offerings are weakest is coherency. Two stories feel like sections of novels (a phenomenon I’ve encountered from this publication’s offerings before), and the plotline […]

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Strange Horizons, October 2007

By Alex Dally MacFarlane ⋅ December 31, 2007

Strange Horizons brought five stories in October, 2007. The opening one, “Catherine and the Satyr” by Theodora Goss, is a tragedy about being trapped. The titular woman—the wife of Byron—is trapped in a marriage with a man who has become distracted by other women. There are ways for her to find a kind of freedom; […]

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Shortshortshort.com, Sept/Oct 2007

By Douglas Hoffman ⋅ December 31, 2007

Bruce Holland Rogers, the creative force behind shortshortshort.com, served up a mixed sextet of ultrashort stories for September and October, 2007. Here you’ll find some of Rogers’s best work, as well as some less-than-stellar tales.
“Stoppage” is not one of Rogers’s clearer stories. A cat sitting on sheet music provides the inspiration for a metaphysical digression […]

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Ideomancer, December 2007

By Alex Dally MacFarlane ⋅ December 23, 2007

The December issue of Ideomancer opens with “How to Draw the Dark Lord” by Jon Hansen, which takes the style of a children’s colouring book and offers a ten-step set of instructions on how to draw the archetypal Dark Lord of fantasy worlds. Hansen’s observations are spot-on for the archetype, and a sprinkling of humour […]

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Aeon #12

By Marshall Payne ⋅ December 20, 2007

I was quite impressed with Aeon #11 and found Aeon #12 to be equally impressive. Editors Bridget and Marti McKenna are doing a fine job of bringing a diverse selection of speculative fiction to their readers. This is adult, literary fiction with a true sense of passion, combined with thoughtful fun.
Sarah L. Edwards […]

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