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Distillations: Repeating Forms
The act of repetition is one of the paradoxes of poetry. In the confined world of a poem, what is the use of redundancy? However wasteful it may seem, there are many poetry forms built around obligatory patterns of repetition. In this column, we will explore two rather different forms, the villanelle and the triolet, […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, June 2008
Online speculative fiction magazines are held to a strange standard of success. Even though the best e-zines reach far more readers than most genre print magazines, there are continual questions on the viability of these online publications. One of the most recent regurgitations on this theme came from Simon Owens, who asked on his site, […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, May 2008
Strange Horizons begins the month of May, 2008, with “The Gadgey” by Alan Campbell. In Scotland, two teenage boys on BMXs find a crashed spaceship. After much banter of Star Trek and E.T., the boys meet the alien they call a gadgey, who looks like the alien from the movie Predator, except in a silver […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, April 2008
“In Ashes” by Helen Keeble, one of the April, 2008, Strange Horizons fiction offerings, is set in the same world as her previous Strange Horizons story, “In Stone,” a world of elemental magic that comes at a high price. Jessa and her brother, Jennet, live with their mother in a small house where Jennet is […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, March 2008
“All Talk” by Will Ludwigsen, the first story for March in Strange Horizons, is a brief scene between two people who possess mind-control powers. Sitting in a café, Valerie and Colin amuse themselves by making strangers around them say inappropriate things, such as the girl who tells her mother, “Elmo strangles hookers!” After a little […]
Continue ReadingStrange 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 ReadingStrange Horizons, January 2008
Strange Horizons began 2008 with a short piece, “Still Living” by J. J. Irwin. Alice’s husband, Carlos, recently died, but the murals he painted throughout their house—their happy moments on picnic blankets under a warm sun, feeding each other—are still animated, each set of Alice and Carlos still together. The real Alice cannot bear their […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, December 2007
In 2007’s December Strange Horizons offerings, N.K. Jemisin’s “The You Train” tells the story of a woman seeking to escape her modern life. Overwhelmed by the frustrations of work and people, she begins to notice strange behavior in the trains of the New York subway system. Retired trains and, sometimes, trains that have never existed […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, November 2007
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 […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, October 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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