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The Aphorisms of Kherishdar by M.C.A. Hogarth
The conceit at the heart of M.C.A. Hogarth’s The Aphorisms of Kherishdar is, you have to concede, both brave and intriguing. The aim is to take a series of flash fiction pieces (nicely referred to here as “incense stories, short but lingering”) and create a guide to the laws, ethics, and customs of an alien […]
Continue ReadingApex Digest #12
Issue 12 is Apex Digest’s first “Double Issue,” packing a wallop of names from Apex regulars Cherie Priest to Brian Keene and the conclusion of Geoffrey Girard’s “Cain XP11.”
First up is “Death Comes for All” by Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury, the castaway tale of two Nordic-inspired sailors whose latest adventure is being shipwrecked […]
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #33
Billed as Australia’s Pulpiest SF Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine is a long running and respected antipodean publication of speculative fiction. The first issue hit the stands in June of 2002, and readers and reviewers have taken notice ever since. The publishing co-op maintains a roughly bimonthly release schedule, with each issue containing about […]
Continue ReadingFarrago’s Wainscot, Part VI: Obscura
Farrago’s Wainscot clearly wants readers to believe that it is a radical, experimental e-zine. Part VI: Obscura explores themes of estrangement from society, with some interesting, multilayered storytelling, but on the evidence of the six stories presented, it would be a mistake to assume that this e-zine is in any way inaccessible or too […]
Continue ReadingIlluminations: The Friday Flash Fiction Anthology, edited by Paul Graham Raven
Illuminations: The Friday Flash Fiction Anthology, edited by Paul Graham Raven, gathers together sixty-six tales by eight different authors in a charity project to benefit the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Its genesis was an exercise in motivation by Gareth L. Powell; he committed to writing a new flash fiction piece […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld #19, April 2008
Clarkesworld Magazine is a good magazine to read, despite it having only two fiction stories in each issue. If there ever comes a day when I read a fiction magazine and discover that each issue comprises only one fiction story, then something tells me I won’t be surprised.
In the April, 2008, issue, Jeffrey Ford picks […]
A Thousand Faces, Issue #3, Winter 2008
A Thousand Faces is self-described as a
“quarterly journal of superhuman fiction [and] is the next step in the evolution of the superhero genre.”
But by “next step,” publisher Frank Byrns isn’t referring to bigger and badder BIFF-BAM-POW fight scenes that most people have come to associate with the ubiquitous comic book medium. Instead, the evolution […]
Binding Energy by Daniel Marcus
Occasionally, say once in a blue moon, you stumble across a collection of stories whose range, intensity, passion, and inventiveness simply knock you off your feet. And then you get up and start seeking out whatever else the author of those stories has written.
Last time it happened for me it was Glen Hirshberg, whose collection, […]
Best Fantastic Erotica, edited by Cecilia Tan
Best Fantastic Erotica combines nineteen stories from authors in the United States, Australia, and the UK into a volume that contains all the things most submission guidelines specifically forbid. And I do mean all so readers be warned: this is not for the shy or conservative. Do not leave it laying around the house for […]
Continue ReadingBlack Static #4
If acoustic static is white noise—a random signal with a flat power spectral density—then perhaps it follows that Black Static or, forgive the synoeciosis, black white noise, presents a primary inversion, a constantly fluctuating power spectral density. The fourth issue of this stylish horror magazine delivers six signal bursts, and I’m happy to report that […]
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