Reviews
Realms of Fantasy, April 2008
The crop of stories in the April, 2008, issue of Realms of Fantasy left me in a quandary. Whether critiquing or reviewing, I really don’t feel I’m doing my job if I can’t find something to criticize. Maybe I’m just in an abnormally positive mood, but I liked all the stories and couldn’t […]
Continue ReadingWeird Tales #347
Issue #347 is the first issue of Weird Tales from fiction editor Ann VanderMeer, who prior to joining the Weird Tales masthead had already established a reputation in the industry for editing fantasy and the weird. Given that Weird Tales also has a bit of a track record in the fantasy and weird departments, […]
Continue ReadingFrom the Podosphere: January ‘08
This month, From the Podosphere offers something other than the usual short story roundup: two audio dramas and one novella.
Podcast audio dramas, particularly genre work—which seems to be the majority of it—are like the bastard offspring of 50s and 60s radio serials, such as The Shadow and Sexton Blake, and audio space operas that were […]
Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, January 2008
In issue #7 of InterGalactic Medicine Show, “Silent As Dust” by James Maxey explores the curious case of a house haunted by a living man. As you might imagine, such a situation requires a unique character in a unique setting, and Steven Cooper, hiding in the cupboards and crawlspaces of Seven Chimneys, certainly provides both […]
Continue ReadingEscape Velocity #1, November 2007
Escape Velocity: The Magazine of Science Fact and Fiction, edited by Geoff Nelder and Robert Blevins, is a new magazine cast in the mold of Analog and other hard science fiction venues. But there is one significant difference. While Analog is famous for its mafia authors, Escape Velocity seeks to showcase fledgling authors […]
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 ReadingNo Further Messages by Brett Alexander Savory
Brett Alexander Savory’s style comes through from word one in No Further Messages, his new collection of twenty-one short stories from Delirium Books. The first tale, “Messages,” is an immediately collection-defining one, about a woman who recovers manuscripts written by people in fugue states which supposedly contain messages from some higher power. Whether she is […]
Continue ReadingDog Versus Sandwich, January 2008
Dog Versus Sandwich is an Australian, blog-based e-zine “dedicated to the fantastic, absurd, surreal, obtuse, bizarre, fandangled, hyperbolic, ‘slipped streams,’ the parable, the duck with the broken leg, the experimental, the mental, and also stories in which a dog eats a sandwich (or vice versa).”
The January, 2008, instalment is the inaugural issue and features one […]
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2008
In the March, 2008, issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction Alexander Jablokov sees the Cold War technology race through the eyes of “The Boarder,” Vassily, a Soviet ex-pat living in Andrew’s U.S. basement. As a metallurgist who helped to develop Sputnik, he follows the U.S. space program with avidity, influencing young Andrew with his criticisms. […]
Continue ReadingCity Slab #11
Though City Slab only offers up four short stories in its latest issue, the quality and treatment of them is both well-handled and fulfilling. The magazine, now in its eleventh issue, bills its fiction as “urban tales of the grotesque.” No argument here. In fact, I’d say that’s the perfect description. The stories, ranging from […]
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