Reviews
Written Word, #7, January 2008
Written Word #7 is the January issue of the online, semi-pro magazine published monthly by Rebel Dawn Creative Forces. They specialize in literary fiction and poetry of all stripes, not just genre fiction, but in the January issue, at least, the editors seem to have a taste for the bizarre and offbeat. I […]
Continue ReadingOther Voices by Andrew Humphrey
The opening story of Andrew Humphrey’s collection, Other Voices, is a science fiction tale of love and compassion. Set in a time when the world is at war and society is falling apart, “Grief Inc” is about people who have special “gifts” whom the government is making use of as it fights a losing battle. […]
Continue ReadingLone Star Stories #25, February 2008 (Fiction)
First up in issue #25 of Lone Star Stories is Ekaterina Sedia’s “The Disemboweler,” which begins by describing a series of cruel “murders” of cars in Glenn’s neighborhood. When Glenn’s Peugeot is disemboweled, he is determined to catch the culprit—and to understand the senseless crime.
If only the story were as simple as the recap. “The […]
Analog, April 2008
To the publisher, February, not April, is the cruelest month. Having the shortest number of days, it yields the shortest sales time for a magazine. In most parts of the country, the weather is bitter. Customers do not visit bookstores and newsstands as often as in other months. Even leap year, with its generous doling […]
Continue ReadingAndromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #32
Given that most short fiction magazines don’t struggle past the third or fourth issue, turning out number 32 on a more or less regular schedule of six issues per year must make Australia’s Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine something of an old stager. Thankfully, although the name remains, the original conceit about the magazine being the […]
Continue ReadingShiny #3
It was a pleasure to discover Shiny, a magazine devoted to “young adult” stories, which I enjoy even if I’m no longer young by any standards but Methuselah’s.
What causes déjà vu and similar phenomena? In “The Future is Already Seen” by Katherine Sparrow, it’s presented as a time-slip brought on by a […]
Dreams & Nightmares #76
Issue #76 of Dreams & Nightmares contains twelve poems, which rage in size from a three-line haiku to a four-page poetically told myth.
The issue opens with “Till Stars Turn Strange,” a piece of Norse verse by Tom Galusha. Old Norse poetic forms rely as much on very strict alliteration as on meter or […]
Dagger Key And Other Stories by Lucius Shepard
At 473 pages, Lucius Shepard’s Dagger Key And Other Stories is a collection of nine substantial tales, all except the title story first published in well-known genre venues such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, and SCI FICTION, with an introduction by China Miéville, plus some concluding “Story Notes” by the author. […]
Continue ReadingGUD, Issue #2, Spring 2008
GUD is an impressive magazine that offers around 200 pages of literary and genre fiction, poetry, and artwork. It is available in print, pdf, and e-book formats.
The stories in issue #2 tended to be rich with imagery and atmosphere. Perhaps they cluster around the literary or magical realist end of the fantastic spectrum. Some […]
Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
In a back cover blurb to Paolo Bacigalupi’s collection, Pump Six and Other Stories, Kelly Link refers to the stories within as cautionary tales. That is exactly the right framework to have in mind when reading these stories. They are extrapolative—some rigorously so and some more whimsical. They can be visceral and […]
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