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Dreams & Nightmares, Issues 74/75
Dreams & Nightmares issues 74 and 75 appear in one neatly put together double volume. Issue 74 is made up of eleven poems, while issue 75 has eleven poems and one piece of flash fiction.
“Lonely” by Greg Beatty is a love poem…or maybe an anti-love poem. Perhaps it’s best to describe […]
Illyria by Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand is the twice-Nebula Award-winning author of Last Summer at Mars Hill, Mortal Love, and other novels. Her latest novella, another fine piece from PS Publishing is—at 36,000 words—almost so long that it is a full-length novel, and therefore excluded from review by The Fix. That it slips in is a pleasure.
Those familiar with […]
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, November 2007, No. 21
What’s in a name? What, exactly, should a reader expect when they pick up a magazine called Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet? Pretensions to literary stylings would seem to be a certainty, but does the obscure title also hint at a deliberately obscure approach to story and language? There are those writers whose primary purpose is […]
Continue ReadingRealms of Fantasy, February 2008
There’s a fine assortment of stories in the February 2008 issue of Realms of Fantasy, as usual, some that I found more appealing than others, but all of them offering food for thought as well as entertainment. All of them touch, in one way or another, on very current themes, including war, terrorism, and […]
Continue ReadingThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2008
In the first short story, “Balancing Accounts” by James L. Cambias, of the February 2008 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Annie is a sentient spaceship (I think) whose owners allow her the independence to seek out and trade for metal, electronics, and other supplies needed for interstellar travel. Mostly, Annie thinks in a […]
Continue ReadingdisLOCATIONS: Tales from the Big Dark, edited by Ian Whates
disLOCATIONS, edited by Ian Whates, is an anthology published by NewCon Press released at the end of 2007 in Britain (but available in the U.S. online). The secondary title of the volume, Tales from the Big Dark, is a fair statement for the tone of the anthology, built around the idea that people would […]
Continue ReadingJabberwocky 3, edited by Sean Wallace
The third volume in Prime Books’ Jabberwocky series is definitely fantasy and tends toward the dark and literary. Bookended by epigraphs from Oscar Wilde’s Salome, Jabberwocky 3 has the air of inevitable tragedy, of a slow encroachment of vines that swallow up the white palace, piercing it with blood-red thorns.
This mood is established and upheld […]
shortshortshort.com, Nov/Dec 2007
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 […]
Continue ReadingBreaking Hearts and Traffic Lights by Patrick Chapman
Patrick Chapman’s Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights is a collection of poetry which functions as a continuous unit. If this were a piece of music, it would be a concept album. As the differences between songs and poems vary from vague to nonexistent, it should come as no surprise that this is a highly effective […]
Continue ReadingRewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
The title of Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology is by itself enough to invite comparison with the famed 1986 Mirrorshades cyberpunk anthology. James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel’s introduction to the volume, “Hacking Cyberpunk” (which appeared as a feature in the August 2007 issue of the New York Review of Science Fiction), only reinforces […]
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