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Audiobook Fix: WotF XXIII and A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
Audible.com is not new to publishing audio short fiction. In 2003, they published audio “Best of 2002″ collections from Asimov’s, Analog, and Fantasy & Science Fiction magazines. They followed that up with a whole year of Fantasy & Science Fiction audio goodness. Here in 2007, Audible offers another innovative audio collection: L. […]
Continue ReadingFantasy Magazine #7
Ari Goelman opens issue #7 of Fantasy Magazine with an interesting concept: retelling the story of Annie Oakley, the pretty, young sharpshooting maverick, and her debut - beating showman Frank Butler at a bet and entering show business herself. The twist: in Goelman’s “The Annie Oakley Show,” Annie is haunted by the ghost of the […]
Continue Readingi am this meat, edited by Adicus Garton, James Maddox, and Rev. Brian Worley
i am this meat is an anthology with a creative premise: stories that focus on different aspects of the human body. The idea has both novelty and scope going for it; there’s certainly no lack of interesting directions to take the theme (most stories are speculative to some degree or another, but there are […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld #12, September 2007
“The Ape’s Wife” by Caitlin R. Kiernan tells of Ann Darrow, the woman captured by King Kong in the movie, (or so I assume, not having seen the film). Here, Darrow seems trapped between realities, playing out different versions of her life. In one, she is on the island, and Kong has gone off to […]
Continue ReadingSubterranean #7
Ellen Datlow guest edited issue #7 of Subterranean, so I was eager to check it out. Ms. Datlow is capable of cobbling together a magazine full of stories that can appeal to a variety of readers, as this issue proves. But, in the opinion of this reviewer, the stories varied widely in quality and […]
Continue ReadingFlashing Swords #8
Having fallen into hiatus, Flashing Swords is back with a new editorial staff for issue #8.
“The Gods-Forsaken World” by Steve Goble is a tale of adventure upon the high seas. But first, Calthus of Thaal, ancient warrior resurrected by the monks, must meet up with Kostas and the wizard who hires them, Revlin. […]
Voices for the Cure, edited by James Palmer
Voices for the Cure: A Speculative Fiction Anthology, edited by James Palmer, is an anthology to benefit the American Diabetes Association with a variety of stories that seem to accord to no particular theme other than—as indicated by the title—speculative fiction. The anthology starts off strong, and while it does weaken at points, it works […]
Continue ReadingApex Digest #11
Apex Digest is quickly building a reputation as a strong publication in the small press arena. Issue 11 opens with “Blackboard Sky” by Gary A. Braunbeck, a tale that proves that it’s possible to do hard science fiction with strong characterization well. Several stories in one, almost a mini-novel in scope, “Blackboard Sky” follows […]
Continue ReadingNot One Of Us #38
Any small press publication that reaches thirty-eight issues is to be commended. A ‘zine that, like Not One of Us, edited by John Benson, can do so while publishing a bunch of strong fantasy stories that either play with or defy genre conventions, deserves a much wider audience.
Continue ReadingDarker Matter #5
Issue #5, according to editor Ben Coppin, is the last issue of Darker Matter, and if that’s the case, it’s a real shame. In just five issues, Coppin has put together a tremendously varied and consistently smart collection of speculative fiction and nonfiction, and it’ll leave a real hole in the market when it […]
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