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Abyss & Apex #27
Abyss & Apex is a professional e-zine of speculative fiction and poetry of all stripes with a long established history. The editors make a special point to emphasis their interest in character over plot. If issue #27 is any indication, the editors certainly have made their preference felt. This issue contains four […]
Continue ReadingMurky Depths #5
The fifth issue of Murky Depths starts out with “The Night Runner” by Christopher Hawkins. In this dark urban tale, one of the last free runners in the future happens to run across a mysterious murderer also traveling through the city at night. With the spirit of a superhero, the runner dares to chase down […]
Continue ReadingNemonymous 8: Cone Zero, edited by D.F. Lewis
“And now for something completely different.” In Cone Zero, a Nemonymous anthology/magazine from Megazanthus Press, the authors remain unassigned to their stories pending the next edition (or some other future revelation). Even the editor is veiled in anonymity. For your further confusion, there are four (count ‘em, four) stories titled “Cone Zero” […]
Continue Readingshortshortshort.com, August 2008
Apparently, “China Moss” is not only the title of a short short by Bruce Holland Rogers, but also a type of dessert, for which Rogers desires the recipe (please send it to him if you have it). In the story of that title, however, the dessert serves almost like a madeleine for Larry upon […]
Continue ReadingAsimov’s, October/November 2008
There are a lot of cops and spies and soldiers in the October/November 2008 double issue of Asimov’s, appearing in five out of eight stories. There’s either a haze of Clancyesque glamour or gritty tragedy about all of them, and their stories are always some flavor of mystery, although there aren’t any tidy Holmesian post-mortems […]
Continue ReadingFantasy Magazine, August 2008
Fantasy Magazine opens its August issue with “Penguin and Wren” by Christie Skipper Ritchotte. As a boy, Dale shares his interest in magic tricks with his disabled sister, who becomes skilled at performing them herself. With adolescence comes change, however, and Dale finds himself drawn toward pursuits other than assisting Sonia with her magic shows. […]
Continue ReadingThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct-Nov 2008
This special double issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction contains pieces by a number of genre big names, including Michael Swanwick, Terry Bisson, mundane science fiction movement founder Geoff Ryman, and Stephen King.
Laurel Winter’s “Going Back in Time” is a light, brief riff on the incoherence of a world where quantum uncertainty […]
Killers, edited by Colin Harvey
Killers are fun. Why not? Well, all right, someone does tend to get hurt, so maybe not fun—but certainly interesting. After all, a story about someone who kills or is in jeopardy of being killed (or both, as is often the case), presents an extreme example of a theme that inevitably draws us in: change. […]
Continue ReadingBlack Gate, #12, Summer 2008
With this twelfth issue, it is clear that Black Gate has found its voice. Part of that impression might stem from the fact that out of seven original stories, four are continuations, and the reprint is a segment of one of the old sword and sorcery tales. But that’s a result, not an […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld Magazine #23, August 2008
Clarkesworld tends to publish some pretty strange stories, and like most stories involving the bizarre and surreal, it’s often a hit or miss thing. It either works brilliantly or falls flat, thus it can be a risky experiment. So hats off to all writers who attempt such tales and to magazines like Clarkesworld that publish […]
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