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Farrago’s Wainscot, Issue 5
Farrago’s Wainscot presents itself as a quarterly journal of experimentation, decay, and the problems with form and “as evidence of new ideas about artistic meaning.” Reviews of Farrago’s Wainscot have at least twice referenced the term “interstitial,” and the magazine left previous Fix reviewer, K. Tempest Bradford, feeling like an anime character with huge question […]
Continue ReadingThe Solaris Book of New Fantasy, edited by George Mann
Solaris Publishing’s anthology series has attracted some major names already, and this latest collection, The Solaris Book of New Fantasy, is no exception. Edited by George Mann, it provides a wide ranging and extremely healthy looking cross section of modern fantasy, with something for readers of every taste.
“Who Slays the Gyant, Wounds the Beast” […]
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams
Following a brief but insightful preface outlining the history of post-apocalyptic fiction, editor John Joseph Adams begins Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse with Stephen King’s “The End of the Whole Mess,” an Omni story from 1986. King’s narrator, freelancer Howard Fornoy, is a writer with a deadline. He has to tell the story of the […]
Continue ReadingMythic Delirium #17, Summer/Fall 2007
Mythic Delirium #17 (Summer/Fall 2007) is the most recent issue of this poetry-only print magazine.
MD 17 contains 21 poems by as many poets. Most of these poems are mythic and most of them are fantasy. There is such a thing as mythic science fiction, and there is some here. Or […]
Distillations: Assonance
This month we continue our exploration of poetry techniques with assonance, defined as the repetition of vowel sounds. Last month, I referred to assonance as “alliteration’s crafty cousin.” The reason for this is that assonance is much less visually obvious. Although the English language is quite free with the correspondence of spelling to sound, this […]
Continue ReadingAmbit #190
Ambit is a long-running, non-speculative fiction, UK magazine that comes in digest format with a smattering of illustrations and photography as well as poetry and fiction. From the issues I’ve read previously, I’ve found that its literary trappings are nonexclusive and don’t tie the magazine to a pretentious mast (something that can’t be said for […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, November 2007
As seems to be the trend for me, November was another month in which I very much enjoyed most of Strange Horizon’s fiction and didn’t dislike any. The first story of the month is “Bears” by Leah Bobet, and it’s about, well, bears. “Ninety-eight percent of all fictional deaths are directly attributable to being eaten […]
Continue ReadingFrom the Podosphere: December ‘07 podcasts
Greg Van Eekhout’s “In the Late December,” read by Stephen Eley, is a good old-fashioned, sense-of-wonder, weird SF tale with a modernist twist. It seems that we are close to the end of all life in the universe, no less. Santa and his reindeer are still alive, as are some “children” scattered across different […]
Continue ReadingThe River Horses by Allen Steele
In Allen Steele’s novella, The River Horses, Marie Montero and Lars Thompson are banished from the colony of New Boston on the frontier planet, Coyote. The savant Manuel Castro—a man who has had himself transferred into a mechanical body—chooses to go with them for reasons that Marie does not understand and Lars does not care […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld #16, January 2008
In issue 16 of Clarkesworld, Tim Pratt’s story, “The River Boy,” is a sweet little tale about an old woman anxious to carry on her line by having a child, the bargain she makes in order to do so, and its consequences. Her desire becomes linked to the needs of the people who live in […]
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