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Over the last year, I’ve learned by experience exactly what people mean when they say their lives keep them too busy to read. Now, by this I mean, of course, that while I may have plenty of time in which I could read, sometimes I choose not to because working life forces one to be […]
Continue ReadingThe Town Drunk, January 2008
In The Town Drunk for January, 2008, “Panko” by Zdravka Evtimova weaves an interesting tale of a dead donkey whose meat has the magical ability to make even the most downtrodden woman appear “magnificent” to the (human) male asses that happen to be around.
The imagery of a man more devoted to his donkey than to […]
Analog, March 2008
The first science fiction magazine I ever bought was the January 1955 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. The issue featured a Christmas cover by Kelly Freas. I had been reading SF about 5 or 6 years and up to then had been content with books, mostly paperbacks. My taste for short fiction was satisfied, I […]
Continue ReadingMurky Depths #2
It should be noted before reviewing an issue of Murky Depths that the presentation is different from most other print magazines. Even the short fiction is heavily infused with moody, graphic novel stylings. From the author and illustrator biography boxes to spikes of graphic strips between some of the stories, Murky Depths is much more […]
Continue ReadingDreams & 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 […]
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