Reviews
Crap Ghosts by Gavin Inglis
This is the second edition (or “second apparition”) of Gavin Inglis’s collection, Crap Ghosts. Six new stories have been added to the original ten, and I will note the reprints as I come to them. On balance, if you enjoyed the first edition, then it’s probably worth getting your hands on this one […]
Continue ReadingThe Maker’s Mark: Remnants, edited by Jon Garrad
The Maker’s Mark: Remnants, edited by Jon Garrad, is, we are told, an exercise in “world-building.” Every story in this volume is set on the same desert planet inhabited by robots that scattered from the City that lies at the centre of their world at some indeterminate time (a “generation” at least) in the […]
Continue ReadingThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2008
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction has been running since 1949 and, as its title hints, offers a catholic mix of SF of varying degrees of hardness, as well as fantasy, and even outright horror and occasional slipstream. Its stories often have a more urbane, less intense style than the majority of stories in […]
Continue ReadingHub #31 - 34
Hub #31’s fiction selection is “Sleepless, Nameless” by Brett Tallman. After being forced by clever means to return to Chicago, twenty-two-year-old Christopher Fish is told by Mr. Nine that he’s a construct from the imagination of a man who’s been in a coma for twenty-two years. Mr. Nine is an interesting villain, […]
Continue ReadingLone Star Stories #24, December 2007
The first story in the December 2007 issue of Lone Star Stories, “Dragon Hunt” by Sarah Prineas, is a short tale with a lot to it. King Kenneret earned his position by killing the last dragon, or so the legend goes. But when a village head comes to a feast, begging the king to help […]
Continue ReadingAudiobook 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 […]
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