Reviews
Analog, June 2008
One of the more irritating pitfalls for any practitioner of the noble art of science fiction writing is to work out some idea that you’ve noticed should have been worked out years ago, to take your time to do it right, and then, on the eve of writing it into a story (or, worse, mailing […]
Continue ReadingAnother Santana Morning by Mike Dolan
Mike Dolan is a writer who is new to me and, I suspect, to many others as well. Another Santana Morning is a reissue of his 1970 collection, Santana Morning. Ten new stories have been added, and the original ones have been re-worked and even re-titled in some cases. Half a dozen appear to have […]
Continue ReadingAudiobook Fix: Novellas from Audible Frontiers
As I’ve watched audiobooks climb in popularity over the past several years, I’ve wondered why short fiction hasn’t caught on more with listeners. Not short stories, generally, but rather novelettes and novellas, which, in my opinion, is where a lot of the best science fiction lives. On audio, most novelettes and novellas end […]
Continue ReadingChiZine #36, April-June 2008
ChiZine offers us another helping of dark, intimate speculative fiction in issue #36. As with the previous issue, I’m very glad for ChiZine’s apparent preference for straightforward plot- and character-oriented fiction, but often its stories do not achieve the spark they’re reaching for.
In “The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft,” a collaboration between Nick Mamatas and Tim […]
The Aphorisms of Kherishdar by M.C.A. Hogarth
The conceit at the heart of M.C.A. Hogarth’s The Aphorisms of Kherishdar is, you have to concede, both brave and intriguing. The aim is to take a series of flash fiction pieces (nicely referred to here as “incense stories, short but lingering”) and create a guide to the laws, ethics, and customs of an alien […]
Continue ReadingApex Digest #12
Issue 12 is Apex Digest’s first “Double Issue,” packing a wallop of names from Apex regulars Cherie Priest to Brian Keene and the conclusion of Geoffrey Girard’s “Cain XP11.”
First up is “Death Comes for All” by Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury, the castaway tale of two Nordic-inspired sailors whose latest adventure is being shipwrecked […]
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #33
Billed as Australia’s Pulpiest SF Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine is a long running and respected antipodean publication of speculative fiction. The first issue hit the stands in June of 2002, and readers and reviewers have taken notice ever since. The publishing co-op maintains a roughly bimonthly release schedule, with each issue containing about […]
Continue ReadingFarrago’s Wainscot, Part VI: Obscura
Farrago’s Wainscot clearly wants readers to believe that it is a radical, experimental e-zine. Part VI: Obscura explores themes of estrangement from society, with some interesting, multilayered storytelling, but on the evidence of the six stories presented, it would be a mistake to assume that this e-zine is in any way inaccessible or too […]
Continue ReadingIlluminations: The Friday Flash Fiction Anthology, edited by Paul Graham Raven
Illuminations: The Friday Flash Fiction Anthology, edited by Paul Graham Raven, gathers together sixty-six tales by eight different authors in a charity project to benefit the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Its genesis was an exercise in motivation by Gareth L. Powell; he committed to writing a new flash fiction piece […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld #19, April 2008
Clarkesworld Magazine is a good magazine to read, despite it having only two fiction stories in each issue. If there ever comes a day when I read a fiction magazine and discover that each issue comprises only one fiction story, then something tells me I won’t be surprised.
In the April, 2008, issue, Jeffrey Ford picks […]
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