Print Magazines

Reviews of print magazines.

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2008

By Damien G Walter ⋅ May 9, 2008

P.E.Cunningham’s “Monkey See” in the June, 2008, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a lighthearted heroic fantasy tale, complete with wizards, magic, and of course, a talking sword. Ji is a Zhindi warrior. Whilst investigating a potential threat to the Emperor, she arrives at an apparently abandoned village, only to find […]

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Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #34

By Jim Steel ⋅ May 8, 2008

With its determinedly pulpy focus on humorous science fiction, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine isn’t going to be mistaken for Granta very often. But that’s okay—sometimes one prefers a beer to a Bordeaux.
There are always a few stories in ASIM that are serious in tone, so each issue has more in the way of […]

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Something Wicked, Issue 6, Summer 2008

By David Hebblethwaite ⋅ May 7, 2008

On my personal world map of fantastic fiction, South Africa is one of the areas marked “here be dragons,” because I don’t know what else to put there. If the same applies to you, here to amend that is Something Wicked, South Africa’s only quarterly magazine of science fiction and horror (so here there not […]

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Weird Tales #349

By Fábio Fernandes ⋅ May 6, 2008

Weird Tales #349 is a special edition: it celebrates the magazine´s 85th anniversary. And it begins in great style, featuring a classic name and a regular contributor to Weird Tales since its resurrection in the 1980s: Tanith Lee.
Lee’s story, “Heart of Ice,” tells of Nirsen, an orphan betrayed by the people he lives […]

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Interzone #216, June 2008

By Rae Bryant ⋅ May 2, 2008

Interzone #216, the special Mundane SF issue, guest edited by Geoff Ryman, Julian Todd, and Trent Walters, exhibits spectacular artwork by Christopher Nurse and offers seven original, earthly stories full of change and hope, what Ryman maintains are the cornerstones of science fiction.
Opening the issue is “How to Make Paper Airplanes” by Lavie Tidhar. In […]

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Analog, June 2008

By Gerald W. Page ⋅ May 1, 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 […]

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Apex Digest #12

By Michele Lee ⋅ April 30, 2008

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 […]

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Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #33

By Lyndon Perry ⋅ April 30, 2008

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 […]

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Black Static #4

By Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ⋅ April 17, 2008

If acoustic static is white noise—a random signal with a flat power spectral density—then perhaps it follows that Black Static or, forgive the synoeciosis, black white noise, presents a primary inversion, a constantly fluctuating power spectral density. The fourth issue of this stylish horror magazine delivers six signal bursts, and I’m happy to report that […]

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Midnight Street #10

By Paul S. Jenkins ⋅ April 17, 2008

Midnight Street is a 56-page saddle-stapled A4 magazine with a color cover. It doesn’t have the classiest production quality, but what’s between the covers is what matters. Its subtitle, “Journeys Into Darkness,” doesn’t particularly apply to the contents of issue #10, but that’s not the fault of the contents, which, although they don’t necessarily fill […]

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