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Black Static #2, December 2007
Black Static serves up an intriguing blend of fiction and essays this month, wrapped up in a dark design whose aesthetic is caught between eras, a wobbly-legged lovechild of a ‘zine and a website. Its pages are replete with Photoshop art, rusty backgrounds, and the simulacra of whiteout, creases, underexposed patches, scratches, sharpie annotations, Polaroids, […]
Continue ReadingDiet Soap #1
Diet Soap is the brainchild of Doug Lain and M.K. Hobson, a simple looking black-and-white zine that bills itself as anarchist and has a goal of themed issues, as well as publishing genre-defying work. Issue #1 is all about surveillance. There’s more variety here than mere rehashes of invasive Big Brother and thoughtcrime, but the […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: Alliteration
As I mentioned last month, this column will be exploring various poetry techniques each month and how they are used in current speculative poetry. This month’s featured technique is alliteration, which is defined as the repetition of initial consonants or consonant sounds. It is a simple technique which can be powerful if not overdone. It […]
Continue ReadingShimmer: The Pirate Issue
The much anticipated pirate issue from Shimmer is out, helmed by guest editor John Joseph Adams, assistant editor of F&SF. Adams chose an eclectic group of tales, ranging from the serious to the humorous, from modern-day to the Golden Age of Pirates. Nothing here really blew my socks off, but there are a […]
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 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 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 […]
Continue ReadingApex Digest #11
Apex Digest is quickly building a reputation as a strong publication in the small press arena. Issue 11 opens with “Blackboard Sky” by Gary A. Braunbeck, a tale that proves that it’s possible to do hard science fiction with strong characterization well. Several stories in one, almost a mini-novel in scope, “Blackboard Sky” follows […]
Continue ReadingNot One Of Us #38
Any small press publication that reaches thirty-eight issues is to be commended. A ‘zine that, like Not One of Us, edited by John Benson, can do so while publishing a bunch of strong fantasy stories that either play with or defy genre conventions, deserves a much wider audience.
Continue ReadingInterzone #213, December 2007
Chris Roberson’s “Metal Dragon Year” is an alternate history story in which China dominates not only Eurasia and Africa, but colonized the Americas. (Only the “Mexic Dominion” lies outside the control of the “Dragon Throne,” which leaves the two fighting a skirmish war.) It has also industrialized to the point of launching its […]
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