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Murky Depths #4
Murky Depths, for those who don’t yet know, is a strong up-and-coming speculative fiction magazine that blends killer art, dark short stories, and graphic strips into a combination comic book/fiction magazine that’s pure candy for both the mind and eyes.
Issue #4 starts with installment 3 of Luke Cooper’s “The Dark Gospel,” a chiaroscuro graphic strip […]
Interzone, #217, August 2008
Advance publicity in several forum posts heralds issue #217 of Interzone as “not so Mundane this time,” following as it does from the Mundane SF special issue. And it’s quite right: only two of this issue’s stories are Earth-bound, and those two are outlandish enough that they’re far away from Mundane SF. Whether this contrast […]
Continue ReadingThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2008
Opening the August 2008 F&SF is “Childrun” by Marc Laidlaw in which bard Gorlen Vizenfirthe comes to the eponymous town where all the children have mysteriously vanished, leaving only a fat, monstrous child reminiscent of the huge baby Boh in Spirited Away. This last child is coddled by the villagers and by the schoolteacher, Ansylla, […]
Continue ReadingTales of the Unanticipated #28
Rebecca Marjesdatter, associate editor of the Tales of the Unanticipated “Heroes Issue,” states:
“I don’t like heroes. In my stories, I have protagonists. In my mental landscape, I have role models. In my life, I have mentors, teachers, or inspirers. No heroes.”
in answer to the question “What’s Wrong with Heroes?” Seventeen short stories accompany a […]
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #35
Issue #35 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine begins with an “editorial” with the conceit that the author of it is an alien. Cute, although it doesn’t really say much, and given that it’s my first exposure to the magazine, I don’t know how it compares with the usual editorial style. This issue is a mix […]
Continue ReadingAsimov’s, August 2008
Asimov’s is full of struggles for survival this August. On the literal side, an alcoholic scientist tries to stave off suicide; a preacher shields his flock in a post-apocalyptic landscape; two siblings live day-to-day in a near-future Nigeria; and an injured alien wrestles with the fabric of causality. The issue’s other denizens—young roboticists guiding their […]
Continue ReadingFlytrap, Issue #9, June 2008
Flytrap #9 begins with M. Rickert’s “War is Beautiful.” Told in a highly subjective first person, an American soldier befriends a Vietnamese girl named Binh. He thinks of her as his angel, but soon she takes on the qualities of a ghost. Rickert begins by using an ironic tone with lines such as: “…humans […]
Continue ReadingDiet Soap #2
Welcome to the second issue of Diet Soap magazine, which has the theme of “sex and gender.” It begins with “Dream Date” by Chelsea Martin, which may be only three pages long, but leaves an impression that’s disproportionate to its length. A (largely) present-tense, second-person narrative voice addresses the female protagonist as she embarks on […]
Continue ReadingCemetery Dance #58
Cemetery Dance is 58 issues old, but this was this reviewer’s first experience with the publication. It wasn’t quite what I was expecting.
Magazine-sized with a glossy cover stapled around a low quality pulp paper, the physical magazine is most reminiscent of the comics published by British Marvel in the 1970s. The overall design is straightforward […]
Tales of Moreauvia #1
The subtitle of the new print magazine Tales of Moreauvia instantly stakes out where this intriguing semi-prozine plans to take readers: on “Flights of Historical Fancy.” While this theme might seem to place Tales of Moreauvia on the same ground as the well-established Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction, the difference is that […]
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