Print Magazines
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City Slab #11
Though City Slab only offers up four short stories in its latest issue, the quality and treatment of them is both well-handled and fulfilling. The magazine, now in its eleventh issue, bills its fiction as “urban tales of the grotesque.” No argument here. In fact, I’d say that’s the perfect description. The stories, ranging from […]
Continue ReadingAsimov’s, March 2008
In the March, 2008, issue of Asimov’s, Brian Stableford depicts a world overrun by biotech in “Following the Pharmers.” Daniel Anderson has retired to a remote part of the Yorkshire Everglades, hoping to be left alone. He once worked for a big pharmaceutical corporation, but has now virtually stopped growing bio-engineered plants—keeping only a few […]
Continue ReadingOn Spec, #70, Fall 2007
The Fall, 2007, issue of On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic is an enjoyable read and well worth picking up, with a variety of stories that would fit just about any taste except those who prefer a great deal of hard SF.
“The Sorceress’ Assistant” by Leah Bobet is a beautifully written tale […]
Interzone #214, February 2008
This review should start with a declaration of interests. Eagle-eyed readers bored enough to have nothing better to do will note that the name of this reviewer appears in this issue of Interzone. For the last three years I have run Interzone’s annual Readers’ Poll—which basically amounts to eliciting, collecting, and counting the votes submitted […]
Continue ReadingFlytrap, Issue 8, November 2007
Tropism Press’s webpage for Flytrap describes the magazine as “a wunderkammer…between cardstock covers.” My first thought on reading that was, “What is a wunderkammer?” So, extra points for making me reach for a dictionary when reading their marketing copy (in case you don’t have a dictionary handy, a wunderkammer is, basically, a museum of curiosities). […]
Continue ReadingNeo-opsis #13
The first offering of Neo-opsis #13 is “Proxy Servers” by L. Arceneaux. In this single-scene story, James, owner of the company Infinite, has an old friend of his, Lee, brought to his office. Lee is risking prison time for his Internet posts, but James has invented a new program that will make it […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: Assonance
This month we continue our exploration of poetry techniques with assonance, defined as the repetition of vowel sounds. Last month, I referred to assonance as “alliteration’s crafty cousin.” The reason for this is that assonance is much less visually obvious. Although the English language is quite free with the correspondence of spelling to sound, this […]
Continue ReadingAmbit #190
Ambit is a long-running, non-speculative fiction, UK magazine that comes in digest format with a smattering of illustrations and photography as well as poetry and fiction. From the issues I’ve read previously, I’ve found that its literary trappings are nonexclusive and don’t tie the magazine to a pretentious mast (something that can’t be said for […]
Continue ReadingAnalog, March 2008
The first science fiction magazine I ever bought was the January 1955 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. The issue featured a Christmas cover by Kelly Freas. I had been reading SF about 5 or 6 years and up to then had been content with books, mostly paperbacks. My taste for short fiction was satisfied, I […]
Continue ReadingMurky Depths #2
It should be noted before reviewing an issue of Murky Depths that the presentation is different from most other print magazines. Even the short fiction is heavily infused with moody, graphic novel stylings. From the author and illustrator biography boxes to spikes of graphic strips between some of the stories, Murky Depths is much more […]
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