Realms of Fantasy

The largest magazine in the world devoted to fantasy, featuring the best in fantastic short fiction.

Realms of Fantasy, June 2008

By Scott M. Sandridge ⋅ April 8, 2008

Tanith Lee doesn’t disappoint with “The Snake: A Story of the Flat Earth” in the June, 2008, issue of Realms of Fantasy. A fairy-tale type story rife with intrigue, it is a complete page-turner all the way to the surprise ending. The death of her beloved prince causes Princess Zerezel to become catatonic, and […]

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Realms of Fantasy, April 2008

By Janice Clark ⋅ February 15, 2008

The crop of stories in the April, 2008, issue of Realms of Fantasy left me in a quandary. Whether critiquing or reviewing, I really don’t feel I’m doing my job if I can’t find something to criticize. Maybe I’m just in an abnormally positive mood, but I liked all the stories and couldn’t […]

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Realms of Fantasy, February 2008

By Janice Clark ⋅ January 3, 2008

There’s a fine assortment of stories in the February 2008 issue of Realms of Fantasy, as usual, some that I found more appealing than others, but all of them offering food for thought as well as entertainment. All of them touch, in one way or another, on very current themes, including war, terrorism, and […]

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Realms of Fantasy, December 2007

By Janice Clark ⋅ November 6, 2007

Some reviewers seem to be blessed with total recall. They can remember in great detail every story and every author they’ve ever read and make scholarly comparisons to boot. I, on the other hand, seem to have lost ground in the memory department these past few decades, especially since my preschool grandchildren moved […]

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Realms of Fantasy, October 2007

By Aliette de Bodard ⋅ September 20, 2007

October’s Realms of Fantasy features its usual movie cover, in this case Michelle Pfeiffer in Stardust. Inside are six short stories and the regular columns on books, movies, and games, as well as an article featuring artist Scott M. Fisher.
The stories themselves vary wildly in time and setting. We move from medieval fantasy (Ruth […]

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