Bookslut: Paul Kincaid's Science Fiction Skeptic column...
Bookslut: Paul Kincaid's Science Fiction Skeptic column Historicize Me Now
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Asimov’s, February 2009
With stories whose plots unfold in deserts, mountains, a polar moonscape, a resort simulacra of Mars, underwater, and in that volcanic prehuman tropic which Steven Utley always returns to, the February 2009 issue of Asimov’s is atmospheric and engrossing—with some stories more vivid than others.
In almost six months of reviewing this magazine, I’ve read some [...]
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Strange Horizons: 2008 In Review, with Martin Lewis,...
Strange Horizons: 2008 In Review, with Martin Lewis, Gwyneth Jones, Abigail Nussbaum, Adam Roberts, Paul Kincaid, Graham Sleight, and others
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NY Times: Janet Maslin reviews Charlie Huston's The Mystic...
NY Times: Janet Maslin reviews Charlie Huston's The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
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Dave Langford's Ansible 258 includes news of F&SF's...
Dave Langford's Ansible 258 includes news of F&SF's switching to bimonthly publication
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SF Reviews.net reviews Bruce Sterling's The Caryatids
SF Reviews.net reviews Bruce Sterling's The Caryatids
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January SF Site has reviews of Stephen Baxter, Ann and Jeff...
January SF Site has reviews of Stephen Baxter, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Michael Swanwick, and others, plus an invitation to Vote For Your Favourite Books of the Past Year
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Clarkesworld Magazine: Anthologists Discuss Their Craft,...
Clarkesworld Magazine: Anthologists Discuss Their Craft, with John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, James Lowder, Jonathan Strahan, Ann VanderMeer, and Jeff VanderMeer
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January Planetary Stories has new fiction by Lou Antonelli...
January Planetary Stories has new fiction by Lou Antonelli & Edward Morris, Edgar Mortis, Michael Shack, and Anthony Larson
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January Apex Magazine has new stories by Ruth Nestvold and...
January Apex Magazine has new stories by Ruth Nestvold and Jason Palmer, and reprints from Eric James Stone and Ed Turner
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io9: Why Are SF Books As Long As They Are?
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2009
The February 2009 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction lives up to its name, with stories from both categories and one that could be either (or neither). As usual, the stories are a good mix of the complex and the deceptively simple, with the subjects ranging from ghost cars to shadow-traders, with [...]
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Fantasy Magazine, December 2008
In December, 2008, Fantasy Magazine offers four fine original stories plus a reprint of Stephen Leacock’s haunting “Merry Christmas,” all well worth reading.
“Geddarien” by Rose Lemberg is the poignant tale of Zelig and his grandfather, both violinists. Grandfather tells Zelig of Geddarien, a magical once-in-a-lifetime event when the living buildings of the city dance to [...]
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Clarkesworld Magazine, #27, December 2008
As Neil Clarke comments in one of the nonfiction pieces in issue #27, December 2008, of Clarkesworld Magazine, “this is the last issue to feature fiction picked by editor Nick Mamatas.” It is an interesting, somewhat whimsical, “cutesy” issue which Mamatas ends on. The three fiction pieces (as opposed to the normal two) continue the [...]
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Flickers on the Wall: I’m Dreaming of a Dread Christmas
With the winter holiday season coming to an end, it is time for an indie, fantastical Christmas, short film roundup. Yes, Christmas. I’d love to add a Kwanzaa film to the mix but has anyone seen one? Next year, I want at least one pagan solstice flick. Are you listening filmmakers? This year, I’d settle [...]
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An Interview with Patrick Swenson
Patrick Swenson is the publisher and editor of Talebones Magazine, as well as Fairwood Press. Talebones has been publishing quality short fiction since 1995 and just released issue #37. In 2000, Patrick started Fairwood Press and has so far published 30 titles. He lives in Auburn, Washington, is father to his six-year-old son, Orion, and [...]
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Talebones #37
The latest issue of Talebones leads with James Van Pelt’s “Floaters,” in which a dysfunctional trio search the future for clues to an impending global disaster. Our protagonist is Rye, a 3-D gaming/virtual reality wonk with advanced HIV disease. At the beginning of “Floaters,” he joins the inexplicably hostile Gretta and the scientist-straight-from-central-casting Dr. Martin. [...]
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