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Apex Magazine, August 2009

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ August 29, 2009

Eugie Foster’s stunning novelette, “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” [originally published in Interzone] is the highlight of Apex Magazine’s August 2009 issue. Each day, the nameless narrator dons a different, exquisitely crafted mask and takes on a persona tied to that mask, complete with unique life circumstances. All of the [...]

Abyss & Apex: Second Quarter 2009, Issue 30

By Carole Ann Moleti ⋅ August 29, 2009

In “Dancing for the Monsoon” by Aliette de Bodard, the chosen women perform to entice the gods to bring rain, then suffer paralysis. Nampeng couldn’t go through with it and has redeemed herself by training Khean to take her place and save the suffering people from drought. It didn’t make sense to me that the [...]

Strange Horizons, March 2009

By Jason Sanford ⋅ August 25, 2009

Earlier this year I immersed myself in online fiction through the annual storySouth Million Writers Award, which it’s my joy to run. The great thing about the award is it’s a fun way to keep up with online fiction trends—and the biggest trend this year was how the number of quality online short fiction venues [...]

Clarkesworld Magazine, #32, May 2009

By Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ⋅ August 8, 2009

Clarkesworld Magazine has delivered its most dream-like issue with its May offering. Its two stories eschew conventional narrative strategies in favor of world-building, setting and poetic experimentation. Neither completely succeeds in my view, but they’re both rewarding and challenging reads, and more memorable than many other stories out there.
The fact that Clarkesworld continues to find [...]

Apex Magazine, May 2009

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ August 8, 2009

The May 2009 issue of Apex Magazine features three stories of characters navigating a changed or changing world.
“Hideki and the Gnomes” by Mark Lee Pearson has the haunting quality of a dark fairy tale murmured in the flickering light of a dying fire. Yet it is entirely modern. Hideki looks on as, one by one, [...]

Apex Magazine, April 2009

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ August 7, 2009

If you read just one of the three stories in the April issue of Apex Magazine, make it “Waiting for Jakie” by Barbara Krasnoff. With the help of just a little extra anxiety medication (”who would begrudge it”), an elderly Holocaust survivor journeys back decades and thousands of miles to step into the consciousness of [...]

Semaphore, March 2009

By Jessica E. Kaiser ⋅ May 15, 2009

The March 2009 issue of Semaphore Magazine is very much a mixed bag in terms of story genre and tone. For genre, that’s not too surprising; their website indicates that while they’re mainly interested in fantasy and detective stories, all genres are welcome. The variance in tone, though, is a little more startling, which may [...]

Clarkesworld Magazine, #31, April 2009

By Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ⋅ May 15, 2009

Clarkesworld Magazine has been nominated for a Hugo award in the category of “Best Semiprozine,” a fact prominently displayed on the website.
Is that a reasonable proposition?
Does it merit your Hugo vote?
Yes, and—well, read the stories and decide for yourself—but read more than just a single issue, as the style and themes vary wildly from month [...]

Jim Baen’s Universe, December 2008

By Jim Stratton ⋅ April 23, 2009

The December 2008 issue of Jim Baen’s Universe (Volume 3, Issue 4) is the online quarterly magazine of fantasy and science fiction created by the late great editor and publisher Jim Baen. As envisioned by Jim Baen, the magazine offers unpublished, professional quality fiction and nonfiction for free, but with the belief that this odd [...]

Apex Magazine, March 2009

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ April 10, 2009

If the three pieces of original fiction in the March issue of Apex Magazine are any indication, the issue’s theme could be summed up as the intersection between beast and human.
Ekaterina Sedia’s “The Mind of a Pig” opens with Joel’s discovery that he is actually a pig, not the human he thought he was. As [...]

Strange Horizons, February 2009

By Jason Sanford ⋅ April 9, 2009

Pity new writers of SF/F short stories. They come to the genre bubbling with exciting ideas and linguistic beauty, and smack right up against reality. The simple fact is that publishing short fiction in professional speculative fiction markets is not only downright hard, it’s also very much like the proverbial fart in a hurricane—no [...]

Fantasy Magazine, February 2009

By Lyndon Perry ⋅ April 1, 2009

February’s issue of Fantasy Magazine contains three original stories of short fantasy and a reprint of Oscar Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose.” These fiction highlights, along with their regular columns, reviews, and video postings—as well as the famous “Blog for A Beer” Friday feature—make Fantasy Magazine one of the premier sites on the web [...]

Clarkesworld Magazine, #30, March 2009

By Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ⋅ March 29, 2009

The third issue of Clarkesworld Magazine this year brings us two well-crafted and thought-provoking stories, as well as a couple of diverting, though slightly underwhelming, non-fiction entries.
Ekaterina Sedia is in fine form in “Herding Vegetable Sheep,” a first-person account by 68-year-old cloud-herder Anita about her strained relationship with her daughter, Petra, and the disappearance of [...]

Strange Horizons, January 2009

By Jason Sanford ⋅ March 10, 2009

One of the clichés thrown at new writers is “Read the publications you submit to!” The reasoning being that each magazine’s fiction uniquely reflects the wants and desires of a particular editor. If a writer’s fiction doesn’t match what the editor already publishes, why waste everyone’s time by submitting to said editor?
As with all [...]

Hub Magazine, Issues #70-76

By Douglas Hoffman ⋅ March 5, 2009

In Hub #70, British Fantasy Award-nominated author Gary McMahon has an old Victorian he’d like to sell in “Under Offer.” To reveal much more would suck all the surprise from this nasty, hilarious gem. McMahon tips his hand to the joke early on, but the beauty of “Under Offer” is the way he deepens the [...]

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