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Shiny #4

By Sherwood Smith ⋅ November 30, 2008

Shiny #4 begins with “Being Bella Wang” by Bren MacDibble, narrated by Sienna, one of a set of clones of Bella Wang. To the clone-sisters she’s The Mother, and to the world she’s Bella Wang, Australia’s Sweetheart Golfer. Bella Wang had herself cloned for a single purpose: to raise golf champions. [...]

Shiny #3

By Janice Clark ⋅ February 19, 2008

It was a pleasure to discover Shiny, a magazine devoted to “young adult” stories, which I enjoy even if I’m no longer young by any standards but Methuselah’s.
What causes déjà vu and similar phenomena? In “The Future is Already Seen” by Katherine Sparrow, it’s presented as a time-slip brought on by a [...]

Shiny #2

By Daniel Ausema ⋅ January 19, 2008

Shiny is a PDF e-zine based in Australia of YA speculative fiction. When I was a teacher for a few years, I read a lot of YA speculative books as a way of keeping in touch with what my students might be reading, but I hadn’t read much short fiction that labeled itself as [...]

Shiny #1

By Shaun C. Green ⋅ October 14, 2007

Shiny is an e-zine all about the fiction. More specifically, it’s all about YA fiction. A brief introduction from its editorial triumvirate explains that they see YA spec fic as being “pretty shiny right now.” It’s an argument that has some support, as evidenced by the sizable list of authors they reel off. So, reasoned [...]

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