Contents

12 May 2008

[Art Gallery by Malcolm McClinton]

(Art)

ART GALLERY: Hanged Man's Gallery, by Malcolm McClinton

I have found a nice little niche for myself that satisfies my natural anti-authoritism, reclusiveness and my need for adulation all at once.

ARTICLE: The Farmer Vanishes, by Marian Kensler

[M]any American children have unknowingly become acquainted with Ambrose Bierce's fiction well before the obligatory high school reading of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

COLUMN: Revisiting the Canon with Susannah! Formal Boasts, Magic Armor, and Watchers in the Water: Beowulf, Part 2, by Susannah Mandel

If your world-view was shaped by Tolkien, then it probably seems very natural to you that magic swords and talismans exist in the world. In Tolkien's world, and the worlds of his contemporaries and his imitators, such objects had usually been made by dwarves or elves, a Very Long Time ago; or by someone who used to be a dwarf or elf or angel before he turned bad – you know the drill.

FICTION: The Refutation of Rosemont, by Barth Anderson

Though Jeremiah Rosemont used his authority and status several years ago to liberate me from my tenure at Liggett & LaSalle, and the burden of the salary that went with it, my life's work is still a search for living, modern myths that make sense of the world--but more, that make the world.

POETRY: How Wizards Duel, by Jessica P. Wick

I know your fingers. / I know them in the salt-sea. / I know them, charcoal-smudged, / smelling of smoke.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns, reviewed by Dan Hartland
Wednesday: David Thomson's Suspects, reviewed by Graham Sleight
Friday: McCalmont J and Harrison N. Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato: a psychiatric review

5 May 2008

[Reviews posted three times a week]

(Reviews)

FICTION: The Gadgey, by Alan Campbell

Besides, E.T. was plastic-looking, not like the proper aliens he'd seen on Sky when he was round at Gordie's. Not like this thing. This thing had a whole bunch of tentacles, like wee willies, hanging from its chin.

POETRY: Thousand Flower Sun, by Jennifer Crow

We waited in the light / of our thousand-flower sun

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid, reviewed by Martin Lewis
Wednesday: Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie, reviewed by Larry Nolen
Friday: The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford, reviewed by Michael Levy

28 April 2008

[Article by Michael McCarty]

(Articles)

ARTICLE: Tribute to Dean Koontz: Forty Years as a Published Novelist, by Michael McCarty

Dean Koontz is a rarity in this business: someone who cares. He could have simply signed my books and sent me on my merry way, but instead he reached out, he made an effort . . . and he gave me a career.

ARTICLE: Fear Nothing: Interview with Dean Koontz, by Michael McCarty

There is such a thing as "reckless caring," and by God there has to be in order for any civilization to arise and to be sustained.

COLUMN: Ender's Peak, by James Schellenberg

So it was with some trepidation that I started a project to listen to all eight audiobooks in the Ender's Game series.

FICTION: Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy (part 2 of 2), by A.M. Dellamonica

The dust bomb had been concealed under the steps of the infirmary, just on the edge of the playground. Dispersal had spread it like a ball of seeds from a dandelion, and now the infirmary was missing a perfect quarter-sphere of its structure.

POETRY: Diaspora, by Robert Borski

The Word fractured then, like a crystalline / vase, and has been cracking and / splintering ever since.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: The 2008 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist—Part One, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum
Wednesday: The 2008 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist—Part Two, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum
Friday: Jonathan Barnes's The Domino Men, reviewed by Lisa Goldstein

21 April 2008

[Column by Iain Jackson]

(Columns)

COLUMN: Zombie Kings Sing Songs of BRAAAAAAAINS!, by Iain Jackson

I have a theory. Now, it's coming completely out of the air, and no doubt displaying a fine ignorance of history, religion, psychology, sociology, and several other -ologies, but bear with me.

FICTION: Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy (part 1 of 2), by A.M. Dellamonica

It was a way of dealing, Dinah knew, and she tried to ignore Aidan as he threw an imaginary grenade and then made a sprinkling motion over Jesse, a finger-waving shorthand that used to mean falling snow.

POETRY: Topquark, by Gene van Troyer

You are the top quark / in the particle stream blasting through your nerves

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan, reviewed by Karen Burnham
Wednesday: Wildwood Dancing and Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier, reviewed by Hannah Strom-Martin
Friday: Dark Space by Marianne de Pierres, reviewed by R. J. Burgess

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