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8 September 2008

[Article by Donna Royston]

(Articles)

ARTICLE: Rimfall, Finger Pokes, and Angry Letters: Discworld's Fantastic Reaches, by Donna Royston

It is the peril—and the paradoxical lure—of the Rim that elevates Discworld from amusement to something strange and terrifying.

FICTION: The Future Hunters, by Christopher J. Clarke

The ancient grey-walled fortress, built from the bones of the city, now housed the Library and the Academy. Kale entered under the bell tower and made her way across the hard red-earth enclosure, basket at her side, greeting several of her acolytes as they went to study.

POETRY: Upon the death of my host and waiting for uplink: by Event Horizon, formerly of the Oracle Duality Liselle Marie Michaud / Event Horizon, by C.S. MacCath

It is cold. / No, not cold, but cooling / And still, except for bacteria / That favor flesh. /

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

Monday: Anathem by Neal Stephenson, reviewed by Martin Lewis
Wednesday: Implied Spaces by Walter Jon William, reviewed by Dustin Kurtz
Friday: The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway, reviewed by Jonathan McCalmont

1 September 2008

[Reviews posted three times a week]

(Reviews)

FICTION: There Once Was a Fish, by Brandon Myers

"Do not touch them," her mother warned her, "they're very fragile."

POETRY: Atlantis, by Robert Borski

All for / now is calm. No one / needs mention / the hubris of this Icarian /

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

Monday: Wit's End/The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum
Wednesday: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, reviewed by Dan Hartland
Friday: Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen, reviewed by David McWilliam

25 August 2008

[Reviews posted three times a week]

(Reviews)

FICTION: The Secret Identity, by Richard Butner

We were studying for midterms when I found out about the ghost.

COLUMN: Xenobiology At the Extremes: And You Think Your Neighbors Are Weird?, by Marshall Perrin

Over the past decade or so, spurred in part by the biological revolution and in part by our increasing confidence that earth-mass planets are potentially common, astrobiology has started to come of age.

POETRY: Maya Blue (at Chichen Itza), by Ann K. Schwader

Above us in the silence yet to come, / deep thunder speaks -- then lightning-axes fall

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

Monday: Neuropath by Scott Bakker and Blindsight by Peter Watts, reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy
Wednesday: The Roswell Poems by Rane Arroyo, reviewed by Karen J. Weyant
Friday: The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow, reviewed by Richard Larson

18 August 2008

[Column by Iain Jackson]

(Columns)

COLUMN: Welcome to the Real World, by Iain Jackson

Of course, the advantage of having both invented and mobile geography is that you can demolish it without aggravating people quite so much. I mean, readers might get just the teensiest bit upset at a superhero fight that knocks the capital off the Chrysler Building, for example -- or they might think it's the coolest thing ever!

FICTION: Sex with Ghosts, by Sarah Kanning

Sex. All those complications, all that messiness. It's like watching a group of enthusiasts really get into a hobby that you don't share.

POETRY: Mondrian's War, by Mike Allen

When did he first discover this gift for equilibrium? / An urgent revelation in a haystack-mounded field?

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

Monday: Speculative Japan, edited by Gene van Troyer and Grania Davis, reviewed by Niall Harrison
Wednesday: Everything is Sinister by David Llwellyn and The Heritage by Will Ashon, reviewed by Martin Lewis
Friday: Year's Bests edited by Jonathan Strahan, and David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, reviewed by Karen Burnham


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