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21 July 2008

[Article by Neal Szpatura]

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ARTICLE: Of Preachers and Storytellers: An Interview with Sheri S. Tepper, by Neal Szpatura

When the judges arrive to see how we've done, I don't think they'll rate us as "keepers." I believe there will be judges who will decide which races deserve to go on existing to accomplish whatever the universal task is. I also believe that all of us--the human race--have at most one shared human soul.

FICTION: The Magician's House (part 2 of 2), by Meghan McCarron

"How much do you want to know about magic?" he said. He was nervous, watching me carefully like I might bolt.

POETRY: A Posthuman, Blind and Appendage-less Stump of Flesh Experiences the Sensation of Reading Various Editions of “Gravity’s Rainbow” in a Temperature Controlled Room with Cloroxed-White Walls., by Christopher Hellstrom

I could experience it as a Medieval text

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

Monday: Two Views: The Margarets by Sheri S Tepper, reviewed by Nic Clarke and Sherryl Vint
Wednesday: Lost Boys by James Miller, reviewed by Martin Lewis
Friday: Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham, reviewed by Jonathan McCalmont

14 July 2008

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FICTION: The Magician's House (part 1 of 2), by Meghan McCarron

The magician was a tall, spindly man with surprisingly thick hands and dark, graying hair. He folded into the chair like a marionette. To meet me, he wore black stretch pants, a silk pajama shirt, a burgundy cardigan, and decaying black flip-flops. If I had seen him on the street, I would have laughed, but in the oven-room he looked right at home, whereas I felt self-conscious in my khaki shorts and pre-faded T-shirt. I had even blow-dried my hair. For the first time, instead of feeling invisible in my prepster clothes, I felt exposed.

POETRY: Why She Canceled Her Online Dating Membership: A Martian Female Responds (a triolet), by Terrie Leigh Relf

You ask why I'll no longer date a human? /

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

Monday: Flood by Stephen Baxter, reviewed by Adam Roberts
Wednesday: The Princes of the Golden Cage by Nathalie Mallet, reviewed by Hannah Strom-Martin
Friday: Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné: Volume 1) by Michael Moorcock, reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy

7 July 2008

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ARTICLE: Lingua Rpga & the Writer, by Steve Berman

I brought together a few other authors—friends of mine once deeply involved with gaming and now telling stories in their own, unique voices. Imagine them around the table: Holly Black, wielder of the coveted Andre Norton Award; Will Ludwigsen, a half-curmudgeon; Cecil Castellucci, the only person to become a bard by first edition rules; and Jim Hines, deservedly proud of his 18/00 career.

FICTION: Marsh Gods, by Ann Leckie

"Gods with enough power to make unlikely things happen are free to make pronouncements about the future," the crane said. "If I happened to be wrong, I would have said something untrue, and that could be disastrous for me."

POETRY: Misfortune Cookie, by Lark Beltran

No tears, just plots to keep the moving finger from writing their scary scripts. No doubt, rewriting,

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

Monday: Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction by Lisa Yaszek, reviewed by Maureen Kincaid Speller
Wednesday: Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell, reviewed by Niall Harrison
Friday: Omega by Christopher Evans, reviewed by Paul Kincaid

30 June 2008

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FICTION: Jimmy's Roadside Cafe, by Ramsey Shehadeh

After the world ended, Jimmy set up a roadside cafe in the median of I-95, just north of the Fallston exit.

POETRY: V.D., by Ed Gavin

Kiss her, she tastes of broken glass / and promises, a cold gray ash / upon your tongue. But each adieu

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

Monday: An Experimental Life: books by and about Naomi Mitchison, reviewed by Nic Clarke
Wednesday: On Spoiling the Fourth Season of Battlestar Galactica, by Roz Kaveney
Friday: Shadow Gate by Kate Elliott, reviewed by Juliet E. McKenna


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