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23 January 2012

[Reviews posted three times a week]

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ARTICLE: Bridge Over Troubled Waters: The City of Haifa in Lavie Tidhar's Stories, by Ehud Maimon

When looked upon together from some distance, a clear picture of Haifa as it is seen in Lavie Tidhar's vision emerges. This vision produces a unique outcome, a speculative city which is at the same time universal and local.

COLUMN: Paraphernalia: FIADSBLTPPUTPWYP, by Mark Plummer

I don’t count myself as part of the dinner party wing of fandom, the people who seem to see SF conventions primarily as an assembly point for a series of epic meal excursions.

POETRY: Carrington's Ferry, by Mike Allen

but as the taxi rushed the Lisbon streets / a voice heard from the wrong end / of a trumpet whispered new instructions / and she demanded instead the embassy / to Mexico

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

Monday: Wind Angels by Leigh Kennedy, reviewed by Nina Allan
Wednesday: I, Robot: To Protect by Mickey Zucker Reichert, reviewed by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Friday: By Light Alone by Adam Roberts, reviewed by Nic Clarke


16 January 2012

[Reviews posted three times a week]

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FICTION: Recognizing Gabe: un cuento de hadas, by Alberto Yáñez

When I was twelve, my hada madrina came to visit. My fairy godmother hadn't come to see us since my baptism, so I didn't even know her except from the stories, like the one about cousin Tomasita and the goat who could play fútbol.

POETRY: The Lord Charon, by Tony Grist

When the moment is right we go into his sack.

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

Monday: American Horror Story, Season 1, reviewed by Roz Kaveney
Wednesday: All Men of Genius by Lev A. C. Rosen, reviewed by Sofia Samatar
Friday: Cloud Permutations by Lavie Tidhar, reviewed by Aishwarya Subramanian


9 January 2012

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COLUMN: Dice and D-Pads: Jumping to Beginnings, by Robyn Fleming

My husband and I had a pretty funny conversation with my mother this past New Year's Eve.

FICTION: In the Cold, by Kelly Jennings

Without anyone ever exactly saying so, I know I'm top of the stack for Chair of Executive when the time comes for Second to take charge: the obvious choice, the only one of us with the math and the mouth and the will to step up. Which does not mean I like the idea.

POETRY: Loki, Dynamicist, by Michele Bannister

the more bodies I add the better / though always it lacks neatly-nailed resolution.

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

Monday: Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear, reviewed by Finn Dempster
Wednesday: Further Conflicts, edited by Ian Whates, reviewed by Katherine Farmar
Friday: Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan, reviewed by Liz Bourke


2 January 2012

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COLUMN: Lexias: Kipple, by Matthew Cheney

In a recent essay in The New York Times, Jonathan Ames wrote about kipple. I was thrilled. Not just because it’s nice to see other people writing about the messes of their lives, but also because kipple has been a favorite term of mine ever since I encountered it in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

FICTION: MonitorBot and the King of Pop, by Jessica Barber

She screams and backs up into the edge of her desk before she can get a hold on herself. MonitorBots are scary sons of bitches no matter what form they're choosing to take, and right now this one is in full-on enforcer mode, having arranged itself into a humanoid shape, except eight feet tall and with solid blocky limbs that could piledrive through her skull like it was nothing.

POETRY: Fallen, by Shannon Connor Winward

Like a fledgling fallen from the nest / my scent erased by human hands / I cannot go home again.

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

Monday: 2011 In Review, reviewed by Our Reviewers
Wednesday: After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh, reviewed by Paul Kincaid
Friday: The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski, reviewed by Indrapramit Das


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