Contents

29 June 2009

[Reviews posted three times a week]

(Reviews)

COLUMN: When Lost Went SF, by James Schellenberg

The show stumbled, found its way, then went way hardcore on the science fiction. A wrap-up for season 5 and some speculation for the upcoming (and final) season.

FICTION: River of Heaven, by Rachel Manija Brown

Fulfilling our mission would undoubtedly be the most important thing to happen on Earth that day, but Seiji seemed more interested in window-shopping.

POETRY: In the Burned Places, by Ann K. Schwader

we wait in vain for the asteroid / its aeon come round at last.

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

Monday: Beyond Balram: Stories by Vandana Singh and Ian McDonald, reviewed by Dan Hartland
Wednesday: Legend of the Seeker, Season One, reviewed by Hannah Strom-Martin
Friday: God of Clocks by Alan Campbell, reviewed by Martin Lewis

22 June 2009

[Article by Matthew Davis]

(Articles)

ARTICLE: The Adventures of Little Martin in Tomorrowland, by Matthew Davis

[I]n the mid-1970s, one of contemporary English literature's soon-to-be foremost personalities spent his apprenticeship as the SF reviewer at one of Britain's most respected Sunday broadsheets.

FICTION: Another End of the Empire, by Tim Pratt

He sighed. "So I'm expected to send my Fell Rangers to the mountains, raze the village, leave no stone upon a stone, enslave the women, and kill all the younglings to stop this dire prophecy from coming to pass."

POETRY: Spacekill, by Robert Borski

Radioactive natterjacks, leap-frogging / from black hole to black hole;

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

Monday: Buyout by Alexander Irvine, reviewed by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Wednesday: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan, reviewed by Hallie O'Donovan
Friday: Ages of Wonder, edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Rob St. Martin, reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy

15 June 2009

[Article by Mike Fisher]

(Articles)

ARTICLE: Captain Newbie!: A 3-D Pete Cartoon, by Mike Fisher

Hmm . . . I wonder what the first mission with Captain "No Starfleet Experience Whatsoever" Kirk would be like?

COLUMN: Bookshelf Worlds, by Matthew Cheney

I am a bookshelf voyeur; any time I go into a room with books, I spy and pry. A new room—whether a waiting room, an office, a basement used for storage—always contains excitement for me if it has books, because, until I have thoroughly pored over them, there is the potential for surprise, and the potential is often as electrifying as the reality.

FICTION: Second-Hand Information, by Jennifer Linnaea

The next day I go to Pisha's house as usual, but his parent meets me at the door and looks at me extra long with her small, pink eyes. "I tell you first-hand that Pisha can't play today," she says. "He's gone in."

POETRY: Paper Doll, by Elizabeth Lee

all our lives will resemble what we see in magazines

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

Monday: Up, reviewed by David J. Schwartz
Wednesday: Genesis by Bernard Beckett, reviewed by Jonathan McCalmont
Friday: Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, reviewed by Richard Larson

8 June 2009

[Reviews posted three times a week]

(Reviews)

FICTION: A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc; or, A Lullaby (Part 2 of 2), by Helen Keeble

Listen. Listen. These are the stories of your lives I am telling you, the real stories, the way that things should be. This is not real, this stinking prison where you cannot live, this cannot be real, I am not watching you be born here, no--

POETRY: Sweet Tooth, by Robert Borski

when he / heard the dentist's strict injunction / against sweets

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

Monday: This Is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams, reviewed by Paul Raven
Wednesday: Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress, reviewed by Niall Harrison
Friday: Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding, reviewed by Michael Levy

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