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14 May 2012

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COLUMN: Lexias: Lexia, by Matthew Cheney

This is my final Lexias column, the last in a series that began some fifty columns ago with my first, "Walls," on February 7, 2005.

FICTION: Beside Calais, by Samantha Henderson

One of the éoles reared on its back wheel at their approach, spreading its ungraceful wings and spinning its propeller: a dominant male, getting their scent. The flock stopped grazing for a second, and the low hum of their engines quickened as they readied for the signal to take off.

POETRY: Not the Home World, by David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Next year, / We'd be all over time, / And kick their trans-temporal heinies / Back to the middle of next week.

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

Monday: Sea Hearts/The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan, reviewed by Sofia Samatar
Wednesday: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway, reviewed by Martin Lewis
Friday: Planesrunner by Ian McDonald, reviewed by L. Timmel Duchamp


7 May 2012

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COLUMN: Dice and D-Pads: Playing with Emotion, by Robyn Fleming

People sometimes ask me if I think games can be art, to which I usually respond—with persuasive eloquence—by saying, "Well, yeah. Duh."

FICTION: Bright Lights, by Robert Reed

It is immediately apparent who is useful here and who must be sacrificed.

POETRY: Neuschwabenland, by John Zaharick

She wanted vast water, sealed / for aeons under thick glaciers.

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

Monday: The Hunger Games, reviewed by Erin Horáková
Wednesday: The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, reviewed by Dan Hartland
Friday: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, reviewed by Phoebe North


30 April 2012

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COLUMN: Intertitles: "Do Not Wither/Look at Me": Feminist Identity as Supernatural in Orlando and I am Dina, by Genevieve Valentine

One of the handiest things about speculative fiction is its ability to provide shorthand for an exploration of the human condition.

FICTION: Introduction to "The Gods of Reorth", by Debbie Notkin

My fondness for "The Gods of Reorth" is born both of the story and of the cultural context in which it appeared.

FICTION: The Gods of Reorth, by Elizabeth A. Lynn

Jael remembered years of famine, of drought, of blight. Once she had sent a plague. It had hurt, watching the inexorable processes of disease and death sweep over her people. She had not asked reasons for that.

POETRY: The Second Law of Thermodynamics, by David Barber

The mower cable’s puzzled into knots again / and somewhere, out of sight, a spider freezes / as that dropped screw rolls to a halt.

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

Monday: Dangerous Waters and Darkening Skies by Juliet E. McKenna, reviewed by Liz Bourke
Wednesday: The Drowning Girl: A Memoir by Caitlín R. Kiernan, reviewed by Niall Alexander
Friday: The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman, reviewed by Hallie O'Donovan

EDITORIAL: Welcome to Julia Rios, by Niall Harrison

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of announcing Brit Mandelo as one of our new fiction editors. This week, I'm delighted to announce that she's being joined by Julia Rios.

23 April 2012

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ARTICLE: Airships - Not just flying billboards, by Ann Wilkes

Airships are soaring from the pages of steampunk novels and the imaginations of young engineers and entrepreneurs into our skies. Welcome to the airship renaissance.

POETRY: Foam, by Selena Martens

unrequited love's a pain / you could drown the ocean in.

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

Monday: In the Mouth of the Whale by Paul McAuley, reviewed by Paul Kincaid
Wednesday: The Books of the Raksura: The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea, by Martha Wells, reviewed by Matt Denault
Friday: Artemis by Philip Palmer, reviewed by Martin Lewis


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