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(Reviews) FICTION: Father's Day, by Jen LarsenMy father spent years building his Doomsday Machine. POETRY: Picturing World Peace on Earth Day, by Duane AckersonI think about a bumper sticker I once saw: / “Picture Whirled Peas.” REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a weekMonday: The Passage by Justin Cronin, reviewed by T. S. Miller 19 July 2010![[Reviews posted three times a week]](/2010/20100719/spoon-thumb.png)
(Reviews) FICTION: The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu (part 2 of 2), by Grady HendrixOne of Mayor Yuen's tough guys took me and Little Bun to the elevators. There was classical Western music playing inside it. What good is classical music? You can't break to it. POETRY: Only So Many, by Rebecca Del Giorgiotrading in the station wagon for / gilded wheels and wild eyed horses REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a weekMonday: Chill by Elizabeth Bear, reviewed by Matt Denault 12 July 2010![[Reviews posted three times a week]](/2010/20100712/jackson-thumb.png)
(Reviews) FICTION: The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu (part 1 of 2), by Grady HendrixI say Little Bun swerved all over the street but there are no streets in Guiyu. The electronic mountains have buried the town in a sea of broken hardware and we drove down canyons cut through towering walls of high-tech trash. POETRY: Impressions and Indentations, by Jeff JeppesenA first predator, first nightmare, first symptom of madness REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a weekMonday: Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, reviewed by L. Timmel Duchamp 5 July 2010![[Reviews posted three times a week]](/2010/20100705/lost.png)
(Reviews) FICTION: The Red Bride, by Samantha HendersonThe story of the Red Bride is a slave's tale in slave speech, which I do not generally hold in my head around humans lest my face betray me, so I must shift words around from one meaning to another like stones on a reckoning-board, each stone taking meaning from a square where another stone was a moment before. POETRY: Vincent and Miranda, by Matthew StranachBut sometimes he longed to / Peel back the perfect fibreglass skin / To unplug Miranda and leave her REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a weekMonday: The Woo of Lost, by Adam Roberts Strange Horizons is a weekly online magazine of science fiction, fantasy, science fact, opinion, art, and reviews. All material in Strange Horizons is copyrighted to the original authors and may not be reproduced without permission. Violators will be prosecuted. Updated every Monday Graphic design by Elaine Chen. |