Contents24 August 2009![[Article by Mark Newheiser]](article.jpg)
(Article) ARTICLE: Sagas, Screenplays, and Reasons to Read the News: An Interview with Terry Brooks, by Mark Newheiser[Y]ou have to be open to the fact that your ideas today are not necessarily going to be your ideas tomorrow. And what seems like it's going to work today may not necessarily be what works tomorrow. You cannot get too dogmatic. COLUMN: Desert Island Top 12, by James SchellenbergNot long ago, a friend forwarded a rather nostalgia-inducing link to me: the Top 100 Sci-Fi Books list. . . . In the spirit of controversy-baiting list-makers everywhere, I present a list of books that I point to as examples of how to do something right. FICTION: Charms, by Shweta NarayanIt’s too easy, the tide of war washing these feckless, smiling girls up, drowning Edith in the bile and brine of the past. And she’s hardly old, not yet. Not yet. She shakes her head tiredly. Women’s magic, she says, is like everything else. Not good enough for girls these days. POETRY: They pass a dwarf star around like a bottle of rum, by Sankar RoyCopper shackles dazzle from their unzipped nebulas. REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a weekMonday: The New Space Opera 2, eds. Jonathan Strahan and Gardner Dozois, and Open Your Eyes by Paul Jessup, reviewed by Richard Larson All material in Strange Horizons is copyrighted to the original authors and may not be reproduced without permission. Violators will be prosecuted. |