Continue reading “Magazine Review: Talebones #34 (Winter 2006)”

Continue reading “Magazine review: Apex Digest, Volume 1 Issue 8″

It’s a brave move to launch a print magazine devoted to short genre fiction in a climate where everyone seems to be trumpeting the decline of the scene, and that is exactly what the producers of Hub magazine have decided to do – a paying market for both fiction and non-fiction, in glossy (if small-format) magazine quality (as opposed to small-press chapbook). I’ll leave the debate as to whether they can last the course without trimming back on writer’s fees or magazine quality for those who know the industry better than I, and report from the reader’s perspective. Continue reading “Magazine Review: Hub #1″

Time Magazine is no stranger to controversy as regards their ‘Person of the Year’ feature. Some folk have never forgiven them for once giving the dubious accolade to Adolf Hitler, but they have failed to realise that it’s not necessarily a valedictory honour – the Person of the Year is the one deemed to have been most influential on world events, for good or ill. Continue reading “My thoughts on being Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ 2006″

Okay, genre people; I have a mystery to solve, and I need your help with it. Continue reading “Mystery SF/F blogger”

I’m still quite new to the small-press magazine scene, but one thing that as obvious from the outset is the differing characters of each publication. Electric Velocipede is no exception – if issue 11 is anything to go by, it veers between introspective and playful, with a tendency to detour through darkness. Continue reading “Magazine Review: Electric Velocipede #11″

Of all the news I expected to encounter this evening, a report of the launch of a new UK sf magazine was the least likely, but that is what I got. Continue reading “The new mag in town”

Interzone #207 manages to sustain the high standard of fiction content that #206 set, despite having a very different collection of work between the covers. Continue reading “Magazine Review: Interzone #207″

FPB, y’all. Check it.

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OK, I’ll state the obvious right off the bat – I write reviews for Interzone, and therefore could possibly be accused of a certain conflict of interests by reviewing the magazine. My excuse is that I have absolutely nothing to do with the fiction section (apart from as a reader), and hence cannot see any problem with me discussing the stories in that context. Continue reading “Magazine Review: Interzone #206″