Lois Tilton

A couple of print magazines arrived.

The stories in this issue all deal, in one way or another, with the good and bad in human nature.

The Ivoire has been damaged in battle. In order to rejoin the Fleet, her captain, Coop, has no choice but to

A Halloween issue, of course, although the cover, with its BDSM-themed image, doesn’t exactly suggest the season.

Fantasy detective story. Cutter is a detective in the Miscellaneous Events division when

A month’s worth of ezines and one print anthology.

Some very nice premises in this month’s fiction, even if the stories didn’t all do them as much

Two printzines, an ezine and an anthology.

A Halloween issue, although there is nothing outwardly indicating it; the cover has cute mini dinosaurs. But the Bailey story that opens the issue sets the tone, and it’s a black

The digests from Penny Press and the usual online first-of-the-month publications.

Stories set in skies and clouds.

David Tinkerman is the technical assistant to Doctor Leah Hamakawa when she unexpectedly receives

Much of this column is devoted to a review of the ghost story anthology Haunted Legends. Also a brief rant on another topic.

I sit down at the computer to review

One of the most enjoyable issues of this magazine that I’ve read in quite a while.

The narrator, Harry Malan, is the new President of the small Mormon congregation on Sol

While I was waiting for the digest zines to appear in my mailbox I had the time to look at the stories in some new publications.

No novella but six novelets, in the F&SF spelling, featured in the current double issue, of which the first two were superior.

Larry has

Featuring the new online science fiction magazine Lightspeed and other new or rarely-seen SF publications as well as the usual zines coming out around the first of the month.

The debut issue

This month’s reading was balanced between SF and fantasy, with a leavening of nonSFnal stories employing SFnal themes.

Featuring a fine novella by Robert Reed.

Simon has

A particularly sciencefictional issue. I would not have been surprised to find some of these stories in a certain zine devoted to hard SF.

Sean is from Earth and Dulat is from Mika,

In my last review I mentioned that I was seeing rather more science fiction than usual. This time, it’s a vast flood of fantasy, due in large part to the appearance of the 384 page issue of Black Gate, as well as the June Realms of Fantasy. I begin to yearn for ray guns and rocket ships.