DreamForge Anvil #19, Spring 2025

DreamForge Anvil #19, Spring 2025 “The Fine Art of Faking It” by Miranda Jubb “The Coven” by Bruce McAllister” “Hope Carried on an Ancient Isolated Back” by Ash Vale “In the Form of a Question” by Beth Goder” “The Language of Immersion” by Matt McHugh

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Burning Down the House by Jean Marie Ward

Burning Down the House by Jean Marie Ward (Ginger Blue Publishing, March 2025, 90 pp.) Reviewed by Victoria Silverwolf This novella is the first in a series to be known as “Sorcerer vs. Sorcerer.” It begins with a mysterious fire devastating the home of an aging wizard. A younger magician investigates the arcane items contained …

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Strange Horizons, March 10, 2025

[On May 10, 2021 Strange Horizons officially expressed its political support for Palestinian solidarity. The views of Tangent Online reviewers are not necessarily those of Strange Horizons. Fiction critiqued at Tangent Online is, as much as is humanly possible, without prejudice and based solely on artistic merit.] Strange Horizons, March 10, 2025 “Another Trip Around …

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Flash Fiction Online #138, March 2025

Flash Fiction Online #138, March 2025 “Henrietta Armitage Doesn’t Read Anymore” by Damon Young “Lizzie Williams’ Swampy Head” by Joshua Jones Lofflin (reprint, not reviewed)  “The Qalupalik” by Shantell Powell “The Chaperone” by Kimberly Crow (reprint, not reviewed) “Drown-Haunted” by Corey Farrenkopf “Borrowed Breath and Starlit Scales” by Erin L. Swann (reprint, not reviewed)  Reviewed …

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The Adventures of Superman — “The Case of Double Trouble”

The Adventures of Superman (1940-1951) aired “The Case of Double Trouble” on March 9, 1949 as the 14th episode of its run in the 1949 season (all of which from February to December save one were of the half hour variety as opposed to the many multi-part, 15-minute serials that ran through most of the …

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Shapers of Worlds, Vol. 5, ed. by Edward Willett

Shapers of Worlds, Vol. 5 Edited by Edward Willett (Shadowpaw Press, March 25, 2025, kindle & tpb, 460 pp.) “The Rusalka Wakes Up” by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore “The Bones of Heroes” by Chadwick Ginther “Mad Dog” by Evan Graham “Bleach” by M. C. A. Hogarth “The Good Gornak” by James S. Peet “Magic That Cannot …

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Clarkesworld #222, March 2025

Clarkesworld #222, March 2025 “From Enceladus, with Love” by Ryan Cole “Mindtrips” by Tlotlo Tsamaase “Hook and Line” by Koji A. Dae “Funerary Habits of Low Entropy Entities” by Damián Neri “Pollen” by Anna Burdenko “Those Uncaring Waves” by Yukimi Ogawa “The Sound of the Star” by Ren Zeyu

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Strange Horizons, March 3, 2025

[On May 10, 2021 Strange Horizons officially expressed its political support for Palestinian solidarity. The views of Tangent Online reviewers are not necessarily those of Strange Horizons. Fiction critiqued at Tangent Online is, as much as is humanly possible, without prejudice and based solely on artistic merit.] Strange Horizons, March 3, 2025 “The Luring Lantern” …

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Clarkesworld #221, February 2025

Clarkesworld #221, February 2025 “Bodyhoppers” by Rocío Vega, translated by Sue Burke “King of the Castle” by Fiona Moore “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” by Somto Ihezue “A Planet Full of Sorrows” by M. L. Clark “The Hanging Tower of Babel” by Wang Zhenzhen, translated by Carmen Yiling Yan “Numismatic Archetypes in the Year of …

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