Fantasy Magazine #1

Image"The Tyrant in Love" by Tim Pratt
"To Make the Dead Speak" by Margaret Ronald
"In the House of Four Seasons" by Jeffrey Ford
"Bones Like Black Sugar" by Catherynne M. Valente
"The Finer Points of Destruction" by Richard Parks
"Hanging the Glass" by Sarah Brandywine Johnson
"Shriek: An Afterword" by Jeff VanderMeer
"The Sense of Spirals" by Sonya Taaffe
"Sun, In Its Copper Season" by Vera Nazarian
"Tear Her Standard Down" by Megan Messinger 
"A Sure and Casual Song" by Erzebet Yellow-Boy
"Closer to the Lung" by Simon Logan
"The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death" by Eugie Foster
"At the End of the Hall" by Nick Mamatas
"Summer Ice" by Holly Phillips
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The Reality of Proportion or If You Can’t Sleep, Read This: Statistics, Statistics, Statistics…

In our continuing efforts to move material from our old site to the current one, we present an editorial first published online in 1999. It seems some of the issues addressed in the piece are continually cropping up, and we hope this will be a resource for both older and newer readers.
While reviewing both the Gardner Dozois and David G. Hartwell 1998 Best Of collections in this issue, Richard Horton wonders if there are “any patterns to be derived from the contents of the two collections” and notices, at least for this year, “a rather low percentage of stories by women.” 
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Aeon #1

“A Mythic Fear of the Sea” by Jay Lake
“Blood and Verse” by John Meaney
“The Russian Winter” by Holly Wade Matter
“Emerald City Blues” by Steven R. Boyett
“Little House on the Accretion Disc” by Gordon Gross
“Talk of Mandrakes” by Gene Wolfe
“Silver Land” by Lori Ann White
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Politically Incorrect Ramblings, Part Deux

ImageA response to “Tough Times for Beset Manhood: Or, Where Has Good Old Golden Age SF Gone?” by Ruth Nestvold and Jay Lake.

The article referenced above recently appeared in the October online issue of the Internet Review of Science Fiction. I originally thought to let it go without responding, then decided to respond within the forum provided. But one thing led to another and my thoughts grew too expansive and I have decided to publish my thoughts here, as an editorial (not a piece of journalism).

I strongly urge those of you reading this to read the article at IROSF first.
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Paradox, #7, Summer 2005

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“A Tear like a Rainbow” by Meredith Simmons
“The Avowing of Sir Kay” Cherith Baldry
“A Monument More Lasting Than Brass” by Steven Mohan, Jr.
“The Tiger Fortune Princess” by Eugie Foster
“A Taste of Ashes” by Ilsa J. Bick
“A Hand in the Stream” by Darron T. Moore
“The Gods of Green and Gray” by Paul Finch
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