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Best of Apex Magazine - review #1 - Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon
H'okay... Act 1 Scene 1 - I bought this book from Amazon because it was in my 'saved for laters' and they were doing a BIGTHANKS offer and I wanted things I could only sensibly buy from Amazon and I didn't have much time to browse ( Read more... ) -
A Brief Introduction to a New Experiment
A couple of weeks ago I did some short reviews of stories in Uncanny - for reasons best left to themselves. And as a part of that I ran into people arguing that reviews should be nice (and contain a summary of the story???) and went to a recommended reviewer... and found... well something between cliff notes (so you can fake having read while not ( Read more... ) -
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick
I'm going to try and avoid full-on spoilers here, but since this was published in 1962 I'm not going to be incredibly careful about it ( Read more... ) -
Fireside - Examining the BlackSpecFic Editorial
>Fiction, we have a problem.
Racism.
Structural, institutional, personal, universal.
Do non-Western publications have this problem? Or is this a happy way of sharing the blame/responsibility as far as possible.
>We all know this. We do. We don’t need numbers to see that, like everywhere in our society, marginalization of black people is still a ( Read more... ) -
A Fireside Story
Instead of deconstructing a dazzlingly presented bad idea in several thousand words no one will read... let me explain in a story ( Read more... ) -
7 Reasons** Why (insert) I Like (/insert) F&F* (strike) is (/strike) Better Than Star Wars*
*the franchises - but the movies work too ( Read more... ) -
Last Night I Had A Crazy Dream
Or if you know me and my sleeping habits - this morning ( Read more... ) -
Cancer Scare 2
(Cancer Scare one involved the ginormous fibroid when they spotted it in A&E)
So as not to build any tension or cause any distress - I don't have breast cancer ( Read more... ) -
Zombies or Angry White Men?
So I managed to finish the zombie anthology 'Living Dead' - and the George R R Martin SF story I finished on was one of the best in the book. And then I saw another anthology and I thought... WTF ( Read more... )