Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, Volume 10 Issue 2, June 2011
“Rendered Down”, by Cory Skerry, is a modern selkie folktale. Miranda is a young woman who works at a clothing store in a mall. She is fat, and she doesn’t like having to manage people’s expectations,...
View ArticleAn Interview with Kevin J. Anderson on his trip to the UAE, sci-fi in the...
You visited the UAE recently, what did you think of sci-fi fans from this region as compared other parts of the world that you frequent? The difficult availability of Arabic translations of major...
View ArticleAn interview with Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar is an award-winning genre writer of Israeli origin. I asked him about his short fiction, one of his most recent novel-length works, Osama, the World Fantasy Award-nominated World SF blog,...
View ArticleTor.com, July 2011
July’s selection of short stories from Tor include one fantasy, and two other tales which both seem to be children’s literature. Yet seeming can be deceiving, and although probably one might read these...
View ArticleAsimov’s, September 2011
This issue of Asimov’s features a wide range of stories, from post-apocalyptic settings, to deep space, to plague-ridden colony worlds. Several of the stories cover grim material and feature disturbing...
View ArticleClarkesworld, July through September
July In “Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika,” by Gord Sellar, the end began when the first mechanika butchered its maker. Within a few generations humanity’s accomplishments became little more than...
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