(Reviews)

FICTION: Aftermath (Part 1 of 2), by Joy Kennedy-O'Neill

Things seem almost back to normal--there is no smoke on the horizon, the barricades have been removed, and grass and bluebonnets grow on the side of the road. There are birds singing, red-tailed hawks catching the thermals, and the buzzards are only devouring roadkill. It's just a possum. Everything is fine.

POETRY: Tesla's Waltz, by WC Roberts

a double-shot of Mickey Finn by wireless / brings Persephone to life

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper, reviewed by Marina Berlin
Wednesday: The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw, reviewed by Nina Allan
Friday: Chronicle, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum

_{-- Delivered by Feed43 service}

(Reviews)

COLUMN: Scores, by John Clute

The pure modernist extremism of Kafka is to show us a world without bling.

FICTION: The Chastisement of Your Peace, by Tracy Canfield

"Midnight Cruiser abducted the president of the American Psychological Association and fed him to her pet hyena," said Jenny. "Oh my God, she is awesome."

POETRY: Ariel, by Erik Amundsen

It's not / quite true, my sister-brother, it's your foot-tread in the / mist, it's neither one nor quite the other.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge, reviewed by Andy Sawyer
Wednesday: Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru, reviewed by Maureen Kincaid Speller
Friday: The Bone Spindle by Anne Sheldon, reviewed by Sofia Samatar

_{-- Delivered by Feed43 service}

(Reviews)

ARTICLE: Bridge Over Troubled Waters: The City of Haifa in Lavie Tidhar's Stories, by Ehud Maimon

When looked upon together from some distance, a clear picture of Haifa as it is seen in Lavie Tidhar's vision emerges. This vision produces a unique outcome, a speculative city which is at the same time universal and local.

COLUMN: Paraphernalia: FIADSBLTPPUTPWYP, by Mark Plummer

I don�t count myself as part of the dinner party wing of fandom, the people who seem to see SF conventions primarily as an assembly point for a series of epic meal excursions.

POETRY: Carrington's Ferry, by Mike Allen

but as the taxi rushed the Lisbon streets / a voice heard from the wrong end / of a trumpet whispered new instructions / and she demanded instead the embassy / to Mexico

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Wind Angels by Leigh Kennedy, reviewed by Nina Allan
Wednesday: I, Robot: To Protect by Mickey Zucker Reichert, reviewed by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Friday: By Light Alone by Adam Roberts, reviewed by Nic Clarke

_{-- Delivered by Feed43 service}

(Reviews)

FICTION: Recognizing Gabe: un cuento de hadas, by Alberto Yáñez

When I was twelve, my hada madrina came to visit. My fairy godmother hadn't come to see us since my baptism, so I didn't even know her except from the stories, like the one about cousin Tomasita and the goat who could play f�tbol.

POETRY: The Lord Charon, by Tony Grist

When the moment is right we go into his sack.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: American Horror Story, Season 1, reviewed by Roz Kaveney
Wednesday: All Men of Genius by Lev A. C. Rosen, reviewed by Sofia Samatar
Friday: Cloud Permutations by Lavie Tidhar, reviewed by Aishwarya Subramanian

_{-- Delivered by Feed43 service}