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News March 27, 2021

F&SF Jan/Feb 2021

I’m late recording the contents on this one, but was able to snag a copy still on the stand at my local Barnes & Noble. This is C.C. Finlay’s final issue as editor. By next week I expect the March/April issue will be on display—the first under Sheree Renée Thomas’ tutelage.

Fantasy & Science Fiction [v140 #1 & 2, whole #753] ed. C.C. Finlay, assistant eds. Stephen L. Mazur, Robin O’Connor (Spilogale, Inc., $9.99, 258pp, digest) Cover by Kent Bash
1 • Content Pages
3 • Integral Nothings • Robert Reed • ss
24 • The Diamond Family GLitters • H. Pueyo • ss
35 • Interludes with the Gunwright • Jonathan L. Howard • nv
63 • Books to Look For • Charles De Lint • rc
_63 • Ink & Sigil, Kevin Hearne, Del Rey, $28.00, hc • br
_64 • The Girl Who Could Move Sht with Her Mind, Jackson Ford, Orbit Books, $16.99, tp • br
_65 • Random Sht Flying Through the Air, Jackson Ford, Orbit Books, $16.99, tp • br
_66 • Madrenga, Dead Foster, Wordfire Press, $15.99, tp • br
_67 • Storybound, Emily McKay, Entangled, $17.99, hc • br
_68 • Titan, François Vigneault, Oni Press, #19.99, tp • br
_70 • Surface Attack, Cory Doctorow, Tor Books, $26.99, hc & Cordoc-Co LLC, $32.44 audiobook • br
_70 • How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, Cory Doctorow, OneZero, $0.00, website • br
73 • Books • Elizabeth Hand • rc
_73 • Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings, Tor Books, $19.99, hc • br
_77 • Unbecoming, Lesley Wheeler, Aqueduct Press, $17.49, tp • br
_79 Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman Malik, Kitaab, $25, hc • br
82 • Games • Marc Laidlaw • rc
_82 • Yakuza! • rv
88 • The Dark Ride • John Kessel • na
149 • A Little Knife Music • Jenn Reese • ss
160 • Annabel Digs Her Own Grave • Gretchen Tessmer • pm
162 • N-raptured • Justin C. Key • ss
177 • Hard! • Van Aaron Hughes • ss
184 • Litter Witch • Susan Palwick • ss
196 • Films • Karin Lowachee • rc
201 • Science: How Fast are We Going? • Jerry Oltion • cl
205 • Plumage From Pegasus: You Make the Best of What’s Still Around • Paul Di Filippo • cl
210 • Wild Geese • Lavie Tidhar • ss
222 • Bible Stories for Adults No. 51: The Great Fish • James Morrow • nv
248 • Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation • Gordon Van Gelder • ms
249 • The Piper • Karen Joy Fowler • ss
256 • Coming Attractions • C.C. Finlay • cl
257 • F&SF Market Place • classifieds
258 • Curiosities: Murdercon, by Richard Purtill (1982) • Thomas Kaufsek • cl

Fantasy & Science Fiction website

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News January 14, 2020

Fantasy & Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2020

Contents Pages
Essa Hansen “Save, Salve, Shelter”
Matthew Hughes “Air of the Overworld”
Michael Cassutt “Banshee”
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
—Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs
—The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
—The Green Man’s Foe by Juliet E. McKenna
—The Man Who Wouldn’t Die by A.B. Jewell
—The Slab by Jeffrey J. Mariotte
—Belladonna University Box Set by Tansy Rayner Roberts
—Halloween is Not a Verb by Tansy Rayner Roberts
C.C. Finlay: Recommended Reading
—A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
—Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
—Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
—Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
—Joanna Russ by Gwyneth Jones
—Monstress and Monstress Volume Four: The Chosen by Marjorie Lin & Sana Takeda
—Farmhand by Rob Guillory
Alex Irvine “Chisel and Chime”
Elaine Vilar Madruga “Elsinore Revolution” translated by Toshiya Kamei
Albert E. Cowdrey “Falling Angel”
Julianna Baggott “The Key to Composing Human Skin”
Corey Flintoff “Interlude in Arcadia”
Karin Lowachee’s Films: Ad Astra Per Corde
Jerry Oltion’s Science: Where’s My Flying Car?
Auston Habershaw “Three Gowns for Clara”
Melissa Marr “The Nameless”
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
Rahul Kanakia “The Leader Principle”
Coming Attractions
F&SF Market Place
Rich Horton’s Curiosities: Man’s Mortality by Michael Arlin

Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 138 No. 1 and 2, No. 747, Jan/Feb 2020
Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: Max Bertolini
Cartoons: Nick Downes, Arthur Masear, Arthur Masear, Kendra Allenby
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until March 2, 2020
Fantasy & Science Fiction website

Reviews July 15, 2019

Unearthed Death

Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

In the intro to “Unearthed Death,” Marissa Lingen reveals a little of the inspiration behind her story. “Sometimes I write to try to teach myself compassion. Sometimes I even succeed.”

Osrith is a messenger of the gods who visits the dying. Her task is to connect her “clients” with one of the gods for the afterlife, or the alternative—the boneyard, the place for those the gods have rejected. “Unearthed” provides a strong finish for the issue’s fiction.

Reviews June 5, 2019

Sean Adams’ Delivery Obstruction

Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

Sean Adams tells his tale, “An Obstruction to Delivery,” in 31 numbered reports. The postal service has gone underground, delivering mail via a massive network of tunnels, enabling recipients to pick up their daily distribution of letters and packages from a box in their basements. The reporterly format distances the narrator from story’s events, amplifying their absurdity. While I admire the unusual approach, the distance delayed engagement with the action until deep into the story.

Reviews May 26, 2019

Justin C. Key’s Afiya’s Song

Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

The song is the fantasy element in “Afiya’s Song,” the issue’s final novelette by Justin C. Key. It’s a brutal account of slavery in the deep south. The song’s magical powers transport Afiya and those she teaches to sing it to a far better place, helping them survive the horrors of their imprisonment.