Ian Whates of Newcon Press has a new collection, launched at Recombination, in which we are taken from our comfort zones. It has an intriguing set of contributors from the well known to the less so, including Pat Cadigan, Brian Stableford, Chaz Brenchley, Hal Duncan and so on. Apparently it is Hal whom we have [...]
Foundation, the international review of sf, has reached its hundredth issue and celebrates with an anthology of fiction. Their special editions are usually worthwhile reading (the last being papers from the conference on British sf) and this is no exception. The contributors are varied such as Christopher Barzak, David Marusek, Nalo Hopkinson, Margo Lanagan and [...]
E Nesbit is a tricky writer in her contradiction. Though her politics were radical, she was fairly conservative when it came to women. She uses Modernist techniques and intertextuality in her fiction to draw the reader into the book - empowering the imagination and letting it be real. Yet there is an undertone of lost [...]