A couple developments the last couple days: My 2300-word story of a bright young child visiting the space aliens she idolizes will be in issue #34 of the Canadian magazine Neo-Opsis Science Fiction. I expect that one to be out very soon as they sent payment yesterday via Paypal, several months after the contract was […]
Read more "Jim Lee’s Publishing News"Although he’s the author of more than a dozen successful crime novels, The Island is my first exposure to Adrian McKinty’s work. He takes us on a relentless, frequently gory and sometimes genuinely thrilling ‘Hell-on-Earth’ vacation experience. The viewpoint character is Heather Baxter, a woman recently married to Tom, an acclaimed but widowed doctor. Tom […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: The Island"Valancourt Books specializes in bringing neglected, out-of-print genre classics back for readers to enjoy. They’re especially big on Gothic style horror–in this case, Gothic horror with a particular American South sensibility. The author, who died too young in 1999, was from Alabama and sets this fascinating chiller in the coastal environs of that state. It […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: The Elementals"Vanessa Riley (author of Island Girl) continues producing well-researched and compelling novelizations based on the lives of real-life women of color. This time out, she focuses of women who played important roles in Haiti’s long, confused and often brutal, always difficult struggle to become an independent nation. Many outstanding figures, whether historical individuals or composites […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Sister Mother Warrior"This digest-sized print magazine of fantastic poetry has been published since 1986 by noted genre poet David C. Kopaska-Merkel. It’s a simple-looking low-budget affair, but it is a paying market ($12/poem plus contributor copy) for a wide range of SF/F/H and related poetry. This issue contains 20 poems by a total of 19 poets, as […]
Read more "POETRY MAGAZINE REVIEW: Dreams & Nightmares #122 (September 2022)"NOTE: I’m posting this on a Monday because I don’t expect to be online tomorrow (my usual day for my 1st review article of the week to appear.) I finally got to read this onetime National Book Award finalist and it is, indeed a strikingly dark and unsettling tale. It’s a surreal story and rich […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: The Memory Police"This debut novel straddles the genre line between present day Science Fiction and semi-magical Fantasy, and is quite a strange tale (in a good way). The obviously inventive author has lived in the US, Hong Kong and currently resides in The Yorkshire region of England. The book takes place in locations throughout Britain and reveals […]
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