My Best Friend’s Girl
There. You summoned me and I came. No one twisted your arm. No one made you take your friend’s equipment. No one made you sign the contract with your blood.
Archive for November 2009
Astro Boy: Retrorocket Excellence
Directed by David Bowers (Flushed Away), the brilliant Astro Boy comes to life with modern animation techniques, great voice acting and a story that suits both the original theme and today’s audiences.
Outsiders and Others: An Interview with Garth Nix
This interview was conducted at World Fantasy 2009, in San Jose, California.
Flash Forward: “Gimme Some Truth” and “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps”
“Gimme Some Truth” is an episode about two things: The Truth, and Action. The episode opens with a quick attack and then pops back in time to an “earlier that day” where our intrepid FBI agents spend time in Washington DC so that Agent Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance) can testify before the Senate regarding his department’s use of their budget to investigate the blackouts.
The Confessions of Prince Charming
Once upon a time: My mama always told me to stay away from princesses, and I guess I should have listened and gone into the wizarding business, but there was an opening for princes when I graduated from charm school, and I didn’t know at the time that princesses came with the job . . .
Book Review: The Edge of the World, by Kevin J. Anderson
The novel is written in a style reminiscent of the more juvenile gateway fantasies of the 1980’s – like a David Eddings novel without the humor.
Book Review: Norilana Roundup
Norilana Books is a newish small press run by writer Vera Nazarian. They have put out an ambitious list over the past few years, notably including a number of very nice novels by Sherwood Smith (best known these days for her Inda series, and also the author of the delightful YA diptych Crown Duel). But perhaps most notable about Norilana’s list is their support of short fiction.
Cesare
There is a bag of gunpowder in Cesare’s room. She is one of the seven most powerful men in Argentorat, but her lodgings are plain, nothing but a low bed, a chest of clothing, and a shelf of tattered books. The gunpowder is by her books, in a black bag that smells of ink and amber.
“Lost for Words” by Kenneth Yu: Winner of the 2009 Halloween Flash Contest
Congratulations to Kenneth Yu, our 2009 winner of the Halloween Flash Fiction Contest, and well done to Eden Robins and Maria Perales for their talented, top three stories. Read Kenneth Yu’s winning short story below. # Lost for Words by Kenneth Yu When she was young, the words flowed freely, fearlessly, seemingly forming on [...]
