From Modern Mythcraft to Magical Surrealism

Archive for February 2011

John Joseph Adams

John Joseph Adams, in addition to serving as editor of Lightspeed and Fantasy Magazine, is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as Brave New Worlds, Wastelands, The Living Dead, The Living Dead 2, By Blood We Live, Federations, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and The Way of the Wizard. Upcoming anthologies include: Lightspeed: [...]

Artist Spotlight: Scott Grimando

An illustrator’s job is to tell a story with an image. The viewer must be drawn in to study what’s going on in the picture. It’s that interaction with the audience that I find compelling.

Molly Tanzer

Molly Tanzer is the Managing Editor of Lightspeed and Fantasy Magazine. Her fiction has appeared in Running with the Pack, Crossed Genres, Palimpsest, and is forthcoming in Historical Lovecraft. The account of her adventures going minigolfing with zombie polka band The Widow’s Bane appears over at Strange Horizons. She is a fan of the semicolon, an out-of-practice translator of ancient Greek, [...]

Three Real Historical Figures Who Embarked Upon the Hero’s Journey

History is filled with examples of travels grander in scale than could have been imagined beforehand, each one managing to change the world in some way as a result.

Graeme McMillan

Graeme McMillan lives, writes, and is currently learning to bake in Portland, Oregon. His writing has appeared throughout the internet on sites like Time Magazine‘s Techland blog, io9.com, and Comic Book Resources, and if pressed, he’ll admit that he tries to use his powers for good.

Author Spotlight: Genevieve Valentine

Whenever you travel, you see glimpses of people who you’ll probably never see again. Some people get very curious about that, and some people hardly notice; the story sprang from the idea of two such people meeting.

Jennifer Konieczny

Jennifer Konieczny hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An alumna of Villanova University, she now pursues her doctorate in medieval studies at the University of Toronto. She enjoys working with fourteenth-century Latin legal texts, slushing for Fantasy Magazine, and scanning bookshelves for new authors to read.

Genevieve Valentine

Genevieve Valentine’s first novel, Mechanique: a Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, was recently published by Prime Books. Her short fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from magazines such as Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and Escape Pod, and in many anthologies, including Armored, Under the Moons of Mars, Running with the Pack, The [...]

March 2011 (Issue 48)

The Celebrated Carousel of the Margravine of Blois

I myself bore witness to the destruction of that most miraculous clockwork, and what remains allows only for positive identification.