July 2011 (Issue 52)

Welcome to issue fifty-two of Fantasy Magazine! Here’s what we’ve got on tap this month … Fiction: “Union Falls” by J. S. Breukelaar, “The Machine” by M. Rickert, “The Wolves of Brooklyn” by Catherynne M. Valente, “Swans” by Kelly Link. Nonfiction: “When Wizards Rock” by Wendy N. Wagner, “Feature Interview: Jacqueline Carey” by Hannah Strom-Martin, “Conversations With Wolves” by Lauren Davis, “The Princess is Dead, Long Live the Princess!” by Hannah Pilinovsky.

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July 2011 (Issue 52)

Nonfiction

Editorial, July 2011

by John Joseph Adams

Welcome to issue fifty-two of Fantasy Magazine! Here’s what we’ve got on tap this month … Fiction: “Union Falls” by J. S. Breukelaar, “The Machine” by M. Rickert, “The Wolves of Brooklyn” by Catherynne M. Valente, “Swans” by Kelly Link. Nonfiction: “When Wizards Rock” by Wendy N. Wagner, “Feature Interview: Jacqueline Carey” by Hannah Strom-Martin, “Conversations With Wolves” by Lauren Davis, “The Princess is Dead, Long Live the Princess!” by Hannah Pilinovsky.

Nonfiction

Editorial, July 2011

by John Joseph Adams

Fiction

Union Falls

by J. S. Breukelaar

But the girl was kicking off her other shoe and at the Casio before Deel had worked out but what. And what she pounded out with her feet was Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell.”

Nonfiction

Author Spotlight: J. S. Breukelaar

by Jennifer Konieczny

My stories are peopled by chance encounters. By dream characters, minor players in novels who get under my skin, stuff on the cutting room floor, a stray bar of music or scrap of lyric.

Nonfiction

When Wizards Rock

by Wendy N. Wagner

Sauron, Cthulhu, and Death Eaters be warned: Wizards were meant to rock.

Fiction

The Machine

by M. Rickert

Graveyards creak with too many bones, and the weight of headstones, and when the wind blows the air is dusty with the dead. Ah life, its hoary inevitability. What’s the point?

Nonfiction

Author Spotlight: M. Rickert

by T.J. McIntyre

I suppose there are people who live completely productive, happy, generous lives without even considering the ugliness of humanity.

Nonfiction

Feature Interview: Jacqueline Carey

by Hannah Strom-Martin

Jacqueline Carey exploded onto the fantasy scene in 2001 with the publication of Kushiel’s Dart. Readers responded enthusiastically to Carey’s edgy mixture of intrigue, adventure, and eroticism.

Fiction

The Wolves of Brooklyn

by Catherynne M. Valente

It was snowing when the wolves first came, loping down Flatbush Ave., lithe and fast, panting clouds, their paws landing with a soft, heavy sound like bombs falling somewhere far away.

Nonfiction

Author Spotlight: Catherynne M. Valente

by Wendy N. Wagner

Whenever I go back to Brooklyn I think of my wolves, now. I think that’s my favorite part of this piece, how it changed the way I saw the city.

Nonfiction

Conversations with Wolves

by Lauren Davis

A dog will tell you what is on her mind; to learn what is on a wolf’s mind, we must do much more than merely listen.

Fiction

Swans

by Kelly Link

My name is Emma Bear, and I am eleven years old. I live on Black Ankle Road beside the Licking River. I live in a palace. My father is a king. I have a fairy godfather.