Green Hornet Rants: The Shadow Knows
A discussion of the "undead Constitution" that's given rise to horrors like Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, who's sole asset (at least for Bush) is a non-existant paper trail. Read the full story.
Whatever: Suffering the Idiots
It saddens and infuriates me that this intelligent design crap is going on in my own state of Pennsylvania. Read the full story.
Reason: Still Xeroxed After All These Years
Remembering the print zines of yesterday. Read the full story.
Reason: Hit and Run: I Wonder What the Old Fox Means By This...
The evil geniuses in the Bush Administration only want us to think that their bumbling idiots, so that they can, you know, be, umm, evil. Read the full story.
Quantum Muse: April Edition Online
Two new science fiction stories ( "Last Compile" by Roy McLeod Williamson and "Holy Mountains" by Simon Kewin), two fantasy tales ("Gray" by Beverly Forehand and "Ghost" by M Frost) and much more await fans of the Muse. Read the full story.
Would That It Were: Zine Closed to Submissions
After having published original short stories for the last five years,
the SF webzine has closed its inbox, and is moving to an irregular publication schedule. It's sad to see another web-based fiction market closed, but I can certainly understand the pressures they're under, having been there myself (even if I only paid a fraction of what they did). Read the full story.
Strange Horizons: The Singer of All Songs, Revisiting Literature, New Short Fiction
The latest issue includes an article entitled "Hubris and Synthesis in
Kate Constable's The Singer of All Songs", a Mathew Cheney column talking about revisiting some of his favorite works of literature, the short story "The Diogenes Robot" by Mark Rich and the poem "The Elongated Years" by Bruce Boston. Read the full story.
Quantum Muse: March 2005 Edition Online
This month the Muse offers two sci-fi short stories ("Elvis Has Left The Building" by Dario Ciriello and "The Grandfather Clock" by Christine Amsden), a fantasy story ("Do Not Scream" by G David Scwartz) and much more. Read the full story.
Deep Magic: March 2005 Edition Available
In this issue of the high fantazy ezine, Margaret Weis talks about writing with a co-author while the zine offers up three short stories: "Collection" by Steven Richards, "Knitting with Water" by Nigel Atkinson and "With Eyes Open..." by Michael P. Dunn. The featured artist is Armel Gaulme. Read the full story.
Strange Horizons: I, Robot Critiqued, New Fiction by Alaya Dawn Johnson
This week's edition brings a critique of Isaac Asimov's book (and the "inspired by" movie) I, Robot, part one of the short stoy "Shard of Glass" by Alaya Dawn Johnson, the poem "Yggdrasil Yardwork" by Sandra J. Lindow and a column detailing the James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award. You can also vote for the zine's best short stories from 2004. Read the full story.