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5 March 2012

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COLUMN: Dice and D-Pads: Phones With Friends, by Robyn Fleming

I got a new smartphone recently, and I'm not going to lie to you—the first thing I did after importing all my contacts was install Fruit Ninja.

FICTION: Nightfall in the Scent Garden, by Claire Humphrey

You'll start to understand none of these things happened the way you remember. If you read this, you'll learn how I betrayed you.

POETRY: Atlantis, by Caitlín R. Kiernan

I would so sink the world / But I alone would go a-foundering.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Bronze Summer by Stephen Baxter, reviewed by Finn Dempster
Wednesday: The Mirage by Matt Ruff, reviewed by Sofia Samatar
Friday: The Thorn and the Blossom by Theodora Goss, reviewed by Dan Hartland


27 February 2012

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ARTICLE: Writing Climate Change: A Round Table Discussion, by Niall Harrison

Julie Bertagna, Tobias Buckell, Maggie Gee, Glenda Larke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Singh and Joan Slonczewski discuss why and how they write about climate change in their speculative fiction.

COLUMN: Diffractions: Sleepwalking Toward Calamity: The 2011 Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa, by Vandana Singh

In the winter of 2011, from November 28 to December 11, the countries of the world met to save it from peril.

POETRY: The Vampire Astronomer, by Chris Willrich

But they have whispered dark worries / He never voices in journals. / Why does the universe lurch / With the freight of mass unseen?

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Blood Red Road by Moira Young, reviewed by Martin Lewis
Wednesday: An Exile on Planet Earth: Articles and Reflections by Brian Aldiss, reviewed by Paul Kincaid
Friday: ODD? Volume 1, edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, reviewed by Ben Godby

EDITORIAL: Results of the 2011 Readers' Poll, by Niall Harrison

What were your favorites from last year?


20 February 2012

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FICTION: Tornado's Siren, by Brooke Bolander

For a moment everything stops. The tornado's voice grows still. All the little chunks of trash hang frozen in the air, like someone's just hit the pause button. Rhea can see flowering shrubs and someone's shoe, a lawn gnome and two china cups. Then, just as suddenly, it all comes tumbling down.

POETRY: Hyphenated American, by Nima Kian

The father shattered like digital glass / and became his son's fantasy: / building parts of what a father should be / if the child fostered a man.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, reviewed by Chris Kammerud
Wednesday: Empire State by Adam Christopher, reviewed by Indrapramit Das
Friday: Bringer of Light by Jaine Fenn, reviewed by Duncan Lawie


13 February 2012

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COLUMN: Intertitles: Tinker Tailor Soldier Sci-Fi: Espionage and the Speculative, by Genevieve Valentine

A man walks through a hub room where outside information is being gathered and translated by crew members who shuttle it through the circulatory system; he steps into the padded orange room at the center of it all, where he sits down at a black glass table and reports to an inscrutable Control that the enemy is on the move.

FICTION: Aftermath (Part 2 of 2), by Joy Kennedy-O'Neill

They came at all hours of the day and night. They scraped along the side of the house, moaned at the doors, ran their fingernails over the boards.

POETRY: Tongueless, by Mari Ness

In the heat, my vision shimmers. / I thought it would be different, as a bird.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Misfits, Season 3, reviewed by Guria King
Wednesday: The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett, reviewed by Niall Harisson
Friday: Germline by T. C. McCarthy, reviewed by Liz Bourke


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