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Review: Lost Worlds and Mythological Kingdoms

Editor: John Joseph AdamsAuthors: James L. Cambias, Becky Chambers, Kate Elliot, C.C. Finlay, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, Darcie Little Badger, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, An Owomoyela, Dexter Palmer, Cadwell Turnbull, Genevieve Valentine, Carrie Vaughn, Charles Yu, E. Lily Yu, Tobias S. BuckellPublisher: Grim Oak PressReleased: March 8, 2022Received: NetGalley Do you love stories of…

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[theamazingstories]

REVIEW: Jan-Feb 2021 MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION

REVIEW: Jan-Feb 2021 MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION

Figure 1 – Jan-Feb 2021 F&SF Cover Since it’s almost time for the March-April issue, I figured it would be about time to review the Jan-Feb issue of F&SF. The current issue is usually featured on SFSite, but they appear to be stuck with the November-December issue (with a nice cover by David A. Hardy). I usually depend on SFSite for cover artist information, so right now I don’t have that…

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[lisamasonthewriter]

#Readers! Here’s An Introduction to “The Bicycle Whisperer” by Lisa Mason in the May-June 2018 Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction @fandsf @ccfinlay #nearfuture #magazinestory #runaways #homeless #fantasyandsciencefiction #bicycles

My contributor’s two copies came in the mail on Wednesday. I spent yesterday looking over the magazine, reading several stories. The magazine will be on the newsstands as of May 1, but you subscribers may already be receiving your copy.

Here’s a more informative Introduction to my story, “The Bicycle Whisperer”:

After Lisa Masonencountered a homeless teenager begging for money in the parking lot…

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[lisamasonthewriter]

Hitting the Ground Running for 2018! First Review of “Aurelia” in the January-February 2018 Issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Lisa Mason #SFWApro #SFWAauthor #darkfantasy #shortstory #magazinestory

I know, there are four days left in 2017 and the last issue is still on the newsstands. But I’m hitting the ground running for 2018! Here’s the first review of “Aurelia” in the January-February 2018 Issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

First, here are the contents: “Jewel of The Heart” by Matthew Hughes “Widdam” by Vandana Singh “Galatea in Utopia” by Nick Wolven “The Donner…

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[may-shepard]

I don’t know how much crossover there is between this fandom and the speculative fiction fandom base as a whole, or if any of you who follow me read science fiction or fantasy. If you do read those genres and you don’t know this already, let me tell you that C.C. Finlay, who is now editing The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, is a genius. 

The March / April 2015 issue is worth it for Alice Sola Kim’s story “A Residence for Friendless Ladies.” The MC is young and trans and struggling in gorgeous and sardonic ways. Each sentence of that story is a treasure. I can barely believe it exists and was published in a mainstream magazine which has always been considered important / one of the “big three” spec fic markets, but is now becoming totally transcendent. Yes, there are other progressive magazines out there, but this shift in F&SF is huge and there is something especially beautiful about Finlay’s selections so far. 

Please support it if you’re at all inclined. 

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C.C. Finlay joins Fantasy & Science Fiction as full-time Editor

C.C. Finlay joins Fantasy & Science Fiction as full-time Editor

On January 14th, 2015, fantasy author C.C. Finlay announced that he was taking over for Gordon Van Gelder as editor of the long-running Fantasy & Science Fiction. Finlay has previously guest-edited two issues of Fantasy & Science Fiction, a process he describes as “a job audition.” Though he goes on to credit the writers published in those issues as most deserving of the credit for the success…

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[kammartinez]

There's a little bit of parallel between transporting a reader to a created world and to a real-but-foreign world, but created worlds can be organized how the writer likes. Real places and people are not. They have depths that no one, not even people who live there, can know all of. Real world is complicated, and the best a writer can do is give readers a flavor for it. It harder to achieve "transported reader" when you have to stick to facts. So I think a lot of writers try to simplify, and that means short-shrifting real people and cultures, which for many cultures, is what happens too damn often when dealing with Western/white culture in day-to-day life.

from Twitter user @TheBarbarienne, in a conversation with author Aliette de Bodard (@alietteb) and C.C. Finlay (@ccfinlay). Presents a very interesting and thorny dilemma quite a few writers confront and must address in their writing.