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But it was all spooled off without emotion The characters were unreflected and without depth I couldn t have cared less what happens to them And the storytelling lacked excitement. Fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013x pdf Interview Eleanor Arnason on Kormak the Lucky Gordon Van Gelder A reasonably decent issue The Heartsmith s Daughters one of the short stories in the magazine was truly touching and brought tears to my eyes Well worth giving this issue a read Gordon Van Gelder The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction explores the opposite extremes of the fantasy genre in this issue with a nice mix of Science Fiction and fairy tales Most of the stories fall into one category or the other.

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This tale of unemployed Chinese graduates being used for rodent extermination is realistically bleak about how the world is going The rats are genetically engineered and very dangerous The former students conscripted to kill them are not happy in their work There s a nice undercurrent about how us little people can never be sure what s really going on with so many vested interests feeding us disinformation Chen Qiufan is a name worth looking out for but I won t end a sentence with a preposition just because of that Not with Uncle Geoff editing me. Fantasy Science Fiction, July/August 2013 ebooks free A comedy murder mystery narrated by a giant slug makes a nice change from the above Oliver Buckram delivers Half A Conversation Overheard While Inside An Enormous Sentient Slug.

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And I appreciate the way the author tied the historical material to the mythology I also liked the variety in the different elves portrayed and the dark elves were especially interesting I d like to see of them In The Mountains of Frozen Fire did an excellent job of combining a good range of pulp genres into one story and I d certainly love to see the hinted at vampire story featuring the same protagonist The Color of Sand was nice and heartwarming Plus the sandcats and the magic system are pretty neat The Woman Who Married the Snow was pretty good I loved The Heartsmith s Daughters It s nice to see modern things written in the style of a fairy tale The Nambu Egg was interesting.

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I read The Heartsmith s Daughters today on the bus home and it almost made me cry Great story Gordon Van Gelder Oh Give Me a Home By Adam Rakunas 7651 words I HAD JUST PUT THE HERD into their evening pasture when Leggo came over the rise He was huffing and puffing on his old mountain bike pushing his enormous bulk up the brown Sierra foothills Dude he said leaning his bike against my Chevy you re getting sued A story about family genetics and bison Little little bison And a company that does sound a bit like Monsanto The little little bison were the inspiration for Daryl Gregory s teeny 3 inch bison in Afterparty and that s how I ended reading this Creepy because this is the battle farmers are actually fighting today with big companies trying to patent genomes of common livestock so they can charge for the use Which is just ridiculously insane Don t even get me started on special fertilizer for GMO crops. EBook Fantasy Science Fiction, July/August 2013 2015 Great ending I liked that Author s website The Year of the Rat By Chen Qiufan translated by Ken Liu 8812 words We ve been in this hellhole for two days but we haven t even seen a single rat s hair We are hunting genetically engineered rats that have escaped Very odd slightly disturbing Also a tale about young college graduates in China and how they fit. Fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013 pdf download Interview Chen Qiufan on The Year of the Rat Kormak the Lucky By Eleanor Arnason 15643 words It was Seneca the Younger who remarked that luck never made a man wise We ll leave it as an exercise for readers to decide how well that comment applies to Kormak Well he was lucky enough Good thing as he wasn t too smart We meet light elf dark elf fey travel around a bit The world building was not bad and the plot had its moments so we ll start with the fantasy Heartsmith s Daughters by Harry R Campion is a fairy tale about a village smithy whose wife is unable to have children He manufacturers three daughters one with a heart of cold iron one with a heart of brass and one with a heart of gold Their attributes match the metal of their cardiology in apt ways but they are soon the victims of evil men A rather dark story beautifully told The Color Of Sand by KJ Kabza is another excellent fairy tale featuring sandcats enabled to talk by magic and a good woman with a big son To say would be to give away the plot but it was written with the same kind of cadence as Heartsmith s Daughter and the same kind of language Both have an omniscient narrator which allows for comments on the characters something not possible with modern point of view techniques Both are good clean fun and apt for inclusion in any children s anthology Both would sit comfortably alongside the classics of the genre Kormak The Lucky by Eleanor Aranson is similar Kormak might not strike you as lucky at first because he is kidnapped from Ireland by Norwegian slavers and sold in Iceland There he proves himself a bit too lazy to be a good slave and so is passed from master to master Eventually he ends up getting involved with elves fey folk and the like in a long involved story It was a bit too long for my taste to be honest but readers fond of elves and their ilk will like it I m sure Elves and fey folk are not necessarily very nice which is consistent I believe with the received wisdom Fairy tales are often Grimm The Woman Who Married The Snow is by Ken Altabef who apparently specialises in tales of an Inuit Shaman named Ulruk This tale of Ulruk was interesting for the insights into the lives of people in the colder regions of the world and the glimpses of an intriguing system of magic There are eloquent descriptions of landscapes and the prose is generally of high quality Although written in a modern idiom it does not sit ill with the preceding stuff The Miracle Cure by Harvey Jacobs is about trained doctors refusing to believe irrefutable empirical evidence that contradicts their beliefs Gallstones feature along with gallbladders in this odd yarn It s probably fantasy than Science Fiction so I will deem it as a modern fairy tale to squeeze it into my classification system Isn t all today s fantasy just modern fairy tales Tricky things labels Words too. Fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013x book Amaranthine That s not a word that crops up often nowadays but In the Mountains Of Frozen Fire by Rus Wornom is written in the style of pulp tales from a hundred years ago He also uses tenebrous a favourite adjective of HP Lovecraft There are a number of exclamation marks Commander Denis Cushing to use the short version of his name is a secret operative designated M4 by the United States International Vengeance Force He is in northern Asia on the trail of the Cobra a deadly killer also known as Agent ZX 12 Wornom has good fun with this parody and so will a like minded reader The fantastic element is probably Science Fiction than fantasy so it makes a nice bridge between the genres in my review Amaranthine by the way seems to mean eternal or everlasting in this context It might mean red The Nambu Egg by Tim Sullivan is definitely Science Fiction It s set in the distant future when the Tachtrans Authority can beam people to a distant planet Cet Four in this case Adam Naraya has returned to Earth because he has a Nambu egg to sell to the head of a rich corporation one Mr Genzler To tell of the plot would be to ruin it for it s the kind of tale where things are slowly revealed Rest assured that the length of this paragraph does not reflect the very high esteem I have for the story Oh Give Me A Home by Adam Rakunas is Science Fiction but set in a much nearer future alas It s really a modern western in which an almost ordinary rancher fights against the big rich guys who want to take over everything He s scientific than Jimmy Stewart was in the classics and the rich guys are a giant corporation rather than a moustachioed villain who runs the town but it s the same theme with a very contemporary and relevant twist The bad guys even have a girl employee with a soft spot for our hero Alas in real life there actually are giant profit hungry agricultural companies that want to patent everything and put the world s farmers in hock to them forever I name no names They have lawyers you know The Year Of The Rat by Chen Qiufan is translated by Ken Liu no mean author in his own right Broadening the scope of the magazine with foreign translations is an excellent policy even though it means one less slot for the homegrown talent to fill in an already competitive and limited market Like Adam Rakunas updated western about one Lord Ash who has been murdered at his manor possibly by his wife who has vanished Ash had estates in the Kuiper Belt and the sentient slug was a servant so this is clearly set in the future Elegant fun that proves brevity is the soul of wit I hope we see from Buckram. Fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013w books I hope we will see of The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction too for years and years to come Sometimes the stories seem strong on lush writing and perhaps less strong on plot This issue was very strong on plot with every tale having a firm commitment to the story element of stories as opposed to character theme or sensual prose No bad thing The fiction s the thing really but it s worth mentioning that the Departments provide useful information on what s good out there in film and books and Plumage From Pegasus by Paul Di Filippo is as entertaining as usual. Kindle Fantasy Science Fiction, July/August 2013 book The Color of Sand by KJ Kabza A mother and her young son move onto the tranquility of a beach where talking sand cats reside in the dunes The boy swallows a colored pebble in attempted imitation of the cat for which the pebble gives voice only to discover it physically alters him in other ways leading the mother and son to seek a way of reversing its effects The premise sounds rather silly but the story is actually serious with a magical beauty A lovely fable of change and abilities Oh Give Me a Home by Adam Rakunas A small time rancher with genetically modified bison faces a court suit and seizure of his animals by a large morally corrupt agricultural company The story seems inspired by the practices of Monsanto and at times reads like a thinly disguised rant against them This I appreciate but as a story it never really held interest with an ending that felt anticlimactic and easy. Book Fantasy Science Fiction, July/August 2013 2014 The Year of the Rat by Chen Qiufan translated by Ken Liu I have really enjoyed Liu s stories and am just as excited to see translations of otherwise inaccessible science fiction fantasy In this recent graduates of college with no employment opportunities choose to enlist in a new war fighting giant genetically modified rats throughout China The highlight of this issue the story touches aspects of academia war and science in an interesting well crafted tale. Epub fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013 edition Kormak the Lucky by Eleanor Arnason An Irish man is taken into slavery by Norwegians in the post Roman era and ends up in Iceland being passed from owner to owner both human and magical surviving and making do with the ride through life Featuring elves and fairies it isn t the type of fantasy I normally enjoy much being close at heart to a fairy tale But Arnason writes well and the story of Kormak s life is entertaining and familiar in his complacency to what life throws his way magical or otherwise. EBook Fantasy Science Fiction, July/August 2013 cast The Woman who Married the Snow by Ken Altabef An Inuit shaman learns a lesson about loss and pain when he tries to help a woman who has just begun to get over the presumed death of her husband lost while whaling discovers his corpse returned by the sea The story focuses nicely on the magical reanimation of the corpse by the spirit of the snow and the realization of error by the shaman rather than the pain of the widow. Fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013z pdf The Miracle Cure by Harvey Jacobs A doctor discovers the astounding reason behind apparent miracle cures of patients with gallstones prior to surgery Not a bad story but not much to it beyond the novel scifi idea behind this unique harvesting of gallstones. Book fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013 release date The Heartsmith s Daughters by Harry R Campion The second story dealing with the loss and attempted replacement of loved ones In this case the replacement is partially successful though still devastatingly flawed Another story that is a lot like a fairy tale it is emotionally powerful in its best passages. Book fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013 list The Nambu Egg by Tim Sullivan A man uses a rare item of great worth to confront and ensnare a rich businessman as justice for past crimes The backstory and the motivation of the characters are slowly revealed over the course of the story making it sort of like the climax of a Murder She Wrote episode or similar only set in a SF universe Again enjoyable but nothing fantastic. Fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013x pdf In the Mountains of Frozen Fire by Denis Winslow Mallard Codswollop Bourginon Cushing as Recounted by the Official Enigma Club Raconteur Rus Wornom Originally Published in The Enigma Club All Adventure Magazine June 1919 by Rus Wornom The longest title I have yet seen for what is accurately described as a yarn modeled on the pulp tales from a hundred years ago The title does say it all this story is cheesy and absurdly written intentionally bad like a B movie Yet entertaining and funny In small doses this works though this one verges on being too long An over the top story like this once in awhile is welcome and was an amusing way to close out the issue a trifle Gordon Van Gelder

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July August 2013 Volume 125 No 12 708Contents NOVELETSOh Give Me a Home by Adam RakunasThe Year of the Rat by Chen QiufanKormak the Lucky By Eleanor Arnason In the Mountains of Frozen Fire by Rus WornomSHORT STORIESThe Color of Sand by K J KabzaHalf a Conversation Overheard while Inside an Enormous Sentient Slug by Oliver BuckramThe Woman Who Married the Snow by Ken AltabefThe Miracle Cure by Harvey JacobsThe Heartsmith s Daughters by Harry R CampionThe Nambu Egg by Tim SullivanDEPARTMENTSBooks to Look For by Charles de LintBooks by James SallisFlipping Genres for Fun and Profit by Paul Di FilippoFilms A Familiar Cyclone and its Twisted Debris by Kathi Maio Science Aliens inside You by Pat MurphyJuly August 2013 Volume 125 No 12 708Edited by Gordon Van GelderCover art by Kent Bash Fantasy Science Fiction July August 2013 The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction 708 Out of the issues I ve read this is probably the one with the highest number of stories I ve really enjoyed There were one or two that didn t really work for me mainly The Miracle Cure though the Slug story was only okay However the majority of the stories were very good Oh Give Me A Home had well written characters and was a good look at the problems of big agriculture companies like Monsanto The Year of the Rat was an excellent story that reminded me of The Things They Carried though with a sci fi twist I m not starving for from this world but I wouldn t say no to another story set there Kormak the Lucky was a clever addition to a few Viking stories and legends though I admit to being intrigued by the setting than by the plot Over all this was an excellent issue and well worth picking up Gordon Van Gelder 10 stories 2 rated columns 4. Book fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013 release 2 starsThe Color of Sand by KJ Kabza Don t eat the beach glass Or maybe you should D 4 starsOh Give Me a Home by Adam Rukunas An illuminated man fights against big Agro 4 starsHalf a Conversation Overheard While Inside an Enormous Sentient Slug by Oliver Buckram When killing in self defence have your story ready 4 starsThe Year of the Rat by Chen Quifan trans by Ken Liu Reminiscent of Frankenstein Grisly like war Sad like war 4. Fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013bookpedia 5 starsKormak the Lucky by Eleanor Arnason A Story of elves their human slaves and a dog made of iron Any story with a dog in it wins in my book 4 starsThe Woman Who Married the Snow by Ken Altabef A tale of snow and loss and ill made choices 3. EPub Fantasy Science Fiction, July/August 2013 cast 5 starsThe Heartsmith s Daughters by Harry R Campion A tale of love which begets 3 daughters and 4 hearts 5 starsThe Nambu Egg by Timm sullivan It s amazing where they can store eggs nowadays 4 starsIn the Mountains of Frozen Fire by Denis Winslow Mallard Codswallop Bourginon Cushing as Recounted by the Official Enigma Club Raconteur Rus Wornam Originally published in The Enigma Club All Adventure Magazine June 1919 This story gets high marks because of the creative descriptions alone 5 starsScience by Pat Murphy Paul Doherty about gut flora and fauna fecal transplants 5 starsPlumage from Pegasus by Paul di Filippe column Just how different is SF from F Funny 4 stars Gordon Van Gelder In a periodic like this it is unreasonable to expect to enjoy all the stories so even though I didn t enjoy a few having one really memorable story and a few that lifted my day is actually than enough and makes this a good issue in my view. Fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013 kindle paperwhite I was a bit surprised to not enjoy the Ken Liu translation because I normally love everything he does However giant rats need I say Not my Cup of TeaThe Year of the Rat translated by Ken LiuKormak the Unlucky by Eleanor Arnason The Woman who Married the Snow by Ken AltabefForgettableIn the Mountains of Frozen Fire by Rus WornomHalf a Conversation Overheard While Inside an Enormous Sentient Slug by Oliver BuckrumThe Miracle Cure by Harvey JacobsThe Nambu Egg by Tim SullivanEnjoyable Oh Give Me a Home by Adam RakunasThe Colour of Sand by KJ KabzaWonderfully MemorableThe Heartsmith s Champion by Harry R Campion Gordon Van Gelder A stellar collection of folk tales populate this issue My favorites included Rus Wornom s In the Mountain of Frozen Fire and almost all the others This has to be my favorite issue this year Gordon Van Gelder Great Issue I enjoyed all the stories in this one Especially the cover story Kormak The Lucky and In The Mountains Of Frozen Fire Time to renew my subscription Gordon Van Gelder Gordon Van Gelder born 1966 is an American science fiction editor From 1997 until 2014 Van Gelder was editor and later publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction for which he has twice won the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form He was also a managing editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction from 1988 to 1993 for which he was nominated for the Hugo Award a number of times As of January 2015 Van Gelder has stepped down as editor of Fantasy Science Fiction in favour of Charles Coleman Finlay but remains publisher of the magazine, Book fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013 release Eamonn MurphyThis review first appeared at sfcrowsnest Gordon Van Gelder An average issue of enjoyable stories but none that were particularly breath taking: Book fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013 pdf Half a Conversation Overheard While Inside an Enormous Sentient Sea Slug by Oliver Buckram Exactly as the title says A humorous sci fi twist on a murder mystery: Fantasy science fiction julyaugust 2013 kindle free 5 starsThe Miracle Cure by Harvey Jacobs Delicious stones and diamonds feature highly in this story 3..