Tag Archive | "short fiction"

Books: Neil Gaiman reads Down Among the Dead Men

Thursday, January 31, 2013

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Our own James spotted this on YouTube – Constable and Robinson, who have published a number of very fine and successful genre anthologies covering science fiction, fantasy, horror and more over the years, have a new collection edited by genre anthology stalwart Stephen Jones, Zombie Apocalypse: Fightback. One of the short stories in the collection [...]

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Sci-Fi Scaffolds

Thursday, July 19, 2012

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Michell Zappa has started a new series called Sci-Fi Scaffolds, which are described as “brief science fiction inspired stories extrapolating on emerging technologies in order to create plausible scenarios for the near future.” The first of these science fiction shorts is online at Michell’s Envisioning Tech site now, complete with illustrations by the one and [...]

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The campaign for real fear

Friday, March 12, 2010

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Maura McHugh has news of a short story competition that should interest all our readers with a creative bent: “What are the horror myths for the 21st century? Sure, we all love our werewolves and vampires, but where are the new monsters for our age? Where are the characters that reflect the diversity in our [...]

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Lavie Tidhar’s Funny Pages

Friday, December 18, 2009

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One of the short stories I’ve been enjoying in the current issue of the always-excellent Interzone (issue #225, in stores now) is from Lavie Tidhar, Funny Pages, a fab short tale set in Israel with a group of superheroes fighting endlessly with their foes. Considering the brief span of the story Lavie conjures up a [...]

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