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Spaceways Inflight Magazine: Australia's PULPIEST Science Fiction And Fantasy
Magazine # 6 - April/May 2003 check out website: www.andromedaspaceways.com
'Pulp' covers that
nicely. I read the list of names of the authors, none of which I recognised -
though that isn't unusual - and opened the magazine with some trepidation...
That being said, in the main
it's a very good read. There's an extensive mix of styles and subjects here, pretty much something for everyone. 'Space And Time Books', for example, deals with magic and living books and the dangers of not considering consequences. 'Your Mother Likes Monkeys' is a strange and amusing short, a first person monologue on a particular rite of passage. 'The Kaladashi Covenant' is an interesting take on human/alien politics. 'The Stars Like Candles' (Dirk Flinthart) starts off beautifully but has a disappointing end - much, I think, as the sort of encounter it describes might have. 'The Sincerest Form Of Flattery' (Kate Eltham)
is simply wonderful, an excellent example of what a talented writer can produce
in less than three pages. Then there's 'The Desolator' (Simon Haynes), which at
first sight appeared to be a 'Lord Of The Rings' spoof but which on reading, turned
out to be something completely other and very funny... All in all,
as in-flight magazines go, this has a great deal to recommend it. A friendly,
jokey overall style and a refusal to take itself too seriously makes a wonderfully
refreshing change from the ponderous self-importance of so many SF magazines these
days and while some of the talent is obviously untried, everyone showcased here
has considerable potential. I even managed to refrain from any Steve
Irwin impersonations! Joules Taylor
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OTHER REVIEWS - November 2003
Told By The Dead by Ramsay Campbell The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman Robota by Doug Chaing and Orson Scott Card Grass For His Pillow by Lian Hearn Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion by Larry Nemecek The Year's Best Fantasy And Horror The Binder's Road by Terry McGarry Project Orion - The Atomic Spaceship by George Dyson The Word And The Void by Terry Brooks Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine April/May 2003 Time Out Of Joint by Philip K. Dick Buffy the Vampire Slayer Soundtrack Smallville Soundtrack (The Talon Mix) Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds Crossroads Of Twilight by Robert Jordan Mediations On Middle-Earth by Karen Haber and John Howe
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It's
sub-titled 'Australia's PULPIEST Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine'.
I looked at the cover - hmmm, tasty naked young male manacled to
a stout wooden pillar, skeletal hand erupting from the ground nearby...Uhuh!
Let
me say at the outset the quality of the contents are somewhat variable,
ranging from Kevin Maclean's wonderfully daft but nevertheless conceivable
'A Plea For Help', which had me chortling, through the quietly chilling
'Blindsided By Venus In The House of Mars' (Nancy Jane Moore) to
the unsatisfying 'Blossoming Under Sable Skies' (Ralan Conley) and
the rather grim 'Beware The Werecanary' by Bruce Boston (poetry
needs to be exceptionally good to work in the SF or Fantasy genres
and this simply isn't, unfortunately). 
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