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12:2: Interview: Sofia Samatar, Author of A Stranger in Olondria 1 Jun 2013 | 12:41 pm
Sofia Samatar is recently the author of A Stranger in Olondria, a warm and vivid debut fantasy novel just out from the fine folk at Small Beer Press. Locus has called Olondria “the most impressive and...
Editor’s Note: Vol. 12, Issue 2 1 Jun 2013 | 12:03 pm
For our summer issue this year? A lighter note. (Shocked? So are we!) We’re kicking off with return contributor A.C. Wise’s “Operation: Annihilate Mars! Or, Doctor Blood and the Ultra Fabulous Glitter...
12:2: “Doctor Blood and the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron”, by A. C. Wise 1 Jun 2013 | 12:02 pm
Mars Needs Men! But the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron will have to do. At least one of them self-identifies as male. He tucks proudly, and fuck you very much if you don’t like it. By night, they wor...
12:2: “Solaris”, by Rob Bliss 1 Jun 2013 | 12:01 pm
grass encased under clear water spectrum of greens vegetal tendrils frozen in artificial flow, a new element of life, roots clouded airless alien multitude ripples float a raft of leaf he stands in a ...
12:2: “Artemis Speaks to Aphrodite”, by Alicia Cole 1 Jun 2013 | 12:01 pm
for Sonya Taaffe Leaf-light on the walls: here we wait, sister. The aspen casts her shade like curling ochre, your mouth a tender pearl. You say, I waited at the sea, unceasingly earnest; the rocks p...
12:2: “Undoomed”, by Sofia Samatar 1 Jun 2013 | 12:01 pm
We were supposed to be doomed, says Ma, searched out, collected, scraped off the tongue of the world and maybe flung out to the stars, but then the stars were too clean, and their brave beauty the poe...
12:2: Review: Karen Lord’s The Best of All Possible Worlds, reviewed by Liz Bourke 1 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
The Best of All Possible Worlds, Karen Lord. Random House, Feb 2013, ISBN 9780345534057. Reviewed by Liz Bourke. I’ve heard the term domestic SF used in relation to some works of the 1960s, often in r...
12:2: “Deux ex Chelonia”, by Vicki Saunders 1 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
A house on a hill cannot be hid, but it can be remodeled. Stuccoed and columned, the ancient split level made a credible temple — until we lost the God. Petitioners basked in the light of the Turtle’s...
12:2: Review: Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe, reviewed by Claire Humphrey 1 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Steve Berman. Lethe Press, July 2013, ISBN 9781590213346. Reviewed by Claire Humphrey. The project of queering Poe seems like a natural one: P...
Editor’s Note: Vol. 12, Issue 1 1 Mar 2013 | 12:03 pm
And we’re back, with our first issue of 2013, a double handful of emotional stories and poems for the dark beginnings of spring. Our March issues always fall, without plans for it, into a travelling t...
