Uploaded September 10, 1996 -- Updated January 18, 1997
Here is the list of stories in this issue. If you have any comments or reviews, send them to jbailey@sff.net. Please indicate which issue and/or story you're referring to in the subject line, and try to keep comments for different stories separate in you letters so I can place them properly.
"Scapegoat" by Susan J. Kroupa
[10/1/96]
"Shining Nowhere but in the Dark" by Charles
De Lint [1/17/97]
"Nairich" by William F. Wu [10/1/96]
"The Beautiful Wassilissa" by Don Webb
[10/1/96]
"Hot Death on Wheels" by Geoffrey A. Landis
[10/1/96]
Miscellaneous Comments (on the magazine as a whole, editorials, columns, etc.)
Heather: 10/1/96
This was a very well written story with rich imagery. I have always been facinated with Native American tradtions and stories, this one has the feel of being an old story as well as being fresh and new. It has a stong life moral too, as most stories do.
Heather: 10/1/96
I have always enjoyed De Lint's urban fairy tales. Reading about all the things happening around town makes me want to look harder to see the things I may be missing. Sure, I would like to get a glimps of a fairy or a tree nymph, but would I want to see Death? How much would you be willing to give up to live forever? and is really worth the price? The story tells us the difference between living and life.
Geoffrey A. Landis: 1/17/97
A lyrical, evocative story with de Lint's characteristic urban-fantasy background and idiosyncratic characters. From context, this one was obviously originally meant for Neil Gaiman's Sandman anthology, but it works well as a stand-alone piece.
Geoffrey A. Landis
Ohio Aerospace Institute at NASA Lewis Research Center
http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/
Heather: 10/1/96
Here's an interesting thought...what makes a spirit stick around after death? Each culture has their own ideas of why the dead walk, but are they right? What happens if all the proper traditions are followed, but the hauntings continue? What can you do next?
Heather: 10/1/96
This story has a traditional taste and texture with modern seasonings. It reads like an old fashioned fairy tale complete with an evil step-mother and impossible tasks. Even Baba-Yaga is still the terrible child-eating horror of old. But it is peppered with modern images that are so skillfully descibed in a fairy tale way, that they don't jar you back to reality. The "forest of skyrises" where her father worked "far away and high above", could look at home in any Once Upon a Time. I loved the way it was written, it left a sweet after-taste of long ago.
Heather: 10/1/96
O.k...O.k....so I am not a big car fanatic, but the way this one was written, even I was interested in how well the car was put together, how slick it looked, and how fast it could go. I know I wouldn't have to guts to face Death in a showdown of speed. Death doesn't like to lose.
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