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Now that I'm back from Wiscon and from gallivanting with my parents, I had time to finish reading the July 2008 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction which I, in full disclosure, received for free upon the promise to blog about it.
The first thing I noticed was that there was one woman's name on the cover out of five authors. Would I have noticed this before the blogosphere brouhaha of yesteryear? Probably not consciously, but certainly subconsciously. Turning to the table of contents, Lisa Goldstein is the only female name on the six stories. Naturally this doesn't mean she is a woman, or that the other five are not. But chances are. It also doesn't mean much that she made the cover, since only Scott Dalrymple did not. This is his first published story, so you can see why his name on the cover isn't likely to sell any additional copies. But hey, he works at Hartwick College, which my father went to.
More annoyingly, all of the stories have male main characters. Can I fault this without being hypocritical? I tend to mostly write guys. Yes, I can, because that means the guys should've been writing mostly chicks. See?
I like to read science fiction/fantasy magazines and anthologies from cover to cover. Except when I get impatient and skip to the shorter stories. I try not to do this, since it's kind of nice to save them for a good refresher after slogging through the long ones just before them. For this issue, I read it cover to cover except that I skipped over the novella, and I didn't read the movie reviews.
( I discuss the contents in more detail behind this cut. I try not to be too spoily. )
As for the cover, supposedly it's for the novella. But other than it being a futuristic building of some sort, I can't quite see what it has to do with the story.
Anyway, if you'd like to pick up this issue, it should be on newstands/bookstores/magazine racks/whatever throughout June.
And if you'd like to subscribe, there's a limited time good deal on subscriptions available here: https://www.toybox.ca/fsf/blog-buy-sub.htm and PayPal here: http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog-subscribe.htm
Go forth and support science fiction and fantasy!
The first thing I noticed was that there was one woman's name on the cover out of five authors. Would I have noticed this before the blogosphere brouhaha of yesteryear? Probably not consciously, but certainly subconsciously. Turning to the table of contents, Lisa Goldstein is the only female name on the six stories. Naturally this doesn't mean she is a woman, or that the other five are not. But chances are. It also doesn't mean much that she made the cover, since only Scott Dalrymple did not. This is his first published story, so you can see why his name on the cover isn't likely to sell any additional copies. But hey, he works at Hartwick College, which my father went to.
More annoyingly, all of the stories have male main characters. Can I fault this without being hypocritical? I tend to mostly write guys. Yes, I can, because that means the guys should've been writing mostly chicks. See?
I like to read science fiction/fantasy magazines and anthologies from cover to cover. Except when I get impatient and skip to the shorter stories. I try not to do this, since it's kind of nice to save them for a good refresher after slogging through the long ones just before them. For this issue, I read it cover to cover except that I skipped over the novella, and I didn't read the movie reviews.
( I discuss the contents in more detail behind this cut. I try not to be too spoily. )
As for the cover, supposedly it's for the novella. But other than it being a futuristic building of some sort, I can't quite see what it has to do with the story.
Anyway, if you'd like to pick up this issue, it should be on newstands/bookstores/magazine racks/whatever throughout June.
And if you'd like to subscribe, there's a limited time good deal on subscriptions available here: https://www.toybox.ca/fsf/blog-buy-sub.htm and PayPal here: http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog-subscribe.htm
Go forth and support science fiction and fantasy!