New issue! Chandrasekera, Norja, Sperring, reviews
Added 2016-09-05 18:57:21 +0000 UTCHi all,
To kick off September, we have for you our usual selection of reviews, Kari Sperring's latest column (looking at the work of Miyabe Miyuke), a new poem by Sara Norja, and an excellent new story by Vajra Chandrasekera with an equally excellent title: "Applied Cenotaphics in the Long, Long Longitudes":
You've said that you consider your work science fiction, but it's always looking at the past, not the future—can you explain?The rockets—it's always rockets (she says) shiny and veined, trembling on the brink—oh, your rockets and reagans, all your toffs and joffreys, always so very hard to please. Listen, this is science fiction, all the worlds of Watts blindly watching kettles boil, I mean Jameses, not Peter, but Peter too: Vasco, Count of Vidigueira, who came looking for Christians and spices, is the rock upon which the Church of Scientology is built. There is a hidden transcript, and one of its secrets is this: try to unforget World War Zero.
In other news, thanks to those of you who've completed our merchandise poll; we're going to close that in a couple of days. And thanks also to those who volunteered to be website beta-testers; we're collating all the feedback from that exercise, and will be updating the website accordingly over the next month or so.
With that, I think I'll leave you to delve into Vajra's story (and the rest of the issue). Have a good week, all.
-- Niall
