New issue / $13,000!
Added 2015-10-12 22:11:19 +0000 UTCThe striking image you see before you is Rachel Kahn's art for this week's story: "Let's Tell Stories of the Deaths of Children", by Margaret Ronald.
Also in this week's issue, a poem by Lynette Mejia, "Harrowing", and reviews of poetry by Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod, novellas by Ian Sales, and an unusual podcast by Charles Tan.
Plus! After my concerns about the fund drive doldrums yesterday, we've had our equivalent of a media blitz today -- a guest post at John Scalzi's blog, a promo at Tor.com, and an extract from our (if all goes well) upcoming Kelly Link story at io9 -- and it's seen us well back on track, with over $1,000 raised today. Thank you, new supporters! You have helped to unlock our next piece of fund drive bonus content, Aishwarya Subramanian's review of Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun:
You’ve got to come up with a story, and Nigerians in Space, frustratingly, won’t let you. There’s no neat tying up of ends here. The mystery is unsolved, the thriller plot peters out. There’s so much meaning here and stories are, after all, only stories. If the novel does have a climactic scene it’s a confrontation between two of its protagonists, fittingly in the observatory, that ends in tragedy and leaves both with all their questions left unanswered. It’s a powerful scene, and a moving one, and it tells us nothing.
Read the whole thing here.
The final week is off to a fine start -- here's to an equally good rest of the week!
-- Niall
