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The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

Science Fiction & Fantasy   — by Arley Sorg — Before Kelly Robson was a celebrated science fiction writer, she competed in rodeos, and was even a rodeo princess. “I like to say that being a rodeo princess is like having all the glamour and none of the responsibility. Also to be clear, this isn’t a beauty contest—it’s a riding contest.” Robson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up in Hinton, Alberta, just east of the Canadian Rockies. Even as a kid Robson had the writing bug: She wrote a horse book called Born Wild in fifth grade, and in sixth grade she wrote a one-act play...

“History is a fairy tale”, a subtitle in Veronica Schanoes’s story “Emma Goldman Takes Tea with the Baba Yaga”, could almost serve as an epigram for the whole of her first collection, Burning Girls and Other Stories. Schanoes, who is a scholar of fairy tales, feminism, and Jewish literature and history, brings all of her considerable resources to bear in these 14 sto­ries, which include most of the short fiction she published since 2003. And while there is an oc­casional tendency to embed snippets of historical lectures as a kind of ballast for her more visceral nightmares – �...