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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

Students at Dargaville High School are swapping the classroom for a construction site to build desperately-needed public houses for the North. The school is churning out beautifully made homes for the rohe, and the students making them have been bitten by the building bug. Our cameraman Nick Monro and reporter Nita Blake-Persen went to check out their mahi.

A few days ago, I looked at the calendar and said, “But what do you mean, it’s more than halfway through May?” My sense of time passing remains disconnected from reality, in a faintly comedic way that makes the day of the week a constant startlement. Truly startling and not at all comedic, though, was the news that Lois McMaster Bujold has published a full-length novel in her “Penric and Desdemona” series. The Assassins of Thasalon is her first novel in the world of the Five Gods since The Hallowed Hunt, but it’s not a good entry-point for the Penric and Desdemona stories at al...

A few days ago, I looked at the calendar and said, “But what do you mean, it’s more than halfway through May?” My sense of time passing remains disconnected from reality, in a faintly comedic way that makes the day of the week a constant startlement. Truly startling and not at all comedic, though, was the news that Lois McMaster Bujold has published a full-length novel in her “Penric and Desdemona” series. The Assassins of Thasalon is her first novel in the world of the Five Gods since The Hallowed Hunt, but it’s not a good entry-point for the Penric and Desdemona stories at al...