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Volume 31 Number 10 Issue 375 March 2019

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR Omni Expo This month was a very difficult for me personally but March 15-17 we go on.. Florida Hotel and Convention Center I include a list of recommended short fiction. I read a lot 1500 Sand Lake Road more. There is a lot of good fiction out there. Orlando, FL 32809 Please note that some of the Nebula short fiction Guests: Hisashi Kagawa (animation director) nominees may be available online. Please check Oasfis Mamoru Yokota (animation director) Convention on Facebook or OasisCon on Twitter for links to the Paul St. Peter (voice actor) stories. Matt Shipman (voice actor) Next month pictures from ICFA, and with luck a Sawa (singer) review. And others $50 at the door for weekend www.omniexpo.com Events

ICFA 40 (academic conference) Comic Con Revolution March 13-16 March 2-3 Orlando Airport Marriott, Palm Beach County Convention Center Orlando, Florida 650 Okeechobee Boulevard Guest of Honor: G. Willow Wilson West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Guest Scholar: Mark Bould Guests: Chris Claremont (comic book writer) www.fantastic-arts.org Amanda Conner (comic book writer/artist)

Jimmy Palmiotti (comic book writer/artist) Clearwater Comic Con Peter Rawlik (writer) March 16 And others Clearwater Public Library $40 for 2 days, $25 for Sat, $20 for Sunday 100 N. Osceola Avenue comicconrevolution.com/westpalmbeach/index.php Clearwater, FL 33755

Guests: (comic book writer) Infinity Con 6 Karl Moline (comic writer/artist) March 2-3 And others National Guard Armory Free 490 NW Lake Jeffery Rd See Facebook Page Lake City, FL 32055

$18 for bothe days, $12 for one day My-Con infinityconfl.com/ March 16

Wyndham Orlando Resort Miami Comic Con 8001 International Drive March 9 Orlando, Florida 32819 Miami Airport Convention Center Guest: R. Bruce Elliot (voice actor) 711 NW 72nd Ave Chalet Lizette Brannan (actor) Miami, FL 33126 $5 for admission, free for military personnel $15 for the day mystic-con.com www.herohype.com (Continued on page 5)

OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 31 Issue 375 March 2019. Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year and entitle the subscriber to membership in the Society. Attending Memberships are $25.00 per year. Extra memberships to family members are $6.00 per year when only one newsletter is sent to the household. To subscribe or join OASFiS, send a check or money order to: OASFiS, PO Box 592905, Orlando, FL 32859-2905. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send them to the Editor's address above or [email protected]. For additional information, call our Voice Mail at (407) 823-8715. OASFiS is a state chartered not for profit corporation whose goal is the promotion of Science Fiction in all its forms. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Author(s) and in no way represent the opinions of the Society or its members as a whole. Page two March 2019

March OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People

OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, March 10, 1:30 PM, Orange Public Library Susan Cole 407-275-5211 (Downtown Orlando, 101 E. Central Blvd, Orlando, FL [email protected] 32801,407-835-7325). Come join us as we discuss the Arthur Dykeman 407-314-5506 work of Adam-Troy Castro [email protected] Steve Grant 352 241 0670 SciFi Light [email protected] TBD Mike Pilletere [email protected] David Ratti 407-282-2468 To for more info: [email protected] OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 [email protected] February 10, 2019 Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 Officers: Juan Sanmiguel [email protected] Members: Steve Cole, Ed Meskys, Sandra Meskys, Harry Parkhurst Any of these people can give readers information about the club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan. Announcements Any of these people can give readers information about the club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan. Juan described SyFy Bartow. is street festival with a Science Fiction theme in the city of Bartow, Florida. One of the staffers a girl with terminal illness and forms a bond of Vulkon (the local Star Trek convention) runs the event. The with her. members of Stone Hill will be attending. SyFy Bartow will be on February 16. Juan also read Blackfish City on one of the most highly recommended novels of 2018. It ios about a floating city near in The 40th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts the Artic Ocean and people surviving in this post climate change will be on March 13-16, 2019. The Guest of Honor is G. Willow world. Wilson, novelist and co-creator of the new Ms. Marvel for . This an academic conference with many Steve read the following: professional writers attending. Her Majesty’s American by Steve White – A space opera set in a world where the American Juan suggested a few dates for the picnic. The traditional Palm Revolution. Sunday date will also be the meeting date. Juan was looking at Through the Fiery Tales by David Weber – The April 7 (after the meeting it was realized the April 28 would be Tenth book of the Safehold series better date). Juan will send out an email about possible dates. The Storm by David Drake – A new take on the Juan had a copy of the February 2019 Locus. This is the issue legend of King Arthur with the Recommended Reading list from works published in The Gulf of Time and Stars by Julie Czerneda – A 2018. start of new trilogy in the clan chronicles

The are links to the best stories in Asimov’s and Analog in 2018 Steve is still following The Travelers and Manifest. Juan are online. Juan can supply the links to the stories. informed him that Netflix cancelled the series. He also saw First Man a dramatization of the Moon Landing. Juan and Steve liked Convention the film. Steve was not impressed by Mary Poppins Return. Juan, Steve and Ed discussed the books the films are based on. We need follow-up with the hotel on AV considerations. Juan heard the books were very dark and Disney lighten the story Participants have been invited. for the film. Ed said that he read the books and they were weak on plot. Tom Reed is working on a graphic. We are using the idea of a th pearl since that is the traditional gift for 30 anniversaries. Book Discussion

Culture Consumed The Wizard series is one of the known works by this year Worldcon guest of Honor Diane Duane. Ed and Sandra discussed Juan saw two anime features film in the theater. the books in the series. In the books, actions have consequences. One of the side novels was interesting because it used the cats as The Silent Voice – A teen tries to redeem himself main characters. Juan was familiar her work with tie in books. for hius awful treatment of a deaf girl in She created a Horta officer in her Star Trek novels. She also elementary school wrote a history of Vulcan in Spock’s World. The book was one I Want to Eat Your Pancreas -A young man meets (Continued on page 6) Page three March 2019

The 2019 Nebula Awards finalists • “Going Dark”, Richard Fox (Backblast Area Clear) (source Locus & SFWA website) • “And Yet”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 3-4/18) • “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical The Science Fiction and Writers of America announced Compendium of Portal ”, Alix E. Harrow the nominees for the 2018 Nebula Awards (presented 2018), the (Apex 2/6/18) nominees for the Award for Outstanding Dramatic • “The Court Magician”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for 1/18) Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book. Winners will be Game Writing announced at the 53rd Annual Nebula Conference to be held • Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Charlie Brooker May 16-19, 2019 at the Marriott Warner Center, Woodland Ca. (House of Tomorrow & Netflix)

At the ceremony, will become the 35th SFWA • God of War, Matt Sophos, Richard Zangrande Grandmaster. Gaubert, Cory Barlog (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment) Novel • The Martian Job, M. Darusha Wehm (Choice of • The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal Games) (Tor) • Rent-A-Vice, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of • The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Games) Harper Voyager UK) The Road to Canterbury, Kate Heartfield (Choice • Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK) of Games) • Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan) The for Outstanding Dramatic • Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing) Presentation • , Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga) • : “Jeremy Bearimy”, Written by: Megan Amram Novella • Black Panther, Written by: Ryan Coogler and Joe • Fire Ant, Jonathan P. Brazee (Semper Fi) Robert Cole • The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com • A Quiet Place, Screenplay by: John Krasinski, Publishing) Bryan Woods and Scott Beck • The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Screenplay by: Bodard (Subterranean) Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman • Alice Payne Arrives, Kate Heartfield (Tor.com • Dirty Computer Written by: Janelle Monáe and Publishing) Chuck Lightning • Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly • Sorry to Bother You, Written by: Boots Riley Robson (Tor.com Publishing) • Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Publishing) Science Fiction or Fantasy Book • Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi Novelette (Henry Holt; Macmillan) • The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander • Aru Shah and the End of Time, Roshani Chokshi (Tor.com Publishing) (Rick Riordan Presents) • “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections”, Tina • A Light in the Dark, A.K. DuBoff (BDL) Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18) • Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random • “An Agent of Utopia”, (An Agent of House) Utopia) • Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray) • “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our • Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Births”, José Pablo Iriarte (Lightspeed 1/18) Sword, Henry Lien (Henry Holt) • “The Rule of Three”, Lawrence M. Schoen (Future Science Fiction Digest 12/18) • “Messenger”, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne & R.R. Virdi (Expanding Universe, Volume 4)

Short Story • “Interview for the End of the World”, Rhett Bruno (Bridge Across the Stars) • “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18) Page four March 2019

2019 Stoker Award Nominees Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (source File 770) • Landry, Jess – “Mutter” (Fantastic Tales of Terror) (Crystal Lake Publishing) Superior Achievement in a Novel • Murray, Lee – “Dead End Town” (Cthulhu Deep • Katsu, Alma – The Hunger (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing • Maberry, Jonathan – Glimpse (St. Martin’s Press) International) • Malerman, Josh – Unbury Carol (Del Rey) • Neugebauer, Annie – “Glove Box” (The Dark City • Stoker, Dacre and Barker, J.D. – Dracul (G.P. Crime & Mystery Magazine Volume 3, Issue 4-July Putnam’s Sons) 2018) • Tremblay, Paul – The Cabin at the End of the • Taff, John F.D. – “A Winter’s Tale” (Little Black World (William Morrow) Spots) (Grey Matter Press) • • Ward, Kyla Lee – “And in Her Eyes the City Superior Achievement in a First Novel Drowned” (Weirdbook #39) (Wildside Press)

• Fine, Julia – What Should Be Wild (Harper) Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Grau, T.E. – I Am the River (Lethe Press) • • Files, Gemma – Spectral Evidence (Trepidatio • Kiste, Gwendolyn – The Rust Maidens (Trepidatio Publishing) Publishing) • Guignard, Eric J. – That Which Grows Wild • Stage, Zoje – Baby Teeth (St. Martin’s Press) (Cemetery Dance Publications) • Tremblay, Tony – The Moore House (Twisted • Iglesias, Gabino – Coyote Songs (Broken River Publishing) Books) • Snyder, Lucy A. – Garden of Eldritch Delights Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Ireland, Justina – Dread Nation (Balzer + Bray) • • Waggoner, Tim – Dark and Distant Voices: A • Legrand, Claire – Sawkill Girls (Katherine Tegen Story Collection (Nightscape Press) Books) • Maberry, Jonathan – Broken Lands (Simon & Superior Achievement in a Screenplay Schuster) • Aster, Ari – Hereditary (PalmStar Media) • Snyman, Monique – The Night Weaver (Gigi • Averill, Meredith – The Haunting of Hill House: Publishing “The Bent-Neck Lady”, Episode 01:05 (Amblin • White, Kiersten – The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Television, FlanaganFilm, Paramount Television) Frankenstein (Delacorte Press) • Garland, Alex – Annihilation (DNA Films, Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel Skydance Media) • Ahmed, Saladin – Abbott (BOOM! Studios) • Heisserer, Eric – Bird Box (Bluegrass Films, Chris • Azzarello, Brian – Moonshine Vol. 2: Morgan Productions, Universal Pictures) Train () • Woods, Bryan, Beck, Scott, and Krasinski, John – A • Bunn, Cullen – Bone Parish (BOOM! Studios) Quiet Place (Platinum Dunes, Sunday Night) • LaValle, Victor – Victor LaValle’s Destroyer Superior Achievement in an Anthology (BOOM! Studios) • Chambers, James, Grey, April, and Masterson, • Liu, Marjorie – Monstress Volume 3: Haven Robert – A New York State of Fright: Horror (Image Comics) Stories from the Empire State (Hippocampus Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Press) • Bailey, Michael – Our Children, Our Teachers • Datlow, Ellen – The Devil and the Deep: Horror (Written Backwards) Stories of the Sea (Night Shade Books) • Hill, Joe – “You Are Released” (Flight or Fright: • Guignard, Eric J. – A World of Horror (Dark Moon 17 Turbulent Tales) (Scribner) Books) • Malik, Usman T. – “Dead Lovers on Each , • Murray, Lee – Hellhole: An Anthology of Hung” (Nightmare Magazine Issue #74) Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press) • Mason, Rena – “The Devil’s Throat” (Hellhole: An • Ward, D. Alexander – Lost Highways: Dark Anthology of Subterranean Terror) (Adrenaline Fictions from the Road (Crystal Lake Publishing) Press)

• Smith, Angela Yuriko – Bitter Suites (CreateSpace) (Continued on page 6) Page six March 2019

(Continued from page 1) Letters of Comment Swampcon Endless Mysteries March 16-17 Reitz Union at the University of Florida 1706-24 Eva Rd. Gainesville, FL Etobicoke, ON Free Admission CANADA M9C 2B2 Guests: Bill Hatfield More guest listed on website. swampcon.org February 3, 2019

Spooky Empire Dear OASFiSians: March 22-24

Wyndham Orlando Resort 8001 International Drive Many thanks for issues 373 and 374 of the Event Horizon. I am Orlando, FL 32819 catching up again, so here goes with a few comments on each $70 for 3-days at the door issue. Guests: Christina Ricci (Trixie, Speed Racer) Christopher Lloys (Fester, Addams Family) 373… Happy New Year to all at the club, and looks like the club Fairuza Balk (Nancy, The Craft) elections worked well. You’ve got plenty of conventions to go to Edward Furlong (John Connor, Terminator 2) this time of year. Here, not so much. We’ve just gotten through a Dee Wallace (Mary, E.T.) cold snap, with temperatures as cold as -35C, which is about the Robert MacNaughton (Michael, E.T.) same as -31F. Friends in New York and Michigan have dealt Jimmy Workman (Pugsly, Addams Family) with the same, but things may be warming up…just a little bit. Carel Struycken (Lurch, Addams Family)

David Hugh Kelly (Vic Trenton, ) Ricou Browning (Creature, Creature from the We’ve taken an online course on doing background work, and we Black Lagoon) also need to get in touch with a local photographer we know to and many more get B&W glossy photos and .jpgs done. With that, strange to say, www.spookyempire.com/ I might have the opportunity to do some paid voice work. Welcome to the gig economy. I can’t find work, so doing voice Ocala Comic Fest Strikes Back and background work may become our only want to get the odd March 23 paycheque. 1220 East Silver Springs Ocala, FL I’ve been able to watch Star Trek: Discovery regularly on the Free local science fiction channel, mostly because Discovery is shot Facebook page here. I have really enjoyed this new season. I tried The Orville again… Nope, not happening. I just can’t get into it. Meanwhile, Steampunk Day: Carneval Discovery is getting closer and closer to original Trek canon, and March 24 it will be interesting to see just how they do it. Café Trastevere

825 N. Magnolia Avenue Orlando, FL 32803 A pity you can not get into The Orville. To me it’s a fun take on Not clear from website if there is a admission fee the classic space opera. It takes its material seriously and finds www.steampunkdayorlando.com/carnevale humor in the situations. I also like Discovery. This season seems to be better than last season. FLPolyCon March 30 374… More great early year cons. Pensacon must be pulling out Florida Polytechnic University all the stops with their huge guest list, and Whofans are going to 4700 Research Way get a real treat. And more and more genre movie, shows and Lakeland FL, 33805 actors are getting onto the Oscar nominee lists. Guests: Stan Morrison (OASIS Artist Guest of Honor) $10 for the day (pre-reg), $20 at the door http://flpolycon.org A friend in the anime community tells me that Pensacola is far from big cities so there should be a big turnout for those guest.

Oh, well…that’s about what I can do today, so here it is. Many thanks for these issues, and please do keep them coming!

Yours, Lloyd Penney. Page seven March 2019

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction 2018 Short Fiction Recommendations • Connolly, John – Horror Express (PS Publishing) I read a lot of short fiction in the last two months for preparation • Gambin, Lee – The Howling: Studies in the for my Hugo ballot. Here are some recommendations. Horror Film (Centipede Press) Sources Locus Recommended Reading List and Lady Business Blog recommendations. spreadsheet • Ingham, Howard David – We Don’t Go Back: A

Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror (Room 207 Press) * indicates it available as a podcast Mynhardt, Joe and Johnson, Eugene – It’s Alive: • Bringing Your Nightmares to Life (Crystal Lake Novella Publishing) Title: Bubble and Squeak • Wetmore Jr., Kevin J. – Uncovering Stranger Writer: David Gerrold and Ctein Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism Publication: Asimov's Date: 4/19/218 Word Count: 33067 and Innocence in the Series (McFarland) Summary: Two men on the eve of their marriage have to face a tsunami Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection coming through Los Angeles. Fortunately, they are SCUBA • Boston, Bruce – Artifacts (Independent Legions divers and have the equipment to handle the situation. A good Publishing) hard SF disaster story. • Cowen, David E. – Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press) Title: Umbernight* Writer: Carolyn Ives Gilman • Lynch, Donna – Witches (Raw Dog Screaming Publication: Clarkesword Date: 2/1/2018 Word Count: 18059 Press) Summary: • Simon, Marge and Manzetti, Alessandro – War A group on a planet which gets blasted by radiation from one of (Crystal Lake Publishing) its suns, goes to recover a package from Earth. A lot action and • Tantlinger, Sara – The Devil’s Dreamland thrills in getting the object and debates about the colonist’s (Strangehouse Books) motives.

Active and lifetime HWA members are eligible to vote for Title: Time Was winners. Writer: Ian MacDonald Publication: Tor.com Date: 4/24/2018 Word Count: 26159 Winners will be honored at a gala on May 11, 2019 to be held Summary: during StokerCon at the Providence Biltmore Hotel in A rare book dealer discovers a letter in a book. While researching Providence RI. For more information, see the HWA website. this letter, he discovers two men in various battlefields in World War I, World War 2, Bosnia, and other places. Despite the span of the early Pocket Books hardback novels. She also wrote a of time they do not age. Who are they? . Spider-Man novel with Venom. Novelette Ian MacDonald, another Worldcon 2019 Guest of Honor, has Title: The Ghoul Goes West written on many different subjects. Last year’s novella Time Was Writer: David Bailey deals with two men who are seen at various wars in history. The Publication: Tor.com Date: 1/17/28 Word Count: 13378 protagonist attempts to find out how these men got those places. Summary: One of the ideas in the novel Brasyl is that Brazil’s national A man looks into his dead brother life in Hollywood. The psyche was damaged by losing the 1950 World Cup final. In the brother's story tied to Bela Lugosi and Ed Wood and film that novel a journalist tries to find the goalie that cost Brazil the was never made. game. Steve disagreed that one person could lose a game. Juan disagreed with this. The Dervish House is about how people’s Title: No Flight Without Shatter lives changes in a few days. One woman is looking for a rare Writer: Brooke Bolander artifact. Her husband is engaged in a ambitious scheme which Publication: Tor.com Date: 8/15/2018 Word Count: 8509 could lead to fabulous wealth. The story is set in near future Summary: Turkey. He is working on a series set on the Moon. The Lunar The world's remaining animals remember the past world and government has no constitution but every thing is arranged by leave. Poetic, beautiful, and sad. contract. The series is focused on a Brazilian family that is one of the five powerful families on the Moon. The series will wrap Title: The Only Harmless Great Thing this year with the third book. Writer: Brooke Bolander Publication: Tor.com Date: 1/23/2018 Word Count: 16825 We will discuss the works of OASIS 30 Guest of Honor Adam- Summary: Troy Castro. The story is set in an alternate world where the language of elephants was discovered. Elephants were used to work with Meeting adjourned at 3:30PM (Continued on page 8) Page five March 2019 Anime Day Orlando

Top Row( left to right): Hela from Marvel Comics, Eraser Head from the anime My Hero Academia, Shego from Kim Possible, Fix It Felix from Wreck It Ralph Bottom Row (left to right): Most of the major character from My Hero Academia Page eight March 2019

(Continued from page 6) Publication: Lightspeed Date: 11/1/2018 Word Count: 7720 radioactive materials. This has repercussions. Can we get the Summary: elephants to help us on a big problem? A young girl takes a trip through Wonderland and encounters the inhabitants there. We see the women who knew Carroll as girls Title: A World to Die For* grown up dealing with the aftermath of his friendship. Writer: Tobias S. Bucknell Publication: Clarkesword Date: 1/1/18 Word Count: 9729 Title: Nine Last Days on Planet Earth Summary: Writer: A young woman lives in a post climate change world scavenging Publication: Tor.com Date: 9/19/2018 Word Count: 11874 what tech she can find in a ruined world. She is found by a man Summary: who takes her to a world where they made better decisions. Can A multi-generation story about a meteor shower which leaves she stay in this world? What kind of world is worth fighting for? Earth with new plant species. We follow LT as boy to an old man deals with these new life forms. Title: The Last to Matter* Writer: Adam-Troy Castro Title: The Scars to Prove It* Publication: Lightspeed Date: 9/10/2018 Word Count: 8586 Writer: Joachim Heijndermans Summary: Publication: StarshipSofa Date: 8/29/2018 Word Count: 12500 Kayn takes a tour in a city at the end of its time. It is dark Summary: satirical look at the end of the world. It is a dark form of A man is playing a reality game show where he will earn a huge beautiful. cash prize if kills all his opponents. It is a set on a distant planet.

Title: The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections Title: When We Were Starless* Writer: Tina Connolly Writer: Simone Heller Publication: Tor.com Date: 7/11/2018 Word Count: 7845 Publication: Clarkesworld… Date: 10/1/2108 Word Count: Summary: 13204 A baker has the ability to make food that lets one relive the past. Summary: Unfortunately, he and his wife live under the rule of a tyrant. In a desolate world, Mink looks for old tech to help her group. Saffron, the baker’s wife, becomes a food taster in the royal She finds the remains of a museum which could offer a new way court. They are in jeopardy. Can they find a way out if it? of life for her people. Can Mink get what she needs before competing groups and her own people prevent her from getting Title: Joe Diabo's Farewell the old knowledge. Writer: Andy Duncan Publication: The Agent of Utopia Date: 11/6/2018 Word Count: Title: The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births* 12500 Writer: Jose Pablo Iriate Summary: Publication: Lightspeed Date: 1/1/2018 Word Count: 7540 A member of a Mohawk construction gang in New York dies on Summary: the job. One of his co-workers deals with his death. During this A young person named Jamie know they have lived past lives. time he works at movie premiere as a "Movie Indian". They encounter someone who was blamed for their death. Can Jaime get justice? What is justice when the perpetrator is dying. Title: The Agent of Utopia The story takes place in Florida and does a good job conveying Writer: Andy Duncan the setting. Publication: The Agent of Utopia Date: 11/6/2018 Word Count: 9766 Title: The Privilege of the Happy Ending* Summary: Writer: An agent from Utopia comes to rescue Thomas More from the Publication: Clarkesworld… Date: 8/1/2018 Word Count: 15501 executioner's axe. He does not want rescue. This agent maybe Summary: able to help in another way. A 6 year old girl and her talking chicken escape from an invading force and seek refuge. They go from place to place looking for a Title: The Nearest home and eventually face the invaders. The story deals with the Writer: Greg Egan nature of endings and harsh decisions that need to be made for a Publication: Tor.com Date: 7/18/2018 Word Count: 16672 stable life. Summary: An Australian investigator looks into a murder of a family. The Title: The Thing About Ghost Stories* suspect, the mother, is at large. , the investigator starts to Writer: Naomi Kritzer believe her husband and new born have been replaced by sinister Publication: Uncanny Date: 11/1/2018 Word Count: 8113 duplicates. She on the run but who can she trust? Could she be Summary: the problem? Very creepy and engaging. Leah, a folklorist, researches ghost stories. In the process of her research, she describes the last days with her mother who died of Title: Queen Lily* Alzheimer's. Is Leah's mother still around? A good look into the Writer: (Continued on page 9) Page nine March 2019

(Continued from page 8) Title: The Rule of Three history of ghost stories and some touching Writer: Lawrence Schoen Publication: Future Science Fiction Digest Date: 12/15/2018 Title: Triquetra Word Count: 15650 Writer: Kirstyn McDermott Summary: Publication: Tor.com Date: 9/5/2018 Word Count: 11840 An alien comes to rural China. A man from the US goes to Summary: village where his grandmother lives to speak to the alien. The A dark version of Snow White. She visits her exiled step-mother. alien explains the rule of three. To use things only twice removed Things have not turned out well with her marriage. The prince from someone. With this ability anything is possible. Can has mismanaged affairs and her daughter may be married off for the protagonist lean enough to show humanity is a worthy race? political/economic reason. Can Snow White protect her daughter? Can the step-mother help? Title: The Tragedy of Zayred the Splendid Writer: Grace Seybold Title: Recoveries Publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Date: 3/1/2018 Word Writer: Susan Palwick Count: 8688 Publication: Tor.com Date: 6/20/2018 Word Count: 7955 Summary: Summary: In a world were songs have magic that can win or lose wars, how Vanessa and Kat are close friends. Vanessa parents claim they important are reputations of the singers? Two friends find are alien abductees. Her parents disappeared and she is a themselves on opposite sides of a conflict. recovering alcoholic. Kat has been in several foster homes and has an eating disorder. Can they help themselves? Title: The Lighthouse Girl* Writer: Bao Shu Title: The Thought That Counts * Publication: Clarkesword Date: 1/1/2018 Word Count: 8166 Writer: K.J. Parker Summary: Publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Date: 4/19/2018 Word A young Chinese girl has knowledge she cannot have. She has no Count: 8683 mther and raised by her father. In her teens she meets a teacher. Summary: The teacher says she looks like a girl she knew. Is she a clone? A charming rogue defends an young artist of murdering several Who is she? A really good science twist in this story. people. He defends her very well but who is this artist and why does she seem familiar? Title: The Crow Knight Writer: Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Title: Do as I Do, Sing as I Sing Publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Date: 10/4/2018 Word Writer: Sarah Pinsker Count: 11440 Publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Date: 3/1/2018 Word Summary: Count: 8688 A dark story of love. Wynn goes outside her kingdom to avenge Summary: her father and find a means to be with her lover. She followed by A girl is selected to be trained as a crop singer to her town. Crop crows. Can she find her answer? Is it worth the price? singers have the power to bring out a crop via their voice. Her brother is angry that he was not selected and goes to find a new Title: Harry and Marlowe and the Secret of Ahomana way to stimulated the crops. If he is successful , what are the Writer: Vaughn consequences? Publication: Lightspeed Date: 9/1/2018 Word Count: 10084 Summary: Title: A Study in Oils* Part of series of stories set in alternate Earth where global war Writer: Kelly Robson started in the Victorian era and an alien spaceship crash landed in Publication: Clarkesword Date: 9/1/2018 Word Count: 12009 England. The British use alien technology. A granddaughter of Summary: Queen Victoria and a Naval Officer are a team fighting for A lunar hockey player goes to Earth to escape certain parties Britain. On trip in the Pacific, they crash on island. Marlowe is trying to find him. He finds sanctuary at an artist commune in injured and Harry meets with the locals. They have access to China. Some great ideas about future sports and social media. advance alien technology. It is better tech than Britain has. The locals want to keep their island secret from the outside world. Title: The Sweetness of Honey and Rot What should Harry and Marlowe do? Escape or settle down on an Writer: A. Merc Rustad island Publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Date: 6/21/2018 Word Count: 8915 Title: How to Swallow the Moon Summary: Writer: Isabel Yap In an alternate world, a village is governed by a Tree. The Tree Publication: Uncanny Date: 11/1/2018 Word Count: 11208 demands human sacrifices to sustain it. A beekeeper loses her Summary: brother to the Tree. She plans a way to fight back. A princess must marry and leave her servant friend behind. Her servant does not want this and is willing to do anything to be with Page ten March 2019

(Continued from page 9) her. There is a bog twist but it is a love story wrapped in myth. Title: The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington Short Story Writer: Phenderson Djeli Clark Title: Waterbirds* Publication: Fireside Date: 2/18/2018 Word Count: 3648 Writer: G.V. Anderson Summary: Publication: Lightspeed Date: 7/1/2018 Word Count: 5915 Nine stories of the people whose teeth were used by George Summary: Washington. Great characters sketches. A robot’s employer is dead. What happen to her. The robot an older model tells her history that includes her employer and Title: Loss of Signal friend who is a painter. Touching ins some places. Writer: S.B. Divya Publication: Tor.com Date: 8/1/2018 Word Count: 2049 Title: A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds* Summary: Writer: James Beamon A disabled 19-year-old mind is put into a spaceship set to orbit Publication: Lightspeed Date: 7/1/2018 Word Count: 5990 the moon. A nice hard SF story where the main character has to Summary: face his fear alone and accomplish the mission. In alternate past with airships and monkeys used as drone like soldiers. A young air sailor helps the engineer and organ grinder, Title: Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse the controller of the monkeys and is a witness to the carnage of a Writer: S.B. Divya new type of warfare. Publication: Uncanny Date: 1/1/2018 Word Count: 3925 Summary: Title: The War of Light and Shadow, in Five Dishes Two women and their two children try to escape their current Writer: Siobahn Carrol location to somewhere safe. A lot of interesting action. Publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Date: 3/15/2018 Word Count: 6929 Title: STET Summary: Writer: Sarah Gailey All armies march on their stomach. We follow an army and its Publication: Fireside Date: 10/1/2018 Word Count: 7500 chef and the food they eat. A story told from the midway up. Summary: A foot noted discussion about AI driven cars. Several have Title: The Streets of Babel * caused the death of children due to the programming of standards Writer: Adam-Troy Castro in the machines. Told as short report where the writer and Publication: Lightspeed Date: 1/1/2018 Word Count: 6700 reviewer argue over the foot notes. Summary: A man in the countryside is absorbed by a living city. The Title: And Yet writing is vivid on how this city captures the man and uses him. Writer: A.T. Greenblatt Scary in some bits. Publication: Uncanny Date: 3/1/2018 Word Count: 4627 Summary: Title: Red Rain * A man returns to a haunted house where he injured himself 20 Writer: Adam-Troy Castro years earlier. He is a physicist and thinks he understands the Publication: Nightmare Date: 6/1/2019 Word Count: 3464 house’s nature, but does he? Summary: A huge number of people are falling out of the sky and how it effects the POV character. Very detailed and painful detail. Title: A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies Title: A Place Without Portals Writer: Alix Harrow Writer: Adam-Troy Castro Publication: Apex Date: 2/6/2018 Word Count: 4900 Publication: Lightspeed Date: 4/1/2018 Word Count: 2148 Summary: Summary: A librarian tries to get books people need. Can she help a young A young girl wakes up. Did she dream about being a chosen one boy trapped in an uncaring system? Can she go the distance for on another world? This story questions our tropes and makes us this boy? look at the current world and its fears. Title: It’s Easy to Shoot A Dog Title: Greetings, Humanity! Welcome To Your Choice Of Writer: Maria Haskins Species! Publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Date: 9/13/2018 Word Writer: Adam-Troy Castro Count: 4470 Publication: Lightspeed Date: 7/1/2018 Word Count: 2528 Summary: Summary: A girl makes a bargain for a dog and has to face the Humanity loses the planet and the inhabitants get to choose a consequences new form to become. The alternatives have some interest pros and cons. Very funny. (Continued on page 11) Page eleven March 2019

(Continued from page 10) Writer: Brenda Peynado Title: CARBORUNDORUM > /DEV/NULL Publication: Tor.com Date: 8/29/2018 Word Count: 7029 Writer: Annalee Flower Horne Summary: Publication: Fireside Date: 9/1/2018 Word Count: 7500 Insect-like aliens arrive on Earth and cannot go back. They are Summary: weaker due to our gravity and atmosphere. A woman who owns a A girl is grounded in her parent’s smart house. Her friend is able vintage toy shop and kite maker sells kites to the aliens. They are to hack the controls. They go to party where bad things happen. neo Nazi groups against the aliens. The woman is guilty about Can their hacking skills get them out of this mess? An interesting what she did when the aliens arrived. look into the future. Title: The Court Magician* Title: Field Biology of Wee Fairies Writer: Sarah Pinsker Writer: Naomi Kritzer Publication: Lightspeed Date: 1/1/2018 Word Count: 3148 Publication: Apex Date: 9/4/2018 Word Count: 4700 Summary: Summary: A young “market rat” because the court magician. Magic in this In 1962, Amelia wants to be a scientist. She lives in a world world has a price and is worth that price? where girls catch fairies in exchange for what Amelia thinks is superficial. She captures a fairy and investigates its nature Title: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Lighthouse of Quvenle the Seer* (without hurting it). What will she learn? Writer: Lina Rather Publication: Lightspeed Date: 6/1/2018 Word Count: 1560 Title: The Starship and the Temple Cat* Summary: Writer: Yoon Ha Lee A woman goes on pilgrimage to find some answers. Well written Publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Date: 2/1/2018 Word and emotionally driven. Count: 3499 Summary: Title: True Crime* A temple cat survives a wreck space station and acts as the Writer: M Rickert station caretaker. Publication: Nightmare Date: 9/1/2019 Word Count: 987 Summary: Title: Cosmic Spring A collage of pieces of stories of women who were murdered. It Writer: shows the painful similarities in the stories. Publication: Lightspeed Date: 9/1/2019 Word Count: 2311 Summary: Title: Sour Milk Girls* A traveler at the end of the universe talks to fellow travelers near Writer: Erin Roberts the cooling remains of the stars. Very poetic and true to science Publication: Clarkesword Date: 1/1/2018 Word Count: 6447 as we know it today. Summary: Orphan girls associated with the agency have the trauma of their Title: The Guile lives removed to make it easier to send them to foster care. This Writer: Ian MacDonald has mixed results. A new girl is brought with her memories and Publication: Tor.com Date: 5/22/1018 Word Count: 6332 tries to fit in with roommates. Is removal (their memories are Summary: stored on computer media and can be returned) of traumatic A magician tries to fool an AI. It is a fun story about casinos and memories a good thing? misdirection. Title: Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep* Title: The Ceremony Writer: Nebedita Sen Writer: Mari Ness Publication: Nightmare Date: 12/1/2018 Word Count: 5402 Publication: Fireside Date: 9/1/2018 Word Count: 7500 Summary: Summary: A whaling ship, in an alternate world, is on a voyage. One crew A discussion of a ceremony where all have to try to kiss a cursed member is testing a machine that can replicate whale song. Will man with the hope it succeed in communicating with the whales? Is that good idea? of . A nice look of a classic fairy tale trope from another This told from the point of the captain who is knowledgeable in point of view. the ways of the world and science. It is a creepy sea story.

Title: Blessings* Title: From the Root* Writer: Naomi Novik Writer: Emma Tors Publication: Uncanny Date: 5/1/2018 Word Count: 2269 Publication: Lightspeed Date: 6/1/2018 Word Count: 6554 Summary: Summary: Fairy blessing should be done while sober. An interesting twist There is a group of women who can regenerate from any injury. when the fairy godmothers are drunk when giving blessing to They live until they are 90 or have a child (always a girl). One of their godchild. these women in the 19th century tries to find an answer to the birthing problem. A powerful story. Title: The Kite Maker OASFiS P.O. Box 592905 ORLANDO, FL 32859-2905

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