“Permanent Press” by Sunwoo Jeong – 4.6
Uncanny, March/April 2026 At the heart of the story is a neighborhood laundry-mat run by the stingy Mr. Lee, whose flickering neon sign alternates between two spellings—LA NDRY and L…
“The Threads That Never Go Slack”: Continuity, Grief, and the Archive of Song in E.M. Linden’s “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead” – 4.0
A Formal Academic Literary Review I. Introduction E.M. Linden, a speculative fiction writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, has established a recognizable voice at the intersection of literary and genre fiction—a…
“The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead” by E.M. Linden – 4.0
PodCastle, Episode 879, February 2025 The dead of Tawlish Island watch from the shore as the last thirty-seven living inhabitants evacuate their remote, failing community. The freshwater has gone brackish,…
Grief, Transformation, and the Maternal Body: A Critical Review of Anjali Sachdeva’s “Chimera” – 4.3
Introduction Anjali Sachdeva's short fiction has consistently demonstrated a preoccupation with the biological, the monstrous, and the tenderly human. Her debut collection All the Names They Used for God (2018)…
“Chimera” by Anjali Sachdeva – 4.3
Uncanny, March/April 2026 Savita, a sixty-five-year-old Indian-American woman, has long dreaded Thanksgiving — not merely for its excess, but for the grief that has shadowed every November since her youngest…
“Blade Through the Heart” by Carrie Vaughn – 3.5
Reactor, March 2026 Commander Graff of the TGS Visigoth arrives on a feudal planet mid-war, perched with his two-person crew — the sharp-tongued Xun and the steady Brown — atop…
“Terms of Enlightenment” by Patrick Hurley – 3.9
Lightspeed, March 2026 Jay Bender — born Jaime Arvind Chicao, a serial nonviolent offender who has spent his life exploiting loopholes and shedding identities — is sentenced by his judge-counselor…
VANESSA FOGG: Biography, Bibliography & Critical Appraisals
VANESSA FOGG Fantasy Author Biography, Bibliography & Critical Appraisals I. Biography Origins and Early Life Vanessa Fogg is an American author of short speculative fiction whose work spans fantasy, science…
Drinking from the Moon: Myth, Memory, and Feminine Agency in Vanessa Fogg’s “Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea” – 4.4
Academic Literary Review Introduction Vanessa Fogg's novelette "Lotus Dew for the Emperor's Tea" (2026), published in Lightspeed Magazine, represents a mature and ambitious contribution to the growing body of East…
“Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea” by Vanessa Fogg – 4.4
Lightspeed, March 2026 In a mythic First Age, the First Emperor rules an immortal paradise where no winter falls, orchards bloom endlessly, and death is banished from the court. Each…
- Go to the previous page
- 1
- …
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- …
- 27
- Go to the next page