Fantastic Stories of the Imagination #221
This is the ebook edition of the Fantastic Stories webzine containing all content from the October 2014 issue (DRM-FREE, .mobi, .epub & PDF) including:
Original Short Story: Rope Burns by Kelly McCullough
He had a secret to keep, but then don't we all?
Short Story: Locomotive Joe and the Wreck of Space Train No. 4 by Allen M. Steele
What price would you pay for a dream come true?
Flash Fiction: Sibyl by Deborah Walker
The future can't be changed, can it?
Short Story: Kvetchula by Darrell Schweitzer
A nagging wife can be a curse, but at least you'll sleep when you're dead... right?
Reviews: The Fan: Beginnings and Endings
Carole McDonnell investigates the alpha and the omega: reviewing Snowpiercer (movie) 2013, Dark Eden by Chris Beckett, The End, My Friend: Prelude to the Apocalypse by Kirby Wright and The Midnight After (movie) 2014.
Reviews: The Magic Lantern: Personal Apocalypses
For Adam-Troy Castro this is the way the world ends… Reviewing Henjel gwa Geuretel (Korean movie, 2007, Hansel and Gretel) Haunter (Canadian, 2013; directed by Vincenzo Natali), The Wall (Austrian, 2013; written and directed by Julian Polsner, from the novel Die Wand by Marlen Houshofer), uage The Last Days (Spanish, 2013; written and directed by David Pastor and Alex Pastor), e: Jug Face (USA, 2013; written and directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle)
Reviews: Area 51 1/2 by Steven Sawicki
Our resident alien reports on various future histories: Queen of the Dark Things by C. Robert Cargill, The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison, The Hydra Protocol, David Wellington, William Morrow, Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J. G. Ballard, and Transformers: Age of Extinction (Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital HD UltraViolet Combo Pack) Paramount, (2014).
Reviews: New & Noteworthy Short Genre Fiction: October 2014
Gillian Daniels explores what's new and excellent in Fantasy & Science Fiction, including Four Steps to the Perfect Smoky Eye By Claire Humphrey in Strange Horizons, Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points By Jy Yang
Clarkesworld Magazine, Quick Hill By M.T. Anderson in Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant and When Gods and Vampires Roamed Miami By Kendare Blake at Tor.com