I acquired 3 stories printed in the forthcoming issue of Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction. I'd be awfully happy if you bought the magazine–or subscription!
The seventh issue of Icarus released next week: Winter 2010 has several stories that will contribute to your shivers, of delight and dread. Hauntology is a genre of music that combines voices from obsolete recording technology with modern electronics. "Lonesome Road," by Matt Cheney, is almost a literary version of hauntology, a different kind of ghost story—postmodern, but chilling all the same. Distant voices also play a role in Sunny Morvaine's "The Shapes of Shadows," a mysterious tale of alien technology. Esoteric knowledge, lust and revenge spill through the pages of Alejandro Omidsalar's "Abbadon's First Rule," a tale of horror and black comedy. And "Bargain Books" asks the question, is invisibility a blessing or a curse for gays? "Blue Moon," this issue's poem, shows that mothers don't always know best. Hal Duncan is one of my favorite authors. Every time he publishes a short story, the field of gay speculative fiction is that much richer. So we hope you take some delight in Craig Gidney's interview with the man.
Published on December 13, 2010 16:37
