The Key, 26 November, 2010
When I was at SFContario last weekend, I attended a panel on “Review and Criticism in the SF Field”, which gave me a lot of good ideas to apply to The Portal . . . among them (as proposed by Patrick...
View ArticleEditors’ Note, November/December 2010
Welcome, readers. We’ll be adding a few articles each week as we move through our second full month of existence. We’re thankful to everyone who announced our launch, tweeted, facebooked, or blogged...
View ArticleThe Key, 3 December, 2010
The second installment of our weekly aggregator of interesting writing about genre fiction available on the web. Endings Karen Lord Small Beer Press — Not a Journal In praise of ended works: I’ve...
View ArticleThe Key, 1 December, 2010
We’re a day late this week, but bearing an embarassment of riches. What IF is harder and easier than Andrew Plotkin Hadean Lands Kickstarter Blog An analysis of writing interactive fiction is...
View ArticleThe Key, 16 December, 2010
This week we’re linking to reviews, overviews, reminiscences, thoughts about world-building and craft in general, biography, suggestions for amateur publicists, and discussion of science fiction as a...
View ArticleThe Key, 25 December 2010
The week before New Years’, we devote most of this linkfest to musings on prognostication. Teenagers with Bite, Part 2 Karen Healey Strange Horizons An interesting glimpse into a subgenre of fantasy...
View ArticleEditors’ Note, January 2011
Welcome, readers. We’ve fully moved to a weekly format, although we’ll still be posting a monthly note. In addition, we have edited and expanded our writing guidelines. Look for articles about...
View ArticleThe Key, 5 January 2011
. . . and we’re back! Took last week off for New Year’s. Here are some links we’d like to share about a new magazine, thoughts on literary reviewing on the internet, musings about plot, and a review of...
View ArticleThe Key, 14 January 2011
This week we’re bringing you intriguing history, thoughts about realism, analysis of IF storytelling and techniques, a novel review, and an interrogation of what makes a ‘good’ story. Africans in...
View ArticleThe Key, 31 January 2011
This week we’re offering up links about Chosen Ones, an interesting blog by a Locus short fiction reviewer, new (amusing) terms for sf criticism, sf in Romania, zombies and what people have done with...
View ArticleEditors’ Note, February 2011
Welcome, readers. This month we’ll bring you the first column by our Bureau Head for the UAE, Arafaat Ali Khan. You can also look forward to several articles about Hungarian genre fiction, interviews...
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Tesseracts 14
Tesseracts is a historic semi-annual anthology of Canadian science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Each volume is put together by a different pair of editors. Jean-Louis Trudel’s history of the series...
View ArticleEditors’ Note, March 2011
Welcome, readers. This month we’re planning to bring you an overview on the past forty years of Hungarian fantasy, Mike Hilborn’s review of Aotearoa (which swept this year’s XYZZY Awards), Valentin D....
View ArticleCurveship: A new way to write IF
Nick Montfort‘s overview of Curveship was among the programming associated with the second IF mini-convention at PAX East. We interviewed him about the project.”What Curveship does differently is...
View ArticleEditors’ Note, April 2011
Welcome, readers. This month we’re planning to bring you more coverage of the interactive fiction mini-convention in March and coverage of an Israeli anthology. Want to join us? See this page with info...
View ArticleEditors’ Note, May and June 2011
Welcome, readers. We’ve got more articles coming down the pipeline, including an interview with Jean-Claude Dunyach, an overview of Malaysian horror, coverage of Congrès Boréal 2011, and a review of...
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I’ve got some interviews with publishers in Québec coming your way in the coming months, as well as translations of articles about Russian sf originally published in French by the magazine Russkaya...
View ArticleMir Fantastiki
First published in Russkaya Fantastika, 07.12.2008. Translation by René Walling, editing by Val Grimm. To make a complete survey of Russian genre literature, we must of course discuss magazines. This...
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A Ukranian magazine: UFO
First published in Russkaya Fantastika, 31.10.2009. Translation by René Walling, editing by Val Grimm. Recently we told you about the appearance of an Ukrainian science fiction that tended to have its...
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Esli
First published in Russkaya Fantastika, 18.01.2009. Translation by René Walling, editing by Val Grimm. Esli Magazine (, “If”) is probably the oldest Russian sf magazine. Founded in 1991, but really...
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