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Absolutes:
Burning Sky #8
"There's plenty of terror here for the horror readers and plenty
of high-tech for the science fiction readers, but not too much of
either to scare off the other. Burning Sky is a good
magazine, plain and simple."
--Jon Hodges, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Challenging Destiny #12
"No literary fanciness, no dirty surrealism, no pretense, just good,
old fashioned science fiction and fantasy."
--Forrest Aguirre, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Dark Regions #15
"Dark Regions is subtitled as being 'A Journal of Fantasy,
Horror, & Science Fiction,' though that is belittling the magazine.
Dark Regions is, instead, an eclectic mosaic of notable
short fiction that always ends short of rambling but never prematurely.
They are well-captured tales of wonder, despair, and adventure."
--Jon Hodges, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Darkling Plain #1
"[David M.] Cox boasts Darkling Plain as a publication
of 'literate science fiction.' More than just science fiction
fills its pages, there are also tales of fantasy and horror, but
the literate edge holds true to all stories in its pages."
--Jon Hodges, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Flesh & Blood #6
"If you haven't yet picked up a copy of Flesh & Blood #6,
[it is] recommended. Get cozy, read it, then take a walk in a
graveyard--but please don't talk to anyone while you're there!"
--Forrest Aguirre, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Flesh & Blood #7
"If you enjoy horror lacking all the stomach-rumbling blood and
gore, and that is also short and sweet, you'll revel in Flesh
& Blood's selection of six stories, most likely finding high
points in the minds of Jeff VanderMeer, John Urbancik, and D.F.
Lewis."
--Jon Hodges, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Harpur Palate #1
"As a sum, Harpur Palate surprised me with fiction and
poetry deriving from a variety of inspirations and most all of it
very good. There are a couple real gems here and more to be
appreciated."
--Jon Hodges, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
New Genre #2
"All in all the volume is well worth the read. There is a good
mix of stories here and the editors' mission statement of introducing
science fiction fans to horror and vice versa is well met . . . All of
the stories are well written, most almost bordering on the exceptional.
Worth your pocket change, to be sure."
--Forrest Aguirre, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
On Spec Spring 2001
"Though this issue was a disappointment, that is not a strike
against On Spec, as I still feel some of their back issues
contain terrific fiction unparalleled by most of the widely read
speculative fiction magazines with a high focus on science fiction,
as On Spec has. If this magazine interests you or you've
read praise about it, by all means, pick up a copy, just don't make
it this one. After all, even Elvis performed a dud every now and
then."
--Jon Hodges, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
The Whirligig #3
"All in all, The Whirligig is a strong 'zine, particularly
for those who enjoy urban literature that tells it like it is."
--Jon Hodges, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Exclusives:
The Best-Known Man in the World & Other Misfits
"Pearlman writes about people, some in fantastic circumstances,
but all recognizable by us. We are they. They know us through
Pearlman's words."
--Forrest Aguirre, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Cobwebs and Whispers
"...there is not a bad story in this collection. None. Whether you
are a quasi-Luddite, a lover of Victoriana, or just a fan of the
horror genre, your money is more than well spent on this volume--this
is more than a book, it is a collector's piece, a treasure. Get it
quickly, though, only a few signed copies of this limited edition are
left available."
--Forrest Aguirre, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Neurotical, Volume II
"Neurotica (2), a sympathetic blitzkrieg of fictions
that defy categorization, leads the reader into such terms of
existence and mind, pushing you into a room where the ceiling
teeters and the floor caves in. So deft is the author's hand that
you barely even realize you're falling. Revealing the 'experience'
beneath external conceptions of waking life, the tales in this
deceptively simple collection are carefully sculpted attacks against
reader's expectations."
--William P. Simmons, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Rabid Transit
"Really, this may be one of the most meaningful chapbook anthologies
of the year testing, as it does, the margins and borders of interstitial
fiction."
--Forrest Aguirre, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
Results of a Preliminary Investigation of Electrochemical Properties of Some Organic Matrices
"For a lucky few the geographies of space, time, and the unknown
are as close as the back yard. Too often, we hop on the coat tails
of the poet or fiction author, modern shamans both, and hope to find
something of ourselves--of the universe--riding on the vision of
another. Often we find the ride short, the revelations diluted.
The poet had little reason for waking us to begin with. If lucky,
we're journeying with a seer of nightmare and dream who breaks wide
the borderlands between experience and emotion. If we're extremely
lucky, we're following David C. Kopaska-Merkel."
--William P. Simmons, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
What the Cacodaemon Whispered
"Chad Hensley is in the business of using verse to frighten, disturb,
and morbidly enlighten his readers. And the most convenient ticket
into his ill-omened theme park is through What the Cacodaemon
Whispered."
--Jon Hodges, Project Pulp (Read the Entire Review)
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