End of an Aeon

by Bridget McKenna (Editor), Marti McKenna

From 2004-2008, Bridget McKenna and Marti McKenna published fourteen issues of Aeon, an e-book magazine. End of an Aeon collects the unpublished stories and poems from their final inventory. Now, seven years after the magazine began, we come to the end of an Aeon.

Genres: Fantasy, Anthologies

250 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2011

About the author

Bridget McKenna was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and has lived in a fair number of places since, including southern, central, and northern California, west Texas, northern Illinois, Seattle, and London.

In addition to writing, Bridget practices hypnotherapy, reads avidly (science fiction, fantasy, mystery, classics, and many flavors of nonfiction) and is hopelessly addicted to BBC historical dramas. She lives in Seattle, and writes for the computer games industry.

Reviews

[Beth Cato · Rating 4 out of 5]

For the very end of 2016, I decided to dig into my to-read pile and read something that's been waiting there for ages. I chose this anthology, which I've had for four years now.

I'm not familiar with Aeon magazine; it published before I began submitting short stories of my own. Their quirky mix of stories reminded me a lot of current publications like Apex Magazine and Uncanny Magazine. They sometimes run weird (a bit too much so for my tastes), but also feature deep, thoughtful works will well-drawn characters. It made me so sad to come across one of Eugie Foster's stories here. Wow, what a fabulous writer she was. Other favorites included "Patriot Girls" by Amy Sisson, "Bullet" by Marshall Payne, and "Silverfin Harbour" by Tina Connolly (which I read earlier this year in Tina's collection, also published by Fairwood Press).