BFS Horizons #16

BFS Horizons #16

by Pete W Sutton (Editor)

The Spring Edition of the British Fantasy Society's Fiction Magazine (Issue 16) including stories and poetry from members and non-members in the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror. Editor Pete W Sutton.

159 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2023

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most striking characteristic of this volume is its sheer variety: no confined, predictable gamut of speculative stories here. There's pathos, mystery, humour, and weird worlds aplenty. I liked the unexpected reverie of Teika Marija Smits' 'Ida', and the irony of Louis Evans' 'And I Will Make Thy Name Great', which reverses the usual results of divine revelation among budding patriarchs and prophets: all of whom turn out to have much more sense than their historical and mythic originals. The latter tale, tart and knowing, happily deviates from a certain writerly idiom for which a number of the writers grasp perhaps a little readily, and so, markedly, does Lynden Wade's 'A Prophet in His Own Country' - a finely structured account of a crow blessed and curse with a Cassandra's gift of fruitless prognostication, which (in turn) symbolises our foolish human inability to listen and learn. But the traditional hankerings of this plaintively phrased story result at length in the discovery of injustice and a greater hope of mutual understanding.

[Robin Duncan · Rating 5 out of 5]

BFS Horizons goes from strength to strength. This is a diverse and intriguing selection of short fiction and poetry, with some particularly powerful and enthralling pieces that gripped my attention. Thoroughly entertaining.