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Straeon: Malady Faire
From M. David Blake, creator of the highly acclaimed Campbellian Anthology series, comes STRAEON: a new quarterly magazine dedicated to publishing fiction that is longer, more complex, more mature, and more challenging than the norm. If you’re looking for space unicorns, sexy vampires, short comedies that end in bad puns, or predictable SF/F genre fiction—well, you won’t find that here.
But if conventional genre stories don’t quite fit you—if you aren’t comfortable with the genre you’ve been wearing, or have grown too comfortable with it— if you sometimes wonder why you never see stories that speak to who you are, and are looking for fiction that is new, different, and not entirely safe…
Try STRAEON.
Featuring in this issue:
“Lady Sakura’s Letters” by Juliette Wade
“Avenzoar’s Dilemma” by Pat MacEwen
“Rains of Craifa, Figure 1—Girl with Shavlas” by Lara Campbell McGehee
“The Art Teacher” by Gillian Daniels
“Kelly’s Star” by Ian Creasey
“The Splintered Stars” by Jenny Rae Rappaport
“Cupful of Sunshine” by Anna Yeatts
“Sunira’s Daughters” by Robert Dawson
“Signal” by Renee Carter Hall
“A Kernel of Truth” by Heather J. Frederick
But if conventional genre stories don’t quite fit you—if you aren’t comfortable with the genre you’ve been wearing, or have grown too comfortable with it— if you sometimes wonder why you never see stories that speak to who you are, and are looking for fiction that is new, different, and not entirely safe…
Try STRAEON.
Featuring in this issue:
“Lady Sakura’s Letters” by Juliette Wade
“Avenzoar’s Dilemma” by Pat MacEwen
“Rains of Craifa, Figure 1—Girl with Shavlas” by Lara Campbell McGehee
“The Art Teacher” by Gillian Daniels
“Kelly’s Star” by Ian Creasey
“The Splintered Stars” by Jenny Rae Rappaport
“Cupful of Sunshine” by Anna Yeatts
“Sunira’s Daughters” by Robert Dawson
“Signal” by Renee Carter Hall
“A Kernel of Truth” by Heather J. Frederick
265 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 12, 2014
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December 25, 2014
I just finished reading the premiere issue of STRAEON QUARTERLY and I am delighted..
The anthology is a wonderfully eclectic and unique collection of tales. A Dark Carnival carousel of an anthology. Ambrosia (with a touch of blood and battery acid)--perfect for holiday reading and contemplation:
Stories told from the perspective of a tengu demon of Japanese myth (who learns there are cultural traps stronger than any prisons)...
... to stories told from that of a science fiction novelist sunflower (yes, a plant) in an Orwellian world where "All flora and fauna are created equal; but the self-mobile are more equal than others".
Stories of gritty noir Blade Runneresque science fiction to Redwall/Watership Down fantasy with a post-apocalyptic horror twist.
Stories of love gained and lost with the rain and of how love can be sustained (though not without effort and ingenuity) for centuries.
Enchanting, troubling, and thought-provoking. A delightful change from the standard anthology fair. This volume is aptly named.
STRAEON QUARTERLY may not yet be pro or SFWA-eligible, but I'm pleased a few of my cadre of "young" writers (as in new voices, age is relative) appear here.
Dr. Bob
The anthology is a wonderfully eclectic and unique collection of tales. A Dark Carnival carousel of an anthology. Ambrosia (with a touch of blood and battery acid)--perfect for holiday reading and contemplation:
Stories told from the perspective of a tengu demon of Japanese myth (who learns there are cultural traps stronger than any prisons)...
... to stories told from that of a science fiction novelist sunflower (yes, a plant) in an Orwellian world where "All flora and fauna are created equal; but the self-mobile are more equal than others".
Stories of gritty noir Blade Runneresque science fiction to Redwall/Watership Down fantasy with a post-apocalyptic horror twist.
Stories of love gained and lost with the rain and of how love can be sustained (though not without effort and ingenuity) for centuries.
Enchanting, troubling, and thought-provoking. A delightful change from the standard anthology fair. This volume is aptly named.
STRAEON QUARTERLY may not yet be pro or SFWA-eligible, but I'm pleased a few of my cadre of "young" writers (as in new voices, age is relative) appear here.
Dr. Bob
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