New issue! Sunny Moraine, Charles Payseur, Renay
Added 2015-12-14 22:15:49 +0000 UTCIsn't this week's art lovely? The colours are gorgeous. It's by Jonathan Apilado, for Sunny Moraine's story "At Whatever Are Their Moons", which begins like this:
At night, when the desert sands stretch out below them like a rollingsea, Cora and the ship perform duets for the benefit of the gulls.
The gulls followed them from the coast. They're now landlocked, to the extent that anything airborne can be, but the gulls remain, and Cora scatters breadcrumbs on the deck, watching them flap and scream and battle each other. The gulls roost in the rigging at night, in the tangles of ropes and the crevices of the airship, and sometimes they sing along with Cora and the ship. Sometimes they scream like a woman being slowly stabbed into oblivion.
Also in this week's issue you can find an interview with Apilado, Charles Payseur's poem "Future Husband: A Letter", reviews of books by Hal Duncan Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman, and Renay talking about end-of-year recommendation lists.
As usual, we'll be offering up our selection of recommendations once the year is actually over, with our reviewers' selections in the first week of January (there are still two and a half perfectly good weeks left to read more, after all). But elsewhere the recommendations are coming thick and fast, including today the first "Year's Best" tables of contents -- and it's nice to see that Rich Horton has selected Kelly Link's "The Game of Smash and Recovery" for his collection! So if you haven't read it yet, consider this another inducement to do so.
One more issue to come this year, and it's looking like a good one -- see you next Monday.
-- Niall
