Quick Sips - Strange Horizons 04/16/2018, 04/23/2018, & 04/30/2018

I'm looking at three weeks of Strange Horizons' fiction and poetry today, and there's quite a lot to get to. The first week was pretty normal with one story and one poem, but the second week was a nonfiction week, so only one poem for me to look at (though the nonfiction is of course always worth checking out. And the last week of the month saw the release of a special issue looking at SFF in English coming out of India. So in total I'm looking at three stories and two poems, and it's an eclectic bunch. From strange houses with tiny cities to time skipping fighter pilots, there's a lot of fresh ideas and luminous styles. So let's get to the reviews!

Quick Sips - Apex #76

It's interesting to me how varied issues of Apex Magazine can be. One week it's have four pieces of fiction and four poems and the next four pieces of fiction and one poem and here there are five pieces of fiction and two poems. It does keep things new and fluid, changing, and at least I can trust everything to be high quality. This month the theme seems to be isolation, the characters mostly dealing with life on their own, cut off from help by choice, by pain, by the elements, by disorder. The issue does an excellent job of exploring the idea of being alone, cut off, different, and how people react to those who are alone. So review time!

Art by Ekaterina Zagustina