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The Silver Age Bulletin
August 5, 2008
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- Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #24
- Fantasycon 2008
- BFS Short Story Competition
In theory TQF24 is our festival special - hence the fancy pants cover,
which is supposed to look a bit like a festival programme - but I have to
admit that we didn't carry the theme through into the issue. We have to
designate two issues a year as specials, or the International Board of
Titular Relevance would force us to change our name to Theaker's
Bi-Monthly Fiction. A festival special seemed like a good idea a month
ago, when I was in the middle of watching the Glastonbury Festival on tv.
The main chunk of this issue is given over to the latest of Howard
Phillips' neverending series of novels in the Saturation Point Saga. By
his low standards, it's not a bad idea - literary terrorists seize control
of all methods of literary production in the UK - but by anyone else's
standards... not so good. Although I turn up in it as a character, I
recall few of the events Howard describes.
I've done another big
editorial for this issue, which talks a bit about the William Sanders
scandal, in the midst of all the usual dithering, and we have the latest
stories in the Tiana and Newton Braddell series. I feel so used to writing
those names together now, it's as if they are a couple - and what a good
couple they would make. She would give him a bit of direction in his life,
while he'd deliver the gentleness lacking in hers.
Aaron Polson is
our one new contributor, with a creepy story of desperate people and their
desperate toys, and the desperate ploys of those desperate toys.
There are more reviews than ever before - including a handful from
marvellous Rafe McGregor - and the one other thing left to mention is the
return of our news page, now with actual news...
Link: http://www.silveragebooks.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mag/tqf/tqf_24.htm
Not long now until the British Fantasy Society will be hosting their
next Fantasycon. It's in Nottingham, on 19-21 September. (I'm aiming to be
there on the Sunday, at least, to show my face at the AGM.) The guests
include Christopher Golden, James Barclay, Dave McKean and Christopher
Fowler.
Link: http://www.fantasycon.org.uk/
The BFS short story competition remains open until the end of August.
Members can enter for free, while non-members pay a fiver. However,
writers whose stories have been published three times are excluded from
entry. The winner gets fifty quid and the story will be published in Dark
Horizons, where it will be seen by the brightest and best the fantasy
world has to offer...
Link: http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/news/?p=266
Regards,
Stephen Theaker
Publisher, Silver Age
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