Watermark by E. Catherine Tobler Watermark (2014), by E. Catherine Tobler, is the story of Pip, a kelpie who is cast out of the Otherworld of the fae and into the human realm. Before that, she was being held in a tower in iron chains. She remembers very little before that; she doesn’t know what […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 3 | E. Catherine Tobler | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Kraken Sea by E. Catherine Tobler In The Kraken Sea, E. Catherine Tobler tells the story of Jackson, an orphan with no last name, who has finally found a home with one of San Francisco’s elite — Cressida, also known as The Widow, who has an unnamed purpose for her new ward. Jackson has a […]
Read MoreKate Lechler´s rating: 3.5 | E. Catherine Tobler | Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Grand Tour by E. Catherine Tobler E. Catherine Tobler created Jackson’s Unreal Circus and Mobile Marmalade, a carnival/circus where things are not necessarily what they seem… or in some cases, exactly what they seem, no matter how strange that might be. The stories appeared in places like Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and now, in The […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | E. Catherine Tobler | Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler I continued my Neon Hemlock novella-reading binge with E. Catherine Tobler’s The Necessity of Stars, published in 2021. I always approach a Tobler story preparing to be bowled over by strange and stunning language, and this story did not disappoint. I was surprised to be reading a […]
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My favorite email every other week is the one containing the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Each issue contains two stories of what the online magazine calls “literary adventure fantasy.” The quality of the stories has been high throughout the year or so I’ve been reading the magazine, but it seems to be getting […]
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“Soulcatcher,” the opening story in the May 2013 issue of Clarkesworld, is one of James Patrick Kelly’s best stories. His protagonist, Klary, is the owner of an art gallery who has lured xeni-Harvel Asher, the ambassador from the Four Worlds, into her establishment. The xeni is “embodied” as a human male, but he retains the […]
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I was excited by the first issue of The Dark, which I reviewed in 2013. The following issues fulfill the promise of the first, containing lovely and mysterious stories of dark fantasy. Reading the sweep of the magazine from Issue 2 to Issue 7 reveals that a particular type of story is likely to catch […]
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The most recent issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, No. 173, dated May 14, 2015, opens with “Out of the Rose Hills” by Marissa Lingen. It starts promisingly, with a merchant’s daughter and her companion coming through the title hills on an unexplained but apparently urgent mission. The first person she sees when she comes out […]
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Merry Christmas from Our column today focuses on Christmas and winter-themed stories. Enjoy! “Every Winter” by E. Catherine Tobler (2016, free at Apex magazine, $2.99 Kindle magazine issue) As soon as I finished “Every Winter” I went right back to the top and started re-reading. It wasn’t because I enjoyed the reading experience (though I did) but […]
Read MoreKatie Burton and Tadiana Jones | E. Catherine Tobler, Lavie Tidhar | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk edited by Sean Wallace The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk lives up to its name, with 21 works of fiction ranging from short stories to novellas. “Dieselpunk” is the term the coined for concepts that grew out of steampunk but have left the Victorian era behind and are now, for the […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | A.C. Wise, Carrie Vaughn, E. Catherine Tobler, Genevieve Valentine, Jay Lake, Nick Mamatas | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
E. Catherine Tobler has never run away to join the circus — but she thinks about doing so every day. Among others, her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and on the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award ballot. Her first novel, Rings of Anubis, launched the Folley & Mallory Adventures. Senior editor of Shimmer Magazine, […]
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