A short month with a lot of travel means my magazine reviews are coming later than usual, but coming they are. Let’s check out the February 2025 issues of Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus.  Clarkesworld As with the January 2025 issue, this month’s Clarkesworld contains fewer than the usual eight stories, but with higher than average word… Continue reading Tar Vol Reads a Magazine (or Two): Reviews and Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus (February 2025)

Am I still catching up on 2024 fiction? Yes. Is it 2025? Also yes. So in between catching up, I’m also reading and reviewing my usual new releases. And let me tell you, there are some good stories out this month.  Clarkesworld The January 2025 issue of Clarkesworld has fewer stories than usual, mostly because… Continue reading Tar Vol Reads a Magazine (or Two): Reviews of Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus (January 2025)

Everybody may be posting Best of the Year lists–and don’t get me wrong, I’ll be doing the same later this week–but there are still new stories coming out this month. As always, I read a couple magazines and am here to talk about them.  Clarkesworld The December 2024 issue of Clarkesworld had a wonderfully international… Continue reading Tar Vol Reads a Magazine (or Two): Reviews of Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus (December 2024)

In my first two months of Magazine Minis—where I review a few stories from a particular magazine, even if I haven’t read the entire issue—I’ve collected groups of stories that were at least published in the same issue. But some magazines don’t publish multi-story issues at all. And just because a venue publishes one story… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: Podcastle and Strange Horizons

I’ve expanded from two monthly short fiction posts to three, but we’re still starting with my monthly reads of Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus. Let’s get to it.  Clarkesworld Clarkesworld often features eight stories in a month, but in the October 2024 issue, there are six short stories sandwiching a novella-length centerpiece. It opens with A Space… Continue reading Tar Vol Reads a Magazine (or Two): Reviews of Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus (October 2024)

My short fiction reviews over the last couple years have been almost entirely limited to two monthly posts: a review of the magazines I read cover-to-cover and a catch-all roundup with an assortment of everything else. But in 2024, I’ve been trying to be a little more consistent in my reading of magazines that aren’t… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: Asimov’s (September/October 2024) and Lightspeed (August and September 2024)