The Fix has some nice things to say about Mercurio D. Rivera’s “The Fifth Zhi,” his story in the current Interzone.  Among other praises, they say:

“This theme is familiar, from Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War to Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and countless others. “The Fifth Zhi”’s use of clones is an excellent, highly appropriate riff on the theme.”

You can read the full review here.

Congratulations on the nice review, Mercurio!

My story, “Different Spheres,” is now up at OG Speculative Fiction.  You can download the issue as a PDF.

So if you are alive and well on December 19th and you are in the NY area, please join us for a night of readings from THE FIELD GUIDE TO SURREAL BOTANY.  It will be held at the KGB Bar (no, it’s not the same night as the Fantastic Fiction reading series; this event will be on a Friday).  I will be reading my entry of the star-borne Spasmodica plasticosa and will be joined by Christopher Cevasco, Kris Dikeman, Susan Fedyna, Livia Llwellyn and others, reading of their blasphemous discoveries found while researching earth’s myriad fauna.

Full information is available here.

James Trimarco writes to tell us he’s sold his story, “The Ugly Cops,” to Semaphore magazine, an online publication from New Zealand.

Congratulations, James!

Do you want to read a fantastic crossroads story about the Devil’s dog?  Well check out Kris Dikeman’s “Nine Sundays in a Row,” now up at Strange Horizons.  It’s my favorite story of hers and I think, soon, might be your favorite too.