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Dave Truesdale has returned with a new column looking at short fiction.
He has edited Tangent and now Tangent Online since 1993. It has been nominated
for the Hugo Award four times, and the World Fantasy Award once. A former editor of the Bulletin of the Science
Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he also served as a World Fantasy Award judge in 1998, and
currently writes an original online column
for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
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Off On A Tangent: Novel Reviewsa column by Dave Truesdale Steven Gould's Impulse begins years after the close of Reflex, as Davy and Millie now have a teenaged daughter, Millicent, nicknamed Cent. Davy has purchased, dirt-cheap, an isolated arctic hunting lodge. For Davy is on the run from the government whose only desire is to exploit his powerful ability, but soon enough found himself captured and tortured by a criminal terrorist organization. And in Gillian Philip's Firebrand, the first in her Rebel Angels series, takes place in both the faery realm of the Sithe (whose folk are nigh immortal) and the human world of the 16th century (where witch-hunts and religious persecution abound), the Veil, the shield separating and protecting the Sithe world from that of mortals is decaying.
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Off On A Tangent: Short Fiction Reviewsa column by Dave Truesdale The first half of 2008 has come and gone, and so with it the once-fresh memories of some of its earlier stories. Beginning with this installment -- as a mid-season memory enhancer -- we'll be taking a look at 2008's short fiction, beginning with January and working our way up to year's end. This time we'll take a look at the January through March issues of F&SF, as well as the Jan./Feb. Special Double Issue of Analog.
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