Fantastic Stories of the Imagination #228

This is the ebook edition of Fantastic Stories #228 (DRM-FREE, .mobi, .epub & PDF) including:

Original Short Story: Little Fox by Amy Griswold — Where oh where has Marissa's clone sister gone?

Original Flash Fiction: This Side of Time by Sarah Grey — For fifteen year-old Emily, the future is serious business.

Novelette: The Stone Man by Sarah Totton — A little fear can be a very good thing.

Short Story: Herbert Hutchinson in the Underworld by Bruce Coville — Some choices are more important than life and death.

Short Story: Icarus Falls by Alex Shvartsman — An explorer pays an unforgettable price for the stars.

Reviews: The Fan: Ramifications of Imagination, Casting the World Aside by Carole McDonnell — Carole McDonnell’s reviews Beyond (2014), directed by Joseph Baker, Webjunkie (2013), directed by Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia, After the Dark (2013-14), directed by John Huddles, the documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2014), directed by Mami Sunada, and Wolfcop (2014), written and directed by Lowell Dean.

Reviews: The Magic Lantern: Of Plan Nine and other things by Adam-Troy Castro — Adam-Troy Castro discusses why Ed Wood's notorious Plan Nine from Outer Space (1959) isn't really the worst movie ever made, and discusses some other contenders that while vile, probably aren't either: including Manos, Hands of Fate, and the horror that is the film Horror (2003). Honeymoon (2014), Housebound (2014) and Predestination (2015) are also discussed, in a not the worst kind-of-way.

Reviews: Area 51 1/2, May, 2015 by Steven Sawicki — Our resident Alien considers A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias, Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright, The Blood Gospel by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell, Impulse by Dave Barra, and The Mercury Men, written and Directed by Chris Preksta,

Reviews: New & Noteworthy Short Genre Fiction, May, 2015 by Gillian Daniels — Gillian Daniels reviews “Those” by Sofia Samatar, “Thousandfurs, Or The King Who Wanted To Marry His Daughter” by Mallory Ortberg, “To Preserve Humankind” by Christina Nordlander, and “Let Baser Things Devise” by Berrien C. Henderson.