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Number 75 Vol.19 No.4 June 2010

Realms of Fantasy:

REALMS OF FANTASY, February 2010, Tir Na Nog Press (www.realmsoffantasymag.com), $6.99. ISSN 1078-1951.

“How Interesting: A Tiny Man” by Harlan Ellison is a highlight of Realms of Fantasy Magazine. The creator of a tiny man is a representation of the slowly fading ideals of an author surrounded by No Good trends. Those trends include aspartame instead of just plain raw sugar, iPads (those repugnant hand-held book e-readers), and the entire dumbing-down of the human race, beginning with video games and leading up to stupid social network sites like Twitter (only twits Tweet). The past shrinks from view, like the Tiny Man – sadly he, like the ideals of a past age, will either be eliminated or go in a grand way. A great man just fades away . . . a tiny great man reminds everyone of how he fades away, time and again.

Andrew M. Andrews

Skinny Bastard - Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin

The Intrigue At Highbury - Carrie Bebris

Making Rounds With Oscar - David Dosa, M.D.

WINGS OF FIRE, ed. by Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon. Night Shade Books (www.nightshadebooks.com), 2010, 499 pp., $15.95. ISBN 978-1-59780-187-4

Of all these classic tales in the WINGS OF FIRE anthology, it was certainly a lot of fun to read “The Dragon on the Bookshelf” by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg. Also, it was a pleasure to look over and read again many of these classic tales, collected as a treasury of the best dragon fiction of our era.

THE ARK, by Boyd Morrison. Touchstone/Fireside/Simon and Schuster (www.simonandschuster.com), 2010, 420 pp., $24.99. ISBN 978-1-4391-8179-9
An archeologist’s father may have found Noah’s Ark, but is missing, with the only clue about his whereabouts coming from a man who dies at Los Angeles Airport – and the quest to find the truth begins.

NEVERLAND by Douglas Clegg. Vanguard Press (www.vanguardpressbooks.com), 2010, 288 pp., $15.95. ISBN 1-59315-541-4. A woodland shack on an island off the southern U.S. coast becomes a forbidden place, a key to an age-old mystery. Kids, of course, find it and are caught up in its mysterious past.

INTO THE WORLD OF MIGHT BE, by W.A. Harbinson. BookSurge Publishing (www.booksurge.com), 2002, 2008, 167 pp., $13.99. ISBN 1-4196-7639-3

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. Spiegel & Grau (www.spiegelandgrau.com), 2010, 298 pp., $25.00. ISBN 978-0-385-52338-7

RECOVERING APOLLO 8 and Other Stories, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Golden Gryphon (www.goldengryphon.com), 2010, 316 pp., $24.95. ISBN 1-930846-62-2

THE GREAT LIFE MAKEOVER, by Daniel A. Monti, MD & Anthony J. Bazzan, MD. HarperCollins Publishers (www.harpercollins.com), 2008, 248 pp., $24.99. ISBN 978-0-06-143540-9

THE DERVISH HOUSE, by Ian McDonald. Prometheus Books (www.pyrsf.com), 2010, 359 pp., $16.00. ISBN 978-1-61614-204-9