This Week’s New Short Fiction, Part I
July 26th, 2007
Wow, there’s so much coming in this week that I’ll do two posts.
I’ll start with Ted Chiang’s new story, which showed up in the mail on the same day in two different forms; it’s in the latest issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, and in the nice limited edition (pictured) that I pre-ordered a long time ago from Subterranean Press. The novelette is called “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”. Chiang again combines religious themes with scientific themes in a fresh way as he tells a time travel story, inspired by the work of physicist Kip Thorne and fraught with human possibilities and disappointments, set in ancient Baghdad.
The Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine is the September 2007 issue, and here are the fiction contents:
NOVELETTES
“Wrong Number” by Alexander Jablokov
“Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers” by John Langan
“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang
SHORT STORIES
“Envoy Extraordinary” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“Atalanta Loses at the Interpantheonic Trivia Bee” by Heather Lindsley
“Requirements for the Mythology Merit Badge” by Kevin N. Haw
“If We Can Save Just One Child…” by Robert Reed
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