Please join us staring this Tuesday, June 6th, for a week-long interactive Q&A session with historical fiction writer John Shors. In the meantime, check out his debut novel Beneath a Marble Sky which is set to be released on paperback on Tuesday: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451218469/arwz-20
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
We're starting a new feature here at ARWZ Magazine, an we would like to invite you to participate. If you would like to share your book and film recommendations with ARWZ readers, check out the details of our new reading list column:
The votes for our fourth Top 10 list, the Best Characters in alternative reality fiction, have been tabulated and the results published! Check out the finished list: https://www.arwz.com/zinearticlesTOPTEN4.html
Thanks again to everyone who voted. Please consider voting in our next list, the Top 10 Best Science Fiction Films. This list project is now officially open for voting. Please visit our Top 10 Main Page for details:https://www.arwz.com/top10.html
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Workshop Entries
To get some more activity going at the Workshop, we have extended our deal of "free enty" until the end of the summer. For a limited time, you can join the workshop without doing any initiation critiques. Just post your first submission to get started! Visit our Workshop Forums for details:
Now that our May issue is complete, check out all of our new features! ARWZ publishes new content every Tuesday and Thursday, so please stop by during the month to see what's new!
5/30/06 REVIEW: Event Horizon directed by Paul Anderson
Review by Lucian Rudder
https://www.arwz.com/zinereviewLUC1.html
What is arguably director Paul Anderson's best film, Event Horizon finally gets the Special Edition DVD treatment. It is about time.
5/25/06 REVIEW: The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Review by S.K. Slevinski
https://www.arwz.com/zinereviewSKS20.html
Tracy Chevalier shows her strength and skill�as more than simply a skilled historical novelist. The Lady and the Unicorn is one of the better novels, of any sort, I've read in the last year.
5/23/06 ARTICLE: Top Ten Characters
Compiled by ARWZ Editors
https://www.arwz.com/zinearticlesTOPTEN4.html
Voting in our latest Top 10 list of the Best Characters in alternative reality fiction was any character's game. The votes were split across a wide range of choices, and among multiple characters in favorite books and films. ARWZ readers and associates nominated nearly three hundred of their favorite protagonists, anti-heroes, sidekicks, villains... not to mention those who defy categorization.
5/18/06 REVIEW: Viriconium by M. John Harrison
Review by Andrea Johnson
https://www.arwz.com/zinereviewANJ1.html
Viriconium is like a dream, never the same place twice, always shifting, always changing. The book reads more like a biblical testament, a history of a people, than a typical collection of short stories.
5/16/06 REVIEW: Book & Audiobook: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Reviews by R.S. Gibson & Violet Kane
https://www.arwz.com/zinereviewRSG1.html
With Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman combines the depth of his more serious American Gods with a comedic sensibility reminiscent of his earlier Good Omens. Frothy comedy and silly supernatural slapstick are woven seamlessly around a tale of a dysfunctional magical family.
5/11/06 REVIEW: Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Review by Violet Kane
https://www.arwz.com/zinereviewVIO28.html
While I am sure this book will find many fans among the "beach read" public this summer, I doubt that readers looking for greater depth will find much to recommend it.
5/9/06 EDITORIAL: Why do we need "alternative reality fiction"?
Editorial by S.K. Slevinski
https://www.arwz.com/zineeditorial050906.html
After compiling the votes for our list of Top 10 Speculative Fiction Novels, we got quite a few complaints. Many people asked why we needed this umbrella term. As editor for a magazine on these types of allegedly "speculative" fiction, I happen to need one.
5/4/06 REVIEW: Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Review by Violet Kane
https://www.arwz.com/zinereviewVIO27.html
Younger adults or newcomers to fantasy may find novelty in Eragon, but any well-read fantasy readers will find it largely imitative of old standards.
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