Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Reviews

  • Hub, Issue 77

    I’ve heard on the grapevine that Hub is the semi-pro place to get published these days, at least in the UK. The story in Issue 77 is Hidden Underneath by…


  • Hub, Issue 76

    Montgolfier Winter by Alisdair Stuart is quite a bit longer than the recent fiction in Hub has been. The start is a little ropey, there are some clunky sentences and…


  • Hub, Issue 75

    The fiction in Issue 75 is not so much a story as a sketch. A Little Mystery by Len Bains is a short, well written exploration of what it would…


  • Hub, Issue 74

    Well, this isn’t quite turning out to be the ‘daily writing exercise to get me motivated to work on my novel’ or ‘small writing thing I can do every day…


  • Crossed Genres, Issue 3

    The Romance issue. Five sci-fi/fantasy stories with a romance theme. First up, Laugh if you Love me by TK Read. It’s a little heavy on the adjectives and adverbs for…


  • Hub, Issue 73

    I’m running behind again (pesky life) and Hub aren’t, so there will be a several reviews posted over the next few days. Issue 73‘s story is Behind Glass by Simon…


  • Hub, Issue 72

    Ok, so this was actually released on 5th January and I’m running a bit behind. A quick glance at the Hub website reassures me that they are too. The first…


  • Hub, Issue 71

    Hub Magazine has a new website and it looks great. Issue 71’s story is The Watchers at the Window by Marie Faye Prior. It’s good. The initial hook seems a…


  • Crossed Genres Issue 2

    Crossed Genres is a new online magazine that specialises in scifi/fantasy stories that have elements of another genre. Issue 2 has four dystopian scifi/fantasy stories. Of the four, Nesting Instinct…


  • Hub Issue 70

    Latest short story fix – Hub #70. I like Hub – it’s delivered weekly as a pdf via email and contains one story (SF, fantasy or horror) and a couple…


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