Issue: April 2006

His Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik

Dragons and the Napoleonic war—can fiction get any better?

A Cliché by Any Other Name

Are clichés all wet, or do they leave you high and dry? Can they be short and sweet, but in it for the long haul? Science fiction author Bruce Golden gives us a tour through Clichéland in this April Fool’s special.

Mad About the Boy, by Mathilde Madden

A modern erotic novel by a regular RE contributor.

Fadeout

They strapped a man to the ceiling today. I know him. His name is Wasari Ichimura. I tried to talk to him afterwards but he wasn’t interested, and I was [...]

Heart Notes

Leaving the lab in the early evening, Ilmari saw them again. Three trees trembling, their thin branches bouncing with birds, birds of a kind he had never seen before this [...]

Mad About the Boy, by Mathilde Madden

Sharon Dodge reviews the modern erotic novel Mad About the Boy by RE contributor Mathilde Madden.