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Hey! Want to know what’s going down in the world of weird, speculative and period fiction? Then you probably need to find a proper website. But if you want our usual collection of oddities, here’s all the news that we can remember while trying to stop the dog eating the computer mouse. As we call yourselves a signpost site, check the signs and see if any of them intrigue…<\/p>\n

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Book Enjoyed by Local Man<\/h1>\n

Gwendolyn Kiste’s<\/strong><\/span> new collection And Her Smile will Untether the Universe<\/em> is out now. We’ve read it, and were impressed. It’s an almost mythical ride through the Weird, blending and deconstructing different themes to create some powerful tales and lasting images.<\/p>\n

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Many of those images reflect aspects of female needs and identity. Gwendolyn, already noted for her strange and eerie short stories, writes so fluidly, without polemic, that you can choose to seek out deeper meanings – or simply be drawn into the tales for pure enjoyment.<\/p>\n

\u201cA murdered movie star reaches out to an unlikely fan. An orchard is bewitched with poison apples and would-be princesses. A pair of outcasts fail a questionnaire that measures who in their neighborhood will vanish next. Two sisters keep a grotesque secret hidden in a Victorian bathtub. A dearly departed best friend carries a grudge from beyond the grave.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Very worth a look. We’re going to try and have Gwendolyn on here soon to talk about it. Follow the links below to find it:<\/p>\n

untether on amazon uk<\/a><\/p>\n

untether on amazon us<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alien Shoots Detective: Barbarian Questioned<\/h1>\n

Broadswords and Blasters<\/em> is a new quarterly magazine edited by Matthew X. Gomez<\/strong><\/span> and Cameron Mount<\/span><\/strong>. The first issue has just come out, and it lives up to its title, with speculative stories which range from grimdark-y fantasy to pure science fiction – with a pulp touch.<\/p>\n

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\u201c ‘A pulp magazine with modern sensibilities.’ What does that even mean? It means we want characters who act, who go on adventures, who push boundaries. We want new takes on old ideas… adventurers who discard the old stigmas on gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. <\/em><\/p>\n

“We want readers from diverse backgrounds to be able to pick up an issue and see themselves in these characters. It means we wanted writers to look at the old tropes of pulp fiction and update them for a modern audience. We wanted writers to actively look at the problems inherent to the old pulp stories and subvert, invert, and otherwise turn them on their head.”<\/em><\/p>\n

We haven’t finished reading it yet, so won’t say much more, but here’s the run-down of what you’ll find inside:<\/p>\n

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