Realms of Fantasy Reviewed

by Editor Douglas Cohen on March 3, 2010

The February 2010 issue of Realms of Fantasy has been reviewed by Rich Horton in the February 2010 issue of Locus Magazine. Here is the review in its entirety:

The February Realms of Fantasy features a new Harlan Ellison story, “How Interesting: a Tiny Man,” in which the narrator creates a little man, and we see the progression of responses to him, from fascination to resistance and fear and hate. It’s a fine story, if brief and a bit slight. I also liked Ann Leckie’s “The Unknown God,” in which the god Aworo, in human form, returns to the city where he tragically misused his power, condemning a woman he loved to–he thought–death. He learns she still lives, but in constrained circumstances due to his curse. And naturally she (and her own god) are not too happy with him. Leckie is, as ever, inventive and logical and grounded about the power and responsibility of godhood.

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