The internal layout is simple but practical, print is large, set in two columns, and with no internal illustration except for adverts. Published as a print-on-demand magazine through Createspace and Amazon, Cirsova suffers a little from the constraints of this means of production: the spine is perfect-bound and covers-blank inside-are prone to curling. Readers who hark back to this kind of vaguely juvenile fantasy will find a varied, generally well-written and edited collection of seven stories. There is a good mix of genres in this slim volume, from very short stories to forty-page novella, by way of poetry, nonfiction and a mock RPG adventure, and from comic-fantasy to shattered far future, by way of faeries, eldrich death spirits and contemporary shark horror. Alexander is going for a classic feel, but the word I would choose would be “retro”-along with the larger-than-life heroes, exotic locales and lack of concern for “scientific accuracy,” this issue seems to come from an age before gender or representation had much of a place in escapist fiction. $7.50.Ĭirsova is a new fantasy and science fiction magazine that pays semi-pro rates and focuses on golden-age adventure, sword and planet, heroic fantasy and old-fashioned romantic fantasy genres. Cirsova: Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine #2 (Summer 2016).
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