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The short story The Literomancer made me sick to my stomach. The rest of the stories were good.
A heartbreaking historical short story in Taiwan right after the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Emotional story about an American girl living in Taiwan during the time of the cold war. A short read and really makes you see how not black and white the cold war was. Very emotional and well written.
I received this magazine in a goody-bag at a writer's convention and could not put it down. Great stories packed inside! I've read other issues before, and I must say, I dearly love most of the stories I've read so far.
The October anniversary issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction were usually quite good and the September/October 2010 issue is one of the best. I don't think there are any poor stories and most of them are very good.F&SF frequently published horror stories and this issue is no exception. Fred Chappell's "Uncle Moon in Raintree Hills" is (probably) a story of supernatural horror, but it is told from the viewpoint of children. Could they be misinterpreting what they see?"The Door in...
1961 Taiwan and young American Lilly Dyer is taught life lessons by her so called friends from home, her new school mates, but mostly by the literomancer, old Mr Kan, and his nephew Teddy. A story build around the magic of the component parts of Chinese characters and the history of Taiwan from Japanese invasion, to the arrival of the Chinese Nationalists, and finally the American cold war suppport including and unbeknown to Lilly, her father, for all things anti-communist.
A beautiful idea, exploring the magic of words. Lilly Dyer is an American girl whose father has a mysterious job with the government. They are transferred to Taiwan where Lilly is bullied by some truly hideous children--then she makes friends with a baseball-loving boy her age and his grandfather, a man who can look into people's hearts with the words they pick for him to interpret.I'd give this story a higher rating if not for the ending. No spoilers here, but the way the revelation was conveye...
