Sybil's Garage No. 7

by Matthew Kressel (Editor), Hal Duncan, M. K. Hobson, Amal El-Mohtar, Anil Menon

Overview

Where can you find a television that sees five minutes into the future? Where can you find dragons trapped in a jar and an illness which turns people into glass? Where might you find families who sell their brainpower to corporations for penny wages, or dead relatives that sit down for family meals?

Why, in the pages of Sybil’s Garage No. 7, of course.

In this seventh issue of the highly acclaimed series, you will find twenty-seven original works of fiction and poetry from today’s top talent, with suggested musical accompaniment, our trademark design aesthetic, and much more. But be sure to leave a trail of breadcrumbs on your way into Sybil’s Garage, or you may not find your way out.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011912870
Publisher:	Senses Five Press
Publication date:	10/19/2010
Series:	Sybil's Garage , #7
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	195
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Hal Duncan is a sodomite, a smoker, a member of the Glasgow SF Writer’s Circle, and a monthly columnist at BSC Review. He has published: two novels, Vellum (which won the Spectrum and Tähtivaeltaja awards and was nominated for several others) and Ink; a stand-alone novella, “Escape from Hell!”; various short stories in magazines and anthologies; and a poetry collection, Sonnets for Orpheus. His work also includes the lyrics for Aereogramme’s “If You Love Me, You’d Destroy Me,” on the Ballads of the Book album, and the musical, Nowhere Town, which recently premiered in Chicago.

Amal El-Mohtar is a first-generation Lebanese-Canadian, currently pursuing a PhD in English literature at the Cornwall campus of the University of Exeter. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in a range of publications both online and in print, including Strange Horizons, Shimmer, Cabinet des Fées, Sybil’s Garage, Mythic Delirium, and Ideomancer; her work has been broadcast on Podcastle, and The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different honeys, is available from Papaveria Press. She won the 2009 Rhysling Award with her poem “Song for an Ancient City,” and co-edits Goblin Fruit, an online quarterly dedicated to fantastical poetry, with Jessica P. Wick. Find her online at http://tithenai.livejournal.com.

Anil Menon’s short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Albedo One, Apex Digest, Chiaroscuro, Internova, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, New Genre and Strange Horizons, as well as a variety of anthologies. His YA/SF novel The Beast With Nine Billion Feet (Zubaan Books) was released in November 2009. He can be reached at iam@ anilmenon.com.

Matthew Kressel publishes Sybil's Garage, and Paper Cities, An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, which won the 2009 World Fantasy Award. His fiction has or will appear in Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, Electric Velocipede, Apex Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Farrago's Wainscot, A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, and the anthologies Naked City and Steam-Powered. He co-hosts the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series with Ellen Datlow. Find him at www.matthewkressel.net

Editorial Reviews

"Beautifully designed and printed as always, Sybil's Garage which has been one of the best small press speculative fiction journals, graduates to anthology status. "

Richard Bowes

“The always interesting ‘zine Sybil’s Garage is back with a thicker than usual issue (partly because of a format change). As ever, it provides a stimulating mix of SF, fantasy, poetry, and slipstream. This time around my favorite is “The Poincare Sutra” by Anil Menon, a perkily told but rather dark story of a 16-year-old Coptic girl in Israel, who falls in love with a Jewish boy while her father’s past pushes him in a different direction.”

Rich Horton

“It’s been awhile since an anthology had this kind of emotional impact on me...this one is highly recommended.”

N. K. Jemisin

“There are some excellent stories contained in this volume.”

Jo-Anne Odell