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May 20:

  • Hayden Trenholm's "Like Water in the Desert" (from issue #24) won the 2008 Aurora Award for Best Short-Form Work in English

March 28:

  • Hayden Trenholm's "Like Water in the Desert" (from issue #24) has been nominated for an Aurora Award

March 26:

  • link to a review of issue #25, from Lois Tilton on The Internet Review of Science Fiction

February 18:

  • Locus includes "Abigail & Chang" by Harvey Welles & Philip Raines (from issue #24) as one of the short stories on its recommended reading list for 2007

February 2:

  • link to a review of issue #25, from Sam Tomaino on SFRevu

January 19:

  • link to a review of issue #24, from Blue Tyson on Not Free SF Reader

January 12:

  • link to Rich Horton's end-of-year summary, in which he mentions issue #24 and #25
  • our web site was down for a couple of days, due to unforeseen problems when moving the server from one place to another

January 7:

  • issue #25 is now available from Fictionwise for a limited time

December 16:

  • Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital, from issue #25
    • reviews of novels Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson

November 26:

  • link to a review of issue #24, from Rich Horton in Locus
  • reviewer James Schellenberg's latest column on The Cultural Gutter is "I Read Adventure Novels For The Historical Exposition" and his latest column on Strange Horizons is "Giving Up"

September 7:

  • link to a review of issue #24, from Michele Lee on Tangent

September 3:

  • link to a review of issue #24, from Sam Tomaino on SFRevu

August 29:

  • reviewer James Schellenberg's latest column on The Cultural Gutter is "We the People (Are Robots)" and his latest column on Strange Horizons is "Summer Movies 2007"

August 28:

  • interview with Spider Robinson, from issue #25

August 14:

  • issue #24 is now available from Fictionwise for a limited time

August 7:

  • interview with Michelle Sagara, from issue #24

July 28:

  • The Latest in Canadian SF, from issue #24
    • review of anthology Tesseracts Ten edited by Robert Charles Wilson & Edo van Belkom
    • reviews of novels Blindsight by Peter Watts, The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson, Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder, and Widdershins by Charles de Lint

July 21:

  • Gardner Dozois has chosen "Eye Teeth" by Jay Lake as an honourable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection
  • reviewer James Schellenberg's latest column on The Cultural Gutter is "Sauron For the Win" and his latest column on Strange Horizons is "Lost Moments"

June 28:

  • in David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's introduction to Year's Best SF 12, they mention Challenging Destiny as one of a small number of online magazines that are worth checking out
  • reviewer James Schellenberg's latest column on The Cultural Gutter is "Evil Will Not Enter the World Through Me" and his latest column on Strange Horizons is "Indie Videogames"


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