We’re delighted to share the great news that Ruth EJ Booth won this year’s best non-fiction prize at the British Fantasy Society’s awards for her Noise and Sparks column in Shoreline of Infinity. She was presented with her trophy at the recent British Fantasy Society Awards Ceremony at Fantasycon. Ruth joined us for Shoreline of … Read more
British Fantasy Society, British Fantasy Awards 2018 Shoreline of Infinity is delighted to declare that we have been shortlisted for Best Magazine/Periodical in this year’s British Fantasy Society’s Awards. And, Ruth EJ Booth is also shortlisted for best non-fiction for her thoughtful and engaging column, Noise and Sparks. After two rounds of nomination and voting … Read more
New stories from: Bo Balder, S.A.M. Rundell, Brian M. Milton, dave ring, Jeremy Nelson, Peyman Saremian, Raymond W Gallacher
Winners of the 2019 Flash Fiction Competition: Simon Fung, Emma Levin, Anna Ziegelhof
Poetry: Frederick Pollack, Laura Watts, Emma Levin
Ruth EJ Booth – award winning column Noise and Sparks
Chris Beckett – interview and a wee extract from Beneath the World, a Sea
SF Caledonia: J.T. McIntosh
Mark Toner – Tales of the Beachcomber
Special Treat: Russell Jones’ Prime Jokes
Book Reviews
Nominated again (after winning last year!) for the British Fantasy Society Best Magazine/Journal of the year
New Science fiction stories from: Petra Kuppers, Allen Ashley, Helen French, Kate Macdonald, Laura Duerr, Calum L. MacLeòid, Ahmed A. Khan
2019 BFS award-winning Ruth EJ Booth: Noise and Sparks
Vicki Jarrett: interview
SF Poetry: Rachel Plummer, Cardinal Cox, Chuck Von Nordheim
Plus Mark Toner’s Tales of the Beachcomber
Book Reviews
Stories: DA D’Amico, EM Faulds, Tim Major, Callum McSorley, Tiffany Meuret, JG Sarmiento, Teika Marija Smits, Lidia Molina Whyte
Cymera Festival/Shoreline of Infinity Short fiction winners: Cleo Luna, Beth Nuttall
Gareth L Powell on Writing
Louise Welsh interview
Ruth EJ Booth: Noise and Sparks
SF Poetry: Angela Cleland, Peter King, Rachel Sambrooks
Plus Mark Toner’s Tales of the Beachcomber
Book Reviews
Stories: Thomas Broderick, Rhiannon Grist, Cat Hellisen, Ken MacLeod, Andrew Reichard, Neil Williamson, Vicki Jarrett, Emma Levin, Alyssa Eckles, Eris Young
Poetry: FJ Bergmann, Harry Josephine Giles, Richard Stevenson
Ruth EJ Booth’s BSFA award shortlisted column “Noise and Sparks”
Pippa Goldschmidt on “The Future is already here”
Mark Toner’s Tales of the Beachcomber
SF Caledonia: Chris Kelso on Neil Williamson
Plus reviews
Fiction and poetry from: Helen Jackson, Robert Gordon, Anton Rose, J S Richardson, W G White, Elva Hills, Duncan Lunan, Caroline Hardaker, Ken Poyner, Elizabeth Dulemba
Ada Palmer – Interview
Chris Kelso – SF Caledonia: Crossing the Starfield
Mark Toner – The Beachcomber Presents
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Ruth EJ Booth – Noise and Sparks: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Genre?
And the annual flash fiction competition
Aliette de Bodard, Emily Bowles, Karen Heuler, Lith Amenti, Anna Ibbotson, Katy Lennon, Sim Bajwa, Jen Downes
Ruth EJ Booth – Noise and Sparks: Beyond the Mountains
SJ McGeachy on Frankenstein: The Nuts and Bolts of Genre Mash-Up
Jonatha Kottler – Confessions of a Science Fiction She-nerd
Interview with Lisanne Norman
Poetry from: Katherine McMahon, Catherine Edmunds, Paige Smith, Katie Fanthorpe
Guest Editors: Pippa Goldschmidt, Caroline Grebbell
Guest Art Director: Monica Burns
Die Booth – Junk Medicine
Ephiny Gale – Little Freedoms
Serena Johe – Don’t Speak; Don’t Listen
Daniel Rosen – If Thine Eyes Offends Thee
K.E. Macphee – The Apple Bee
Chris Bailey – Sweet Compulsion
Flash-fiction Competition Winners
Winner: Matthew Castle – A Choice for a Golden Age
Runners-up:
Marija Smits – ATU334 The Wise
SK Farrell – Pauline and the Bahnians
Judges’ reports: Eric Brown & Pippa Goldschmidt
Interview with Helen Sedgwick
SF Poetry – Jo-Ella Sarich, Rosemary Badcoe, Rachel Plummer
Noise and Sparks – Ruth EJ Booth
Tales of the Beachcomber, featuring Arthur C Clarke
Competition – Name that Author
Book Reviews
Targets – Eric Brown
Goddess with a Human Heart – Jeannette Ng
The Pink Life(La Vie En Rose) – Nathan Susnik
The Black Tide – Laura Duerr
The Starchitect – Barry Charman
These Are the Ways – Premee Mohamed
Arthur Kovic’s Days of Change – Michael Teasdale
The Folger Variation – Chris Kelso
SF Poetry by Lauren Harwyn, Louise Peterkin, Colin McGuire
Flash Fiction Competition
Noise and Sparks: Ruth EJ Booth
SF Caledonia – interview with Chris Kelso
Tales of the Beachcomber—Mark Toner & Stephen Pickering
Book Reviews
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