"AntipodeanSF", January 2012 (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & review

7 science fiction stories of flash fiction length. I liked one ("Bugsy!"), & found two at least readable ("The Lightning Gun", "When The Alphabet Vomits On A Birth Certificate").

1. Julie Wornan's "Bugsy!" (A); download: Little baby knows far more than her parents suspect...
2. Antoinette Rydyr's "The Lightning Gun" (B); download: A gun that hits the target 10 years after firing...
3. Jamie Richter's "When The Alphabet Vomits On A Birth Certificate" (B); download; humor: Crazy government requirements of would-be parents...
4. Christine Gladstone's "What If" (B); download: Lifecycle of life...
5. Des McNicholas' "The Candidate" (C); download: NASA is hell bent of keeping the fact secret that there is an impenetrable & invisible barrier around earth...
   See also: David Brin's "Crystal Spheres": Star travel is impossible because there is an invisible barrier around each star system that can only be breached from inside, not from outside...
6. Mark Webb's "Shipwrecked" (C); download: Elder aliens visiting earth some centuries ago cannot decide whether to destroy humanity seeing its cruelty, or help it mix with galactic culture in future...
7. David Scholes' "Trathh" (C); download: Adventures of some crash-landed aliens on earth. I didn't get the punchline, though.

Antipodean SF, #146 (August 2010) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & review

I've only read the 7 science fiction stories from this issue; none particularly remarkable, nor totally crappy.
Caution: The link above is not permanent, & will be overwritten when next month's issue is posted. AntiSF's new issues get a permanent URL at their archive several days after the issue is posted - there is none at present. Individual story links below will, I think, continue working.

Note this is a flash fiction magazine - 10 pieces of flash fiction every month. Includes some fantasy or horror too that I've not read.

I personally found stories early in the list below better reads than ones that come later.

Links on authors fetch more fiction by authors.

1. Jamie Richter's "Switch"; download: Description of a specific debugging session of computer programmer, with an ethnic joke about Frenchmen thrown in near end.
2. David Kernot's "Starry Eyed Trio: Herschel"; download: A galactic-scale intelligence has discovered another intelligent species.
3. Pavelle Wesser's "Second Hand"; download; humor: A man is having an extra-marital relationship.
4. Wes Parish's "The Previously Unknown Kingdom Of The North Saxons"; download: A previously unknown kingdom in British history was very short lived because...
5. Robert N Stephenson's "iWorld"; download: A parody of Apple's habit of putting "i" before their products: a whole society that puts "i" before common words!
6. Shaun A Saunders' "Right Of Way"; download; dystopia: A city where crossing the road on foot is a criminal offense because it can lead to "unlawful interruption of the progression of a motor vehicle, driver of which was engaged in promotion of commerce"!
7. Susan Partridge's "A Civil Servant's Diary"; download: A society where those long dead can be brought back alive, & regularly are.

Jamie Richter's "Aloha Or Bust" (flash fiction, humor, free)

Someone is putting pressure on a spaceship captain to make a detour to pick up some VIP passengers. But the captain is adamant, until he learns that the VIPs are...

Fact sheet.

First published: AntiSF, #139 (January 2010).
Download full text from publisher's site.
Rating: B.