Take a trip in a dirigible in an altered 19th century in Elizabeth Bear’s long (25,000 words) novella, “Lucifugous,” complete with vampires and an inconveniently dead body. If that’s not to your taste, visit Orson Scott Card’s most famous creation, Ender’s World, in “Mazer in Prison.” Add to those two new fiction by Tad Williams, Neal Barrett, Jr., Stephen Gallagher, Philip Jose Farmer (a novella length Doc Savage screen treatment), a sharp Halloween tale by Norman Partridge, and a “Wendy” a gem by Jim Grimsley guaranteed to make you uncomfortable.

We think all this — plus an interview with Alan Moore — make Subterranean #5 one of our strongest issues yet. Consider picking up a copy.

Posted on Sunday, October 29th, 2006 at 10:26 am.