Shimmer

Check out what The Internet Review of Science Fiction has to say about Shimmer.

Available in both electronic and physical formats, Shimmerzine is a nice-looking publication with some nice-reading stories.

Headlining the issue is Dario Ciriello’s Valley of the Shadow, a zombie story with a difference. Complex, subtle, and powerful, one man makes his way in a world where the dead walk again. These zombies aren’t eating brains, though. They walk with us, watch us, silently reproaching the living.

This is characteristic of the other material in Shimmerzine: contemporary fantasy with a dark edge, from capering death clowns to predators among sheep-like shoppers. The lightest piece here is a fun little take on the rapture.

By way of non-fiction: John Joseph Adams reviews John Twelve Hawks’ The Traveler.

Tangent online gave us a very nice review for our first issue.

The premier issue of Shimmer seems to have a lot going for it: numerous well-told stories by many unknown names, wonderful artwork weaved into each story, a pleasing and original layout, and a book review by the Slush God himself, John Joseph Adams, of F&SF fame.