by Joe Vaz
I’m really lucky. I can work within an established world/setting/context with the same zeal that I approach creating my own worlds. There is a different framework of rules, but the work is essentially the same. Create a hero, give him/her something interesting to do, add lots of conflict, and keep the pacing up. |
From Issue 17 (Dec 2011) |
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by Mel Odom
Even before Special Agent Thompson took the 8x10 photograph from inside his sleek briefcase, Emily Cooksey knew she had seen the man previously - eight days ago. “No.” She told the lie without inflection, without pause, just as she’d told the man her name was Mary Smith. She was good at lying and would be ashamed of it, if it weren’t so necessary in her life. |
From Issue 17 (Dec 2011) |
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The 2012 Hugo Award nominations are in full swing. Eligibility details and nomination forms can be found here.
Below is a list of work that Something Wicked is eligible for.
Short Story (less than 7500 words)
The Silver City & The Green Place – Abi Godsell
Alpha & Omega – Paul Marlowe
Happiest Among Mortals – Glen Damien Campbell
Herman’s Bad Seed – Damien Filer
The Treasons – AA Garrison
Watcher in The Corner – Michael Hodges
Mindflow – Cedar Sanderson
Six Feet Above – Cate Gardner
Pulse – Tom Jolly
Novellette (between 7500 and 17,500 words)
Scission – Domenico Pisanti
Best Editor Short Form
Editor – Joe Vaz
Fiction Editor – Vianne Venter
Best Fan Writer
All Non-Fiction contributors
Best Fan Art
Vincent Sammy
Pierre Smit
Jesca Marisa
Hendrik Gericke
Best Semi-Prozine
Vianne Venter
Joe has always loved this piece, so when he decided that come-hell-or-high-water he was going to use it for this cover, I attempted an overlay layer of butterfly images at short notice, though in the end we decided to go without it.
Read more »by Joe Vaz
We’ve got a great bunch of original stories for you this issue. That’s right, four brand-new, never-before-seen stories, starting with She Can See Tomorrow Today, by Mel Odom, wherein a young woman negotiates for her freedom. Concerning Harmonies and Oceans by K.A. Dean, is about a young boy whose voice could change his family’s destiny. Genevieve Rose Taylor’s The Lighthouse is an intimate, nostalgic story set in a small coastal town. Our feature interview this month is with both Charlie Human and Sam Wilson, two of the five South African authors featured in Pandemonium: Stories of The Apocalypse, which itself is reviewed in this issue by Karen Jeynes. |
From Issue 17 (Dec 2011) |
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interview by Joe Vaz
As I was setting the story from the zombie's viewpoint I figured grunts would not be the way to go. A narrative of grunt, grunt, grunt, ugh, argh, grunt, grunt might have been off-putting. |
From Issue 16 (Dec 2011) |
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by Cate Gardner
“The Devil pulled the string on his attic door and all the people tumbled down,” Pastor Baest said, recounting recent history. “Soil shot up in an almighty plume, affixing its weight to the sky and colouring the world sepia. Amen.” “Amen,” the children repeated. |
From Issue 16 (Dec 2011) |
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interview by Joe Vaz & Vianne Venter
DANNY TREJO HAS ONE of the most iconic faces in movies today, yet very few people know his name. Ask anyone if they’ve ever heard of him and most people will say no, then show them a picture and watch the recognition bloom across their face. |
From Issue 16 (Dec 2011) |
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by Vianne Venter
It’s been a very good year for reading. Bizarrely, this is largely due to the birth of my daughter, which forced me to sit still for the first time in, well, my life really. Just about the only thing you can do with a baby sleeping on your lap is read – terrible, I know, but I bore my sentence bravely. |
From Issue 16 (Oct 2011) |
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interview by Joe Vaz
I think we're only a few mutations away from a serious pandemic at any time. All you need is one really nasty airborne virus with a two-week incubation period, and WHAM, it's bye-bye humans. |
From Issue 16 (Dec 2011) |
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