The Cascadia Subduction Zone, 10, 1

The new issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone is out. This issue includes short fiction by Gwynne Garfinkle, poetry by Colleen Anderson, A.L. Blacklyn, and T.D. Walker, a Grandmother Magma column by Pat Murphy, Karen Burnham's Dust Lanes column, and reviews of books by Arley Sorg, Misha Stone, and others. This issue's featured artist is Ruby Rae Jones. You can purchase single issues ($3 for a pdf or $5 for a print issue) and 4-issue subscriptions ($10 for an electronic subscription or $16 for both print and electronic subscription) at http://thecsz.com/.

Vol. 10, No. 1 (2020)Vol. 10 No. 1 — 2020

Flash Fiction

We Gotta Get Out of This Place
    by Gwynne Garfinkle

Poems by

Colleen Anderson
A.L. Blacklyn
T.D. Walker

Grandmother Magma

Eleanor Arnason’s
Daughter of the Bear King
   reviewed by Pat Murphy

Dust Lanes

Short fiction reviews
   by Karen Burnham

Book Reviews

The Rampant
by Julie Day
   reviewed by Arley Sorg

Meet Me in the Future
by Kameron Hurley
   reviewed by Laura A. Gilliam

The Future of Another Timeline
by Annalee Newitz
  reviewed by Misha Stone

Sisters of the Vast Black
by Lina Rather
  reviewed by Joanne Rixon

Featured Artist

Ruby Rae Jones

Lambda Award Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Finalists

Congratulations to Marlon James, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes, Jac Jemc, Samantha Shannon, Julie C. Day, Craig Laurance Gidney, Matthew Bright, and Nina McLaughlin, this year's finalists for the Science Fiction/Fanasy/Horror category of the Lambda Award! We are, of course, honored that a volume in Aqueduct's Conversation Pieces series, The Rampant, by Julie C. Day made this very fine list.

Here's the list:

• Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James, Riverhead Books
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes, Gallery / Saga Press
• False Bingo, Jac Jemc, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon, Bloomsbury Publishing
• The Rampant, Julie C. Day, Aqueduct Press
• A Spectral Hue, Craig Laurance Gidney, Word Horde
• Stories to Sing in the Dark, Matthew Bright, Lethe Press
• Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Finalists will be celebrated and winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang the evening of Monday, June 8, 2020 in New York City.

Jean LeBlanc's Ancient Songs of Us

I'm pleased to announce the release of Jean LeBlanc's Ancient Songs of Us, a new collection of poetry, as the seventy-third volume in Aqueduct's Conversation Pieces series. It's available now in both print and e-book editions through Aqueduct's website (http://www.aqueductpress.com).


Read a sample from the book.


The poems in Ancient Songs of Us suggest that no song is “ancient,” that every story crosses time and transcends place to remind us what it means to be human. Love, hatred, fury, longing, ennui, sadness—these states of heart and mind in all their nuance hues overflow from these poems.