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Flurb #10

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Well, we made it to Flurb #10, the Fall-Winter, 2010 issue!

Flurb is a free online Webzine of Astonishing Tales, edited and published by Rudy twice a year. The previous issue, of Spring-Summer, 2010, has garnerned seventy-two thousand unique visits so far.

I’m in awe of the writers who keep helping to make Flurb happen. This huge new issue—with seventeen stories—makes me think of classic anthos like Dangerous Visions, Mirrorshades, or Semiotext(e) SF.

Dig in! Click on the cover below, look at the contents, read the editorial, check out some stories, and return here to comment.

Flurb #10

If you’re interested in seeing all the previous Flurb announcement posts, with their comment threads, check out the Flurb archive on Rudy’s Blog.

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Flurb #9

Monday, March 8th, 2010
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Flurb #9 is now live.

Flurb is a free online Webzine of Astonishing Tales, edited and published by Rudy twice a year. The previous issue of Flurb has gleaned seventy thousand unique visits so far.

Check us out at www.flurb.net!
And return here to comment.

Many thanks to the wonderful writers who are helping to make Flurb possible.

The new issue includes a story by Danny “Groundhog Day” Rubin and mind-expanding surreal-SF stories by newcomers Christopher Shay, Kek, and Adam Callahan.

Plus Robert Guffey’s re-take on the King Kong mythos, a collage-cartoon-strip by Paul Di Filippo, a spooky nostalgia trip by old master Richard Lupoff, a disturbing author-signing story by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz, and toothsome confections from newcomers Mari Mitchell, Jessy Randall, and Alex Roston—and a surfing tale of supernatural horror lifted from my as-yet-unpublished novel Jim and the Flims.

Dig in!

Flurb #9

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Flurb #8

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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Flurb #8 is now live.

Flurb is a free online Webzine of Astonishing Tales, edited and published by Rudy twice a year. The previous issue of Flurb has gleaned sixty thousand unique visits so far.

Check us out at www.flurb.net!
And return here to comment.

Many thanks to the wonderful writers who are helping to make Flurb possible.

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Flurb #7

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
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The new issue of Flurb is out.

Check it out at “http://www.flurb.net/7/index7.html!

Go there now, and return here to comment!

By the way, as of August 12, 2009, FLURB #7 has had over fifty thousand unique visits. Thanks to the wonderful writers who helped make this possible.

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Flurb #6

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
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The new issue of Flurb is out today!

www.flurb.net

Go there now—and return here to comment!


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Flurb #5

Monday, March 31st, 2008
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The fifth issue of my webzine Flurb goes online today.

Once again, FLURB squeezes the rubber chicken of SF to produce the golden egg of ART!

This issue features a Beat SF story of mine in the form of letters from William Burroughs in Tangiers, excerpts of John Shirley’s lost cyberpunk novel Black Glass, Terry Bisson’s hilarious anti-mundane story “Captain Ordinary,” a Lovecraftian novella by Lavie Tidhar, a mystic travel guide to Upstate New York by Thom Metzger, and amazing pieces by new SF writers Alex Hardison, Brendan Byrne, and Nathaniel Hellerstein.

If you have comments on the issue, please add them to this post. Pleasant comments are especially appreciated, as we do this for no money and only in hopes of making the world a more interesting place, groping for beauty in the dark.

PS, First day out (March 31, 2008) we got boinged and io9ed, with 3,000 visitors.

I added one last tale, a short ghost story by Richard Kadrey, on April 1.

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Flurb #4

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
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Flurb #4 is live at www.flurb.net!

It’s another fat and juicy issue, including stories and essays by:

Charlie Anders, Kathleen Ann Goonan, John Kessel, Marc Laidlaw, Kim Stanley Robinson;

also my meeting with Hieronymus Bosch;

also pieces by three newer writers: David Agranoff, Gord Sellar, and Penlope Thomas;

also a group-written jam by “Gustav Flurbert”!

We’re doing all this for free, simply to make the world a bit more interesting.

Please post comments on the issue here.

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