After a tiring day yesterday, we took things easy today. I finished reading the June 2003 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction - this was a special Barry Malzberg issue, with a third of the mag taken up by stories about Mr. Malzberg and a non-fiction piece by the man himself (a memoir of his time as a fee reader with the Scott Meredith Agency) which I found quite interesting. The remaining two thirds were unrelated fiction.

There certainly was a lot of fiction in this issue of F&SF! My favourites this time were John Kessel's "Of New Arrivals, Many Johns, and the Music of the Spheres", Jack Cady's "The Twenty-Pound Canary", and David D. Levine's "The Tale of the Golden Eagle". The award for the most bizarre and original tale in this issue goes to Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Fluted Girl", which was filled with plenty of dark and surreal imagery.

What I'm Reading:
Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2003
Hacking Matter by Wil McCarthy