Read an older story as part of my effort to be more consistent about Youtube content. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PjMUh8IPf8

Today's fiction on Fantasy Magazine is Superhero Girl by Jessica Lee. I actually fished this from the to-be-rejected pile because the title intrigued me, read it, and decided we should publish it - which goes to prove the power of a good title.

Like Elena Gleason's Erased, another story that Fantasy Magazine readers loved, the story works at two ( Read more... )

So here’s the list of fiction(ish) stuff drawing on comic book super-hero trophes so far

Novels:

• Michael Bishop, COUNT GEIGER’S BLUES.
• Michael Chabon, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY.
• Tom DeHaven, IT’S SUPERMAN!
• Jennifer Estep, KARMA GIRL.
• Minister Faust, FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DR. BRAIN.

So there's Austin Grossman's SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE and James Maxey's NOBODY GETS THE GIRL. KRAZY KAT, whose author I will have to look up. "Girl Reporter", which appeared in ONE STORY. Justina Robson's LIVING NEXT DOOR TO THE GOD OF LOVE draws on superhero stuff, at least at the beginning.

What other novels or short stories are there that play ( Read more... )