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Summary: Revolution SF, 2004
Revolution SF is a webzine devoted to reviews and essays and humor and news and other features, about SF, Fantasy, and Horror, both written and other media. They also publish a fair amount of fiction, both original and reprint. Shane Ivey is the managing editor (or "producer"), and Jayme Lynn Blaschke is the fiction editor. There are many other people involved with a pretty impressive site overall.
This past year, as far as I could tell, they published 20 original stories. One was an 8500 word novelettes, the rest were short stories (7 short-shorts) averaging just under 3000 words, for a total of 64,500 words of new fiction. (I may have missed some, because the archives become difficult to navigate for stories more than a few months old -- the stories are easy to find, but it's not easy to tell exactly when they appeared.
I wasn't all that impressed with the stories, sad to say. Not that they are awful -- just that nothing much excited. I did like Steven Utley's three contributions -- all funny short-shorts. Particularly "Little Whalers", a brief admixture of Moby Dick and Little Women. I might also mention Derek Smith's "Destitution", featuring a fairly interesting (if unlikely) new form of punishment; Katherine Sanger's "As the Wolf Turns", a funny werewolf romance story; the novelette, Danith McPherson's "The Forever Cup of Coffee at Bitsy's Cafe", decent space adventure, a bit reminiscent in central idea of Frederik Pohl's Gateway; and decent work from Bradley H. Sinor and K. D. Wentworth.
By all means Revolution SF is worth a visit -- it's a diverse and interesting site. But so far the original fiction hasn't shone.
