The seventh issue of Flurb, dated Spring-Summer 2009, is now available. The ‘zine is subtitled “a Webzine of Astonishing Tales,” and is edited by Rudy Rucker. It leads off with brief comments about each story by Rucker, and then goes into the contents, which this time out include:”Off Track Betting” by Madeline Ashby
“The History of the Internet” by Charlie Anders
“Billy and the Flying Saucer” by Terry Bisson
“5 SF Poems” by Brian Garrison
“The Squonk Hunt” by Cody Goodfellow
“Initiation” by Robert Guffey
“Clouds in the Night” by Alex Hardison
“Trembling Blue Stars” by Richard Kadrey
“Cobalt Imperium” by Kek-W
“And They Will Not Be Stopped” by Simon Logan
“Growth Industry” by Adam Rothstein
“All Hangy” by Rudy Rucker & John Shirley
And for those interested in submitting stories to Flurb, Rucker writes “the month of September 2009 is when I’ll be thinking about the next issue.” He says he prefers “short pieces (1,000 to 4,000 words), with an artistic, modern, literary, engaged quality, and with a reasonably strong SFictional element. I tend to avoid parody or hypertext. I only rarely publish poetry. I do not publish previously published work.” He also doesn’t pay contributors. Full details are in the comments stream.