The eighth issue of Flurb, dated Fall-Winter 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:
“My Only Sunshine” by Emily C. Skaftun
“Paradise Afternoon” by Gregory Benford
“Henry’s Penis” by Charlie Anders
“Bad Ideas” by Rudy Rucker
“The Cog in God’s Wheels” by Peter Hagelslag
“Songwriter to the Stars” by Tamara Vining
“Interrogations in a Holographic Observatory” by Howard V. Hendrix
“The Retrodictions of Sumadastron the Time-Lost” by Nathaniel Hellerstein
“Futurized” by Paul Di Filippo
Three Poems by John Roches (“My Uncle is a Cyborg”, “Digital Bop”, and “The Pope of Neverland”)
“In the Beginning There Was the Machine” by Martin Hayes
“There is No Comte de St. Germain for I am He” by Brendan Byrne
“Cosmic Samba” by Brian Landis
“Bad Pennies” by Carter Scholz
And for those interested in submitting stories to Flurb, Rucker writes “Flurb #9 is scheduled for March, 2010. If you want to submit a piece, send it as an .rtf or .docx file attached to an email to me with ‘Flurb #9’ in the subject line, and please send it only during the time period 15-28 February 2010. I’m generally looking for literary short stories of length one to five thousand words, with a strong SF or fantasy element, with realistic characters, and with a clear story arc.” He doesn’t pay contributors.