The ninth issue of Flurb, dated Spring-Summer 2010, 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:
“The Palmetto Man” by Danny Rubin
“Search” by Kek
“The Goddess of Discord Lives on Mulberry Street” by Adam Callaway
“Val and Me” by Rudy Rucker
“The Soft Armada” by Paul Di Filippo
“Ticks” by Robert Guffey
“Insect Girl Climbs to Paradise” by Philip Harris
“Cairo, Good-bye” by Richard A. Lupoff
“Technical Difficulties” by Alex Roston
“Alphabet Island” by Jessy Randall
“IntheBeginning™” by Christopher B. Shay
“DarliJ’s House of Tea” by Mari Mitchell
“Clod, Pebble” by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
Rubin, Rucker notes, is “the writer responsible for Groundhog Day, a movie which many people (including me) quite seriously view as one of the very greatest SF films ever made. I happened to email Danny about his work last month, and he came up with this wonderful and previously unknown tale.” Rucker’s own contribution is based on the first three chapters of his forthcoming novel, Jim and the Flims.
And for the future, Rucker writes “Flurb #10 is scheduled for September, 2010. I’ll be going for a rabble-rousing Election Year theme with an all-star roster. For issue #10, I’ll return to the by-invitation-only editorial policy that I used for the first few issues. That is, for #10, I’ll be dunning my writer acquaintances for stories, rather than accepting open submissions.”