It is with great pride and cheer that we welcome readers to the very first issue of Schlock Magazine released under our brand new redesign. But far from being just a cosmetic change, we also hope that the improvement is reflected in the content. Thanks to new features like Schlock Talks, the magazine has broadened
Jack sits in a dusty room in a corner of the museum, close to the basement and far from its visitors. The room is the museum’s stack, the last place an artefact is stored until it is catalogued and put away forever. He sits in the cavernous room, among cracked brown skulls and moth eaten
Rage and bad life choices appear to have fuelled Nathan Ballingrud’s critically acclaimed short story collection North American Lake Monsters, but he assures us that he’s not all about horror and despair as he looks forward to experimenting with various genres now that he has emerged as writer to watch out for with the field
Greg Bossert. Photo: Francesca Myman. He may have won the World Fantasy Award for his short story The Telling late last year, but fiction writing is just the tip of the creative iceberg for Gregory Norman Bossert – an animation artist, sound designer and researcher currently employed in that vaunted castle of geekdom, Industrial Light and
He may have won the World Fantasy Award for his short story The Telling late last year, but fiction writing is just the tip of the creative iceberg for Gregory Norman Bossert – an animation artist, sound designer and researcher currently employed in that vaunted castle of geekdom, Industrial Light and Magic (from whence the special effects for
Working among Pacific Island communities might be many people’s dream job but D. Thomas Minton recently traded a tropical Pacific Island for the cold, rainy Pacific Northwest of the continental United States, and while others may disagree, he thinks he got the better end of the deal. His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction,
Hi, and welcome to Schlock’s podcast. Yes, that podcast. Or rather, this one. The one you’ll be listening right now! Yes, its schedule has been erratic – to say the least – but on the last day of 2013 the Schlock hivemind gathered around and solemnly swore that podcasts will be at least a bit more regular. How about that, huh?
Fairy tales are stock-in-trade for Theodora Goss, the award-winning and oft-anthologised Hungarian-American writer who has carved a prominent niche for herself in fantasy fiction, thanks in large part to her immersion in and reinvention of some of the most familiar and timeless stories of world literature. In this edition of Schlock Talks, she lets us
The year is coming to a much required close, and it’s that time where every pop culture editor calls it a day with a list feature of some sort. I wasn’t actually planning on a best of feature, but fellow Schlock editor Teodor told me lists are required because, and I quote, “we like to
The vibration of a big rig, the hard repetitive thud/smacks of the rubber hitting the uneven concrete separations on the interstate, pulsated through the earth to the stools and seats in the restaurant. It was enough to remind him of the softer click/clack sound steel wheels of rail cars rolling along had made before the