SFrevu reviews #38

"it's a very good one!"

Tom seemed to like all the stories, apart from "Dead Simon and his Secret Astronautics". I think that's fair enough, both Allen and I knew it was a bit of an odd one and probably not to all tastes.

Once again the poety seems to have been missed. Sorry Ian. They do however have a comments page, so well, make comments!

http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=14144&ShowCoverText=No

Good review of Pasithee on SFcrowsnest

A good review of Pasithee is now up at SFcrowsnest http://sfcrowsnest.org.uk/jupiter-38-xxxviii-pasitheemagazine-review/

SF Site review # 36 & #37

Rich Horton has reviewed Jupiter issue 36 and 37 over at SF Site.

He thinks that #37 is "one of the better Jupiter issues I've seen" and he's seen most of them.

Jupiter 38:Pasithee

It's October, and that can only mean one thing. Jupiter 38 is here!

Features fiction by Alex Weinle, Lou van Zyl, Jon Wallace, Colum Paget, Rosie Oliver and Allen Ashley. Ian Sales brings us a poem and the cover is by David Conyers.

Another good issue I think.

Available for your Kindle direct from Amazon here
Also available from our website in pdf mobi and epub format, Oh, and we still publish with good old paper, well the papers not old, you know what I mean!

Enjoy!

Ian

e-book subscriptions

Electronic subscriptions have been available in pdf form for a while now.
Following on from our success with single issues on amazons Kindle, today we're also adding epub and mobi file formats suitable for Kindle, kobo and other e-readers.
We've also launched immediate downloads so no more waiting for an e-mail (2nd,3rd and 4th issue will still be sent by e-mail), you can get reading right away!

Grab yours here:
http://www.jupitersf.co.uk/sub.htm

Ian

Review of Kale at SFrevu

http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=13893
Tom at SFrevu reviews the 6 stories in Kale, over all "it's as good as usual."
That's a good thing right?

Ian

The Restoration Game

I've recently read 'The Restoration Game' by Ken Macleod and thought it would be worth blogging about it. This is no book review, but might give an insight into the sort of stories I'm looking to place in Jupiter. I'm not sure if the fact I'm reading this book 2 years after it was published has anything to do with it (I don't think so). But in terms of basic plot, his book didn't seem to do anything new. I felt the main plot and route the story was going to take was easily worked out by the first few chapters. However, despite that, perhaps because of that, I loved this book. Ken created some wonderful characters, some wonderful landscapes, and just produced a book at was a joy to read. It didn't need some flashy gizmo, or some ground breaking idea. What it had is exactly what I look for in a story, characters to fall in love with, who you wince for when they do something you know is going to turn out silly. This was a book that the plot felt old, felt done before, but told in such a beautiful way, that it was impossible for me not to like. And that folks is that I look for in stories for Jupiter. You don't need flashy gizmo's or massive spaceships (OK, they help), what you need is a canvas that feels real, and characters that you can care about. Either love them or hate them, just don't write indifference! Ian