Three for three
Apr. 24th, 2005 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysI only bought 3 books/'zines at Swancon - not much at all by my normal standards. Now I really wish I had purchased more because I have now read them all and they all scored really high on my "that was cool" meter.
The last one was an Aurealis omnibus edition containing issues #33/34/35 edited by Keith Stevenson. Lots of really well done stories of being alone or despair. Well, they are not all like that, but most of them are. Its really the most coherent stylistic theme I have seen in a 'zine format - even among single topic 'zines. I'll put it down to editorial skill rather than the editor's dark depressed nature I think. Certainly there is plenty of skill showing in the quality of the stories chosen. Even the weaker ones were still perfectly satisfactory to read. This was aided by all the stories being very short. It suits the theme and it suits me just fine.
The last one was an Aurealis omnibus edition containing issues #33/34/35 edited by Keith Stevenson. Lots of really well done stories of being alone or despair. Well, they are not all like that, but most of them are. Its really the most coherent stylistic theme I have seen in a 'zine format - even among single topic 'zines. I'll put it down to editorial skill rather than the editor's dark depressed nature I think. Certainly there is plenty of skill showing in the quality of the stories chosen. Even the weaker ones were still perfectly satisfactory to read. This was aided by all the stories being very short. It suits the theme and it suits me just fine.