Josh Wilson
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New reading series in San Francisco launches July 10
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It seems kind of odd to be announcing some arts stuff while we’re in the midst of a fascistic/authoritarian power play, and war breaking out on a global scale, but, here’s some art stuff. On July 10 we are super-duper thrilled to be supporting the great T.K. Rex with the launch of STIR, a new reading…
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Apologies to Asimov: Three Laws of Generative AI in Creative Writing
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In the spirit of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, I offer this bit of mind candy, in the hopes that it might be useful to consider and work with. To remain analogous to Asimov, the first law would involve the prevention of injury, thus: • Generative AI processes of any sort must not be permitted in…
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Our Policy on AI in Writing and Art
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Updated 9.30.23 We affirm to our readers and contributors that The Fabulist Magazine is, first and foremost, a venue for connections and encounters with unadulterated human creative works. Background Text and image generation by AI systems has achieved remarkable verisimilitude to actual writing and art created by human beings. We acknowledge, and are interested in,…
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Lord of the Simulacra: Notes on Amazon’s ‘Rings of Power’
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Is it OK to just sit back and enjoy this lumpy, uneven copy of a copy?
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Mona Caron: Getting Lost in the Weeds
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The art of muralist Mona Caron transforms life’s tiny, overlooked details into magical tableaux of heroic proportions.
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Emily Knox: ‘People Who Try to Ban Books Truly Believe That Books Are Powerful’
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Freaked out by all the book banning and burning on the left and right? Librarian and anti-censorship activist Emily Knox has good news to share.
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Urban Fantasy Has a Political Edge in Jadie Jang’s ‘Monkey Around’
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Murder, magic, politics, and supernatural shapeshifters all collide in Jadie Jang’s feverish, #Occupy-era urban fantasy.
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Phil Tippett: 24 Frames Per Second
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In this exclusive interview, the modern master of stop-motion animation looks beyond his breakthrough work with “Star Wars” and “Jurassic Park” to the twisted depths of his dark magnum opus “Mad God.”
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‘Mad God’ is Phil Tippett’s Stop-Motion Nightmare Come True
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The master stop-motion animator and special-effects pioneer of “Star Wars” and “Jurassic Park” brings a dark vision to life.
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‘Here is the Future You Requested’: The Fabulist at Lit Crawl ’21
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The Fabulist’s fifth annual Lit Crawl reading was hosted last night at the fabulous Adobe Bookstore on 24th Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. It was a smash. Standing room only, as usual, though entry into the building followed common-sense pandemic rules — masking and proof of vaccination. It was a stellar lineup: Bay Area…
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Let’s Get Lost with Izumi Suzuki’s ‘Terminal Boredom’
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Don’t be fooled the breezy, blase gloss on Izumi Suziki’s stylish works of short science fiction. The interiors are dark, searching, full of need and desperation.
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The Day-Glo Apocalypse of ‘Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts’
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Mod frogs, science wolves, dubstep bees, baroque baboons, poignant friendships, the end of the world and one irrepressible heroine — this animated standout has it all.
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‘The Owl House’: Disney Does Hieronymus Bosch
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Weird, wonderful and bracingly contemporary, Dana Terrace’s “The Owl House” is among the best children’s fare Disney has ever given to the world.
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Once in a Blue Moon: October 2020
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There are two full moons this month. October 1 brought us the harvest moon, a haunted orange beauty peering down at us through the wildfire smoke that shrouds The Fabulist’s hometown of San Francisco. Halloween, October 31, will bring us a hunter’s moon, the second of the month, and therefore a blue moon — a…
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Where There’s Smoke: September 2020
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This Month:Editorial • Publishing Schedule • Open Call for Short Fiction Editorial: “Where There’s Smoke” Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer in America with barbecues and weekend sales at the mall. This summer, the smell of smoke at The Fabulist’s San Francisco headquarters is not from the backyard grill. Rather, it’s the choking…
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What Poe can teach us about the pandemic
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In this time of plague and the raw experience of our shared vulnerability to a devouring virus, we can look to literature for, if not comfort, perhaps insight.
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David Tennant reads vampire stories, Michael Moorcock’s rock ‘n’ roll chaos
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(Above: Edvard Munch, “Vampyr”) David Tennant reads vampire stories: Hallowe’en has come for you a little early with this special treat — great vampire fiction by Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Edith Wharton and other great authors, as read by one of the great contemporary interpreters of fantasy and science fiction roles on screens large and…
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Strange transits through “The Daylight Gate” (review)
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Full of love and devilry, Jeanette Winterson’s “The Daylight Gate” is at once a history lesson, historical fiction, and a romantic tale of the fantastic.
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Gene Wolfe’s ‘The Fifth Head of Cerberus’ (Review)
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Shapeshifters, unreliable narrators and an exotic but all-too-human colonialist future animate Gene Wolfe’s striking collection of interlinked science-fiction novellas.
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Neil Gaiman on Gene Wolfe, Stranger Things 3 trailer, all 37 Batman TV villains, ‘Peanuts’ vs. ‘The Thing’
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A roundup of Internet chatter about comics, science fiction, fantasy, writing, watching — and reading.