Cecily Brown: The Girl Who Had Everything


Monday every day
as sunshine diamonds
Dalmation P-51


Christine Brennan.


" 'Is it true that one lives only on Earth?
Not forever on Earth: only a short while here.
Even jade will crack,
Even gold will break,
Even quetzal feathers will rend,
Not forever on the Earth: only a short while here.' "

--Aztec poem quoted in Cortez on Jupiter


Caught in the Crossfire.


"I caught it and examined the cover with cheesy old illustration of some Flash Gordon type villain sneering sinister with his laser gun and the title in big bold obsolete font. Twenty-Four Septendecillion, by Abu Afak.

'What's this?'

'The great Islamic pulp novel,' Jehangir replied.
'It's from the 1940s--the heyday of Amazing Stories and all that shit, the shit that guys like Ray Bradbury grew up on. Abu Afak, he was like a fuckin' philosopher disguising his ideas in cornball outer-space stories. He was like Islam's Robert Heinlein.'

'So what's this one about?'

'Muslims landing on Pluto.' "

--The Taqwacores


Publishing new & old "hardboiled" pulp novels.


Azam Ali.