I submitted a short-story to this new fantasy magazine recently and, although the story was rejected, I received some very useful feedback on exactly why the editor didn’t like the piece.
This I find is very rare indeed and I hope that this is a conscious policy on the part of the magazine. It can often be very frustrating to receive a story rejection when the only comment is that the piece is not right for the magazine or didn’t engage the editor.
So congratulations Beneath Ceaseless Skies – I hope your publication is a success. Maybe if I take on your feedback I might get a story published there one day!
I’d recommend visiting the website – the artwork and design are both excellent.
is a brilliant introduction to the subject area and I recommend reading it. As well as introducing the background to belief, it also traces the classical, celtic and germanic background to magic in Western Europe, as well as looking at Arabic and Jewish sources. The development of a clerical underground and the developing persecution of witches is also covered. 
that John put up there – good work!
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over at SF Site. I read the novel last year – it’s got to be one of Dick’s more surreal books. I didn’t like it as much as 
or 
, but its a good book nevertheless. The reviewer at SF Site says that the screenplay, written by Dick for a film that never happens, is actually better than the novel, perhaps because of the divine dreams he had experienced after finishing the novel, but before writing the screenplay. Strange indeed! As is Ubik, but a great work of speculative fiction also – something sorely missed in today’s writing – not enough real weirdness about. 