SF Canada member Richard Graeme Cameron reviews Anathema: Spec from the Margins in his latest Amazing Stories column.
Anathema is a free, online tri-annual magazine publishing speculative fiction (SF/F/H, the weird, slipstream, surrealism, fabulism, and more) by queer PoC/Indigenous/Aboriginal creators on every range of the LGBTQIA spectrum. The editors are keenly aware of the structural and institutional racism that makes it hard for the work of marginalized writers to find a home.
In his review, Graeme notes that “the editors demand more than old-fashioned transparent window fiction, as illustrated by editor Michel Matheson’s capsule description”: Issue 7 is focused on two of our core aesthetics, evincing a balance between burning mirrors allegorically reflecting the nightmare realities of our own world, and the terrible, beautiful possibilities of revelation in the face of found love, hidden histories, and resisting oppression. But overarchingly, Issue 7 is an issue of internal understandings—of gnosis and acceptance.
Graeme concludes with “All in all, Anathema certainly stands out from the crowd. A remarkable magazine. Definitely worth reading. ”
Issues can be read for free at Anathemamag.com. Why not support this worthy initiative by purchasing an ebook of issue #7 or a subscription today!