Heroic Fantasy Quarterly–Q66

Happy November!   The cycle of the year turns and the last grasping claws of summer finally have released their grasp.  So fill your grasping hands with issue #66 of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly!  We bring you three stores, two poems, art and audio, plus S&S news and information.

Fiction Contents

Barnaby’s Deceit, by Al Onia.  In the wastes of the Chobai Desert, Barnaby and Wulfa hatch a scheme to steal a valuable artifact from the boss of a travelling circus troupe.  Wheels within wheels and double and triple crosses ensue!

Sands and Forest, by Jason  M. Waltz.  Sands, the Southland warrior, is on the run from bloodthirsty cannibals and manages to lose them in a forest, but that forest has a thirst as well.

Great Fire, by MR Timson, Cat O’ The Nines gets drawn into the affairs of a Welsh nobleman and his attempts to settle a score at the Tower of London.   Mystery and menageries and murder abound!

 

Poetry Contents

A Legion of Lecanomancers, by Devan Barlow.  Scrying in oils and liquids and odd bowls is one thing, but an entire gang of practitioners is something else.

Truth, by Aidan Redwing.  Most warriors don’t start off life to be warriors, but history, and the truth, will come through.

 

Artwork

You know the mythic creature that doesn’t get enough love?  Hydras, that’s who!  Jereme Peabody rights that wrong.  Hail “The Hydra”!

 

Goings On

Adrian Simmons:  Adrian continues work on the secret novel project, and is also closing in on his quatro-decadal-sci-fi magazine review at Black Gate, with 1999’s Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  Outside of that, his story “Five Beneath the Palace of Kolgranis” is finding favorable reviews.

 

 

Neil Baker has been watching movies.  What movies?  Damn near all of ‘em!  Man Melds with Machine!  Hanker for the intricacies of the Weyland-Yutani universe?  Oh, he’ll pipe it straight into your cryo-pod in parts one, two, three, and four.

 

Artist Gary McClusky is rebounding from throat surgery and has put together page 14 of his interpretation of Robert E. Howard’s “Spear and Fang”—check it out!

 

 

Speaking of R.E.H.  the house he lived and wrote in, in Cross Plains, Texas, is suffering the slings and arrows of time and needs some restoration.  Dig deep and help keep this historical link in the S&S chain alive!

 

If you enjoyed “Barnaby’s Deceit”, check out Onia’s collected stories Barnaby’s Luck.

 

Pure chance brought HFQ editor Adrian Simmnons and S&S writer and editor Seth E. Lindberg together for a brief meeting of the minds.

Check out Seth’s Dyscrasia books!