Argosy Magazine got a nice write-up in the Birmingham News. Charlie Stross and I just turned in a novella for the next ish of Argosy, a sequel to Jury Service, called "Appeals Court." Argosy is publishing both stories together in a perfect-bound package, as a fix-up novel called "Rapture of the Nerds."
The original Argosy ran from 1896 to 1943, publishing stories by authors as noted as fantasist Edgar Rice Burroughs, Western author Louis L'Amour and mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. One of the first pulp fiction magazines, Argosy crossed genre boundaries before those boundaries were sharply defined…
The first issue, which came out in November, featured contemporary fantasy by Jeffrey Ford; suspense by Ann Cummins; a science fiction/horror story by Caitlin R. Kiernan; mystery by Barry Baldwin; an interview of groundbreaking science fiction author Samuel R. Delany by author Adam Roberts; a history of Argosy by Rick Klaw; and science fiction by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
Each issue includes a separately bound novella, with both volumes packaged in a single slipcase. The first issue's novella, "The Mystery of the Texas Twister" (an alternate-history Western with "undercurrents of political satire," Anders said), was written by famed fantasy author Michael Moorcock and illustrated by Jon Foster.
