Overall it was a good book, interesting and captivating. It was beutiful in a way that made you sad. Read it.

Sometime in the near-ish future, there are a small fraction of human beings called polymorphs, who can alter their appearance. Some of them, not many, are really, really good at controlling it and can manipulate their bodies to suit. It’s a messy, painful process they have to go through once per week. Hold up a mirror to our society and substitute in any particular subset (or all of them) of the LGBT community, and you’ll get the reaction you’d expect from certain elements in our society. Just t...

I loved this issue!! My full review on http://eerieworlds.blogspot.com/2014/...

Clever, well-written novella. Good characters, interesting sliver of a universe. I never saw where it was going for a single moment. I've not read Seth Chambers before, but this was a nice introduction.

"The Man Who Hung Three Times" was delightful.

A difficult story for me to review. I do not usually like stories with an overload of sex and foul language but here their use seemed both right and balanced. A very sad and poignant story on what it means to be "you".

My favorites were as follows.Novellas: In Her EyesNovelettes: The Man Who Hanged Three TimesAlso Out Of The Deep.Nothing else really stood out except for For All Of Us Down Here, but it seemed like a chapter from a novel published as a short story.

Beautiful edition of the historic magazine of fantasy and science fiction. The most beautiful stories: "In Her Eyes" by Seth Chambers (masterpiece); "The Via Panisperna Boys in" Operation Harmony "" by Claudio and Paul Di Filippo Chillemi (Very Good); "For All of Us Down Here" by Alex Irvine (Good). Excellent cover.

Read the 'digest' version only.** "For All of Us Down Here" by Alex IrvineIt's always an interesting tack, when approaching a story, to take the point of view of someone the reader wouldn't expect, and therefore to show a new angle on events.However, there's such a thing as going too far outside the 'story,' and I felt like "For All of Us Down Here" did that. We meet a young boy who tells us he's an "Orphan of the Sing" - his parents, along with most of the planet, have opted to join the 'Singul...

This novella is a powerful blend of crass, funny, sweet, sad and poignant. Alex, a curator at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, narrates most of this tale through the arc of him meeting and falling for the engimatic and crass Sing Song. Alex soon discovers that Song is a Polymorph--a human able to alter her appearance and physicality at will. The rare genetic ability is much reviled, so Alex must keep Song's secret and adapt to being with a "different" person every week, most everything...

Eh, this issue didn't do much for me. I really only enjoyed The Museum of Error by Oliver Buckram (as usual).For my full review, click here.

Half the stars for half the stories. I liked a few stories from this magazine issue, but it's definitely not worth the subscription price. Also, this is another magazine that caters to white males. My only recommendations are "In Her Eyes" by Seth Chambers and "The Man Hanged Three Times" by C.C. Finlay.

I enjoyed this issue a lot, it made for some great reading and would recommend giving if a look if you haven't subscribed to it yet.

One the best shape-shifter, romance novellas I've ever read. Wait...no, scratch that, the third best. No but seriously, fantastic. Not to sound like a misogynist, but I've always said there is a strong connection between psychotic and erotic and the story's love interest, Song, is the very embodiment of that. Her foul mouth and fun-loving nature is in perfect balance with the story's bland protagonist, Alex. Together, their differences make their rocky relationship glow neon in the reader's mind...

A new year and a new issue of ‘The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction’ with which to celebrate it. Hurrah!The first thing I scanned was ‘The Via Panisperna Boys In “Operation Harmony”’, co-authored by Claudio Chillemi and Paul Di Filippo, two fellows clearly not frightened by quotation marks. Unless Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1934 and Marconi invented an iconoscope television that lets the watchers be watched, this is set in an alternative history. The lads of the title are a bunch of

Some really good stories -- I especially liked the novella, "In Her Eyes", by Seth Chambers, and the humorous "The Museum of Error", by Oliver Buckram.

Is it the absence of John Joseph Adams from F&SF that has made this magazine seemingly less stellar compared to how I remember it being in the past? This particular issue is likely an aberration in my usual enjoyment of the magazine, but it does start to make me worried."In Her Eyes" by Seth Chambers is a very well done story, taking a SF plot of shape shifting into profound and unexpected directions. "The Man Who Hanged Three Times" by C. C. Finlay stood out as a less 'deep' but thoroughly enjo...

Four out of the ten stories in this issue straight sucked. Totally disappointing. Fortunately, this issue was saved by some stand out stories."In Her Eyes" by Seth Chambers does something new with the overdone subject of shape shifters. Sex plays a big role yet it doesn't resort to cheap writing. It's a twisted love story with a sci-fi edge. This one kept me glued."All Of Us Down Here" by Alex Irvine is a Marxist-cyber punk story about a lonely boy in the future. This story is rich in social and...

Favs.* “In Her Eyes,” Seth Chambers

Very nice classic looking cover. I liked The Man Who Hanged Three Times, a western ghost story about a man who God won't let be executed. The Museum of Error, a very funny story about a museum of mistakes that is both a light mystery and romance (of the Connie Willis variety). I also liked Alex Irvine's For All of Us Down Here, a story about what it is like to be left behind on Earth when everyone else (almost) goes into cyberspace. In Her Eyes, about a shapechanger was very well written, just n...