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New York Review of Science Fiction #287 Christopher Kovacs et al.
Literary allusions and patterns in the first Amber series; fantasy and the scholars; a survey of Greg Benford’s Galactic Center; David Drake on writing; and The Lathe of Heaven on stage!… More
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The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition Paula Guran
Darkness surrounds us. We can find darkness anywhere: in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town’s annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind… More
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The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets Lloyd Biggle Jr.
The IPR Bureau (whose motto is “Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny”) works to bring newly discovered planets up to the point where they have a planetary democratic government… More
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #100, Special Double-Issue Richard Parks et al.
Issue #100 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, a double-issue in celebration of our 100th issue, featuring stories by Richard Parks, Garth Upshaw, Christie Yant, and Amanda M. Olson. … More
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The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 Rich Horton et al.
This third volume of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre’s greatest authors, including Carol Emshwiller, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Hand, Paul Park, … More
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The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2012 Rich Horton et al.
This fourth volume of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre’s greatest authors, including Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, Kij Johnson, Kelly Link, Paul… More
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Report from Planet Midnight Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson has been hard at work “subverting the genre” since her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won the Locus Award for SF and Fantasy in 1998. Since then she has acquired a World Fantasy Award, a legion of adventurous… More
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Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire Paula Guran et al.
Legends and myths of all cultures tell of those possessing captivating allure we are powerless to resist. Sirens, demon lovers, femme fatales, and others compel our love, drawing us into realms of forbidden desire … More
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We, the Children of Cats Tomoyuki Hoshino
A man and woman find their genders and sexualities brought radically into question when their bodies sprout new parts, seemingly out of thin air…. A man travels from Japan to Latin America in search of revolutionary … More
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The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2012 Paula Guran et al.
Take a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to find the dark—in a house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white pool in an Australian cave, the trenches of World War I, the deep woods. You would… More
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Archangel Protocol Lyda Morehouse
It is Presidential election time in the USA, and once again the debate is dominated by religion. But this is the near future, and the candidates have good reason to trumpet their belief in God.
The LINKñan interactive,… More
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All the Colors of Darkness Lloyd Biggle Jr.
When the Universal Transmitting Company finally perfected a matter transmitter capable of sending a person instantly from terminals scattered throughout the United States to any major city in foreign countries,… More
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Nightsiders Sue Isle
In a future world of extreme climate change, Perth, Western Australia’s capital city, has been abandoned. Most people were evacuated to the East by the late ’30s and organised infrastructure and services… More
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #99 Willrich Chris et al.
Issue #99 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich (the 200th story to appear in BCS) and Alex Dally MacFarlane.… More
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The Big Click Issue 3 Jeremy Tolbert et al.
Issue Three of The Big Click opens with Jim Nisbit’s “Note From Earth,” a dystopian vision of the future where ice is money and night doesn╒t always arrive, and continues with Wayne Allen Sallee’s… More
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Chocolatiers of the High Winds H.B. Kurtzwilde
This gay steampunk romance follows the globe-trotting adventures of young Mayport Titus, the sole scion of the Titus Chocolate fortune. Mayport’s father, an adventurer and entrepreneur, established the intercontinental… More
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The Moment of Change (edited by ) Rose Lemberg
An anthology of feminist speculative poetry edited by Rose Lemberg. The contributors include many fine poets, among them Ursula K. Le Guin, Delia Sherman, Theodora Goss, Amal El-Mohtar, Vandana Singh, Nisi Shawl,… More
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Ancient, Ancient Kiini Ibura Salaam
Acclaimed author and critic Nalo Hopkinson writes, “Salaam treats words like the seductive weapons they are. She wields them to weave fierce, gorgeous stories that stroke your sensibilities, challenge your preconceptions,… More
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Showtime Narrelle M Harris
Family drama can be found anywhere: in kitchens, in cafes. Derelict hotels, showground rides. Even dungeons far below ruined Hungarian castles. (Okay, especially in Hungarian dungeons.)
Old family fights can go … More
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Above/Below Stephanie Campisi et al.
A city has fallen from the sky.
In the wreckage, two men – Devian Lell, a window cleaner in the floating cities of Loft, and Eli Kurran, a security guard in one of the polluted, ground-based cities of Dirt – … More
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Apex Magazine – Issue 38 Sarah Monette et al.
The July 2012 issue of Apex Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Ken Liu (“The Silk Merchant”), Sarah Monette (“Coyote Gets His Own”), Kij Johnson (“Wolf Trapping”) and… More
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Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Scott H. Andrews (Editor) et al.
A gardensmith crafts fanciful clockworks to enchant his noblewoman love…. Four burghers renege on a dark bargain by commissioning an automaton proxy…. A restless librarian yearns to escape a city that… More
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Women on the Edge of Space Danielle Bodnar et al.
Space is a place that is full of mystery. Traveling through outer space is a journey unlike any other, letting go of the usual sense of place and time and opening up to new possibilities. Just as one may never find the edge… More
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Like an Iron Fist Katherine Bergeron et al.
Dystopias are never precisely the opposite of utopias–they are closer to being failed “perfected” societies than evil empires by design. And one of the first orders of business for a fledgling dystopia is to figure … More