Welcome Dagan Books + Gift Certificates!
Tags: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Dagan Books, Less Than Three, PM Press
We welcome a new publisher this week, Dagan Books, with two awesome titles: Cthulhurotica (“A new anthology of erotic horror, inspired by the writing of H. P. Lovecraft”) and IN SITU (“a new anthology of science fiction stories featuring alien archeology, hidden mysteries, and things that are better off left buried”) both edited by Carrie Cuinn.
We also have a nice balance of erotica and politics this week: a dozen new books from Less Than Three Press (Finding the Wolf) and almost as many from PM Press (The Laughter of Carthage: The Second Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet by Michael Moorcock).
Somewhere in there we keep adding more and more Wildside Books.
And, wait, what was that Gift Certificates?
We now have them! I find this a bit more awesome and exciting that I probably should. Thanks go to Jeff VanderMeer for the nudge and Michael for making it happen. You can now send friends, family, enemies and frenemies a Weightless Gift Certificate.
Speaking of Jeff, we’ll be adding a new title from Cheeky Frawg next week: Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (“A vital voice.” – China Miéville)
And don’t forget the BCS Fall Subscription Drive. Subscribe or buy a copy of Best of BCS Year Three and we’ll send you Best of BCS Year One or Year Two free!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Fall Subscription Drive
Tags: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, subscription drive
Ladies and gentlemen, as promised, the Beneath Ceaseless Skies fall subscription drive begins now!
To celebrate the fourth anniversary of BCS and the release of The Best of BCS, Year Three, we’re having a sale on BCS subscriptions and anthologies. Subscribe to one year of Beneath Ceaseless Skies–26 issues including the upcoming 4th anniversary double issue for only $13.99, still the best deal on Weightless–anytime between now and Friday, October 12th, OR buy the brand new The Best of BCS, Year Three between now and October 19th, and at the end of the event we’ll send everybody their choice of The Best of BCS, Year One or The Best of BCS, Year Two, free!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, should you not have been aware, is a bi-weekly magazine of Literary Adventure Fantasy edited by the wise and tireless Scott H. Andrews, 
which Rich Horton has called “a really important source of fantasy” and Lou Anders said was “rapidly becoming my favorite short fiction magazine of all time”. The amount of fiction they’ve put out into the world, not even counting the monthly fiction podcasts, is just staggering, and there’s nobody else printing stories quite like these. So if you haven’t been taking advantage, now’s the time!
And to sweeten the pot, if BCS reaches 100 new subscriptions, counting both new subscribers and renewals, before the allotted time runs out, one lucky randomly-selected subscriber will….
Win a free Kindle!
Yeah, you heard right. Free. If you’re lucky. Yes, we’ve done ereader giveaways before–but never with a Kindle. And, who knows, maybe never again. So get in while you can!
This means you’ll be able to get all 26 issues of your new BCS subscription delivered straight to your nightstand, fireside rocking chair, hammock, or wherever else you happen to be reading, without your having to lift a finger. Amazing, I know.
Oh, and by the way, if you happen to have subscribed to BCS already this month, don’t worry, you’re grandfathered in.
This week: Kij Johnson, Lydia Millet, BCS, more
Tags: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, BookCyclone, Flipside Publishing, Small Beer Press
Weightless readers have already received their preordered copies of two new Small Beer books, Kij Johnson’s At the Mouth of the River of Bees—which includes the Hugo and Nebula Award winner, “The Man Who Bridged the Mist,” and Lydia Millet’s second Dissenters novel, The Shimmers in the Night.
Dissenters, wha . . .? Who . . . ? You can catch up with the first book in the series, The Fires Beneath the Sea for only $2.99!
We’re excited to feature our first title from Flipside Publishing in the Philippines, How to Traverse Terra Incognita, writer/editor/agent provocateur Dean Francis Alfar’s second collection of short fiction. DRM-free titles from around the world! Between Flipside and BookCyclone, you can really get a taste of the great fiction coming from the other side of the world (from me, in Massachusetts, YMMV, of course).
Meanwhile, New York Review of Science Fiction readers and subscribers from all around the world are making the switch to Weightless. Welcome aboard! Glad to have you. Hope you poke around and find some other books and mags you like.
Come Tuesday, no doubt we will have more new books but a little bird tells me that Michael and Scott are working hard on a fall subscription drive for Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Look out for that in the latter half of the week!
Michael’s new story
Tags: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Michael J. DeLuca
You can now read Michael‘s huge new story, “Death and the Thunderbird,” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It’s a two parter which begins in Issue 97 (along with a story by Tina Connelly) and concludes in the just-released Issue 98 (along with a story by E. Catherine Tobler).
Carelessly tossed, the sheathed knife cleared the chaos of platters on the table and skidded towards Bienor across the surface of the map. He stretched a shaking hand to stop it falling to his hooves, willing away the alcoholic shivers and the nervous urge to rear. The hilt was elk-horn, scrimshawed in the likeness of a sheaf of rods.
Last day of September
Tags: Angélica Gorodischer, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Ginn Hale, Icarus
And you know, even though we sell ebooks and the weather doesn’t matter—we’re still here behind the site rain or shine, whereas at a book festival if it rains, off we go!—all it has done this month in the Happy Valley is rain. Argh! Has meant that although all those outside things I’ve been meaning to do (hello garden, hello Big E!) I’ve read a few more books than usual. And we’ve added a few more things: The most popular might be the Beneath Ceaseless Skies Subscription. BCS, edited by Scott H. Andrews, comes out twice a month (at a buck a pop) or $13.99 for the year. Cheap as chips!
I also wanted to highlight Icarus, the latest issue of which got posted this week. There’s an interview with a certain Ginn Hale!
Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction presents stories and features for Fall 2011. A fairy boy confronts a human crush in Alex Jeffers’s “Liam and the Ordinary Boy.” James Bennett tells a tale of death and art and Michaelangelo’s favorite apprentice. Award-winning author Richard Bowes offers another jewel of a tale that begins when a writer meets a devoted fan at an event. Sandra McDonald tells of a mindful puss. Ken Summers, author of a collection of true queer ghost stories investigates a new haunting. Plus, this issue has reviews, gossips, an interview with Ginn Hale and the debut of a new column by Tom Cardamone, who reveals his “Lust” for the talented Geoff Ryman.
Speaking of Ginn, we just added a new forthcoming title from Blind Eye Books: Irregulars, which is four novellas from their superstar line-up, Ginn Hale, Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon, and Astrid Amara.
Next week we have a new Cheeky Frawg book, Amal El-Mohtar’s extremely popular The Honey Month, as well as new issues of all your favorite (er, monthly) magazines. Man, those things are popular!
We’ve also been wondering if we should start book subscriptions for certain publishers. We’d probably begin with Small Beer Press and expand it if there’s more interest. Tell us if it sounds interesting. Small Beer-wise we added one new ebook: Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer. I love this book and am so happy to have the electronic edition available. Fingers crossed we will have a new chapbook of three of her stories available by the time the World Fantasy Convention rolls around as they’re going to present Angélica with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Since Kalpa Imperial is the only book of hers available in English we are just jumping up and down in our excitement. No, really!
Anyway, that’s Small Beer. Next week: bestseller lists, new books, and, please, whoever is listening, sunshine!
BCS Subscriptions, Poll Extension
Tags: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PollI find myself in the happy position of having to withdraw my statements of a week ago saying there’d be nothing new til September. We have a new subscription from a new press! Beneath Ceaseless Skies features two new literary adventure fantasy stories every two weeks, which at $13.99 for a year’s subscription makes them the best deal for new fiction we’ve going. And single issues are only 99 cents!
In other news, I’m extending the Reader Poll for another week or so. Why? Because we want to hear from you! And because I really want to give away one of those beer steins. I’ve got one and it’s awesome. You don’t know what you’re missing until you vote!