End Game
Tags: Lightspeed Magazine, Nancy KewssThis month’s Lightspeed has an excellent slow apocalypse story from Nancy Kress, “End Game,” that was originally published in Asimov’s but I didn’t read it until she sent the manuscript for Fountain of Age to us at Small Beer Press. Nancy’s long been one of the bright lights of science fiction and she is having a great year with her novella After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall picking up both the Nebula and Locus and being nominated for nearly every other award it could be.
If you haven’t read her, “End Game” is a good place to start:
Allen Dodson was sitting in seventh-grade math class, staring at the back of Peggy Corcoran’s head, when he had the insight that changed the world. First his own world and then, eventually, like dominos toppling in predestined rhythm, everybody else’s, until nothing could ever be the same again. Although we didn’t, of course, know that back then….
Read the rest in Lightspeed.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 39
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Original fantasy: Ken Liu (“The Litigation Master and the Monkey King”) and Cory Skerry (“Breathless in the Deep”), along with fantasy reprints by Marc Laidlaw (“Catamounts”) and Angela Slatter (“Brisneyland by Night”).
Original science fiction: Yoon Ha Lee (“The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars”) and Sean Williams (“Face Value”) and SF reprints by Alastair Reynolds (“At Budokan”) and Nancy Kress (“End Game”).
Feature Interviews: Alaya Dawn Johnson and bestselling YA author Rick Yancey.
Ebook exclusive novella: “The Gorgon in the Cupboard” by Patricia McKillip and excerpts from BLOOD OF TYRANTS, the penultimate volume in the acclaimed Temeraire series by bestselling author Naomi Novik and KINGMAKER by Christian Cantrell.
New Prime titles, Lightspeed/Fantasy update
Tags: Apex Publications, haggis, Lightspeed Magazine, Prime Books
Today we had a huge release: Prime Books and Apex Publications are working with us to get all of their titles onto this here tiny mighty site. Prime also dropped the prices on all their titles (apart from Rudy Rucker’s Ware Tetralogy) to just $4.95.
New titles here today from Prime: collections by Sarah Monette and Richard Parks, many anthologies edited by Paula Guran, Heart of Iron by Ekaterina Sedia (Publishers Weekly starred review: “Superbly blends novel of manners, alternate history, and le Carré–style espionage with a dash of superheroes and steampunk.”), and, very excitingly, R. A. MacAvoy’s first book in many years, Death and Resurrection.
Apex Publications tend to run a lot darker, although Lavie Tidhar’s HebrewPunk is proving popular already and Paul Jessup’s Dead Stay Dead looks worth an, er, look(!).
Out there on the internets there is a huge fundraiser for one of our heros: Terri Windling. Please check it out and maybe someone on your holiday list will be lucky, lucky, lucky! (There is so much good stuff! So tempted!)
Also of note: Cheeky Frawg now have a, yes, cheeky new website.
I think all the monthly magazines have gone out. They don’t all go out on the same day: some of them are the first day of the month, some are the first Monday or Tuesday, thank god Michael can keep it straight. Also, with Lightspeed and Fantasy Magazine merging into a one, new, bigger Lightspeed, perhaps you might consider subscribing before Jan. 1, 2012, when the price will go up!
Next week we will be bringing on Mike Allen’s Clockwork Phoenix anthologies as well as his long-running magazine, Mythic Delirium. We’re also talking to more magazines about getting them on board.
And, fingers crossed, we may yet have gift certificates available by the time the holidays roll around. If not then, we should have them by Robert Burns Day—well known in poetry circles as the day to not only share a haggis, whisky, and poetry with friends and family, but also the day to go out an buy an ereader in the post-post-holiday electronic stores sale-of-desperation and fill it with ebooks from indie ebooksites. Mmmm . . . veggie haggis.
Last Chance to Get in on the Lightspeed and Fantasy Subscription Drive
Tags: Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, sale, subscriptions
Readercon starts tomorrow, which means tonight at midnight marks the end of the Lightspeed and Fantasy subscription drive: your last chance to get in on a year’s worth of two excellent magazines at 25% off, get two extra Prime ebooks free on the bargain, plus all the other crazy bonus stuff mentioned here.
A big thank you to everyone who’s participated. The drive has been a big hit so far, and we’re sure to be trying this again in the near future with some of our other magazines. So be sure to stop by in August!
Lightspeed Subscriptions and accounts updated
Tags: Lightspeed Magazine, subscriptions
Today we’re proud to release our second subscription and it’s very appropriate that it’s for Lightspeed Magazine, a future-focused online monthly science fiction magazine edited by John Joseph Adams.
We also added their back issues so you can now get all the goodness from June, July, August, September, October, November, and December—they’re $2.99 a piece in either epub or mobi formats and include stories by Alice Sola Kim, Carol Emshwiller, Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Yu, Nancy Kress, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Catherynne Valente, Ted Kosmatka, Robert Silverberg, Yoon Ha Lee, Sarah Langan, Stephen King, and, More!
Subscriptions start with the current (December) issue and are just $19.95 for 12 months.
It’s been exciting to see the interest in the LCRW subscription—at the moment it’s the bestseller this month although with some big titles coming in time for the Christmas ereader rush, I don’t know if that will last. We’re talking to a range of magazines about adding them. If you’d like to see a magazine/zine/journal here, drop us (and maybe them!) a line and we’ll see what we can do.
Weightless Accounts
If you’ve stopped by in the last couple of days you’ll have seen that you can now sign up for an account here at Weightless. These are free, of course, and if you use your PayPal email address you will have access to a new page, My Library, which has permanent links to all your purchased ebooks and subscriptions. The links should be there even if you bought the, say, the Fairy Tale Review Special, months ago. Michael makes magic happen again!
And that’s not all for this week. Tomorrow we have more four titles from Lethe Press and, we hope, more, always more! Thanks for reading.
Moving at Lightspeed
Tags: Lightspeed MagazineToday we’ve added a couple of issues of Lightspeed, the excellent SF magazine from Prime. There are more issues (and some Prime Books, as it were) to come as soon as we get them. Much movement in the works for the next few weeks!
Presenting: Lethe Press!
Tags: Carol Emshwiller, Lethe Press, Lightspeed Magazine, paper!This week we added our first four titles from the excellent (and sometimes very sexy) Lethe Press and either later this week or early next we’ll be adding some shiny issues of the new and shiny SF magazine Lightspeed featuring stories from Carol Emshwiller (who will be 90 next year: celebrate!), Cat Valente, and much more. We may offer Lightspeed as a subscription: please do tell us if you’re interested. We figure it might be interesting if people can manage many electronic subscriptions in one place.
We fixed a broken Google thing so that you can preview some of the books and had a tiny brainstorm and realized we should—just in case, you never know, you might want one—supply you with the option to buy any titles that are available in paper. Some people (including us) still buy books that way, really!
What else? How about those Lethe Press books? The first four titles are:
— Subtle Bodies by Peter Dube
— Binding the God: Ursine Essays from the Mountain South in which “Jeff Mann writes of the passion and pain of being a Southern gentleman who happens to be invested in many worlds”
— Steve Berman’s Second Thoughts which Chroma said was “excellent for readers of the lesser-found gay supernatural fiction, or anyone appreciative of twisted tales”
—and a fabulous short story collection by Sandra McDonald, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories in which “Diana is a cross-dressing man, and plenty of the other protagonists, Cubby included, are gay. Their world isn’t much easier for gays and transgender folk than ours is, yet they are winningly heroic, psychologically complex, and sympathetic. And because theirs is an alternate world, they prove their mettle in genre milieus ranging from the western to contemporary (in our world) desert warfare, with technologies ranging from sail and horse to helicopter. No matter the setting and the tools, their stories are all enthralling.”
And that’s it for this week. Technical difficulties (hello Airport and Mac 10.6.5) meant these are going up on Wednesday instead of Tuesday but all is well and our prospects are good for adding a good range of things and stuff by the holidays. Have fun!