- Editor’s Note – Neil Clarke
- From the President – Cat Rambo
- Zen in the Art of Short Fiction Titling – John Joseph Adams
- Ask N&E: Finding an Assistant – Nancy Holder & Erin Underwood
- Writing and the Day Job – Patrice Sarath
- Bad Reviews vs. Biased Reviews – Sam J. Miller
- Running a Writing Workshop, Part III – Cat Rambo
- Diving into SCUBA: Storytelling Basics – Rachel Swirsky
- Academic Research for SFF Writers – Alex Dally MacFarlane
- Writing Professionals: Geologists – Rachael Acks
- Romance Tropes for SFF Writers – Jeffe Kennedy
- Market Report: Year’s Best Anthologies – Cynthia Ward
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 30
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedRuby slippers.
Yellow brick road.
Emerald City.
Green witch.
Blue flying monkeys.
The streaming green Matrix.
The ignition of a blue lightsaber.
The scarlet glow of an angry AI.
The rainbow stars of early warp drive.
The color out of space.
Red shirts.
Redrum.
Science fiction is full of iconic colors, and so too this issue of Shimmer!
Red Mask, by Jessica May Lin
Before she jumped, Feng Guniang used to tell me about her suicide, during our cigarette breaks when we danced at the Green Dream, her white-lacquered nails trailing against the web of her fishnet tights. We smoked in the shadowy corners behind the opium dens on Jiameng Street, where the lights from the neon advertising boards couldn’t touch us. The new opium dens are all styled like the old red mansions of the Ming Dynasty, complete with heavy doors twice as tall as we were.
Blackpool, by Sarah Brooks
He has chapped lips and a grinning red slash at his throat. He topples over the wrought-iron railings of the pier and into the cold northern sea, where the autumn waves are hungry to swallow him up. He dies in the early morning, when the lights of Blackpool are not on. Nobody sees him fall.
Indigo Blue, by Rachael K. Jones
Above the shuttleport ticket line, migrating orison-birds roosted in twos and tens and hundreds on the skylight before lifting and wheeling east, toward the distant winter nesting grounds. Lucy thought glowfall on Indigo must look something like those flashing blue wings refracting the sunlight, but she might never find out, because far up in the shuttleport line, someone else had bought the last ticket to the planet. The last glowing sales-counter sign winked out.
All the Red Apples Have Withered to Gray, by Gwendolyn Kiste
We discover the first girl in autumn. She’s tucked beneath the tallest tree in our orchard, dozing there like a ripened apple toppled to earth. I’m five years old, and the world is still gossamer and strange, my fragile memories like a soft cake that’s not yet risen, so part of me is almost certain that finding a girl one morning, sleeping where she doesn’t belong, must be the most ordinary thing for those who have lived long enough.
Locus March 2016 (#662)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March 2016 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Lisa Goldstein and Fran Wilde. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through December 2016. News includes the 2015 Nebula Awards ballot, the Crawford Award, Hardinge’s Costa win, the return of OMNI, Kenyon vs. Clare, the 2015 Stoker Preliminary ballot, and more. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Wealth Inequality is Even Worse in Reputation Economies”. Obituaries include Bud Webster, Kathleen A. Bellamy, David Lake, and Bill Baldwin, with a special feature on David G. Hartwell (1941-2016) with appreciations, photos, and remembrances. Reviews cover new titles by Peter Straub, Sofia Samatar, Johanna Sinisalo, K.J. Parker, R.S. Belcher, M.H. Boroson, Serge Russolo, James Morrow, James Gunn, Allen Steele, Laird Barron, Tobias S. Buckell, Leah Bobet, Sarah Beth Durst, and others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 114
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedClarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our March 2016 issue (#114) contains:
* Original stories by Jack Skillingstead (“Salvage Opportunity”), A.C. Wise (“Seven Cups of Coffee”), Leena Likitalo (“The Governess with a Mechanical Womb”), Kij Johnson (“Coyote Invents the Land of the Dead”), and Gu Shi (“Chimera”).
* Reprints from Cecelia Holland (“The King of Norway”) and Karl Bunker (“Gray Wings”).
* Non-fiction by Mark Cole (The Age of the Excessive Machine: Psychedelic SF, On-Screen and Off), an interview with Charlie Jane Anders, an Another Word column by Genevieve Valentine, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 14
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedForever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, author, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.
Our fourteenth issue features a novella by James Patrick Kelly (“Mr. Boy”), a short story by Elizabeth Bear (“Tideline”), and a novelette by Gord Sellar (“The Bernoulli War”).
The SFWA Bulletin Issue 207
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe SFWA Bulletin is the official publication of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and is published quarterly. This issue features:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #194, Double-Issue for Science-Fantasy Month 3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #194 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, a special double-issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 3, featuring stories by Yoon Ha Lee, Cat Rambo, and Anaea Lay.
The Dark Issue 11
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Dark is a quarterly magazine co-edited by Jack Fisher and Sean Wallace, with the eleventh issue featuring all-original short fiction by Michael Wehunt, Amber van Dyk, Gregory Norman Bassert, and Kristi DeMeester.
New York Review of Science Fiction #329
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Revolutions and Rebellions Issue: Brian Stableford: The French Revolution & Fantasy; Sandra Lindow: Flighting Against the Future; Richard Lupoff: On Frank Robinson; David Drake: War and Consequence; Mike Barrett: On J.H. Riddell and Ghosts; Matthew Connolly: Racism as Bad SF; Lee Weinstein: The Four-Eyed Man; Gwyneth Jones on Johanna Sinisalo; Michael Andre-Driussi on Wu Ming-Yi; Peter Rawlik on Darrell Schweitzer
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #11
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience.
Issue #11 includes 9 short stories and one graphic story:
“Sundark and Winterling” — Suzanne J. Willis
“Red Cup” — Paul Magnan
“The Water Moon” — Steve Simpson
“Battle Lines” — J.W. Alden
“Talking with Honored Guests” — Alexander Monteagudo
“How I Lost Eleven Stone and Found Love” — Ian Creasey
“The Great Excuse” — Jacob Michael King
“The Velna Valsis” — Henry Szabranski
“Have You Seen Me?” — Josh Vogt
“Shamrock – Part 6 – Perseverance” — Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez
Interview with Author Karri Thompson
Interview with Author A.L. Davroe
Artist Spotlight: Jeremy Vickery
Book Review: Tales of My Ancestors (Bruce Edward Golden)
Movie Review: Turbo Kid (François Simard, Anouk Whissell)
The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.
The Dark Issue 10
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach quarter The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editor Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“Birds of Lancaster, Lairamore, Lovejoy” by Michael Wehunt (original)
“And the Woods Are Silent” by Amber van Dyk (original)
“Between Dry Ribs” by Gregory Norman Bossert (reprint)
“All the World When It Is Thin” by Kristi DeMeester (reprint)
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On Spec Magazine- Summer 2015 #101 vol 27 no 2
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Summer 2015 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Nigel Brown (“Precious Cargo”), Brinsley Gale (“Okami, We Need You”), Brent Knowles (“Red Means Go”), John Park (“Hammerhead”), Alex Shvartzman (“One in a Million”), Regan Wolfrom (“Death and Life in Nipigon”), Michael Ezell (“The Clockwork Hooker and the Mysterious Bearded Girl”), and Lynne M. MacLean (“Storm Wife”. Poetry by Colleen Anderson (“The Hedge Witch”, and James K. Moran (“Stormed”).
Cover by Corey Lansdell.
The Dark Issue 9
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Dark is a quarterly magazine co-edited by Jack Fisher and Sean Wallace, with the ninth issue featuring all-original short fiction by Sara Saab, JY Yang, Patricia Russo, and Kirsty Logan.
Apex Magazine Issue 81
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedApex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction
The Beast at the End of Time — Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Anabaptist — Daniel Rosen
The Four Gardens of Fate — Betsy Phillips
On the Occasion of My Retirement — Nick Mamatas
Glitch Rain (Novel Excerpt) — Alex Livingston
Nonfiction
Interview with Author Benjanun Sriduangkaew — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Artist David Demaret — Russell Dickerson
Poetry
Calabash — Mike Jewett
Little and Red — Crystal Lynn Hilbert
Arrhythmia — Heather Morris
Paper Unicorn — Laurel Dixon
Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 69 (February 2016)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF–and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
This month, we have original science fiction by Rachael K. Jones (“Charlotte Incorporated”) and Sarah Pinsker (“Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea”), along with SF reprints by Samuel Peralta (“Hereafter”) and Paul McAuley (“Transitional Forms”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Jeremiah Tolbert (“Not by Wardrobe, Tornado, or Looking Glass”) and Karin Tidbeck (“Starfish”), and fantasy reprints by Rachel Swirsky (“Monstrous Embrace”) and Christopher Barzak (“Map of Seventeen”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book reviews and our new media review column. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive reprint of the novella “May Be Some Time,” by Brenda W. Clough. We also have an excerpt from the novel A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 41 (February 2016)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
This month, we have original fiction from Rose Hartley (“No Other Men in Mitchell”) and Dennis Etchison (“Princess”), along with reprints by Seanan McGuire (“Inspirations”) and Adam L. G. Nevill (“Where Angels Come In”).
We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and an interview with award-winning author David Mitchell.
Mothership Zeta Magazine – Issue 2
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Q1 2016 issue of Mothership Zeta.
Mothership Zeta is the first ezine project to come out of Escape Artists (publisher of podcast magazines Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and Podcastle). We are an ebook-only zine that focuses on new fiction with a fun undertone along with nonfiction from experts in science fiction, science, and more!
Table of Contents
Editorial
Fiction: You, an Accidental Astronaut by Sonja Natasha
Fiction: That Time with Bob and the Unicorn by T. Kingfisher
Nonfiction: The Story Doctor Is (In) by James Patrick Kelly
Fiction: The Android’s Prehistoric Menagerie by A. Merc Rustad
Fiction: The Elixir of the Not-So-Disgusting Death Smell by Carlie St. George
Nonfiction: Dictionary Writing Prompts by Karen Bovenmyer
Fiction: A Bird, a Broad, and a Mess of Kyodatsu by Stephen Lickman
Nonfiction: Video Game Review: Hatoful Boyfriend Is the Greatest Pigeon Dating Sim in the History of Human and/or Bird Existence by Sunil Patel
Nonfiction: Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: A New Hope by Rachael Acks
Fiction: Fire in the Belly by Rachael Acks
Nonfiction: Comics Review: New and Upcoming Graphic Novels: Skywalker Strikes, Injection, Lady Killer, Bitch Planet, Constantine the Hellblazer Vol. 1: Going Down, and Founding Father Funnies by Adam Gallardo
Fiction: Forty-One Bad Breakups and One Redemptive Reunion by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro