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
Locus February 2016 (#661)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe February 2016 issue of Locus magazine is the annual Year in Review issue with essays, the Locus 2015 Recommended Reading List, and book and magazine summaries tracking the progress of the industry over the year.
The issue also features an interview with Tom Doherty, and news including the death of David G. Hartwell, the 2016 Philip K. Dick Award nominees, the Berkley merger with Putnam and Dutton, ALA Awards winners, and more. Obituaries are for David G. Hartwell, George Clayton Johnson, A.R. Morlan, Felice Maxam, and David Bowie. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “The Sad Economics of Writing Short Fiction”. Reviews cover new titles by Tim Powers, Carlos Hernandez, Victor LaValle, Judith Merril, John Wray, J. Kathleen Cheney, Carter Scholz, Gary Braunbeck, Becky Chambers, Richard Kadrey, Carol Berg, Anne Bishop, and many others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #29 February 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe February 2016 issue of Flash Fiction Online. This thing we call a heart that beats persistently in our chests is a sturdy yet infuriating and fragile thing. It functions without ceasing for decades despite neglect and, eventually, age. But a single word can tear it in two. It can deceive us and mislead us. It can cause us to soar into fits of helpless euphoria or sink into the deepest wells of depression.
Voltaire once said, “The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.”
Sometimes more than the mouth careens wildly out of control when matters of the heart require logical decisions.
But what would we do without it? The world would certainly be a cold and forbidding place.
For this, the month of St. Valentine’s Day, we bring you stories of the heart. Stories of broken hearts, of torn hearts, of crystalline hearts, and hearts lost up the proverbial magician’s sleeve.
First, from Raven Jakubowski, “Sister Margo’s Heart.”
Followed by “Love Letters on the Nightmare Sea,” by Rachael K. Jones.
Next up is “The Magician’s Assistant,” by Paul Crenshaw.
Finally a second-run offering: Shawn Proctor’s “Heartwood,” first published in Anthology Philly, a collection of short stories from Wragsink Press.
Happy Reading and Happy Valentine’s Day. May some kind person bring you chocolates!Edited by Suzanne W. Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 113
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 February 2016 issue (#113) contains:
* Original fiction by Paul McAuley (“The Fixer”), Benjanun Sriduangkaew (“That Which Stands Tends Toward Free Fall”), Nick Wolven (“In the Midst of Life”), and An Owomoyela and Rachel Swirsky (“Between Dragons and Their Wrath”).
* Reprints from Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore (“Blood Dauber”) and Kim Stanley Robinson (“Mercurial”).
* Non-fiction by Dan Koboldt (Six Quirks of the Human Genome), an interview with Lawrence Schoen, an Another Word column by Fran Wilde, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 13
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 thirteenth issue features a novella by Mary Robinette Kowal (“Kiss Me Twice”), a novelette by Vandana Singh (“With Fates Conspire”), and a novelette by Peter Watts (“Collateral”).
Plasma Frequency Magazine: Quarter 1 – 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIn this issue we have stories by: Melanie Rees, Sagnik Datta, Taylor Hornig, Jarod K. Anderson, George S. Walker, Adrian Simmons, Scott Shank, Anna Yeatts, Daniel Nathan Horn, Ian Rose, Vaughan Stanger, Melody Sage, and J F Pierce.
Interzone #262
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January–February issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains the latest Wergen story by Mercurio D. Rivera, plus other stories by Rahul Kanakia, Ian Sales, Carole Johnstone, T.R. Napper, and Philip A. Suggars.
The 2016 cover artist is Vincent Sammy, and interior colour illustrations are by Jim Burns and Richard Wagner. Features: The Imitation Game by Vincent Sammy; Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Laser Fodder by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews); Book Zone (book reviews, including Dave Hutchinson interviewed by Andy Hedgecock); Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment).
Black Static #50
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January–February issue contains new novelettes and short stories by Ray Cluley, Georgina Bruce, V.H. Leslie, Tyler Keevil, Tim Casson, and Gary Budden.
The cover art is by Vince Haig (for ‘White Rabbit’ by Georgina Bruce), and interior illustrations are by Vince Haig again, Martin Hanford, and Richard Wagner. Features: Coffinmaker’s Blues by Stephen Volk (comment); Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker (comment); Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews and an interview with Simon Bestwick); Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews).
New York Review of Science Fiction #328
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Fantascience Issue: Patrick McGuire: On the SF Career of E.T. Bell, aka John Taine; Brian Stableford: On the Forgotten Works of Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne; John Clute on Hartwell & Nielsen Hayden’s 21st Century Science Fiction; Peter Rawlik on Don Webb’s Lovecraftiana; Dan’l Danehy-Oakes: Asif Ismael’s Tightrope
Uncanny Magazine Issue 8
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January/February 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley, Nghi Vo, Christopher Barzak, Brit Mandelo, and Rose Lemberg, classic fiction by Sarah Rees Brennan, essays by Chris Kluwe, Max Gladstone, Isabel Schechter, and L.M. Myles, poetry by Kayla Whaley, Leslie J. Anderson, and Bryan Thao Worra, interviews with Maria Dahvana Headley and Christopher Barzak by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Priscilla H. Kim, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
The Big Click Issue 24
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue of The Big Click will take you home, country roads… but just remember, you can never really go home again. If the idea of “country” makes you think about momma’s apple pie, or duck hunting with your daddy—or at least, the representations of such you’ve seen via books, television, or films—you’re in for a surprise. Guest editor Court Merrigan has assembled an issue full of country realness that Andy Griffith never had to deal with. So settle in, because we’ve got short fiction by Shannon Barber and Aaron Phillip Clark, nonfiction by Bart Schaneman, and capsule reviews of the latest, hottest crime fiction inside.
Apex Magazine Issue 80
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 Tomato Thief — Ursula Vernon
The Open-Hearted — Lettie Prell
Bones of the World — Chikodili Emelumadu
That Lucky Old Sun — Carrie Cuinn
Razorback — Ursula Vernon
Kutraya’s Skies — Dave Creek
Riding Atlas — Ferrett Steinmetz
Paper Tigers (Novel Excerpt) — Damien Angelica Walters
Nonfiction
An Exploration of Racism in Heart of Darkness — Lucy A. Snyder
Interview with Author Ursula Vernon — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Author Lettie Prell — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Author Chikodili Emelumadu — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Artist Matt Davis — Russell Dickerson
Poetry
RX-200 Series: It’s Everything You Need — Samson Stormcrow Hayes
The Upside of the Cataclysmic Meteor — Zebulon Husent
The Doctor’s Assistant — Anton Rose
In the Far Future, Billy Experiences the Most Powerful Drug Known to Man — Greg Leunig
Automaton — Bianca Spriggs
Maxwell’s Demon — Annie Neugebauer
Various Kinds of Wolves — J.J. Hunter
Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 40 (January 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 Sam J. Miller (“Angel, Monster, Man”) and Nisi Shawl (“Vulcanization”), along with reprints by Richard Bowes (“There’s a Hole in the City”) and Tia V. Travis (“Down Here in the Garden”). 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 a feature interview with Gary Whitta.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 68 (January 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 JY Yang (“Secondhand Bodies”) and the collaborative team of Keith Brooke and Eric Brown (“Beyond the Heliopause”), along with SF reprints by Jason Gurley (“The Dark Age”) and Kate Bachus (“Pinono Deep”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Will McIntosh (“The Savannah Liars Tour”) and Kat Howard (“Maiden, Hunter, Beast”), and fantasy reprints by Peter S. Beagle (“La Lune T’Attend”) and Leena Krohn (“The Gorgonoids”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with a feature interview, the latest installment of our book review column, and the debut of the new movie review column by bestselling author Carrie Vaughn. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive novella reprint of “Griffin’s Egg,” by Michael Swanwick, and a novel excerpt from Barsk by Lawrence M. Schoen.
Locus January 2016 (#660)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2016 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Mary Rickert and Charlie Jane Anders, and a spotlight on Dominica Phetteplace. News includes Neal Shusterman’s National Book Award win, the 2015 Aurora Awards winners, Jay Lake’s Endeavor win, Beagle vs. Cochran, the Random House Australia restructure, the 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards, an International Report on Brazil by Roberto de Sousa Causo, and more.
Obituaries include Peter Dickinson, David Rain, Perry Chapdelaine, and Jon Arfstrom. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Wicked Problems: Resilience Through Sensing”.
Reviews cover new titles by China Miéville, John Wray, Caitlín Kiernan, Robert Jackson Bennett, Ian Tregillis, David Dalglish, Daniel Polansky, V.H. Leslie, Orrin Grey, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Jim Butcher, and others.
Read an excerpt from Mary Rickert’s interview.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 18, January 2016 – Featuring Leigh Bracket (scriptwriter for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 18: January 2016
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, Robert J. Sawyer, Lou J Berger, Rene Sears, Janis Ian, Robert T. Jeschonek, Jack Skillingstead, Dantzel Cherry, Effie Seiberg, Todd McCaffrey, Laurie Tom
Serialization: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Book Reviews: Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Joe Haldeman
Galaxy’s Edge is a bi-monthly magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by Barry Malzberg and Gregory Benford, book reviews by Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.
Mike Resnick was nominated for best Editor Hugo Award (short form) and Kary English’s story ‘Totaled’ was
nominated for Best Short Story Hugo Award.