Flash Fiction Online Issue #28 January 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2016 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
As far a stories go, I love a story that makes me think. A story that bends my perceptions of things, or draws me into my own inner battle of wits. Thought provoking without being preachy.
It just so happens that this month’s stories are just that.
First up, we have “America, America” by Nigerian author Okafor Emmanuel Tochukwu.
Next, “Live Forever” by Anton Rose.
Also, “The Retelling of Jeremiah” by returning FFO author, Kelly Sandoval. In addition we have a second-run offering, “A Revolution in Four Courses” by Naru Dames Sundar. This story first appeared in Daily Science Fiction’s June 2015 issue. advice column by Jason Ridler, “The Workaholics Creedo.” Edited by Suzanne W. Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 112
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 January 2016 issue (#111) contains:
* Original Fiction by Robert Reed (“The Algorithms of Value”), E. Catherine Tobler (“The Abduction of Europa”), Rich Larson (“Extraction Request”), and Bao Shu (“Everybody Loves Charles”).
* Reprints byRobert Silverberg (“The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale”), Megan Lindholm (“Old Paint”)Megan Lindholm (“Old Paint”).
* Non-fiction by Sofia (Our Future is Artificial), an interview with Julie Dillon, an Another Word column by Ken Liu, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #10
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 #10 includes 9 short stories and one graphic story:
“The Genie and the Inquisitor” – Johnny Compton
“The Hummingbird Air” – Paul Roberge
“The Empty Faux-Historical Residential Unit” – Rachel Hochberg
“Last Age of Kings” – Jeremy Szal
“Kara’s Ares” – Clint Spivey
“Protecting Nessie” – Hank Quense
“Dancing an Elegy, His Own” – Julie Novakova
“Lost Souls” – E. E. King
“The Answer” – Lynette Mejía
“Shamrock – Part 5 – Monkey Business” – Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez
In the non-fiction section, this issue features:
Interview with Award Winning Author Matthew Kressel
Interview with Author and Editor Maurice Broaddus
Artist Spotlight: Josh Hutchinson
Book Review: The SEA Is Ours (ed. by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng)
Movie Review: The Martian (Ridley Scott)
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.
Bitter Waters
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected, saleKirkus Best Books of 2015
Lambda Award Winner
The average adult male is approximately 60% water. Blood tastes salty as more than two thirds of the sodium circulating throughout your body is carried in arteries and veins. Which means that your heart is like a miniature ocean within your chest. Chaz Brenchley has not only been awarded the British Fantasy Society’s August Derleth Award but knows all too well the storms and dangers of the heart: the lofty desires, the grieving nadirs, the tempest of love. In Bitter Waters, his first short story collection devoted to gay readers, Brenchley offers men fantastical instances to effleurer, to break for taller timber, to drown in emotions. And while not every tale in this breathtaking collection involves the sea, tears and bloodshed still need to be navigated.
New York Review of Science Fiction #327
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Advance Planning Issue: Patricia Monk: Readying Readers for the Future; Michael Swanwick and Phil & Kaja Foglio: Plots and Planning; Brian Stableford: The Earliest Lessons in How to Write Science Fiction; Michael Andre-Driussi: Kipling and Stalker; Joe Milicia on Felix Gilman’s Revolutions; Darrell Schweitzer: Lovecraft as Mentor
James Cambias on Chris Beckett’s Mother of Eden
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 39 (December 2015)
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 Damien Angelica Walters (“The Judas Child”) and Caspian Gray (“The King of Ashland County”), along with reprints by Tim Lebbon (“Reconstructing Amy”) and Nancy Etchemendy (“Honey in the Wound”). Over on our column on horror, “The H Word,” we’re exploring holiday horror, and of course we’ll have author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with author Kim Liggett.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 67 (December 2015)
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 A. Merc Rustad (“Tomorrow When We See the Sun”) and Aidan Doyle (“Beneath the Silent Stars”), along with SF reprints by Hugh Howey (“Beacon 23: Little Noises”) and Charlie Jane Anders (“The Time Travel Club”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Rachel Swirsky (“Tea Time”) and the late Jay Lake (“Ex Libris Noctis”), and fantasy reprints by Richard Parks (“The Queen’s Reason”) and Mark Rigney (“Portfolio”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with an interview with THE MARTIAN author Andy Weir, and the latest installation of our book review column. For our ebook readers, we also have a reprint of the novella “The Surfer” by Kelly Link, and a novel excerpt from A DAUGHTER OF NO NATION by A.M. Dellamonica.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 24
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Dark Half of the year is upon us, and Luna Station Quarterly follows suit, wrapping up our sixth year in style, with stories that chill and thrill, from an amazing assortment of women.
Alongside the usual compliment of uplift & wonder that you’ve come to expect, there are bittersweet stories here; of a girl who is transformed into a tree after rejecting a god, of a cloak that delivers vengeance at a cost, of a woman whose strained humanity causes her to fly into a black hole. Zelda Fitzgerald even shows up along the way! C’mon … now you KNOW you’re curious!
As the nights grow longer, as the time for inner work & quiet & solitude blooms, pour yourself a cup of tea, light a candle or two, and invite Luna Station in. It isn’t always safe, but you won’t mind…
Editorial, Issue 024 by Jennifer Lyn Parsons
Turning Song by Fey Karvaly
The Corn Grows Back Every Year by Riley Vainionpaa
Feral Unicorn by Mary E. Lowd
Keeping Time by Charity Tahmaseb
The Sidhe by Elizabeth Archer
Cold Flame by Sheryl Normandeau
The Scarlet Cloak by Karen Bovenmyer
On Aerdwen Green by Sandi Leibowitz
Who Wants to Live Forever? by Karen McCreedy
Traffic Circles of Old Connecticut by Susan Jane Bigelow
A Funnel of Time by Kris Faatz
The Five Snowflakes by Rebecca Harrison
Williams by Tracy Staedter
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 111
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 December 2015 issue (#111) contains:
* Original Fiction by Liu Cixin (“Yuanyuan’s Bubbles”), Tamsyn Muir (“Union”), Seth Dickinson (“Morrigan in Shadow”), and Cassandra Khaw (“When We Die on Mars”).
* Reprints by Sean McMullen (“Technarion”), Walter Jon Williams (“Daddys World”)Walter Jon Williams (“Daddy’s World”).
* Non-fiction by Jason Heller (A Dance with Futuristic Dragons: The Science-Fantasy Glamour of Marc Bolan and T. Rex), an interview with Gene Wolfe, an Another Word column by Cat Rambo, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 11
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedForever is a new 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 eleventh issue features a novella by Martin L. Shoemaker (“Murder on the Aldrin Express”), a short story by Gregory Norman Bossert (“Bloom”), and a short story by Steven Gould (“A Story, with Beans”).
Flash Fiction Online Issue #27 December 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2015 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
As for myself, I’m no lover of winter, but Christmas just isn’t the same without snow. And should we be lucky enough to have snow fall on Christmas Day it’s absolutely magical.
But snow isn’t so magical for the characters in our first story this month: “The Snow Globe” by Katherine van der Vliet.
And another Christmas offering, “To the Havens” by Ariel Bolton. If your kids still believe in Santa and his elves, I’d think twice before reading this one to them. Maybe three times.
Next up we have a lovely sci-fi offering from Eleanor R. Wood, “Fibonacci.”
Finally, this month’s reprint, “Hoarfrost,” by Michelle Muenzler. This fantasy story originally appeared in Three-lobed Burning Eye in October 2012, then as a Podcast at Toasted Cake in December 2014. Edited by Suzanne W. Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
Locus December 2015 (#659)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2015 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Chuck Wendig and Beth Cato. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2016.
News includes the World Fantasy Awards and World Fantasy Convention report, the Prix Utopiales and Festival report, the British Fantasy Awards, Orbit’s expansion, the launch of John Joseph Adams Books, the World Fantasy trophy change, the Crossed Genres closure, Amazon’s new brick-and-mortar bookstore, and much more.
Obituaries include T.M. Wright, Rena Wolner, and Ayerdahl. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “When the Writing Sprint Goes Wrong”.
Reviews cover new titles by Charlie Jane Anders, Leena Krohn, Catherynne M. Valente, Will Elliott, Lila Bowen, Linda Nagata, Cherie Priest, Matt Wallace, Emma Newman, David Walton, Scott Hawkins, Kameron Hurley, Gemma Files, and others.
Apex Magazine Issue 79
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
Aishiteru Means I Love You — Troy Tang
A Leter to Santa — Melanie Rees
She Gaver Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow — Sam Fleming
Christmas is Coming — Gina L. Grandi
The Phylactery — Nick Mamatas
Memory Tree — Jes Rausch
Reconstituted — Marlee Jane Ward
Nemesis — Laird Barron
Nonfiction
Shiny Boots and Corinthians: Writing Historical Fiction without Cliches — Jennie Goloboy
Interview with Author Sam Fleming — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Artist Irek Konior — Russell Dickerson
Poetry
Grotesque — J.J. Hunter
Myrrh, and the Sun — Lara Ek
Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Mothership Zeta Magazine – Issue 1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Q4 2015 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 and reprints from the EA podcasts, along with nonfiction from experts in science fiction, science, and more!
Table of Contents:
Editorial
Fiction: “The Customer is Always Right” by Anna Salonen
Fiction: “Q&A: An AI Love Story” by Fade Manley
Nonfiction: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dwarf Planets” by Pamela L. Gay
Fiction: “Panic Twice, Spin” by Malon Edwards
Nonfiction: “Video Game Review: Why We Love Playing Flight Rising” by Karen Bovenmyer, Kri Dontje, and Mur Lafferty
Reprint: “Imma Gonna Finish You Off” by Marina J. Lostetter
Fiction: “Sleeping with Spirits” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Nonfiction: “The Story Doctor Is (In)” by James Patrick Kelly
Nonfiction: “Series Review: Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody, Egyptologist” by Karen Bovenmyer
Fiction: “Bargain” by Sarah Gailey
Fiction: “Places” by Suyi Davies
Nonfiction: “Favorite 2014-2015 Graphic Novels: Nimona, Finder: Third World, Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: No Normal, Trees and the upcoming Star Wars, Volume 1: Skywalker Strikes and Lady Killer” by Adam Gallardo
Fiction: “Tales of a Fourth Grade Shoggoth” by Kevin Wetmore
Nonfiction: “Movie Review: Turbo Kid: Why this BMX Blood Sparkle Unicorn Apocalypse will Blow your Mind” by Rachael Acks
Nonfiction: “Book Review: Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl” by Karen Bovenmyer
Nonfiction: “Book Review: M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts” by Karen Bovenmyer
Fiction: “The Insect Forest” by Paul DesCombaz
Interzone #261
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November-December issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by Gary Gibson, Julie C. Day, Greg Kurzawa, Rich Larson, Malcolm Devlin, and Ken Altabef. The 2015 cover artist is Martin Hanford, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Ben Baldwin, and Vince Haig. Features: We All Need Diverse Books by Maureen Kincaid Speller; 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 Jack Deighton on Cixin Liu, and Ian Sales on David Mitchell); Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment).
Black Static #49
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November-December issue contains new novelettes and short stories by Ralph Robert Moore, Thana Niveau, Simon Bestwick, Stephen Hargadon, Erinn L. Kemper, and Tim Lees. The cover art is by Martin Hanford, and interior illustrations are by Ben Baldwin, Martin Hanford, and Vincent Sammy. 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 Nicole Cushing); Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews).