New York Review of Science Fiction #326
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Time and Women Issue: Steve Carper: The Women of the Early SF Canon, Audrey Taylor: Patricia McKillip’s Healing via Time, Robert Eldridge: A Lost Translation of Potoki, Brian Stableford: Speculuative Manipulations, Gregory Benford: Strange Visitors, Scott Vander Ploeg on P. Andrew Miller, Lindow & Levy on Carolyn Ives Gilman, Mattie Brahan on Charles E. Gannon, Karen Burnham on John Sandford & Ctien, Plus: Corsairs! Echos of Future Vance! Comics!
The Big Click Issue 23
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedRhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein guest-edits this comics-themed issue of The Big Click, so get ready for some visual storytelling. Nero O’Reilly starts us off with “Noir,” a short dark wordless tale, and Chan Chau gives us a peek into the criminal nature of relationships. We also have some comics-themed nonfiction from Elle Collins, plus capsule reviews of two comics and one bleak as heck novel.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 7
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November/December 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Ursula Vernon, Elizabeth Bear, Karin Tidbeck, Yoon Ha Lee, and Alex Bledsoe, classic fiction by Alaya Dawn Johnson, essays by Annalee Flower Horne and Natalie Luhrs, Aidan Moher, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Deborah Stanish, poetry by Mari Ness, Sonya Taaffe, and Lisa M. Bradley, interviews with Yoon Ha Lee and Alex Bledsoe by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 78
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
To Die Dancing — Sam J. Miller
Blood on Beacon Hill — Russell Nichols
The Beacon and the Coward — Day Al-Mohamed
Signal to Noise — Gemma Files
Nonfiction
Cthulhu Apocalypse and the Terrifying Tradition of Horror Role-Playing Games — Ed Grabianowski
Interview with Author Russell Nicols — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Artist James Lincke — Russell Dickerson
Poetry
Rolling Dice — Chloe Clark
Mother Doll — Brittany Warman
When the Gods Come Knocking — Julia Kingston
Time Missing — Michael Sikkema
Excerpts
The Flux — Ferrett Steinmetz
The Weight of Chains — Lesley Conner
How to Pass as Human: A Guide to Assimilation for Future Androids by Android Ø — Nic Kelman
Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Flash Fiction Online Issue #26 November 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2015 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
Personally, I think of food all the time. Not just November. So when “The Brownies of Death” by Chuck Rothman hit my desk back in July my eyes glazed over and I thought ‘Brownies! Must publish brownie story!’ Okay. I admit. I liked the story. So did my staff.
Make sure, after you’ve read his story, to click over to an interview with Chuck by our own staffer, Stanley Lee. To tone the excitement down a little, we bring you a sweet story about the unsung hero of the football world–the mascot. Please enjoy “Vaquera” by Kim Henderson.
Next up, a sci-fi offering, “Rewind” by Scott Baker in which the author examines the question, “What if you could rewind your life a mere ten seconds?” We thought Scott came up with a pretty good answer.
Finally, in our ‘Previously Published’ box, a sweet sci-fi story by Krystal Claxton, “Sapience and Maternal Instincts.” Lovely. Grab a tissue. This story originally appeared at Daily Science Fiction in 2012.Writing advice from Jason Ridler. Editorial by Suzanne Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 17, November 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 17: November 2015
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Josh Vogt, Sabina Theo, David Drake, Eric Cline, Jody Lynn Nye, Eric T. Reynolds, Paul Di Filippo, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, David G. Blake, Pat Cadigan, Stewart C. Baker
Serialization: Reboots by Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Book Reviews: Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Terry Brooks
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.
Locus November 2015 (#658)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2015 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Sean Williams and Bradley P. Beaulieu, and a spotlight on Bill Campbell of Rosarium Publishing. News includes the 2015 Sunburst and Copper Cylinder winners, the National Book Award finalists, the Pratchett Memorial Scholarship, Amazon vs. The New York Times, the Google appeal win, genderflipped Twilight, and much more. An international report on SF in Israel: ICon by Ehud Maimon includes photo coverage of the ICon convention. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “The Internet Will Always Suck”. Reviews cover new titles by Lisa Goldstein, Mary Rickert, Paul Cornell, Edward James, Erika Johansen, Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear, Gary Whitta, Leah Bobet, T.E. Grau, Damien Angelica Walters, Tanya Huff, Terry Pratchett, Sarah Prineas, Greg Bear, and many others.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 38 (November 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 Matthew Kressel (“Demon in Aisle 6”) and Silvia Moreno-Garcia (“Lacrimosa”), along with reprints by Gemma Files (“The Emperor’s Old Bones”) and F. Paul Wilson (“Soft”).
We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word”–this time a look at storytelling in horror video games from gaming insider and author Justin Bailey–plus author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with horror film producer Jason Blum. It’s another great month for nightmares, so thanks for reading!
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 66 (November 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 Rahul Kanakia (“Here Is My Thinking On A Situation That Affects Us All”) and Caroline M. Yoachim (“Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death”), along with SF reprints by Brian Stableford (“The Pipes of Pan”) and Kameron Hurley (“The Light Brigade”).
Plus, we have original fantasy by Helena Bell (“When We Were Giants”) and Kenneth Schneyer (“The Plausibility of Dragons”), and fantasy reprints by Toh EnJoe (“Printable”) and Karen Joy Fowler (“The Black Fairy’s Curse”).
All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with a feature interview with Ernest Cline, and of course, the latest installment of our book review column. For our ebook readers, we also have a reprint of Elizabeth Hand’s novella “The Least Trumps,” and a novel excerpt of Chimera by Mira Grant.
Forever Magazine Issue 10
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 tenth issue features a novella by Ian McDonald (“The Tear”), a short story by Jamie Barras (“The Beekeeper”), and a short story by Aliette de Bodard (“The Shipmaker”).
Shimmer Magazine 28
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedGrowing up, two things weave their way in and out of our lives: loss and discovery. Sometimes, a loss can be a discovery, and sometimes a discovery is also a loss.
The stories in Shimmer #28 take you on four such journeys — journeys closer toward our more authentic selves, journeys away from what we thought we knew, and beyond what we know without a doubt.
Even In This Skin, by A.C. Wise
Mar has been binding her breasts for years by the time she starts visiting Jamie in prison. If the men stare, it’s at her ass; she can live with that. She isn’t packing today, so she doesn’t strut, just tugs her sweatshirt over her wrists before sliding into the seat opposite her brother. Today, she just wants to disappear.
In the Pines, by K.M. Carmien
“You stink like city,” the woods-thing says. The pines close around them, a green wall, filtering the light to dim and gray, cutting off the world. It looks like a girl, this one. Waxy pale skin, lank dark curls, shabby blue coat. Most of them don’t. They look like trees, or thickets, or wolves, or cats, or patterns of shadow. But this particular one, which always claims the right to deal with her, wears the skin of a girl who was murdered by a drifter four years ago.
To Sleep In the Dust of the Earth, by Kristi DeMeester
Lea and I met Beth when we were thirteen. That was the year Lea had legs that wouldn’t fill out her shorts. The year I started sneaking Marlboro Lights from my mother’s purse to share with Lea in the back corner of Benjamin Harper’s abandoned lot.
A Drop of Ink, Preserved In Amber, by Marina J. Lostetter
Amber knew normal girls didn’t have drawers in their chests. Or in their stomachs, or backs, or thighs. She knew her parents had had her specially designed by a geneticist in Pakistan, where the international genome-manipulation laws were more difficult to enforce than in the U.S. In the history of the world, there had never been another human like her. And she was human, even if she didn’t look it on an X-ray.
Space and Time Magazine Issue #124
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Fall 2015 issue of Space and Time Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Tina Starr (“Burning the Little Match Girl”) and Matt London (“The Flypaper Solution”), an interview with Robert J. Sawyer, poetry by Yunsheng Jiang and F.J. Bergman.
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #9
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazineís 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 #9 includes 10 short stories and one graphic story:
“Thomas Lynne” – Jordan Taylor
“When Angels Wear Butterfly Wings” – Stone Showers
“Sea Found” – L R Hieber
“Fountain” – Lynda Clark
“Beneath the Raven’s Wing” – Rebecca Birch
“Exit Strategy” – Shane Halbach
“Where the Millennials Went” – Zach Lisabeth
“Scents of Life” – Robert Lowell Russell
“The Parting Gift” – Hall Jameson
“Shamrock – Part 4 – Hero’s Scream” – Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez
In the non-fiction section, this issue features:
Interview with Author Michael R. Underwood
Interview with Author L R Hieber
Artist Spotlight: Jessica TC Lee
Science Corner: Black Holes and Academic Walls
Book Review: Half a War (Joe Abercrombie)
Book Review: Updraft (Fran Wilde)
Movie Review: Pay The Ghost (Uli Edel)
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.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #185
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #185 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Ian McHugh and Cory Skerry.
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction – Issue 5
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Autumn 2015 issue of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction.
This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand.
Inside these pages, you�ll find: an ancient and fatal karmic reunion in Jakarta by award-winner Gord Sellar; the true origin of the Merlion by Singapore Literature Prize winner Amanda Lee Koe; a young man�s literal transformation into an island by award-winner Ng Yi-Sheng; a far-future Malaysian fairy tale by Kawika Guillermo; a gentle aquatic apocalypse from novelist Erica Verrillo; an enlightening visit with a forest monk in northern Thailand by Italian journalist Massimo Morello; a comic on the price of technological hubris by Benjamin Chee; and speculative poetry from Tania De Rozario, Joel Donato Jacob, Lee Jing-Jing, Daryl Lin, Christina Sng and Sokunthary Svay.
LONTAR is the world�s only biannual literary journal focusing on Southeast Asian speculative fiction.
New York Review of Science Fiction #325
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Voyages to Other Worlds Issue; Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora: A Panoply of Views; Olympe Chambrionne: A Feminist Planetary Travelogue; Christopher Kovacs: Zelazny, Plagiarized; Alice Mills: The Borders of Elven Identity; Joe Sanders: Michael Swanwick’s Chasing the Phoenix; Peter Rawlik: Douglas Wynne’s Red Equinox; Darrell Schweitzer on America’s Stonehenge; Plus: Demon Princes, guns, and more!