- “Directions” by Fred Coppersmith
- “Hedgerow Benediction” by Sandi Leibowitz
- “The Fallen Months” by Wendy Rathbone
- “The City” by Beth Cato
- “The Coup in Elfland” by Michael J. DeLuca
- “Artifacts” by Judith Roney
- “Aetiologies” by Sonya Taaffe
- “Moon Story” by Vanessa Fogg
- “Star Fishing” by Shveta Thakrar
- “Jupiter Dis(mis)ed” by J.C. Runolfson
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #184
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #184 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam and Rebecca Campbell.
Apex Magazine Issue 77
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
When the Fall Is All That’s Left — Arkady Martine
All Things to All People — D.K. Thompson
Me and Jasper, Down by the Meth Shack — Aaron Saylor
The Atlas of Hell — Nathan Ballingrud
Super Duper Fly — Maurice Broaddus
Nonfiction
Unreliable Narrators in Kiernan and Chambers — Lucy A. Snyder
Interview with D.K. Thompson — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Joshua Hutchinson — Russell Dickerson
Poetry
Ten Little Zombies — Gregg Chamberlain
The Underworld — Laurel Dixon
Minotaur — Zachary Riddle
Hello, Wild Things, and Good Luck — Sarah Hollowell
Excerpts
Empire Ascendant — Kameron Hurley
The Pickpocket’s Tale — Kevin J. Anderson
Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 65 (October 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 Maria Dahvana Headley (“Solder and Steam”) and Adrian Tchaikovsky (“The Children of Dagon”), along with SF reprints by An Owomoyela (“Water Rights”) and Gregory Benford (“Time Shards”).
Plus, we have original fantasy by Emil Ostrovski (“Tragic Business”) and Nike Sulway (“The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club”), and fantasy reprints by Kevin Brockmeier (“The Invention of Separate People”) and Delia Sherman (“The Fiddler of Bayou Teche”).
All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with a feature interview with security expert and futurist Marc Goodman, and of course the latest installment of our book review column.
For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive novella reprint of James Tiptree Jr.’s “Slow Music,” and, of course, a pair of novel excerpts.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 37 (October 2015, Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue)
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.
Funded as a stretch goal of our sister-magazine LIGHTSPEED’s Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Kickstarter campaign, this month we’re presenting a special issue of NIGHTMARE called Queers Destroy Horror!: an all-horror extravaganza entirely written–and edited!–by queer creators. Here’s what we’ve got lined up for you in this special issue: Original horror–edited by Wendy N. Wagner–by Chuck Palahniuk, Matthew Bright, Sunny Moraine, Alyssa Wong, and Lee Thomas. Reprints–also selected by Wagner–by Kelley Eskridge, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Poppy Z. Brite. And nonfiction articles–edited by Megan Arkenberg–by Lucy A. Snyder, Sigrid Ellis, Catherine Lundoff, Michael Matheson, Evan J. Peterson, and Cory Skerry. Plus a selection of queer poetry selected by Robyn A. Lupo and an original cover illustration by AJ Jones.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #25 October 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 2015 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
To celebrate that odd Christian/Pagan crossover festival we call Halloween, we have some deliciously creepy stuff. Like “Daisy” by Paul DesCombaz. The title sounds innocuous enough. Kinda cute, actually. No. Be prepared for those tingles up your spine. And lock the dog in the bathroom tonight. Trust me. You’ll want to. And from Shannon Peavey, a little story called “White Elephant” that gives a whole new meaning to exchanging stuff you don’t want anymore.
In addition we have “Thirty-two Years in the Cooler” by Alter Reiss, a great little noir-esque sci-fi tale.
In our Previously Published Fiction box, we offer “Space Travel Loses Its Allure When You’ve Lost Your Moon Cup” (originally published at Crossed Genres in 2014) by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley. And an interview with Sylvia by FFO Staffer, Stanley Lee.
Last up, FFO Staffer, Jason Ridler, gives us an article called “Carlin’s Way,” about fearlessly choosing your own way, using George Carlin as an example. Editorial by Suzanne Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
Locus October 2015 (#657)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 2015 issue of Locus magazine has an interview with Elizabeth Hand. Worldcon coverage includes the Sasquan report with photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, a report on the “Alfies” presented at Worldcon by George R.R. Martin, and a report on the WSFS Business Meeting by Kevin Standlee. Other news coverage includes the Chesley Awards, the National Book Awards longlist, Stephen King’s National Medal of Arts win, Apple’s appeal to the Supreme Court, the Clarion endowment, awards news including the 2015 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, and much more. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “On Career-Building: The Marathon in the Desert”. Reviews cover new titles by Gene Wolfe, Cecelia Holland, Nnedi Okorafor, K.J. Parker, Christopher Moore, Alyc Helms, Gregory Maguire, Tanith Lee, Anna Tambour, Ian McDonald, Ann Leckie, Michael Swanwick, Greg van Eekhout, Laura Anne Gilman, and many others.
Mythic Delirium 2.2
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWelcome to the autumn issue of Mythic Delirium, full of not-so-straightforward takes on love and revolution and celestial mayhem.
In our fiction offerings, Fred Coppersmith cautions us about the devastating power of words (and words of power), Michael J. DeLuca demonstrates that even fantasy lands aren’t safe from the brutality of politics, and Vanessa Fogg shows us that even when ensconced in a lunar wonderland, the grass is always greener on another world.
Our poems span stars and planets and gods, time and music and witchcraft, seasons and deaths and what remains behind, courtesy of Sandi Leibowitz, Wendy Rathbone, Beth Cato, Judith Roney, Sonya Taaffe, Shveta Thakrar, and J.C. Runolfson.
Enjoy the harvest.
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Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 109
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 October 2015 issue (#109) contains:
* Original Fiction by A.C. Wise (“And If the Body Were Not the Soul”), Rich Larson (“Ice”), Kola Heyward-Rotimi (“The Father”), Karen Heuler (“Egg Island”), and Hao Jingfang (“Summer at Grandmaﾒs House “).
* Reprints by G. David Nordley (“War, Ice, Egg, Universe”) and Chris Beckett (“The Peacock Cloak”).
* Non-fiction by Tomas Petrasek (Sunless Worlds), an interview with Catherynne M. Valente, an Another Word column by Alethea Kontis, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 9
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 ninth issue features a novella by Sean Williams (“A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (and the Threat it Entails)”), a novelette by Caroline M. Yoachim (“Stone Wall Truth”), and a short story by Joe Haldeman (“Sleeping Dogs”).
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #183, Seventh Anniversary Double-Issue
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #183 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, our Seventh Anniversary Double-Issue, featuring stories by R.B. Lemberg, Naim Kabir, and I.L. Heisler. (The Richard Parks story is removed from the the ebook version of this issue at the author’s request. Please read it on the BCS website, “The Bride Doll,” or find it in the author’s collection Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter).
Interzone #260
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September-October issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by John Shirley, Jeff Noon, Priya Sharma, C.A. Hawksmoor, Christien Gholson. The 2015 cover artist is Martin Hanford, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Dave Senecal, Martin Hanford, Warwick Fraser-Coombe.
Features: Where O Where Has My Hugo Gone? by Ian Sales; 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); Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment); and Shaun Green interviews Becky Chambers.
Black Static #48
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September-October issue contains new novelettes and short stories by Jeffrey Thomas, Cate Gardner, Steven J. Dines, Andrew Hook, and Stephen Bacon. The cover art is by Martin Hanford, and interior illustrations are by Joachim Luetke, Tara Bush, 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 Kurt Unsworth); Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews).
On Spec Magazine – Spring 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring 2015 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Carrie Naughton (“Roundheels”), Mike Rimar (“Serenade on Lake Ontario”), Rich Larson (“Reocation”), Claude Lalumiere (“The Secret Dragon of Imperial Power”), and Wes Smiderle (“Shriek Season”). Cover by James Beveridge.
New York Review of Science Fiction #324
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Invention of Genres Issue: Ritch Calvin: Post-Punk, newer than now can be; Brian Stableford: France’s forgotten epic fantasy; Mike Barrett: Eleanor Scott’s haunting dreams; Gwyneth Jones on Sisters of the Revolution; Christopher Brown on Three-Body Problem; Dan’l Danehy-Oakes: Melinda Snodgrass’s Oort novels; Two views of Nalo Hopkinson’s Hominids; Christopher Kovacs on Small Doses of the Future; Plus: Screed! Celebrations! Stuff!
Nightmare Magazine Issue 36 (September 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 Vajra Chandrasekera (“The Sill and the Dike”) and Gwendolyn Kiste (“The Pied Piper Syndrome”), along with reprints by Richard Christian Matheson (“Third Wind”) and Reggie Oliver (“The Skins”). 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 the creators of Dapper Cadaver, one of the best sources for creepy props and Halloween supplies.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 64 (September 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 Caroline M. Yoachim (“Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World”) and Megan Arkenberg (“All in a Hot and Copper Sky”), along with SF reprints by Daniel H. Wilson (“God Mode”) and Carrie Vaughn (“Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution”).
Plus, we have original fantasy by Sean McMullen (“The Ninth Seduction”) and Heather Lindsley (“Werewolf Loves Mermaid”), and reprints by Maurice Broaddus (“The Iron Hut”) and Theodora Goss (“Estella Saves the Village”).
All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, a feature interview with award-winning writer and translator Ken Liu, and the latest installment of our book review column. Plus, because our cover artist this month couldnít participate in our regular artist showcase feature, we substituted a movie review column, and thus are pleased to present an insightful look at Mad Max: Fury Road from the always-delightful Carrie Vaughn.
For our ebook readers, we also have the novella “Milo and Sylvie,” by Eliot Fintushel, and a pair of novel excerpts.