Uncanny Magazine Issue 6
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September/October 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Paul Cornell, Isabel Yap, Liz Argall & Kenneth Schneyer, and Keffy R.M. Kehrli, classic fiction by N.K. Jemisin, essays by Michi Trota, Steven H Silver, Diana M. Pho, and David J. Schwartz, poetry by Rose Lemberg, Dominik Parisien, Amal El-Mohtar and Jennifer Crow, interviews with Isabel Yap and Liz Argall & Kenneth Schneyer by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Matthew Dow Smith, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 27
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe future is closer than we know, but so is the past. Turn a corner and you may find yourself swallowed by another era: by a cloud of dust, by a house, by a black and sunless world–by the swirling hair of your lover. Each will carry you to a time that was no more distant than the lines on your palm. Each will carry you effortlessly into the next.
Dustbaby, by Alix E. Harrow
There were signs. There are always signs, when the world ends.
A July Story, by K.L.
Iron red, linseed-cured, and caked in salt, in a place where the mercury never crept much above fifty Fahrenheit, the two-room house chose to keep its back to the sea. A wise choice, given the facing of the windows and the predilections of the wind.
Black Planet, by Stephen Case
Em did not dream the world. When the lights went out and the absence of her brother in the room across the hall became palpable, it was simply there, hanging in the space above her bed. She would stare at its invisible form, spinning silent and unseen, until she slept.
The Law of the Conservation of Hair, by Rachael K. Jones
That it has long been our joke that our hair lengths are inversely proportional, and cannot exceed the same cumulative mass it possessed on the day we met.
The Big Click Issue 22
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWelcome to the September issue of The Big Click. As usual, you’ll find cutting-edge short-form crime fiction, and reviews of the hottest longer crime releases, as well as the wisdom of Barry Graham’s column. So sit back and enjoy “Soar, Drenched Falcon, One Panel to The Next” by Jim Nisbet and “High Score” by Vito Gulla and we’ll see you in November, when it’s cooler!
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 16, September 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 16: September 2015
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Effie Seiberg, David Drake, Alex Shvartsman, Marina J. Lostetter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Sharon Joss, Brian Trent, Kimberly Unger, Kevin J. Anderson, Leena Likitalo, Sheila Finch
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 Connie Willis
Galaxy’s Edge is a bi-monthly (every two months) 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 (reprint) 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.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #24 September 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2015 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
”Ships and Stars and Childhood Things” by Gwendolyn Kiste. A lovely science fiction story of time and love and life passing by.
“Pidgin” by Katrina S. Forest. Another science fiction offering in which time passing is a factor. More on the future dystopian side of things, “The Wedding Gig” by John League. Another tale of time passing—in this case the remembrances of an aging musician as she copes with the post-plague world. Lovely tale of self-realization and acceptance. Finally, John Guzlowski is back with a republished story, “1968: A True Confession.” Again, time passes, age comes to us all. I love John’s treatment of the sweet relish of life and contemplating the past, present, and future.
Also be sure to check out our own Jason Ridler’s article, “ADVICE ON WRITING ADVICE AND OTHER REDUNDANCIES! PLUS! COSMIC TOP SECRET LIST OF WRITING ADVICE!” Editorial by Suzanne Vincent. Illustrations by Dario Bijelac
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 23
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedYear Six of Luna Station Quarterly continues, with our All Fantasy / Fairy Tale / Mythology Issue! (It wasn’t on purpose. Honest! These things just happen sometimes … ) From an old forest to the far side of the moon, from the Garden of Eden to the mysterious quiet of a faery gravesite, these stories continue the lineage of wonder, creepiness and subtle subversion that Luna Station has become known for. Join us, as the days of Summer wane, and let these ghosts, golems and mapmakers lead you into the unknown, and back again.
EDITORIAL, ISSUE 002 by Jennifer Lyn Parsons
HIS SOUL by Cathrin Hagey
ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES by Charlotte Ashley
FEASTING by Heather Kamins
INGEBJORG UNSPELLED by Jessamy Dalton
LARVAE by Kat Taddei
THE TREE OF LIFE IN LISBON by O.J. Cade
EXALTED GUESTS (OR HOW MALKA RAISED A DYBBUK ARMY) by Rena Rossner
PEACHES IN THE BREEZE by Siobhan Gallagher
SOWING RUBIES FOR BRIDES (OR THE GRAVEYARD ON THE EDGE OF FAERYLAND) by Suzanne J. Willis
BROTHER, UNSEEN by Sylvia Heike
Apex Magazine Issue 76
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.
A special international SF themed issue!
Guest edited by Cristina Jurado.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction
Child, Funeral, Thief, Death — Tade Thompson
Six Things We Found During the Autopsy — Kuzhali Manickavel
Find Me — Isabel Yap
Frozen Planet — Marian Womack
Mountain — Liu Cixin
Nonfiction
The Invention of Speculative Fiction in Spain — Cristina Jurado
Interview Saad Z. Hossain — Charles Tan
Interview with Zen Cho — Charles Tan
Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction — Charlotte Ashley
Interview with Ekaterina Zagustina — Russell Dickerson
Poetry
Dysmorphia — Anne Carly Abad
The Dissection — Christina Sng
Excerpts
Sorcerer to the Crown — Zen Cho
Escape from Baghdad! — Saad Z. Hossain
Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 108
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 September 2015 issue (#108) contains:
* Original Fiction by Robert Reed (“Cremulator”), Erica L. Satifka (“Loving Grace”), Bao Shu (“Preserve Her Memory”), Elizabeth Bourne (“The Algebra of Events”), and Benjanun Sriduangkaew (“The Occidental Bride”).
* Reprints by Tom Purdom (“Canary Land”) and Una McCormack (“Sea Change”).
* Non-fiction by Dan Kobolt (The Next Generation of DNA Sequencing), an interview with Seth Dickinson, an Another Word column by Jason Heller, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Locus September 2015 (#656)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2015 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Sarah Monette and Daniel José Older. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through June 2016. News includes the 2015 Hugo Awards winners, the Gemmell Awards winners, the British Fantasy Awards nominees, the Sidewise Awards winners, the Mythopoeic Awards winners, the 2015 SFPA Grand Masters, B&N news, and obituaries for Robert Conquest and Adrienne Martin-Barnes. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “What If People Were Sensors, Not Things to be Sensed?” Reviews cover new titles by Ian McDonald, Michael Swanwick, Aliette de Bodard, Zen Cho, Robin Hobb, N.K. Jemisin, Brenda Cooper, Charles Stross, Robert R. McCammon, Paul Tremblay, Tananarive Due, Douglas Lain, Marguerite Reed, and many others.
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #8
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 #7 includes 9 short stories and one graphic story:
“No Tale for Troubadours” – Pauline J. Alama
“Hell of a Salesman” – Hank Quense
“Beyond the Visible Spectrum” – Axel Taiari
“Little Sprout” – Rebecca Roland
“When the Dead Are Indexed” – Gary Emmette Chandler
“Dragon Rodeo Queen” – Kate Sheeran Swed
“The Adjunct” – Patricia S. Bowne
“Outside In” – Anna Yeatts
“Conversations with a Ghost” – Josh Vogt
“Shamrock” – Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez
In the non-fiction section, this issue features:
Interview with Author Tina Connolly
Interview with Author Rachel Pollack
Interview with Author Hank Quense
Science Corner: 7 Things to Know About Mutations
Book Review: A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
Movie Review: EX_MACHINA (Alex Garland)
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 #180
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #180 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Alec Austin and Jason Fischer.
Apex Magazine Issue 75
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.
Edited by Hugo Award-nominated editor Jason Sizemore.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FICTION:
Briset — Mehitobel Wilson
Coming Undone — Alexis A. Hunter
It is Healing, It is Never Whole — Sunny Moraine
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant’s Tale — Damien Angelica Walters
New Feet Within My Garden Go — E. Catherine Tobler (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
King of the Bastards — Brian Keene & Steven L. Shrewsbury (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
If Then — Matthew De Abaitua (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
NONFICTION:
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Interview with Mehitobel Wilson — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Billy Norrby — Russell Dickerson
Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction — Charlotte Ashley
The Fuzzy Bunny Squad is Standing By — Gary A. Braunbeck
POETRY:
Monsters We Create, Woozles We Become — Levi Sable
In the Day After the World Stopped Being— A. Merc Rustad
The Owl Child — Jennifer Ruth Jackson
Training: Endurance — Mary Soon Lee
Flash Fiction Online Issue #23 August 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2015 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
Our stories this month have August’s feel. First up is “The Last Mardi Gras” by Derrick Boden. I know it’s not Mardi Gras, but once you read this one, you’ll understand what I mean about the feel — the atmosphere is undeniably real, thick with longing for what was, and hoping for what might be. Next is “Bugs Eat Light” by returning FFO author, Izabella Grace. Appreciate the light while you have it. And keep the flashlights handy. I’m also pleased to bring another FFO alum back in this issue. Stewart C. Baker brings us “Concerning Your Recent Creation of Sentient Horse-Things on the Next Planet Over.” Be careful in how you handle old relationships. You never know when a planet-swallowing whale might be involved. Finally, a reprint from Rebecca Schwarz, “A Note to Parents Regarding the Beginning and End of Time Diorama Presentations for Ms. Miller’s Third Grade Class.” A little classroom humor for all your back to school needs. Editorial by Anna Yeatts. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
New York Review of Science Fiction #323
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial To Fantastic or Not To Fantastic Issue: Amelia Beamer & Gary K. Wolfe: Fantastic Fiction and the Postwar Literary Mainstream; Joe Sanders: Mario Vargas Llosa Avoiding Fantasy; Michael Andre-Driussi: Unintended Meetings; Mike Barrett: Leslie Barringerﾒs Forgotten Fantasies; Brian Stableford: Sex, Purity, and Joy; Darrell Schweitzer: SF Comedies in Nineteen Century America; Lee Weinstein: A Forgotten Green Man; And: Christopher Brown on Lavie Tidharﾒs Osama
Nightmare Magazine Issue 35 (August 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 Nathaniel Lee (“Where It Lives”) and Megan Arkenberg (“And This is the Song it Sings”), along with reprints by Steve Rasnic Tem (“The Men and Women of Rivendale”) and Molly Tanzer (“Qi Sport”). In our latest installment of our monthly column, “The H Word,” award-winning author Seanan McGuire gets serious about the Black Plague. We’ve also got an interview with horror legend Clive Barker, and of course, author spotlights with our authors, and a showcase on our cover artist.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 63 (August 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 Chen Qiufan (“The Smog Society”) and Sarah Pinsker (“And We Were Left Darkling”), along with SF reprints by Vandana Singh (“Life-pod”) and Vylar Kaftan (“Civilization”).
Plus, we have original fantasy by Sam J. Miller (“Ghosts of Home”) and Genevieve Valentine (“Given the Advantage of the Blade”), and fantasy reprints by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (“To See Pedro Infante”) and Ursula Pflug (“Python”).
All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with our latest book review column and a feature interview with the celebrated author Kazuo Ishiguro.
For our ebook readers, we also have “Equinoctial” by John Varley as our novella reprint, along with novel excerpts from ZERO WORLD by Jason M. Hough and FINCHES OF MARS by Brian W. Aldiss.