Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 107
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 August 2015 issue (#107) contains:
* Original Fiction by Martin Shoemaker (“Today I am Paul”), J.B. Park (“It Was Educational”), Han Song (“Security Check”), and Emily Devenport (“The Servant”).
* Reprints by Peter M. Ball (“Dying Young”) and Neal Asher (“Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck”).
* Non-fiction by Mark Cole (“Fans Are Slans”: A Study in Campbellian Influence), a group interview on writing for video games, an Another Word column by Emily Devenport, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Locus August 2015 (#655)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2015 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Neal Stephenson and Wesley Chu, and a spotlight on Deanna Hoak, copyeditor. News includes the 2015 World Fantasy Awards nominations, the Locus Survey results, the 2014 Shirley Jackson Awards winners, the Berkley and New American Library merger, the Prometheus Award winner, Apple and Amazon news, and reports on the Locus Awards Weekend, Readercon 2015, the 15th Indian Science Fiction Conference, and more. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “Your Author Meltdown Will Be Live-Tweeted”. Reviews cover new titles by China Miéville, Joe Abercrombie, Richard Kadrey, R.S. Belcher, D.B. Jackson, Nancy Jane Moore, Ken Scholes, Max Gladstone, Tim Pratt, Ilona Andrews, Tina Connolly, Karen Haber, and many others.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #179
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #179 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Therese Arkenberg and Kendra Leigh Speedling.
See the Elephant, Annual Subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSee the Elephant is dedicated to fiction that questions consensus reality and pushes genre boundaries, including slipstream, weird, visionary, magical realist, soft science fiction and contemporary fantasy. We are especially interested in publishing works by women, people of color, indigenous, LGBTQ, and writers from non-mainstream cultures and traditions. We also run annual New Voices contests with awards of cash prizes and publication to support new writers. First published in 2015.
Interzone #259
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July-August issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by E. Catherine Tobler, Chris Butler, Sara Saab, Richard W. Strachan, Rich Larson, and 2015 James White Award winner Mack Leonard. The 2015 cover artist is Martin Hanford, and interior colour illustrations are by Ben Baldwin, Martin Hanford and Richard Wagner. Features: Love Your Local Scene by Jonathan McCalmont; 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 Barbara Melville interviews Al Robertson.
Black Static #47
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July-August issue contains new stories by internationally bestselling author John Connolly, James Van Pelt, Kate Jonez, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Ray Cluley, and Eric J. Guignard. The front and back cover art is by Richard Wagner, and interior illustrations are by Wayne Haag, Dave Senecal, Jim Burns, 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 Ray Cluley); Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews).
See the Elephant, Issue One
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSee the Elephant is dedicated to fiction with a metaphysical slant, fiction that questions consensual reality and pushes the boundaries of genre, by both new and established writers from a variety of cultural and philosophical traditions. The stories in See the Elephant include slipstream, weird, supernatural, soft science fiction, satire, folklore, visionary, magical realist and mainstream.
Featuring: Elizabeth Hand, Michael Wehunt, Nisi Shawl, Andrew S. Fuller, Eileen Gunn, Barry King, Zoe Fowler, J. August, and Edward Ahern.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #178
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #178 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Raphael Ordoñez and Benjanun Sriduangkaew.
New York Review of Science Fiction #322
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Mistakes Issue: Eric Schaller: The Windup Girl’s Good & Bad Science; Kovacs & McDonald: Medical Myths & Errors, Take Five; Terry Thompson: Henry James’s Minotaur; Brian Stableford: Robida’s Accidental Prophecies; Dave Drake: On Space Opera and Military SF; Joe Milicia on John Scalzi; Mattie Brahen on Ben Jeapes; Plus: Farewell, Tanith Lee
Uncanny Magazine Issue 5
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July/August 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Mary Robinette Kowal, E. Lily Yu, Shveta Thakrar, Charlie Jane Anders, Delilah S. Dawson, and Sarah Monette, classic fiction by Scott Lynch, essays by Natalie Luhrs, Sofia Samatar, Michael R. Underwood, and Caitlín Rosberg, poetry by C. S. E. Cooney, Bryan Thao Worra, and Sonya Taaffe, interviews with E. Lily Yu and Delilah S. Dawson by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Antonio Caparo, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
The Big Click Issue 21
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedCalling Issue 20 of The Big Click “The Scottish Issue” gives it a sort of cache, but these fine examples of Scottish noir have no curses attached to them. Not that we know of, at any rate. Instead of curses, Barry Graham, our guest editor, presents “The Four Fields,” by Tony Black, and “Conduct Unbecoming” by Ray Banks, two shining stars in the black firmament of Scottish noir. But, they’re not the only stars, as Barry Graham in “The Crime of being Scottish” and Fiona Johnson in her capsule reviews will reveal.
Apex Magazine Issue 74
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
Going Endo–Rich Larson
All Who Tremble–A.A. Balaskovits
Never Chose This Way–Shira Lipkin
The River–adrienne maree brown (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
NONFICTION
How Horror Made Me More Empathetic–Mark Allan Gunnells
Interview with Rich Larson–Andrea Johnson
Interview with Carly Sorge–Russell Dickerson
Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction–Charlotte Ashley
POETRY
How the World was Made–A Super Crown–Roger Bonair-Agard
EXCERPTS
For Exposure: The Life and Times of a Small Press Publisher–Jason Sizemore
The War Against the Assholes–Sam Munson (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
Cover art by Carly Sorge.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 33
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe 30% Non-Dead-Tree Issue (0% Dead Tree Edition), guest-edited by Michael J. DeLuca. This is the ebook edition. The paper edition is/will be available here somewhere.
fiction
Carmen Maria Machado, “I Bury Myself”
Alena McNamara, “Starling Road”
Giselle Leeb, “Ape Songs”
Michelle Vider, “For Me, Seek the Sun”
Deborah Walker, “Medea”
D. K. McCutchen, “Jellyfish Dreaming”
Sofia Samatar, “Request for an Extension on the Clarity”
M. E. Garber, “Putting Down Roots”
Eric Gregory, “The March Wind”
nonfiction
Christopher Brown, “Winter in the Feral City”
Nicole Kimberling, “Cook Like a Hobo”
poetry
Leslie Wightman, “The Sanctity of Nature”
Ingrid Steblea, “Another Afternoon in the Garden”
Kelda Crich, “Child Without Summe”
Peter Jay Shippy, “Singing Beach”
art
Kevin Huizenga
Dmitry Borshch
Steve Logan
About these Authors and Artists
Christopher Brown writes science fiction and criticism in Austin, Texas, where he also practices technology law. He coedited, with Eduardo Jiménez Mayo, Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, which was nominated for the 2013 World Fantasy Award. Recent work has appeared in The Baffler, the MIT Technology Review anthology Twelve Tomorrows, 25 Minutos en el Futuro: Nueva Ciencía Ficción Norteamericana, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Castálida, and The New York Review of Science Fiction.
Dmitry Borshch was born in Dnepropetrovsk, studied in Moscow, today lives in New York. His drawings and sculptures have been exhibited at the National Arts Club (New York), Brecht Forum (New York), ISE Cultural Foundation (New York), the State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg).
Kelda Crich is a newborn entity. She’s been lurking in her creator’s mind for a few years. Now she’s out in the open. Find Kelda in London looking at strange things in London’s medical museums or on her blog. Her poems have appeared in Nameless, Cthulhu Haiku II, Transitions, and the Future Lovecraft anthology.
M. E. Garber grew up reading about hobbits, space-travel, and dragons, so it’s no wonder that she now enjoys writing speculative fiction, and dreams of traveling the world(s). She used to live near the home of Duck Tape, then near the home of Nylabone. Now she lives near the home of Gatorade. You can find her blog at: megarber.wordpress.com
Eric Gregory’s stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Betwixt, and elsewhere. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and co-edits Middle Planet with Julia Gootzeit. For sporadic blogging and super-amateur garden photography, see ericmg.com.
Kevin Huizenga just moved to Minneapolis and is also at usscatastrophe.com. He teaches and is the author of several books of comics, including Curses and The Wild Kingdom.
Nicole Kimberling spent twelve years cooking with wood fire. Now she knows all its dirty tricks. She lives and works in Bellingham, Washington.
Giselle Leeb’s stories have appeared in Bare Fiction, Mslexia, Riptide, and other publications. She grew up in South Africa and now lives in Nottingham, UK, where she works as a web developer when she is not writing. giselleleeb.cielo.net @gisellekleeb
Steve Logan is a self-taught fine artist and also my favorite bro. His work has been shown in cities all over the US, including Miami, New York, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Boston.
Carmen Maria Machado is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, AGNI, The Fairy Tale Review, Tin House’s Open Bar, NPR, The American Reader, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her stories have been reprinted in several anthologies, including Year’s Best Weird Fiction and Best Women’s Erotica. She has received the Richard Yates Short Story Prize, the CINTAS Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing, and the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, and has been nominated for a Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and lives in Philadelphia with her partner.
D. K. McCutchen is a Senior Lecturer for the UMass College of Natural Sciences. Lack of poetic DNA led to tale of low adventure & high science titled The Whale Road (Random House, NZ; Blake, UK), which earned a Pushcart nomination & a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book award. In a literary attempt to save the world, she’s now writing mostly scientifically accurate, sometimes erotic, gender-bender-post-apocalyptic-speculative-fiction. The series begins with Jellyfish Dreaming—finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. She lives on the Deerfield River with two brilliant daughters and a Kiwi, who isn’t green, but is fuzzy.
Alena McNamara lives in Boston and works in a library near a river. Her stories have appeared in Kaleidoscope and Crossed Genres Magazine. She is a graduate of the 2008 Odyssey Workshop and Viable Paradise XV, and can be found online via alenamcnamara.com.
Sofia Samatar is the author of the novel A Stranger in Olondria, winner of the William L. Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. In 2014 she received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She co-edits the journal Interfictions and teaches literature at California State University Channel Islands.
Peter Jay Shippy’s books of poems include Thieves’ Latin and A Spell of Songs.
Ingrid Steblea’s poetry has appeared in Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Boxcar Poetry Review, Poem, The Seattle Review, The Southern Anthology, and numerous other journals. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband and their two children.
Michelle Vider is a writer based in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in The Toast, Baldhip Magazine, and Pop Mythology. Find her at michellevider.com.
Deborah Walker grew up in the most English town in the country, but she soon high-tailed it down to London, where she now lives with her partner, Chris, and her two young children. Find Deborah in the British Museum trawling the past for future inspiration or on her blog: deborahwalkersbibliography.blogspot.com. Her stories have appeared in Nature’s Futures, Cosmos, Daily Science Fiction and The Year’s Best SF 18 and have been translated into a dozen languages.
Leslie Wightman is recently out of high school, currently consuming vast quantities of tea, and living on a boat. She is a graduate of the Alpha Young Writers Workshop, and, on the whole, is a little too optimistic for her own good.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 62 (July 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, w have original science fiction by Carrie Vaughn (“Crazy Rhythm”) and Taiyo Fujii (“Violation of the TrueNet Security Act”), along with SF reprints by Tony Daniel (“Life on the Moon”) and Mary Robinette Kowal (“The Consciousness Problem”).
Plus, we have something a little different this month. We’ll have fantasy reprints by Liz Williams (“Adventures in the Ghost Trade”) and William Alexander (“Ana’s Tag”), but instead of two original fantasy short stories, we have a single fantasy novelette by Andrea Hairston (“Saltwater Railroad”), which is about twice the length of a regular LIGHTSPEED story. So, although you are getting three stories instead of four this month, the novelette is the length of two full-length short stories, so you’re still getting the same amount of fiction. We hope you enjoy this minor deviation from our usual offerings, and rest assured we will return to our regularly scheduled programming next month.
All that plus spotlights on our authors and cover artist, as well as a feature interview with Kelly Link, and the latest installment of our book review column. And for our ebook readers, we also have reprint of the novella “Dapple,” by Eleanor Arnason, and a pair of novel excerpts, including a selection from Dark Orbit, by Carolyn Ives Gilman, and Wylding Hall, by Elizabeth Hand.
Nightmare Magazine Issue 34 (July 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 Alison Littlewood (“Wolves and Witches and Bears”) and Nate Southard (“The Cork Won’t Stay”), along with reprints by Lisa Tuttle (“Replacements”) and Christopher Golden (“Under Cover of Night”). In our latest installment of our monthly column, “The H Word,” author Paul Tremblay explores the political in horror. Plus, we’ve got author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a panel interview on horror podcasts, featuring Kc Wayland and David Cummings.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 15, July 2015 (Worldcon / Sasquan Special)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 15: July 2015
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
This month we feature a new story from and an interview with the 2015 Worldcon (Sasquan) Guest of Honor, David Gerrold.
Stories by: Ron Collins, Robert Silverberg, Dantzel Cherry, Jack McDevitt, Leena Likitalo, Alex Shvartsman, Elizabeth Bear, J. R. Vogt, Lawrence Person, Robert J. Sawyer, David Gerrold
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 David Gerrold
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.