Locus June 2015 (#653)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2015 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with James Morrow and Stephanie Feldman, and a spotlight on Usman T. Malik. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2016.
News includes the Clarke Award winner, the Stoker Award winners, SFWA election results, World Horror Convention photos and report, International Reports from India and China, a report on Hal-Con, and much more.
The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “Money, Fame, Notoriety: What Are We Self-Publishing For?”
Reviews cover new titles by Nnedi Okorafor, Jo Walton, Ian R. MacLeod, Hannu Rajaniemi, Mary Robinette Kowal, Beth Cato, Naomi Novik, C.S.E. Cooney, David Walton, Cherie Priest, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jim Butcher, Maria Dahvana Headley, Terry Pratchett, and many others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 105
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedClarkesworld is a Hugo 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 June 2015 issue (#105) contains:
Original Fiction by E. Catherine Tobler (“Somewhere I Have Never Traveled (Third Sound Remix)”), Andy Dudak (“Asymptotic”), Kris Millering (“This Wanderer, in the Dark of the Year”), and Bogi Tak·cs (“Forestspirit, Forestspirit”).
Reprints by Terry Bisson (“The Hole in the Hole”) and CaitlÌn R. Kiernan (“Riding the White Bull”).
Non-fiction by Jason Heller (The Day-Glo Dystopia of Poly Styrene: Punk Prophet and Science Fiction Priestess), an interview with Robert Charles Wilson, an Another Word column by John Chu, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 5
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, a brief interview with the novella’s 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 fifth issue features a novella by Walter Jon Williams (“The Green Leopard Plague”), a novelette by Vandana Singh (“Sailing the Antarsa”), and a short story by Michael Swanwick (“Tin Marsh”), and a short interview with Walter Jon Williams.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #21 June 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2015 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
In “Marcie’s Waffles Are the Best in Town,” by Sunil Patel, post apocalypse survivor, Marcie, still keeps the diner open, still makes waffles with syrup, still hopes that one day the bell on the door will announce the return of her daughter. Enjoy a waffle recipe from writer/blogger Miranda Suri. Next, a different kind of crazy. Brontë Wieland’s “I Found Solace in a Great Moving Shadow” takes into a government scifi conspiracy in a creepily believable tale. We’re also pleased to have an interview with Brontë. Finally, “The Man in the Basement” by Joshua Rupp. This is not going to be a story about mentally stable characters. Rupp digs deep into an off-kilter mind. Also this month,“What the Merfolk Must Know” by Kat Otis. Originally appearing in Daily Science Fiction in April 2013, Otis’ story gives us a fantastic and heartbreaking telling of the making of a mermaid.
So, enjoy. Be disturbed. Take a swim in the pools of madness for awhile. Editorial by Suzanne Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
New York Review of Science Fiction #321
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Into the Cosmos Issue: Christopher Kovacs: Zelazny’s misunderstood Cat; Mike Barrett: Edith Wharton, Writer of Ghosts; Olympe Chambrion: The Oddest Novel on Sex and Astrology You’ll Ever Hear Of; Patrick McGuire: The Vatican Observatory’s SF FAQ; D. Douglas Fratz: The return of Grant Carrington; Michael Levy: Daryl Gregory’s Harrison Squared; A. P. Canavan: S·ndor Klapcsik’s Liminality; Plus: Watch this!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #174
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #174 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Yoon Ha Lee and Kay Chronister.
Interzone #258
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedInterzone 258 has new science fiction and fantasy by T.R. Napper, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Julie C. Day, Christien Gholson, and Malcolm Devlin, with colour illustrations by Jim Burns, Warwick Fraser-Coombe, Vince Haig, and Richard Wagner. The cover art is the latest in the 2015 series by Martin Hanford. The issue contains the regular columns by David Langford, Nina Allan, Jonathan McCalmont, Nick Lowe, Tony Lee, and in Book Zone Maureen Kincaid Speller interviews E.J. Swift about the Osiris Project. Guest editorial is ‘Freak Zone’ by Christopher Fowler.
New York Review of Science Fiction #320
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Of Genmod Mice & Hobbits Issue: Sherryl Vint and Ken MacLeod: The many futures; of animals; David Griffin on glory and excesses of The Hobbit; Brian Stableford on the speculative metafictions of; Edmond Haraucourt; Greg Benford hosts a roundtable on the sf; magazines in 2014; Martin Morse Wooster: Harry Harrison’s memoirs; Darrell Schweitzer on HPL’s female correspondents; Judith Collins bids Terry Pratchett a farewell
Space and Time Magazine Issue #123
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring 2015 issue of Space and Time Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Kate Woodbury (“Solvency”) and Adam Corbin Fusco (“The Raven and The Dove”), an interview with Nancy Kress, poetry by Scott E. Green and Lee Clark Zumpe.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #173
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #173 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Marissa Lingen and Bill Powell.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May/June 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Catherynne M. Valente, A. C. Wise, John Chu, Elizabeth Bear, and Lisa Bolekaja, classic fiction by Delia Sherman, essays by Mike Glyer, Christopher J Garcia, Steven H Silver, Julia Rios, and Kameron Hurley, poetry by Alyssa Wong, Ali Trotta, and Isabel Yap, interviews with Delia Sherman and John Chu by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Tran Nguyen, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Uncanny Magazine – 12 Month Subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout Uncanny Magazine
Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. A 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 Hugo Award winners for best semiprozine, a 2018 Hugo Award winner for Best Editor, Short Form, and a 2024 Locus Award winner for Best Magazine. Edited by Michael Damian Thomas, Betsy Aoki, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #16
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected“Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine” returns with issue #16, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual column by Dr John H. Watson, plus the following works:
The Ironic Story of The Stevenson-Doyle Letters by Gary Lovisi
The Contributions of William S. Baring-Gould, by Daniel DiQuinzio
A Medieval Mystery, by Peter James Quirk
Happy Birthday, Birthday Girl! by Richard A. Lupoff
Hangin’ with Iron Mike, by Stan Trybulski
Inspector Romford’s Greatest Cases by John Grant
The Last Song, by Dianne Neral Ell
Santa and The Shortstop, by Steve Liskow
The Case of the Addinton Tragedy, by Jack Grochot
Gold-Digger, by Laird Long
The Yellow Face, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine” is produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.
Apex Magazine Issue 72
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:
Remembery Day — Sarah Pinsker
Wildcat (from The Secret Diary of Donna Hooks) — David Bowles
A Sister’s Weight in Stone — JY Yang
Toot Sweet Matricia — Suzette Mayr (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
NONFICTION:
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Interview with Sarah Pinsker — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Beth Spencer— Russell Dickerson
Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction — Charlotte Ashley
Eye-based Paternity Testing & Other Human Genetics Myths — Dan Kobolt
POETRY:
He Dreams of Salt and Sea — S.G. Larner
If I Only Had A… — Kelly Dalton
Sidereal — A.E. Ash
The Automaton to Her Engineer — Alexandra Seidel
EXCERPTS:
The Buried Life — Carrie Patel
The Grace of Kings — Ken Liu
Cover art by Beth Spencer.
The Big Click Issue 20
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.
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 24
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedShimmer Magazine — Issue 25
Across worlds within and without, four stories about the moment of transformation. The moment when a person knows the skin they wear isn’t quite right. The moment a person steps out of who the world believes them to be, and embraces who they genuinely are.
The Proper Motion of Extraordinary Stars, by Kali Wallace
Smoke rose from the center of Asunder Island, marring a sky so blue and so clear it made Aurelia’s eyes ache. The sailors had been insisting for days she would see the Atrox swooping and turning overhead, if only she watched long enough, but there was no sign of the great birds.
The Mothgate, by J.R. Troughton
We knelt behind the crumbling wall, rifles balanced over its brow, peeking over the moss-stained stone and into the dense trees that lay beyond. I tried as best I could to stop my teeth from chattering, but the winter night was bitterly cold. Mama Rattakin didn’t seem to notice. She was staring toward the tree line, pointing with her black and withered hand.
Good Girls, by Isabel Yap
You’ve denied the hunger for so long that when you transform tonight, it hurts more than usual. You twist all the way round, feel your insides slosh and snap as you detach. Your wings pierce your skin as you leave your lower half completely. A sharp pain rips through your guts, compounding the hunger. Drifting toward the open window, you carefully unfurl your wings. It’s an effort not to make a sound.
In the Rustle of Pages, by Cassandra Khaw
Li Jing looks up from the knot of lavender yarn in her hands, knitting needles ceasing their silvery chatter. The old woman smiles, head cocked. There is something subtly cat-like about the motion, a smoothness that belies the lines time has combed into her round face, a light that burns where life has waned.
Shimmer is not generally known for its humorous content, nor happy-go-lucky stories. Shimmer stories tend to have a mood and that mood is often bleak. Beth once told me Shimmer stories were like the line from Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” (or was that line only in the Jeff Buckley version?), it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah. It’s cold and broken, but there is still a sliver of light by which to see. That’s the shimmer.
The Scavenger’s Nursery, by Maria Dahvana Headley
A boy finds a baby in the garbage. It’s hotter this summer than it was the summer before. Everyone in the city is trying to get to the country, because in the city, the rat population is exploding. Rats themselves are exploding, though not of their own volition. Sometimes rats swallow explosives. Sometimes explosives are wrapped in little bobbles of food.
The Cult of Death, by K.L. Pereira
The first time you saw her, she was getting change from the machine in the lavandería; copper and nickel clacked against her metal palms, a rain of clicks pricking your eardrums. She was just as grotesque as your sister said: silvery fingers stiff as stone, jointless and smooth, unable to pluck the money from the open mouth of the change-maker. She struggled to scoop the coins into the stiff basket of her hands but you wouldn’t help her. You were too busy praying to Saint Lucy to take away your voice for good this time.
You Can Do It Again, by Michael Ian Bell
I come up again at the bodega on 189th and Amsterdam. When the vertigo and nausea pass, the shimmering forms resolve into bodies and storefronts. Trash bags are piled enormous in the street and I stare transfixed, one hand on the doorframe, steadying myself. In my other hand is a cola, cold like ice. I put it against my forehead and it shocks me into the moment. Every time is the same but it never gets so I expect it.
Come My Love and I’ll Tell You a Tale, by Sunny Moraine
Tell me the story about the light and how it used to fall through the rain in rainbows. Tell me the story about those times when the rain would come and the world would turn sweet and green and thick with the smell of wet dirt and things gently rotting, when the birds would chuckle with pleasure to themselves at the thought of a wriggling feast fleeing the deeper floods.