Lightspeed Magazine Issue 60
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 C.C. Finlay (“Time Bomb Time”) and Seanan McGuire (“The Myth of Rain”), along with SF reprints by Annie Bellet (“Goodnight Earth,” from The End Has Come) and Sean Williams (“Ghosts of the Fall”).
Plus, we have original fantasy by Helena Bell (“Mouth”) and Matthew Hughes (“The Blood of a Dragon”), and fantasy reprints by Merrie Haskell (“Sun’s East, Moon’s West”) and R.C. Loenen-Ruiz (“Breaking the Spell”).
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 award-winning author James Morrow.
For our ebook readers, we also have “The Mill” by Paul Di Filippo as our novella reprint, along with novel excerpts from THE WATER KNIFE by Paolo Bacigalupi and MAGONIA by Maria Dahvana Headley.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #20 May 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2015 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
“Mirror Skinned” by returning Flash Fiction Online author Kelly Sandoval; a science fiction journey of self-discovery among the stars.
Turn again to “Wikipedia Abduction Myth” by another returning author, Oliver Buckram; an amusing look at conspiracy theory and internet urban myth. Take my advice. Click the hyperlinks.
Turn again to “The Cormorant in the Glass-bottomed Cage” by Rebecca Birch; a gentle and enchanted tale of a woman who is not what she appears to be.
Turn one more time to our Reprint selection for this month, “When the Selkie Comes” (originally published at Daily Science Fiction) by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley; a tale of love, missed opportunity, and magic.
Also this month, enjoy interviews with Rebecca Birch and Kelly Sandoval.
Editorial by Suzanne Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
Nightmare Magazine Issue 32
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 Kealan Patrick Burke (“The Red Light Is Blinking”) and Sandra McDonald (“Rules for Ordinary Heroes”), along with reprints by Kaaron Warren (“Mountain”) and Stephen Graham Jones (“Raphael”). 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 Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement winner William F. Nolan.
Forever Magazine Issue 4
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 fourth issue features a novella by Robert Reed (“The Man With the Golden Balloon”), short stories by Juliette Wade (“Cold Words”) and Elizabeth Bear (“The Hand is Quicker–“), and a short interview with Robert Reed.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 104
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 May 2015 issue (#104) contains:
Original Fiction by Matthew Kressel (“The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies”), Andrea M. Pawley (“For the Love of Sylvia City”), A Que (“Mrs. Griffin Prepares to Suicide Tonight”), Ian Muneshwar (“Ossuary”), and Bo-young Kim (“An Evolutionary Myth “).
Reprints by James Van Pelt (“Solace”) and Hannu Rajaniemi (“Tyche and the Ants”).
Non-fiction by Andrew Liptak (Destination: Mars), an interview with Cat Rambo, an Another Word column by Ken Liu, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Locus May 2015 (#652)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2015 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Nnedi Okorafor and Ken Liu, and spotlights on artists Stephanie Pui-Mun Law and Jessica Cohen. News includes coverage of the Hugo Awards ballot and controversy, the Williamson Lectureship, the 2015 Writers and Illustrators of the Future award ceremony, the 2015 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, winners of the BSFA, Solstice, Tiptree, Aurealis, and Dell awards, Norwescon 38, and more. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Shorter”. Reviews cover works by Paolo Bacigalupi, Neal Stephenson, Kit Reed, Peter Straub, Alex Bledsoe, Stephen Policoff, Alex Shvartsman, Marie Brennan, Molly Tanzer, C.J. Cherryh, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Clive Barker, Mary Robinette Kowal, Seanan McGuire, and many more.
The Dark Issue 8
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Dark is a quarterly magazine co-edited by Jack Fisher and Sean Wallace, with the eighth issue featuring all-original short fiction by Kevin McNeil, Cassandra Khaw, Lisa L. Hannett, and Eric Schwitzgebel..
Ceaseless West: Weird Western Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA fallen-angel gunslinger must defend a dusty town against hellspawn….
Living trains roam wild off their tracks….
A pious teetotaler widow faces a town’s scorn and a dying boy’s frantic spirit….
An eternal warrior marshal is drawn through time to face that which must be faced….
These and other awe-inspiring fantasy stories await in Ceaseless West: Weird Western Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine , a new anthology of of eighteen Weird Western stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the pro-rate online magazine that Locus online calls “a premier venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media.”
Ceaseless West Ceaseless West features stories by Kenneth Mark Hoover, Peter Darbyshire, Mark Teppo, E. Catherine Tobler, Aurealis Award finalist and winner Ian McHugh, Shirley Jackson Award finalist Gemma Files, and Hugo Award finalist Saladin Ahmed.
Table of Contents
“A Feast for Dust,” Gemma Files
“The Angel Azrael Rode into the Town of Burnt Church on a Dead Horse,” Peter Darbyshire
“Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride,” Saladin Ahmed
“Hangman,” Erin Cashier
“Bandit and the Seventy Raccoon War,” Don Allmon
“The Good Deaths, Part II,” Angela Ambroz
“Between Two Treasons,” Michael J. DeLuca
“Splitskin,” E. Catherine Tobler
“The Sixth Day,” Sylvia Anna Hivén
“Enginesong,” Nathaniel Lee
“The Crooked Mile,” Dan Rabarts
“Walking Still,” C.T. Hutt
“The Heart of the Rail,” Mark Teppo
“The Judge’s Right Hand,” J.S. Bangs
“Not the Worst of Sins,” Alan Baxter
“Songdogs,” Ian McHugh
“Haxan,” Kenneth Mark Hoover
“Pale,” Kathryn Allen
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #172 – Special Weird Western Issue
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #172 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, a special Weird Western issue, featuring stories by E. Catherine Tobler, Erin Cashier, and Shannon Peavey.
New York Review of Science Fiction #319
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Forward into the Past Issue
Samuel R. Delany: On Life and the Early Books
Greg Bear and Gregory Benford: What the Future Looked Like at the Turn of This Century
Michael Levy on Karen Lord’s Galaxy Game
Plus: The 2014 James Tiptree Award Winners!
Midnight Echo Issue 11
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe 2015 issue of Midnight Echo Magazine.
Edited by Kaaron Warren, this sinister issue contains fiction from Deborah Sheldon, Jarod K Anderson, and Marija Elektra Rodriguez, art by Tammy Ruggles and Greg Chapman, an interview with Aaron Sterns, and the winning 2014 AHWA Short Story and Flash Fiction Competition stories.
The Table of Contents:
Literature
‘Gardening at Night’ by Vincent G McMackin
‘Uninvited Guests’ by Evan Purcell
‘Accident Report’ by Jarod K Anderson
‘By the Light Unseen’ by Mark Farrugia
‘The Crying Room’ by Marija Elektra Rodriguez
‘Madeline’ by Claire Fitzpatrick
‘Perfect Little Stitches’ by Deborah Sheldon
Poetry
‘November Wind’ by Sandy DeLuca
‘In Venice’ by John Grey
‘They’ by Michael Tugendhat
‘Dead Bodies Make Good Cellos’ by A J Huffman
‘The fruit of her hands’ by P S Cottier
Comic
From the Vault – ‘The Old Portrait’, written by Jason Franks, illustrated by Leigh Kuilboer, edited by Mark Farrugia
Non-fiction and regular features
‘Why Sinister’ – Kaaron Warren on her early influences and favourite stories
Celluloid Nightmares – Mark Smith-Briggs talks to Wolf Creek 2 screenwriter Aaron Sterns
‘Writing With The Left Hand’ – P S Cottier discusses the sinister side of poetry
Sinister Reads (all the latest releases from AHWA members)
Special features
AHWA Short Story and Flash Fiction Competition winners –
‘Sundown’ by Keith Williams
‘What Came Through’ by Stuart Olver
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #171
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Spencer Ellsworth and Thomas M. Waldroon.
Apex Magazine Issue 71
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.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #19 April 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2015 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
“Graalnak of Vroon” by Laura Pearlman. Hopefully it’ll give you a good chuckle. Next up we give you “The Kiss” by K. C. Norton, a sweet story just right for a generation of kids frightened of commitment. Third, a terrifying story of a mother with, well, issues. “Face Time” by Matthew Amati. Remember Mommie, Dearest? Yeah. That woman had nothing on this Mommy. From author Marina Lostetter we offer a scifi reprint,”Comet Man.” Nonfiction offerings include interviews of Laura Pearlman, K. C. Norton and Marina Lostetter plus an editorial by Suzanne Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
Nightmare Magazine Issue 31
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 Desirina Boskovich (“The Island”) and Charles Payseur (“Spring Thaw”), along with reprints by Usman Malik (“Ishq”) and Nancy Kilpatrick (“The Age of Sorrow”).
We also have Seanan McGuire penning 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 author and founder of Cemetery Dance Publications, Richard Chizmar.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 59
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 Kat Howard (“The Universe, Sung in Stars”) and Jason Gurley (“Quiet Town”), along with SF reprints by Carolyn Ives Gilman (“The Invisible Hand Rolls the Dice”) and John Barnes (“The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Joseph Allen Hill (“We’ll Be Together Forever”) and Dale Bailey (“The Ministry of the Eye”), and fantasy reprints by Sonya Taaffe (“A Wolf in Iceland is the Child of a Lie”) and Ken Liu (“The Ussuri Bear”). This month, we’re excited to share a feature interview with Chris Williams, the co-director of Disney’s BIG HERO 6. We also have our latest book review column, an interview with this month’s fantastic cover artist, and of course interviews with all our authors.
For our ebook readers, we also have a novella reprint from Kate Elliott (“On the Dying Winds of the Old Year and the Birthing Winds of the New”) and three novel excerpts, including THE REBIRTHS OF TAO, by Wesley Chu, THE GRACE OF KINGS, by Ken Liu, and a sponsored excerpt from Acheron Books, LIEUTENANT ARKHAM: ELVES AND BULLETS by Alessio Lanterna (translated by Kate Mitchell).