Forever Magazine Issue 3
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 third issue features a novella by David Marusek (“The Wedding Album”), short stories by Ken MacLeod (“The Surface of Last Scattering”) and Lauren Beukes (“Slipping”), and a short interview with David Marusek.
Locus April 2015 (#651)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2015 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Melissa Marr and Christopher Barzak, and spotlights on Alyssa Wong and K. Tempest Bradford. News includes an obituary and appreciations for Terry Pratchett (1948-2015), the Philip K. Dick Award judges, the Borderlands Books turnaround, the 2014 Kitchies winners, FOGcon coverage, and more. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “Who Are We Writing For? On Knowing When to Listen to the Haters, and When to Laugh”.
Reviews cover new titles by Ken Liu, Robert Charles Wilson, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Silvia Morena-Garcia, Samantha Shannon, Leanna Renee Hieber, Jack Cady, Eleanor Arnason, Kit Reed, Jo Walton, Steven Erikson, Patricia Briggs, Gail Carriger, Jennifer Marie Brissett, and many others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 103
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 April 2015 issue (#103) contains:
Original Fiction by Robert Reed (“The Empress in Her Glory”), Berrien C. Henderson (“Let Baser Things Devise”), Benjanun Sriduangkaew (“The Petals Abide”), and Emily Devenport (“Postcards from Monster Island”).
Reprints by Kage Baker (“Noble Mold”) and Indrapramit Das (“Weep for Day”).
Non-fiction by Julie Novakova (Small Markets, Big Wonders), a roundtable on Spanish science fiction, an Another Word column by Alethea Kontis, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Mythic Delirium 1.4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue caps off the first two years of Mythic Delirium as a digital ’zine with a sampling of strange horror, stranger science fiction and weird alternate history.
For our fiction offerings, C.S. MacCath combines Norse mythology with quantum theory in “Sing the Crumbling City,” Jessy Randall’s "Maybe a Witch Lives There" supplies a wicked homage to Shirley Jackson, and Adam Howe’s "’Kid’ Cooper & the Blackwood Ape-Man" provides a rollicking, bruising fusion of history and folklore set in the American South.
As for poetry, Jane Yolen returns to our pages with no less than three poems recasting fairy tales in new molds; Natalia Theodoridou gracefully encapsulates one of the most tragic of Greek tragedies; Wendy Rathbone paints a wistful portrait of a different season; and Dominik Parisien shows how delightfully monstrous art can be.
Our striking cover art comes courtesy of Italian sequential artist Elena de’ Grimani (her American debut.)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sing the Crumbling City • C.S. MacCath
Time Travel Autumn • Wendy Rathbone
The Traveler’s Wagon Speaks • by Jane Yolen
Maybe a Witch Lives There • Jessy Randall
Mortar/Pestle • Jane Yolen
Eating and Being Eaten • by Jane Yolen
“Kid” Cooper & the Blackwood Ape-Man • Adam Howe
Philomela in Seven Movements • Natalia Theodoridou
A Portrait of the Monster as an Artist • Dominik Parisien
On Spec Magazine – Winter 2014-15
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Winter 2014-15 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Krista D. Ball (“My Pink Galoshes”), Mike Rimar (“Squatters Rights”), Siobhan Gallagher (“Turnip Farmers are Heroes Too”), Peter Charron (“Demonic Intervention”), Tyler Keevil (“It’s In You to Give”), Aliya Whiteley (“To the Farm”), Michal Wojcik (“Ink Skin”); poetry by David Clink (“Portrait”); author interview by Roberta Laurie (“Krista D. Ball: Making and Impression”); non-fiction by Geoffrey W. Cole (“Interview with David Mitchell”); artist interview by Cat McDonald (“Billy Toufexis”); editorial by Barb Galler-Smith (“Drawing Lines”); cover by Billy Toufexis (“Will Make War For Food”).
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction – Issue 3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Autumn 2014 issue of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction.
This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines, Cambodia and Taiwan.
LONTAR Special: Interview with Dean Francis and Nikki Alfar
Inside these pages, you’ll find: the evocation of an alternate ancient Cambodia from multiple award-winner Geoff Ryman; an investigative automotive revenge tale from Palanca Grand Prize winner Dean Francis Alfar; the mystery of magically appearing furniture from Taiwanese short fiction wunderkind Sabrina Huang (deftly translated by PEN/Heim grant recipient Jeremy Tiang); an uneasy exploration of marital discord on the road from Manila Critics’ Circle National Book Award winner Nikki Alfar; a quasi-Ballardian take on beach resort culture from Ben Slater; the uniquely Singaporean response to a viral outbreak from JY Yang; and speculative poetry from Anne Carly Abad, Arlene Ang, Tse Hao Guang, Cyril Wong, David Wong Hsien Ming and Daryl Yam.
LONTAR is the world’s only biannual literary journal focusing on Southeast Asian speculative fiction. In this issue, six contributors have won major literary awards in Singapore, Taiwan, USA, UK, and the Philippines.
Black Static #45
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March–April issue contains new dark fiction by Steve Rasnic Tem, S.P. Miskowski, Laura Mauro, Stephen Hargadon, Emily B. Cataneo, Andrew Hook, Cate Gardner, and Danny Rhodes. The cover art is by Richard Wagner, and interior illustrations are by Richard Wagner, and Ben Baldwin. The usual features are present, including the regular comment columns by Stephen Volk (Coffinmaker’s Blues) and Lynda E. Rucker (Notes From the Borderland); Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray/VoD reviews); Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews), which includes an extensive interview with Helen Marshall.
Fiction:
The Second Floor by S.P. Miskowski
illustrated by Richard Wagner
From the back seat, Jane’s view of the house was divided but not entirely obscured, the left side glimpsed through a windshield cloudy with dirt, the right side framed by the window the cab driver insisted on keeping open. The bed and breakfast was a remodeled Carpenter Gothic with a scruffy front garden and a flagstone walkway. The moss-enveloped birdbath had flecks of ice floating on its surface. A calico cat slept inside the ground floor window against a backdrop of lace curtains.
The Grey Men by Laura Mauro
illustrated by Ben Baldwin
The grey men emerged from the fog on a November afternoon. Three days of thick, pale mist preceded their arrival; three days in which it appeared that the sky had collapsed beneath its own weight, choking the streets with cloud. The world itself was overcast. The fog held firm from Hertfordshire all the way into London, and for the two long, empty hours of his daily commute Adam would stare out of the train window, trying to pinpoint the exact margin where the dew-wet sidings disappeared irretrievably into the white.
The Visitors by Stephen Hargadon
illustrated by Richard Wagner
“These dead? Ta.”
Busy in the Brown Bear tonight. Ten to five and rammed already. It’s the Friday crowd, out for a few drinks before going home. Busy on the streets, too: already there’s women in clingy dresses clicking up Whitworth Street to the Village and grey commuters rushing the other way into Piccadilly Station. Traffic’s rotten at this junction. You could watch the idiots for hours. Pedestrians dashing out, drivers jumping the lights. All in a mad rush. A couple of years ago, a bus – the 192 from Stockport – crashed into this place. True. It was in the paper. There was a picture of Cliff, the landlord at the time, looking glum next to this big hole in his pub. Ken said it was a publicity stunt. “With a bus full of passengers?” I said. “And a great big hole in the wall? Don’t be stupid.” But Ken was having none of it. He reckoned the 192 wasn’t full of passengers at all. And how come no one was sitting over that side of the pub? Bit of a coincidence, according to Ken. And the driver was Polish, too, so it had to be a set-up. He’s like that, Ken, he sees the bad in everything. He should’ve been a cop. I still think it’s a miracle no one was killed.
The Fishing Hut by Steve Rasnic Tem
A bad accident on the highway snarled traffic headed into the river valley. Bishop had heard no account of it, but suspected it had something to do with the fog, the milky clouds having thickened the closer he’d driven to the water. Its whiteness was an unhealthy shade, like drowned flesh.
Hungry Ghosts by Emily B. Cataneo
illustrated by Richard Wagner
If you come to the house, I’ll give you mint tea, with a shot of whiskey on the side. I’ll loan you a sweater, one of those big lumpy ones you might find in your grandfather’s closet or at the Salvation Army on Main Street. I’ll teach you to crochet, if you’re interested: I have a trunk of yarn at home, all crimson and mustard and the colors of the forest. If you’d like, I’ll bring you to the basement and we can kiss. We’ll be cozy there, in the house, among the faded floral wallpaper and old-fashioned light switches and the grand built-in china cabinet. Maybe we’ll even be friends.
This is what I tell people, when I invite them to the house. Of course, none of it’s true.
The Frequency of Existence by Andrew Hook
When Valerie was into reiki she was hands on all the time. It was a fad. Something she only took seriously for so long as it took to bore her. Unlike my personal interests, which were permanent, embedded in me, Valerie only did things by halves.
The Drop of Light and the Rise of Dark by Cate Gardner
Darkness fell.
A moment prior to the drop of light, Mari rested against her pillows, looked at her toes and imagined she kicked a ball with the kids outside her window. She knew they were children by the high timbre of their voices, though not by the names they called to each other. The only child she knew, besides herself, on Tinland Street was Birdie, her best and only friend. Pain stabbed in Mari’s chest, as it often did, with the want to be on the street playing football or just observing the game. She didn’t need to join in. Sitting on the front step or the edge of the kerb watching leaves swim along the gutter or scratching her name onto the pavement would be enough.
The Cleansing by Danny Rhodes
The younger girl stepped out of the flats and into the afternoon light. She blinked. There was just one person in the playground, an older girl, thirteen or fourteen. She was sat on top of the climbing frame, picking at the flaking paint with her fingers. The younger girl hesitated. Not so long ago there had been a lot of young people on the estate but now there weren’t so many. She was getting used to her own company and wary of strangers.
Comment:
Coffinmaker’s Blues by Stephen Volk
ON THE SELLING OF SOULS, AND OTHER COMMODITIES
In the final episode of Mad Men Season 6, Don Draper has a meeting with Hershey and pitches a sentimental story of a father giving chocolate to his son. Suddenly he stops in his tracks and, fatally, tells the truth – that he is actually an orphan, he never had that kind of moment with his own father, and the ad he just sold them was a complete lie. The clients’ jaws drop. Subsequently Don gets suspended for his irrational behaviour. More than merely one of the best scenes in a series unsurpassable for character writing and thematic brilliance, to me it was the encapsulation of the entire show: portraying the difference between “selling them what they want” and telling an uncomfortable truth.
Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
“It turns out that women are more responsive to transfiguration” — Mademoiselle, Martyrs
Horror, if we speak of it as a part of storytelling as old as stories themselves, has not always been enacted upon female bodies, but if your only exposure to the genre was horror movies of the past few decades, you might think otherwise. As tiresome, lazy and misogynistic as the rape-torture-murder-of-women trifecta in film after film can be, women’s bodies are also in many ways an ideal site upon which to enact horror because they are uniquely vulnerable in ways that male bodies are not.
Reviews:
Case Notes: Book Reviews by Peter Tennant
OBLIQUE MANOEUVRES: HELEN MARSHALL: Hair Side, Flesh Side; Gifts for the One Who Comes After; extensive author interview SHORT, SCARY TALES PUBLICATIONS: Fade to Black by Jeff Mariotte, illustrated by Daniele Serra; Containment by Eric Red, illustrated by Nick Stakal; I Tell You It’s Love by Joe R. Lansdale, illustrated by Daniele Serra; Rockabye Worm, written and illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne SWAN RIVER PRESS: Dreams of Shadow and Smoke edited by Jim Rockhill & Brian J. Showers; Reminiscences of a Bachelor by J.S. Le Fanu; Here With the Shadows by Steve Rasnic Tem; The Silver Voices by John Howard; The Dark Return of Time by R.B. Russell; The Green Book 3 ELLEN DATLOW ANTHOLOGIES: The Cutting Room, Nightmare Carnival, Fearful Symmetries
Blood Spectrum: DVD/Blu-ray Reviews by Tony Lee
The Guest; Dark House; Grace: The Possession; Jessabelle; The Babadook; The Calling; Annabelle; The Other; Clown; [REC] Apocalypse; Wolves; Horns; Zombie Resurrection; Doc of the Dead; Ninjas vs Monsters; Phobia; Hunting the Legend; Exists; Scar Tissue; A Haunting at Silver Falls; Kissing Darkness; Like Water for Chocolate; American Ghost Story; ABCs of Death 2
Interzone #257
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March–April issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by Alastair Reynolds, Tendai Huchu, Fadzlishah Johanabas, Rich Larson, and Aliya Whiteley. The 2015 cover artist is Martin Hanford, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Vincent Sammy, Warwick Fraser-Coombe, and Wayne Haag. All the usual features are present: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Laser Fodder by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray/VoD reviews); Book Zone (book reviews); Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted (comment) and Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment). Andy Hedgecock interviews Helen Marshall and Peter Tennant interviews Aliya Whiteley. Read More for details, images and extracts.
Plasma Frequency Magazine – Issue 16
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis is our special theme issue. The Anti-Apocalypse with stories of a bright future. Guest Edited by Alexis A. Hunter and Molly N. Moss.
Plasma Frequency is a bi-monthly speculative fiction magazine based in the United States. With short stories from just a few hundred words to 7,000 words, our issues are packed with great content. In this issue we have 11 short stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Cover art: ﾓThe Arch of Unimagined Bridgesﾔ by Jon Orr
New York Review of Science Fiction #318
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedViews on fantasy, epic and otherwise, from Stephen R. Donaldson, A.P. Canavan, Ian C. Esslemont, and Brian Stavely; Samuel R. Delany: On the genesis of his first novels; Olympe Chambrione: Fantasy feminism censored in France dans la XIXe siécle; Michael Levy on Jonna Gjevre; Karen Burnham on Kelly Link & Gavin Grant’s Monstrous Affections; Sandra Lindow on Eleanor Arnason; and more!
The Big Click Issue 19
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWelcome to the March 2015 issue of The Big Click, guest-edited by Jason S. Ridler! This month, it’s all wrestling action. Trent Zelazny starts everything off with “Parts Unknown,” which explores the relationship of real violence to fake violence in wrestling. Then we’re pleased to feature “The Ballad of Caprisha Marlin,” by Shannon Giglio, which explores the relationship of real violence to the violence of bullying. And YouTube.
Finally, we have a reprint from our very own Nick Mamatas, “Work, Hook, Shoot, Rip,” which will teach you what those terms mean if you don’t know already, and entertain you even if you do.
We also have nonfiction from Barry Graham, about Christa Faust’s Hoodtown, and the latest capsule reviews of the best crime fiction.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March/April 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Sofia Samatar, Rosamund Hodge, Kat Howard, Maria Dahvana Headley, Sarah Pinsker, Emily Devenport, and Fran Wilde, classic fiction by Ellen Klages, essays by Ytasha L. Womack, Amal El-Mohtar, L.M. Myles, and Stephanie Zvan, poetry by C.S.E. Cooney, Jennifer Crow, and M Sereno, interviews with Sofia Samatar, C.S.E. Cooney, and Ellen Klages, by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Carrie Ann Baade, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 70
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:
Houdini’s Heart — Thoraiya Dyer
Charaid Dreams — Rati Mehrotra
A Beautiful Memory — Shannon Peavey
Where I’m Bound — Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Seed — Shanna Germain (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
Sing Me Your Scars — Damien Angelica Walters
NONFICTION:
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Interview with Damien Angelica Walters — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Lucas de Alcântara — Russell Dickerson
Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction — Charlotte Ashley
A Whole New World — Mark Allan Gunnells
POETRY:
barefoot sprites beware — Steven Wittenberg Gordon
Hook— Jennifer Ironside
The Changeling Answer — Jarod K. Anderson
Mama Gonna Fight — Beth Cato
Nightmare Magazine Issue 30
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 Chesya Burke (“Please, Momma”) and Caspian Gray (“An Army of Angels”), along with reprints by Robert Shearman (“Featherweight”) and Lynda E. Rucker (“The Burned House”). For nonfiction, author S.G. Browne talks about the new flavor of zombies in the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word.”
We’ve also got author spotlights on this month’s authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with up-and-coming author Helen Marshall, conducted by acclaimed author Kelly Link!
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 58
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 Marissa Lingen (“Surfacing”) and Cat Sparks (“Hot Rods”), along with SF reprints by Michael Blumlein (“The Brains of Rats”) and Ursula K. Le Guin (“The New Atlantis”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Matthew Hughes (“A Face of Black Iron”) and Vajra Chandrasekera (“Documentary”), and fantasy reprints by Linda Nagata (“The Way Home”) and Naomi Kritzer (“The Good Son”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with our review column and a feature interview with Patrick Rothfuss.
For our ebook readers, we also have the novella “The Weight of the Sunrise,” by Vylar Kaftan and novel excerpts from Genevieve Valentine’s PERSONA and Daryl Gregory’s HARRISON SQUARED.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 21
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWelcome to year six of Luna Station Quarterly, featuring a brand new design! The women gathered in these pages, fresh and experienced voices alike, represent a marvelous cross-section of backgrounds, tones & genres. Fantasy & science fiction, from the personal to the mythic to the offbeat : it’s what our loyal readers have come to expect from Luna Station. Allons-y!
EDITORIAL – Jennifer Lyn Parsons
THE GOLD FISH – Kim Mary Trotto
MINOTAUR – R.S. Bohn
INDULGENCE – Tammy Salyer
SWEET – Sam Butler
GREENTEETH – Robin Eames
THE RUIN – Sara Norja
THE GYRE – Rebecca Schwarz
ANOTHER YOUNG GIRL – Erin Kennemer
DAUGHTER OF THE SUN – A.E. Ash
A GUIDE FOR LOST SAILORS – Allison S. Har-zvi