Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 101
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 February 2015 issue (#100) contains:
Original Fiction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (“The Last Surviving Gondola Widow”), Gwendolyn Clare (“Indelible”), Kelly Robson (“The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill”), and Rich Larson (“Meshed”).
Greg van Eekhout (“The Osteomancerís Son”), Nicola Griffith (“It Takes Two”).
Non-fiction by Mark Cole (What in the World Do They Want, Anyway?), interviews with Liza Groen Trombi and Tang Fei, an Another Word column by Dawn Metcalf, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #166
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #166 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Stephen Case and Rich Larson.
Black Static #44
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January–February issue contains new dark fiction by Simon Avery (novelette), Priya Sharma, Jackson Kuhl, E. Catherine Tobler, and Tyler Keevil (novelette). The cover art is by Martin Hanford, and interior illustrations are by Martin Hanford, Richard Wagner, and George Cotronis. The usual features are present, including the regular comment columns by Stephen Volk (Coffinmaker’s Blues) and Lynda E. Rucker (renamed 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 Tim Waggoner.
Plasma Frequency Magazine – Issue 15
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedPlasma 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: “Restricted Atmospheric Space” by Milan Jaram
Uncanny Magazine Issue 2
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January/February 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu), Sam J. Miller, Amal El-Mohtar, Richard Bowes, and Sunny Moraine, classic fiction by Ann Leckie, essays by Jim C. Hines, Erika McGillivray, Michi Trota, and Keidra Chaney, poetry by Isabel Yap, Mari Ness, and Rose Lemberg, interviews with Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) and Ann Leckie, by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Table of Contents
“the Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Fiction
“Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu)
“The Heat of Us: Notes toward an oral History” by Sam J. Miller “Pockets” by Amal El–Mohtar
“Anyone with a Care for their image” by Richard Bowes
“Love letters to things lost and Gained” by Sunny Moraine
Classic Fiction
“The Nalendar” by Ann Leckie
Nonfiction
“The Politics of Comfort” by Jim C. Hines
“The Future’s Been Here Since 1939: Female Fans, Cosplay, and Conventions” by Erica McGillivray
“Age of the Geek, Baby” by Michi Trota
“The Evolution of Nerd rock” by Keidra Chaney
Poetry
“After the Moon Princess leaves” by Isabel Yap
“After the dance” by Mari Ness
“Archival testimony fragments / minersong” by Rose Lemberg
Interviews
Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken liu) interviewed by Deborah Stanish
Ann Leckie interviewed by Deborah Stanish
Apex Magazine Issue 68
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:
Pocosin — Ursula Vernon
Multo — Samuel Marzioli
Anarchic Hand — Andy Dudak
John Dillinger and the Blind Magician — Allison M. Dickson
The Sea Half-Held by Night — E. Catherine Tobler (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
NONFICTION:
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Interview with Ursula Vernon — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Emma SanCartier — Russell Dickerson
Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction — Charlotte Ashley
The Other: HP Lovecraft, Alien, & Ghost Stories: Monstrifications of Dunbar’s Number — DeAnna Knippling
POETRY:
Doors — Alina Rios
The Poe Twist — Armel Dagorn
Before My Father Vanished — Wendy Rathbone
NOVEL EXCERPT:
Straggletaggle — J.M. McDermott (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
Cover art by Emma SanCartier.
The Big Click Issue 18
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedOur 18th issue rings in the new year with “Jackals,” a new story by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, about how sometimes dealing with artists can be more dangerous than drinking while driving. Our second fiction offering, “All About the Ball,” continues the béte noir theme with a tale of a man and his dog. Or is it a man, another man, some women, and maybe a manticore? It’s difficult to say. We also have “Meeting the Werewolf,” a personal essay on the beast within by Barry Graham, an interview with David Liss, author of The Ethical Assassin and The Coffee Trader, and finally an in-depth review of Patricia Highsmith’s The Animal Lover’s Book of Beastly Murders.
Mythic Delirium 1.3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA family copes with a pall of silence as a physical phenomenon. A doomed guide leads a pair of foreigners on a desert journey to meet her people’s terrifying and merciless protector. A disturbing incident in a university dorm begins an unsettling transformation. Divine beings dare to venture from their ocean homes, oracles warn of floods, and dreams leak from the eyes of the citizenry.
Mythic Delirium begins 2015 with genre-blurring tales from Swapna Kishore, Sunny Moraine and Livia Llewellyn, accompanied by mysterious and moving verse from Jeannine Hall Gailey, John Philip Johnson, Kristine Ong Muslim, Shveta Thakrar and Sheree Renée Thomas.
The complete table of contents:
The Absence of Words • Swapna Kishore
The Nagini’s Night Song • Shveta Thakrar
The Nightflies • Sheree Renée Thomas
A Shadow on the Sky • Sunny Moraine
Even in Arcadia • Kristine Ong Muslim
Visitation of the Oracle at McKain Street • Sheree Renée Thomas
Pureland • Livia Llewellyn
Love Song • John Philip Johnson
A Primer for Reading 23 Pairs of Chromosomes, or, Introduction to Your Own Personal Genome Project • Jeannine Hall Gailey
Nightmare Magazine Issue 28
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 Kat Howard (“Returned”) and Christopher Barzak (“The Trampling”), along with reprints by Norman Partridge (“The Hollow Man”) and Lucy Taylor (“Blessed Be the Bound”).
Over at “The H Word,” the Stoker award-winning writer Lisa Morton explores the state of female protagonists in horror. We also have an interview with legendary filmmaker (and now novelist) David Cronenberg. Plus, of course, we have author spotlights with our authors and a showcase on our cover artist.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 56
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.
We have original science fiction by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (“He Came From a Place of Openness and Truth”) and Jeremiah Tolbert (“Men of Unborrowed Vision”), along with SF reprints by Theodora Goss (“Beautiful Boys”) and Michael Cassutt (“More Adventures on Other Planets”).
Plus, we have original fantasy by Sequoia Nagamatsu (“Headwater LLC”) and Matthew Hughes (“The Archon,” a Kaslo Chronicles tale), and fantasy reprints by Aliette de Bodard (“The Lonely Heart”) and Rachel Swirsky and Ann Leckie (“Mother, Maiden, Crone”).
We also have a feature interview with David X. Cohen, Executive Producer of the critically-acclaimed animated series Futurama, along with our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, and the launch our new book review column.
For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive novella reprint of “The Choice,” by Paul McAuley, and novel excerpts from The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord and A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab.
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 23
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedPeople often ask me, “what makes a story Shimmery,” and it’s not always easily answered — sometimes, you don’t know a story is Shimmery until you hit the end, and you realize there is a change inside you.
Shimmer #23 collects four stories about transformation and acceptance. From the seemingly unreachable depths of space to the hidden depths of the human heart, these new-to-Shimmer authors will take you on journeys you won’t soon forget.
The Half Dark Promise, by Malon Edwards
Something moves in the half dark two gas lamps ahead of me. I hold fast at the edge of a small circle of gaslight cast down from the street lamp above me.
Of Blood and Brine, by Megan E. O’Keefe
Child’s mistress was out when the scentless woman entered the shop and laid a strip of severed cloth upon the counter. For once, Child wished her mistress were at her side.
Be Not Unequally Yoked, by Alexis A. Hunter
Things used to be pure inside me. Separated. When I was a boy, I was wholly a boy. When I was a horse, I was wholly a horse. Things used to be simple inside me. I was all one thing or I was all another. And the two only got close when the change was happening.
Monsters in Space, by Angela Ambroz
When I think oil rig, I think big metal Viking onslaught in the night. I think tower of the gods, fucking Valhalla, and a screeching guitar solo. My eyeballs of imagination are compelled to perceive beautifully inky black skies, inky black seas, inky black oil. It is, in short, inky black badassery.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 12, January 2015 (Predestination Movie Tie-In Special)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedPredestination Movie Tie-In Special (Starring Ethan Hawke & Sarah Snook)*
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 Paul Cook and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.
Mike Resnick, Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Special tie-in with the movie PREDESTINATION. Includes “All You Zombies—“ by Robert A. Heinlein (short story the movies is based on), an interview with the Spierig Brothers (the Directors of the movie) and a special column on “All You Zombies—“ and Robert A. Heinlein by Barry Malzberg.
Stories by: Robert T. Jeschonek, Gardner Dozois, Sandra M. Odell, Maureen McHugh, Ron Friedman, Robert A. Heinlein, Zaslow Crane, Jack McDevitt, Andrea G. Stewart, Tina Gower
Serialization: Melodies of the Heart by Michael Flynn
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Book Reviews: Paul Cook.
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Michael and Peter Spierig (Predestination Movie Directors)
Flash Fiction Online Issue #16 January 2015
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2015 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
From Leslianne Wilder, “Cliona’s Coat”, is the tale of a mysterious woman and her collection of fur coats. A wonderful story well told. “Death Comes for the Microbot” by Aimee Picchi, science fiction that explores the potential costs of the relentless forward march of technological advancement. “Star Box” by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, is a charming story about doing one small thing for one small person. Editorial by Suzanne Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
Locus January 2015 (#648)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2015 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Lauren Beukes and Robert Jackson Bennett. There are spotlights on Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier of Black Coat Press and David Pomerico of Harper Voyager. News includes the MWA Grand Master award, the National Book Award Ceremony with Ursula K. Le Guin, Apple’s appeal, the World Fantasy 2015 Judges, the Rocky Wood Scholarship, and much more.
Special reports include “Europe Faces Digital Commerce Disaster” by Cheryl Morgan, and “SF in Bermuda: Writer in Residence” by Tobias S. Buckell. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “A New Deal for Copyright”.
Reviews cover new titles by James Morrow, Jo Walton, Harlan Ellison, Tim Powers, John Twelve Hawks, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Kate A. Boorman, Sergei Lukyaneko, Elizabeth Bear, Neal Asher, and many others.
Update:
In our January 2015 issue Locus announced the 2015 World Fantasy Award judges, but mistakenly listed the names and addresses for the 2012
award judges, and provided details on the 2012 convention. We regret the error. Our previous post on the locusmag.com site was accurate.
The correct information is as follows:
The judges for the 2015 World Fantasy Awards have been empaneled. All forms of fantasy qualify; only living authors and editors are
eligible; all books must have a 2014 publication date and all magazines a 2014 cover date.
To be considered for awards, all materials must be received by all five judges and the convention by June 1, 2015:
Gemma Files
313 Richmond St. East #768
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 4S7
Canada
Nina K. Hoffman
PO Box 10858
Eugene, OR
97440
USA
Bénédicte Lombardo
50, rue du Clos
77670 Saint Mammes
France
Bruce McAllister
528 E. Palmyra Avenue
Orange, CA
92866
USA
Robert Shearman
65 Telford Avenue
Streatham Hill
London SW2 4XL
United Kingdom
A copy should also go to:
Peter Dennis Pautz, President
World Fantasy Awards Association
PO Box 43
Mukilteo WA
98275-0043
Packages should be labeled “Promotional materials — not for sale or resale — no commercial value — World Fantasy Awards materials.” Winners will be announced at the 2015 World Fantasy Awards Banquet and Ceremony during the 41st World Fantasy Convention, November 5-8, 2015,
at the Saratoga City Center and Saratoga Hilton, Saratoga Springs, NY. (Life Achievement nominees will not be released; the winner will be announced in advance of the banquet.)
All judges prefer hard copies but submissions may be emailed to Pautz for forwarding instead. Gemma Files & Bruce McAllister can accept PDFs, Nina K. Hoffman can accept .mobi, and Bénédicte Lombardo & Robert Shearman can accept both PDFs and .mobi.
Email electronic versions to sfexecsec@gmail.com.
See the World Fantasy 2015 registration page or the World Fantasy 2015 Facebook page for more.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #164
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #164 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam and Tamara Vardomskaya and a novel excerpt by James Morrow.
Clarkesworld Magazine – 6 Month Subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout Clarkesworld Magazine
Clarkesworld is a science fiction and fantasy magazine that has been published monthly since October 2006. Each issue contains at least three pieces of original fiction from new and established authors, as well as art, articles, interviews and more.
Fiction from Clarkesworld has won or been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Sturgeon, Shirley Jackson, Stoker, WSFA Small Press and Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards. Clarkesworld itself received the 2010 and 2011 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine and Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke is a 2012 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Editor Short Form.
More information about Clarkesworld can be found at their website, www.clarkesworldmagazine.com.