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.
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #15
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected“Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine” returns with issue #15, 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:
Tuning in Sherlock, by John Longenbaugh
Dr. Watson: Action Hero? by Leigh Perry
A Study in Consistency, by Dan Andriacco
Sherlock Holmes and the Autumn of Terror, by J.G. Grimmer
The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman, by Jack Grochot
Juggling With Sherlock’s Friend, by Mark Levy, BSI
The Adventure of the White Python, by Adam McFarlane
Happy Birthday, Mr Holmes! by Gary Lovisi
The Adventure of the Eccentric Inventor, by Eugene D. Goodwin
The Revenge of the Fenian Brotherhood, by Carole Buggé
The Third Sequence, by Sherlock Holmes
How Watson Learned the Trick, by John H. Watson, M D
“Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine” is produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.
New York Review of Science Fiction #315
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Gods and Dragons Issue: Michael Bishop: The Scope of the Dragon Griaule; Damien Broderick: On Writing, Revisions, and Collaboration; Mike Barrett: Marjorie Lawrence’s Other Fantastic Fiction; Darrell Schweitzer: On the Original Schlemiel; James Cambias on Two Traveller Novels; Peter Rawlik on F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack; Jen Gunnels on Uncanny Robots on the stage; and the SF roots of 1980s pop!
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bimonthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience.
Issue #4 includes 12 short stories:
“Circus in the Bloodwarm Rain” – Cat Rambo
“Forever” – Rachel Pollack
“The Dragonmaster’s Ghost” – Henry Szabranski
“Restart” – William Reid
“Feeling All Right” – Richard Zwicker
“Universe in a Teacup” – Seth Chambers
“Skipping Stones” – Erin Cole
“Incriminating Evidence” – Charity Tahmaseb
“Posthumous” – James B. Willard
“Your Cities” – Anaea Lay
“Seaside Sirens, 1848” – Anna Zumbro
“#Dragonspit” – William Meikle
In the non-fiction section, this issue features:
-Interview With Author Cat Rambo
-Interview With Author Charity Tahmaseb
-Interview With Author William Meikle
-Interview With Editor Lynne Thomas
-Artist Spotlight: Kuldar Leement
-Book Review: Half a King (by Joe Abercrombie)
-Movie Review: Interstellar (2014) (Christopher Nolan)
The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #162
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #162 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Marissa Lingen and K.C. Norton.
Apex Magazine Issue 67
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 Sigrid Ellis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FICTION:
Anthracite Weddings — John Zaharick
Keep Talking — Marie Vibbert
Griefbunny — Brooke Juliet Wonders
Henrietta’s Garden — Rebecca Kaplan
Desire — Kiini Ibura Salaam (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
NONFICTION:
Interview with Marie Vibbert — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Nello Shep — Russell Dickerson
Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction — Charlotte Ashley
Fandom: Not Just Funny Business — Andrea Judy
POETRY:
The Grey Cathedral — Joshua Gage
Night-time Visitor — Melanie Rees
Sympathy for the Devil: A Duet in Two Solos — Elizabeth R. McClellan
NOVEL EXCERPT:
Severance— Chris Bucholz (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)
Cover art by Mark Greyland.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 55
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 Shale Nelson (“Pay Phobetor”) and Vandana Singh (“Wake-Rider”), along with SF reprints by N. K. Jemisin (“Valedictorian”) and Paul Park (“The Lost Sepulcher of Huascar Capec”). We also have a bonus story to wrap up this year: a reprint of “They Tell Me There Will Be No Pain,” by Rachael Acks, which first appeared in the limited edition of June’s Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue. Plus, we have original fantasy by Nik Houser (“The Drawstring Detective”) and Damien Angelica Walters (“A Lie You Give, and Thus I Take”), and fantasy reprints by Delia Sherman (“The Faerie Cony-Catcher”) and Nalo Hopkinson (“Soul Case”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with authors Kim Harrison and Steven Gould. For our ebook readers, we also have our usual ebook-exclusive novella reprint: “The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines” by John Crowley. We also have excerpts from UNDERCITY by Catherine Asaro and from Sergei Lukyanenko’s new novel, THE GENOME.
Nightmare Magazine Issue 27
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 Tim Lebbon (“Embers”) and newcomer Seras Nikita (“Bog Dog”). For reprints, we have work from Christa Faust (“Bodywork”) and Michael Marshall Smith (“Night Falls, Again”). In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” Simon Strantzas talks about the strange and the weird. We’ve also got author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with Robert Shearman.
Locus December 2014 (#647)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2014 issue of Locus magazine has a special feature on Michael Moorcock, including an interview conducted by John Picacio, a retrospective and tributes, an excerpt from new novel The Whispering Swarm, and an interview with Ramsey Kanaan of PM Press.
There are spotlights on Amal El-Mohtar and An Owomoyela. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2015.
News includes the World Fantasy Awards and convention report, the Harris Awards, the Endeavour Awards, and the Hachette and Amazon deal. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “Publishing’s Not Dying, It’s Diversifying (and You Should Too)”.
Reviews cover new titles by Cixin Liu, Johanna Sinisalo, Peter Terrin, Shannon Page & Jay Lake, Beth Cato, R.S. Belcher, Daniel Abraham, Delia Sherman, Stephen Gould, and many others.
Bastion Science Fiction Magazine – Issue 9, December 2014
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedBastion Science Fiction Magazine delivers amazing works of the strange and fantastic on the first of every month, supporting both new authors and established professionals alike. Issue 9 brings you the following:
Flash Fiction Online Issue #15 December 2014
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2014 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
”Hairbrush, Socks, Pencils, Orange” by Kate Heartfield, is a story in which a daughter learns something about her father that changes the meaning of Christmas. “Death’s Daughter Deals the Cards” by Stefan Milicevic, a gritty tale of a coffin-toting girl and a bartender on a winning streak. “The Secret Lives of Sea Monsters,” by Cislyn Smith, is a charming story that is what it says. Editorial by Suzanne Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 31
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWe’re almost sure this issue of LCRW is made up of more than a hundred thousand letters and can guarantee that most are in the right place. This is the ebook edition. The paper edition is available here.
Reviews
“A particularly accessible issue.”
— Lois Tilton, Locus
Fiction
Jessy Randall, “You Don’t Even Have a Rabbit”
Goldie Goldbloom, “Never Eat Crow”
Kathleen Jennings, “Skull and Hyssop”
Owen King, “The Curator”
Sarah Micklem, “The Necromancer of Lynka”
Nonfiction
Nicole Kimberling, “Crazy-Sexy Agriculture = CSA”
About the Authors
Poetry
Lesley Wheeler, “Four Poems”
Cover
Ursula Grant
About these Authors
Goldie Goldbloom is the author of The Paperpark Shoe, which won the AWP Novel Award and the Novel of the Year from the Independent Publishers Association, as well as a collection of short stories, You Lose These. Her story “The Chevra” won Hunger Mountain’s 2013 Non Fiction award. In 2014, she received both a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Brown Foundation Fellowship at Dora Maar House in France. Goldbloom teaches creative writing at Northwestern University and is a well-known speaker at international writing conferences. She is also an LGBT activist and the mother of eight children.
Or: Goldie Goldbloom likes to read, write, knit, sew, cook, mosaic, play Bananagrams and Scrabble, deliver babies (her own or other people’s), build houses, garden, travel to Italy, work with her students, sleep in, ride horses, defend the defenseless, walk barefoot in mud, swim in the ocean, make puns and play with her eight kids. This is not a definitive list. Things come up all the time. Occasionally she remembers to send out some of her stuff to try and get it published. She is fortunate in being able to say that it usually does.
Or: Goldie Goldbloom is Australian. She is old, fat and exceedingly forgetful. You will trip over all the books piled up everywhere if you ever visit her house, which she hopes you will. She’s very hospitable, in an Australian sort of way.
Kathleen Jennings is a writer and illustrator from Brisbane, Australia. The fairytale of the Seven Ravens, which casts a shadow over this story, has long been one of her favourites. Her comic, “A Small Wild Magic” was published in Monstrous Affections, and her short stories have been published by Fablecroft Publishing, Peggy Bright Books and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and been selected to appear in the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012.
Over the past 30 years, Nicole Kimberling has become an expert at disassembling plants of all kinds only to turn around and reassemble them into a item called “dinner.” She lives and works and in Bellingham, Washington.
Owen King is the author of the novel, Double Feature. He is married to the novelist Kelly Braffet.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet loves to receive change of address cards at 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027. Notices can also be sent by electronic mail to info@smallbeerpress.com and are always appreciated.
Miss Mandible is the Creative Director at the newly launched Living Dead Magazine.
Sarah Micklem is the author of two novels about a camp follower, Firethorn and Wildfire (Scribner, 2004 and 2009). “The Necromancer of Lynka” is from a series of tales set on the imaginary Isle of Abigomas. They were inspired by a small book called Realms of Fantasy: Folk Tales from Gozo by George Camilleri (Gozo Press, 1981). Many of Gozo’s real folk tales had unsatisfactory plots, which Micklem took as permission to write anti-climactic stories too.
Jessy Randall’s stories, poems, and other things have appeared in Asimov’s, Flurb, McSweeney’s, Theaker’s, and LCRW. Her latest book is Injecting Dreams into Cows.
Lesley Wheeler’s third poetry collection, The Receptionist and Other Tales is a Tiptree Award Honor Book; previous books include Heterotopia, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, and Heathen. Her poems have been published in Slate, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. She is the Henry S. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
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Made by: Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link.
Readers: Julie Day, Jennifer Terpsichore Abeles.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 31, December 2014. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731067. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is usually published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress@gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. twitter.com/smallbeerpress · Our facebook page has been deactivated. Subscriptions: $20/4 issues (see page 19 for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions are available through EBSCO & Swets. LCRW is available as an ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c. Contents © 2014 the authors. All rights reserved. Submissions, requests for guidelines, & all good things should be sent to the address above. No SASE: no reply. We are so happy to report that the paper edition continues to be printed at Paradise Copies, 21 Conz St., Northampton, MA 01060. 413-585-0414 and that Molly Gloss’s latest novel Falling From Horses is out now and should not be missed.
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #14
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected“Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine” returns with issue #14, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Dr Watson and Mrs Hudson, plus the following works:
Sleuthing: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, by Jacqueline Seewald
Lost in Translation, by John M. Floyd
“Diamonds”, by Kelli A. Wilkins
In Memoriam: A Vignette, by Stan Trybulski
The Mystery of the Missing Money, by Mary Laufer
Pea Soup, by Gerald Elias
Playing for Keeps, by Meg Opperman
My Living is Dying, by Laird Long
The Adventure of the Empty Lighthouse, by Jack Grochot
Three Sudden Murders, by George Zebrowski
The Adventure of the Vanished Village, by Michael Mallory
When Stars Collide, by BV Lawson
A Case of Identity, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine” is produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.
The Liminal War
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Liminal People novel. Taggert wants to look after his family so when his adopted daughter disappears he only has one option: find her.
There is something wrong in this world and Taggert must do what he must.
“I read bodies the way master musicians read music.”
The Liminal War is a propulsive novel that starts with a kidnapping in London and takes off running. Taggert is a man with a questionable past and the ability to hurt or heal with his thoughts alone. When his adopted daughter goes missing, he immediately suspects the hand of an old enemy. In order to find her, Taggert assembles a team of friends, family, and new allies who don’t quite trust he has left his violent times behind. But their search leads them to an unexpected place: the past.
Getting there is hard, being there is harder, and their journey has a price that is higher than any of us can afford.
Reviews
“It’s been a long wait since Jama-Everett’s 2009 debut, The Liminal People, but the same raw wattage that lit up healer/killer Taggert’s epic introduction to his daughter, Tamara, and his split with his sociopathic mentor, Nordeen, is at work in this rich, dense sequel. This episode opens with a characteristic blast of pure psychic chaos from Tamara, who’s discovered that Prentis, a child Taggert calls “mine by choice,” has disappeared from the sensory realm commanded by superpowered liminals like Taggert’s family. Taggert’s sure that Prentis isn’t dead, but beyond that he’s stumped. His lover, Samantha, guides him to the Rasta-tinged commune of London’s Eel Pie Island, where he encounters the avatar of a four-billion-year-old vegetable god who allies with him in the search. And that’s just the first 30 pages. Jama-Everett writes with such cyclonic energy and verbal legerdemain that occasionally the plot has to be taken on faith, but the noir-infused verve of the telling makes it all work.”
— Publishers Weekly
“. . . a scrappy group of people with superpowers who careen through a criminal underground, the space-time continuum, and frequently outrageous battles to rescue a young woman who’s gone missing. Taggert, a former criminal, can “read bodies” and manipulate them on a molecular level. He’s lying low in London, working a shadowy business of healing people with terminal diseases and keeping an eye on his teenage daughter, Tamara, and adopted daughter, Prentis. Both Tamara and Prentis are also “liminals”—people with supernatural abilities—and survivors of Taggert’s criminal past. When Prentis vanishes from the planet, invisible even to Tamara’s powerful telepathy, Taggert and Tamara set out to look for her. They find themselves thrown into alliances with legendary musicians and the worshipers of a strange god and pitted against viciously ruthless nonhuman entities called “alters.” The plot moves swiftly, cramming incident after incident into a novel that seems surprisingly slim for this breed of action-adventure. . . . An engaging sequel that sets its likable cast of characters against a fast-paced sequence of dangers.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Reviews of The Liminal People:
“A great piece of genre fiction. But picking which genre to place it in isn’t easy. The first in a planned series, it’s got the twists and taut pacing of a thriller, the world-warping expansiveness of a fantasy yarn, and even the love-as-redemption arc of a romance. Oh yeah, a lot of the characters in it have superhuman powers, too.”—The Rumpus
“The action sequences are smartly orchestrated, but it is Taggert’s quest to retrieve his own soul that gives The Liminal People its oomph. Jama-Everett has done a stellar job of creating a setup that promises even greater rewards in future volumes.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
“You’ll be sucked into a fast-paced story about superpowered people struggling for control of the underground cultures they inhabit…. The novel is a damn good read. It’s a smart actioner that will entertain you while also enticing you to think about matters beyond the physical realm.”
—Annalee Newitz, io9
“The story’s setup . . . takes next to no time to relate in Jama-Everett’s brisk prose. With flat-voiced, sharp-edged humor reminiscent of the razors his fellow thugs wear around their necks, Taggert claims to read bodies ‘the way pretentious East Coast Americans read The New Yorker … I’ve got skills,’ he adds. ‘What I don’t have is patience.’”
—Nisi Shawl, The Seattle Times
“A fun and fast-paced thriller. Recommended for: Mutants, misfits, anyone who’s ever felt partway between one thing and another.”
— The Ladies of Comicazi
About the Author
Born in 1974, Ayize Jama-Everett hails from the Harlem of old. In his time on the planet, he’s traveled extensively throughout the world — Malaysia, East and North Africa, Mexico, New Hampshire — before settling temporarily in Northern California. With Master’s degrees in psychology and divinity, he’s taught at the graduate and high school level and worked as a therapist. He is the author of three novels, The Liminal People, The Liminal War, and The Entropy of Bones, as well as an upcoming graphic novel with illustrator John Jennings entitled Box of Bones. When he’s no writing, teaching, or sermonising, he’s usually practicing his aim.
The Dark Issue 6
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Dark is a quarterly magazine co-edited by Jack Fisher and Sean Wallace, with the sixth issue featuring all-original short fiction by Sara Saab, Eric Schaller, Patricia Russo, and Naim Kabir.
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 22
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedShimmer Magazine
The future will be stranger than we can imagine, but so too was the past. Shimmer’s 22nd issue has four stories rooted in the here, the then, and the may-have-been, but the roots are never quite still, for they cross over and back and through. Whispers in welds, advertisements that don’t quite promise what you think they do; something moving within the very walls that enclose you; a scattering of falling, winter stars.
A Whisper in the Weld by Alix E. Harrow
Isa died in a sudden suffocation of boiling blood and iron cinder in her mouth; she returned to herself wearing a blue cotton dress stained with fresh tobacco. She was younger and leaner, as she’d been when she first met Leslie Bell. Her skin shone dark and warm without the black dust of the mill ground into it.
The One They Took Before by Kelly Sandoval
Kayla reads the listing twice, knowing the eager beating of her heart is ridiculous. One page back, someone claims they found a time machine. Someone else has apparently lost their kidneys. The Internet isn’t real. That’s what she likes about it. And if the post is real, the best thing she can do is pretend she never saw it.
Cantor’s Dragon by Craig DeLancey
He beholds the dragon’s black head, its black shining scales, the smooth and sensitive circular membrane of each ear, vibrating behind a black eye. Cantor cannot discern the dragon’s tongue from the flames that churn in the cup of its jaw. Fire rattles in its throat, a sound like Rudolf’s failing lungs.
Caretaker by Carlie St. George
A ghost took care of you when you were young. She made you peanut butter sandwiches without speaking, shuffled silently from room to room in her threadbare bathrobe and bare feet. She didn’t have eyes, your mother. Or she did, but they didn’t work because she always stared right through you, even as she cupped your face with her cold, dead hands.