New York Review of Science Fiction #314

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    Special Sex and Memory Issue: Brian Stableford: French Speculative Sex; Fruma Klass: On Knowing Fred Pohl; Michael Andre-Driussi: American Film on Hitler; Emily Hosokawa: Changing Forms of SF Sublimity; Mariano Villareal: The State of Spanish SF; Michael Levy on the final Thomas Covenant novel; A.P Canavan on Ian Esslemont’s Assail; Dan’l Danehy-Oakes on Daryl Gregory’s Afterparty; Joe Sanders on Peter Watts’s Beyond the Rift; Fran Wilde on Eileen Gunn’s Questionable Practices

    New York Review of Science Fiction #231

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    Special SF in China Issue: Reports by David Brin, Nancy Kress, Robert J. Sawyer, Neil Gaiman, Michael Swanwick, David W. Hill, & Carolyn Clink; Greg Johnson: Out West with Emma Bull; Joe Sanders on Ian MacDonald’s Brasyl; Darrell Schweitzer on Jonathan Carroll; Robert Bee: The OED tackles Science Fiction; Michael Bishop: Interstitial Fictions; Plus: Pandas, hot pots, censors, ballads, and a Bill Gibson moment!

    Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #160

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    Issue #160 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by M. Bennardo and Peter Hickman.

    Uncanny Magazine Issue 1

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    The November/December 2014 issue of Uncanny Magazine.

    This issue features Featuring new fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat Howard, Max Gladstone, Amelia Beamer, Ken Liu, and Christopher Barzak, classic fiction by Jay Lake, essays by Sarah Kuhn, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Christopher J Garcia, plus a Worldcon Roundtable featuring Emma England, Michael Lee, Helen Montgomery, Steven H Silver, and Pablo Vazquez, poetry by Neil Gaiman, Amal El-Mohtar, and Sonya Taaffe, interviews with Maria Dahvana Headley, Deborah Stanish, Beth Meacham on Jay Lake, and Christopher Barzak, a cover by Galen Dara, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

    Apex Magazine Issue 66

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    Apex 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:
    Brute — Rich Larson
    Candy Girl — Chikodili Emelumadu
    The New Girl — Marissa Lingen
    The Stagman’s Song — Ginger Weil
    Tiger! Tiger! — Elizabeth Bear (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)

    STEAL THE SPOTLIGHT MICRO-FICTION WINNERS:
    Stone Woman — Robin Wyatt Dunn
    When a Crossroads is a Corner — M.J. Starling
    Whispering Waters — Jessica Walsh
    The Fitzpatrick Solution — Loreen Heneghan
    Guided Breathing Exercise: Being Mindful of the Succubus in Your Bedroom — Christine Purcell

    NONFICTION:
    Interview with Ginger Weil — Andrea Johnson
    Interview with Mark Greyland — Loraine Sammy
    Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction — Charlotte Ashley
    Statistics vs. Story — Ozgur K. Sahin

    POETRY:
    Brains, Brains, Brains — Puneet Dutt
    Sonnet 29 — Ama Codjoe

    NOVEL EXCERPT:
    A Man Lies Dreaming — Lavie Tidhar (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)

    Cover art by Mark Greyland.

    Nightmare Magazine Issue 26

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    NIGHTMARE 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 David Sklar (“Rules for Killing Monsters”) and Maria Dahvana Headley (“Who Is Your Executioner?”). For reprints, we have work from Karin Tidbeck (“Rebecka”) and David Morrell (“For These and All My Sins”).
    In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” Stoker winner Eric J. Guignard talks about some up-and-coming trends in horror writing. We’ve also got author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, a feature interview with Leslie S. Klinger, and an excerpt from the new novel AMITY by Micol Ostow.

    Lightspeed Magazine Issue 54

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    LIGHTSPEED 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 Sunny Moraine (“What Glistens Back”) and Annalee Newitz (“Drones Don’t Kill People”), along with SF reprints by Susan C. Petrey (“Spidersong”) and Roz Kaveney (“Instructions”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Kat Howard (“A Flock of Grief”) and Matthew Hughes (“Enter Saunterance”), and fantasy reprints by Georghe S?s?rman (“Sah-Hara”) and Jennifer Stevenson (“Solstice”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with authors Nick Harkaway and Charles Stross. For our ebook readers, we also have our usual ebook-exclusive novella reprint: “New Light on the Drake Equation” by Ian R. MacLeod. We also have an excerpt from Mira Grant’s latest offering, SYMBIONT; and a taste of THE THREE BODY PROBLEM by Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu).

    Locus November 2014 (#646)

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    The November 2014 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Hannu Rajaniemi and Linda Nagata, and a spotlight on Joe Monti. News includes the 2014 Aurora Awards and Sunburst Awards, the sale of Angry Robot books, coverage of ICon 2014 and the Geffen Awards, and an International Report on Brazil.

    The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Stories Are a Fugly Hack”.

    Reviews cover new titles by Lavie Tidhar, Kameron Hurley, John Clute, Gregory Maguire, Kate Milford, Mark Teppo, Sarah Tolmie, Ann Leckie, Greg Bear, and many others.

    Bastion Science Fiction Magazine – Issue 8, November 2014

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    Bastion 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 8 brings you the following:

    “Mayhem at Manville” by Michael Andre-Driussi
    “Shenzhen Blues” by Spencer Wightman
    “The Ticket-Taker” by CJ Menart
    “The Vestal” by Rob Steiner
    “Good Times” by Alexander Jones
    “Playing in the Skeleton on Riot Day” by Jedd Cole
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    “Us or Them” by B. Brooks

    Galaxy’s Edge Magazine – Issue 11: November 2014

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    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

    Stories by: Leena Likitalo, Robert Silverberg, James Aquilone, Maureen McHugh, Alex Shvartsman, Jack Skillingstead, Ralph Roberts, Jack McDevitt, Marina J. Lostetter, Lou J. Berger

    Serialization: Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp

    Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford

    Book Reviews: Paul Cook.

    Interview: Joy Ward interviews Eric Flint

    Flash Fiction Online Issue #14 November 2014

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    The November 2014 issue of Flash Fiction Online.

    ”Monoceros, Ptolemy Cluster” by Steven W. Johnson, a tough as nails, brush-the-dust-from-your-ray-gun space western. “Black Friday” by returning author Brynn MacNab. When Uncle Joe comes home for a visit, Dad starts keeping a stake under his pillow. “The Rules of the Game” by Alexandra Grunberg is a deep and subtle story about the way we mortals tend to cling to mortality. Editorial by Suzanne Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.

    Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #9

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    Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with its ninth issue, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories:


    BONEYARD, by Marc Bilgrey

    BULLY FOR YOU, by Carla Coupe

    THE HEREAFTER PARTY, by Paullette Gaudet

    THE HOT STOVE LEAGUE, by Janice Law

    THE COIN AND THE CHEMIST, by Nijo Philip

    THE CASE OF VAMBERRY THE WINE MERCHANT, by Jack Grochot

    UP TO NO GOOD, by Laird Long

    WE’RE UPSIDE DOWN AND INSIDE OUT, by Jay Carey

    VALENTINE’S DAY, by John M. Floyd

    THE BLACKHEATH COLLAPSE, by Sherlock Holmes (as Edited by Bruce Kilstein)

    THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


    “Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine” is produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.

    Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #158

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    Issue #158 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Gregory Norman Bossert, whose story “The Telling” in BCS #109 won the 2013 World Fantasy Award, and Brynn MacNab.

    Apex Magazine Issue 65

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    Apex 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
    EDITORIAL:
    Resolute: Notes from the Editor–in–Chief — Sigrid Ellis

    FICTION:
    Primrose or Return to Il’maril — Mary McMyne
    Coins for Their Eyes — Kris Millering
    The House in Winter — Jessica Sirkin
    What I Am — Tom Piccirilli
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    NONFICTION:
    Interview with Kris Millering — Andrea Johnson
    Fandom Activism for Change in Visual Entertainment Media: We Have the Power — Loraine Sammy
    Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction — Charlotte Ashley
    Interview with Catherine Denvir — Loraine Sammy

    POETRY:
    Half Wives — Chris Lynch
    The Excavation of Troy — Sonya Taaffe
    On the Excarnations of the Gods — Neile Graham

    NOVEL EXCERPTS:
    King’s War: The Knights of Breton Court 3 — Maurice Broaddus

    Flash Fiction Online Issue #13 October 2014

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    The October 2014 issue of Flash Fiction Online.

    “Columbidae” by Nathaniel Lee. An unreliable narrator who takes readers on an unexpected journey of discovery. “The Liar” by David Austin is an odd and touching story of last moments. Luc Reid’s, “If You Want”, is an odd story in and of itself, as the male hero chooses his own path. Editorial by Suzanne Vincent.

    Nightmare Magazine Issue 25: Women Destroy Horror! Special Issue

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    NIGHTMARE 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.

    Funded as a stretch goal of our sister-magazine LIGHTSPEED’s Women Destroy Science Fiction! Kickstarter campaign, this month we’re presenting a special issue of NIGHTMARE called Women Destroy Horror!: an all-horror extravaganza entirely written – and edited! – by women.

    Here’s what we’ve got lined up for you in this special issue:

    Original horror – edited by legendary editor Ellen Datlow – by Gemma Files, Pat Cadigan, Catherine MacLeod, Katherine Crighton, and Livia Llewellyn.

    Reprints – also selected by Datlow – by Joyce Carol Oates, Tanith Lee, and A.R. Morlan.

    And nonfiction articles – edited by Stoker Award-winning author Lisa Morton – by Galen Dara, Lucy A. Snyder, Maria Alexander, Chesya Burke, Lisa Morton, and Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Plus an original cover illustration by Carly Janine Mazur.