Lightspeed Magazine Issue 53
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 Daniel José Older (“Dust”) and Marie Vibbert (“Jupiter Wrestlerama”), along with SF reprints by Zoran Zivkovic (“The Puzzle”) and Rebecca Ore (“Scarey Rose in Deep History”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Steve Hockensmith (“The Herd”) and Megan Kurashige (“The Quality of Descent”), and fantasy reprints by Kelly Link (“Water Off a Black Dog’s Back”) and Ysabeau S. Wilce (“The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror!”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with bestselling author James S. A. Corey and physicist Lawrence Krauss. For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella reprint is “Jesus and the Eightfold Path” by Lavie Tidhar. For novel excerpts this month, we’ve got a sneak peek at Paolo Bacigalupi’s new novel, THE DOUBT FACTORY, along with an excerpt from ANCILLARY SWORD — Ann Leckie’s sequel to her Nebula, Clarke, and Hugo award-winning debut novel ANCILLARY JUSTICE. Plus, we have an excerpt from the new Wild Cards mosaic novel, WILD CARDS: LOWBALL, from contributor Carrie Vaughn.
Fantasy Magazine Issue 58: Women Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue
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.
Funded as a stretch goal of LIGHTSPEED’s Women Destroy Science Fiction! Kickstarter campaign, this month were presenting a special one-off issue of our otherwise discontinued sister-magazine, FANTASY, called Women Destroy Fantasy!: an all-fantasy extravaganza entirely written – and edited! – by women.
Here’s what we’ve got lined up for you in this special issue:
Original fantasy – edited by long-time FANTASY editor Cat Rambo – by Kate Hall, H.E. Roulo, T. Kingfisher, and Julia August.
Reprints – selected by legendary editor Terri Windling – by Delia Sherman, Emma Bull, Carol Emshwiller, and Nalo Hopkinson.
Nonfiction articles – edited by LIGHTSPEED managing editor Wendy N. Wagner – by Kameron Hurley, Galen Dara, Sandra Wickham, Shanna Germain, Sofia Samatar, Kat Howard, and Wendy N. Wagner. Plus an original cover illustration by Elizabeth Leggett.
Bastion Science Fiction Magazine – Issue 7, October 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 7 brings you the following:
“Zero’s Hour” by Eric Del Carlo
“When the Wind Blows on Tristan da Cunha” by Meryl Stenhouse
“Waterman High Speed Axials” by William R. D. Wood
“Time Enough” by Salena Casha
“Sympathy for the Download” by Matthew Lyons
“In the Space Between” by Jeff Stehman
“Shudder” by Manfred Gabriel
and
“A Vision of Paradise” by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 97
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 October 2014 issue contains:
Original Fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley (“Taxidermist in the Underworld”), Helena Bell (“Lovecraft”), Rahul Kanakia (“Seeking boarder for rm w/ attached bathroom, must be willing to live with ghosts ($500 / Berkeley)”), and E. Catherine Tobler (“Pithing Needle”).
Classic stories by K.J. Parker (“A Rich, Full Week”) and Alex Irvine (“Wizard’s Six”).
Non-fiction by Brian Francis Slattery (I Sing the Lady Electric), an interview with Robert Reed, an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly 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 #3 includes 13 short stories:
“Descant” — Piers Anthony
“The Peacemaker” — Rachel A. Brune
“My Favorite Photos of Anne” — Aaron Polson
“Verisimilitude” — Alan Murdock
“Orc Legal” — James Beamon
“Kindle My Heart” — Rebecca Birch
“Burn in Me” — Carrie Martin
“The Memory-Setter’s Apprentice” — Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
“Hither and Yon” — Anatoly Belilovsky
“The Contents of the Box with the Ribbon” — David Neilsen
“The First First Fire” — Alexander Monteagudo
“Missing Tessa” — Anna Yeatts
“The Perfect Book” — Alex Shvartsman
In the non-fiction section, this issue features:
-Interview With Author Piers Anthony
-Interview With Author and Publisher Anna Yeatts
-Interview With Editor Scott H. Andrews
-Artist Spotlight: Suebsin Pulsiri
-Book Review: Upgraded (edited by Neil Clarke)
-Movie Review: The House That Dripped Blood (1971) (Peter Duffell)
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.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 30
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWith the thirtieth issue, LCRW—(maybe? probably? perhaps, for now?) the only zine named after Winston Churchill’s mother—changes everything. We turn blue into tree. We make electricity solid. We publish stories that shake the world so hard it takes a left at Albuquerque and is never seen again. Fiction! Poetry! Dancing in the aisles. Chocolate is distributed in the streets. The world sighs, is remade.
Note: nothing in the paragraph above has anything to do with any of the half dozen stories and seven poems below.
Weightless bonuses:
— THE VAMPIRE MAY YET ATTEND A POTLUCK by A.B. Robinson
— Author Interview: Erica L. Satifka
Fiction
Sarah Kokernot – Odd Variations on the Species
Erica L. Satifka – The Silent Ones
Anne Lacy – I Know You Hate It Here
Robert Stutts – With His Head in His Hand
Sarah Micklem – The Purveyor of Homunculi
Damien Ober – The Endless Sink
Nonfiction
Nicole Kimberling – Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof at the Potluck
About the Authors
Poetry
Daniel Meyer – A Question for the Devil
Anne Sheldon – Island Folklore
Amanda Robinson – Five Poems:
Speculative Fiction
The Vampire and the Mermaid Converse
The Vampire Drives a Hard Bargain
The Vampire Listens to Woody Guthrie
Undead Temporality
Made by: Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link.
Readers: Julie Day, Jennifer Terpsichore Abeles, Emily Cambias, Dustin Buchinski, Geoffrey Noble, and David Mitchell.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 30, September 2014. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618730824.Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is usually published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress@gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. twitteringwitlessness.com/smallbeerpress · 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. Huge thanks to Melanie Conroy-Goldman and all the lovely people we met at the Hobart & William Smith TRIAS Residency. And what lovely wines they have in the Finger Lakes! No SASE: no reply. Paper edition printed by the good people at Paradise Copies, 21 Conz St., Northampton, MA 01060. 413-585-0414.
About these Authors
Though she has never reigned supreme at any potluck when Justin was also present, Nicole Kimberling has still managed to feed hundreds of people—even some who tried very hard to avoid ingesting foodstuff. She is the editor of Blind Eye Books.
Sarah Kokernot was born and raised in Kentucky. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in PANK, decomP, Front Porch, and West Branch. She currently lives in Chicago where she works at 826CHI, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center.
Anne Lacy would like to thank the UCross Foundation for giving her a nice place to finish this piece. Some of her nonfiction can be found in Issue 78 of Crazyhorse and on the website of American University, where she received an MFA. She is at work on a novel-length interpretation of Snow White set in the Republic of Texas.
Daniel Meyer is a children’s librarian and the president of the Storytelling Center of New York. He draws monsters for fun.
Sarah Micklem is the author of two novels about a camp follower, Firethorn and Wildfire (Scribner, 2004 and 2009). “The Purveyor of Homunculi” 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.
Damien Ober is the author of the science-fiction novel Dr. Benajmin Franklin’s Dream America (Equus Press). His writing has appeared in The Rumpus, NOON, Confrontation, B O D Y Literature, The Baltimore City Paper, VLAK and port.man.teau. He received the 2002 Sherwood Anderson Award, was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize and had a screenplay chosen for the 2013 Black List. Currently he writes for the Syfy Channel show Dominion.
Amanda Robinson lives in Western Massachusetts, where she is a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her first chapbook, Dario Argento Is Not My Boyfriend, won the 2014 jubilat MAKES A CHAPBOOK competition. She edits Industrial Lunch magazine.
Erica L. Satifka’s short fiction has previously appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and Ideomancer, among others. She lives somewhere in the United States with her husband Rob and three needy cats. Find her online at ericasatifka.com.
Anne Sheldon is a school librarian and storyteller whose work has appeared in The Dark Horse, The Lyric, Talebones, and other magazines. Aqueduct Press published her most recent collection, The Bone Spindle.
Robert E. Stutts works at a small liberal arts college in South Carolina, where he teaches courses in fairy tales, creative writing, and young adult literature. His work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction and Scheherezade’s Bequest, among others. His website is robertestutts.com.
Space and Time Magazine Issue #121
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Summer 2014 issue of Space and Time Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Charles E. Gannon (“A Cyberkeet’s Story”) and Mercurio D. Rivera & E.C. Myers (“Lost in Natalie”), an interview with Jody Lynn Nye, poetry by Beth Cato and Wade German.
Plasma Frequency Magazine – Issue 13
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: “The Kelpie’s Revenge” by Tais Teng
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 21
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedShimmer Magazine
Shimmer blends the perfect speculative cocktail for its twenty-first issue. Three parts exuberance to one part seawater, a sand-crusted spun-sugar glass brushed with winter’s fresh boughs.
These four stories, from Shimmer alums and novices alike, will take you on a journey that is familiar as earth, but as strange as stars. We explore the depths of the sea and the dry deserts both, where encounters don’t have to be alien to terrify.
Anna Saves Them All, by Seth Dickinson
The other team members have their own terrors, of course — rational big-idea fears: where Blackbird came from, why it’s here, what kind of Christopher Columbus apocalypse it could trigger if it goes home, or if it doesn’t. But Anna thinks about how she came so close to home, how she’ll never know if the thing she did was worth anything at all. That fills her with something jagged: anguish…or relief.
Dharmas, by Vajra Chandrasekera
Like every passenger he has ever driven, I have placed myself at serious risk of injury or death. He owes me a life, whether he takes mine or not. This is why I am compelled to undo his narrative.
Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, by A. C. Wise
The fisherman’s wife rises. Is she sleeping still? If she glances back to the pool of moonlight holding her husband in their tangled sheets will she see herself lying beside him, chest moving steady with the in-out tide of breath? She steps outside, barefoot; from the pier to the sand, to the edge of the shore where the water traces a silver line against her toes.
We Take the Long View, by Erica Satifka
The Very-Big-Wrong, the it-thing from the landing site, has invaded the settlement, the place where the we-that-are-mobile gather to speak, to screw, and to eat of Leaves and body-food. We begged and pleaded at it and asked the Forest-That-Thinks to give us permission to use force to repel the intruder.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #12 September 2014
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2014 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
”The Cell I’m In” by Eli Hastings. For the boy in our first story, school means facing hard truths – about himself, about the world, about compassion. “The Vitruvian Farmer” by Marcelina Vizcarra. A teen’s father leaves home for the future, taking the time machine he keeps in the barn. Caroline M. Yoachim, “Honeybee”. In our protagonist’s time, some near-future world, there are no honeybees. Big deal? It’s a big deal. Lovely story with a lovely ending. editorial by Suzanne Vincent. Original artwork by Rich Ware.
Apex Magazine Issue 64
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
EDITORIAL:
Resolute: Notes from the Editor–in–Chief — Sigrid Ellis
FICTION:
Last Dance Over the Red, Red World — Gary Kloster
Danceland — Emma Bull and Will Shetterly
Economies of Force — Seth Dickinson
Enemy State — Karin Lowachee
Soft Feather Dance — Liz Argall
NONFICTION:
Interview with Seth Dickinson — Andrea Johnson
How to Live Safely in an Online Universe — Charles Tan
Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction — Charlotte Ashley
Interview with Jeff Ward — Loraine Sammy
POETRY:
Superman Bound — Amanda Lord
Ghosts of Oz — irving
Synesthete — Marsheila Rockwell
NOVEL EXCERPTS:
Soulminder — Timothy Zahn
Jack Strong — Walter Mosley
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #13
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with its May/June 2014 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:
Living The Lie, by Marc Bilgrey
The Adventure of the Sherlock Holmes Chocolate Cards, by Gary Lovisi
A Most Valuable Institution, by Dan Andriacco
A Cold Place to Die, by J.P. Seewald
The Shocking Affair of the Steamship Friesland, by Jack Grochot
Killing Sam Clemens, by William Burton McCormick
A Fresh Start, by Janice Law
The Ruba Rombic Robberies, by Gary Lovisi
Only the Dead, by Gordon Linzner
Rationalist Femme: Punitive Justice, by William E. Chambers
The Woman, by Mackenzie Clarkes
Reflection of Guilt, by Laird Long
The Adventure of the Nine Hole League, by William E. Chambers
The Speckled Bandanna, by Hal Charles
The Adventure of the Dying Detective, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine” is produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.
The Big Click Issue 16
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Big Click‘s September issue starts your autumn off right with “Man Upstate” by Colby Swift, which has cops, dog bites, missing kids… everything you want when the air is crisp and the leaves are turning gold and red.
But if you live somewhere that’s still blazing hot, pick up an issue and read John Mantooth’s “A Sojourner’s Guide to the Black Warrior River Bottoms (And Beyond)” before that first cool morning. We promise it’s worth your $2.99.
Also in this issue: Barry Graham treats us to a retrospective of the work of serious crime writer W.R. Burnett, “the grandfather you never knew.” Plus capsule reviews! We know you love ’em.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 19
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue nineteen is full of fantastical stories that feel as if you may have heard them as a child and yet cannot quite place them in your memories. But science fiction is not to be left aside as this issue also contains aliens and far-off futures. Come enjoy another lovely collection of stories by your soon-to-be favorite authors!
Editorial – Jennifer Lyn Parsons
Handiwork – J.A. Gross
A Sea Without Oysters – Megan Lee Beals
Bossy Boots – Chikodili Emelumadu
The Birth of a Child – Joyce Chng
The Stone Children – Shannon Norland
Ceilidh McCallum Versus the Super Evil Fairy Lady – Gabrielle Lissauer
The Filigreed Cage – Krystal Claxton
Rose Meets a Gentleman – Che Gilson
Gretel in Her Ever After – RJ Astruc
How the Queen Bought Beauty – Sandi Leibowitz
Nightmare Magazine Issue 24
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 Sunny Moraine (“Singing with All My Skin and Bone”) and Daniel Josè Older (“Animal”). For reprints, we have work from Charles Grant (“Old Friends”) and Lisa Tuttle (“The Man in the Ditch”). In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” Lesley Bannatyne will be examining the history of horror and horror’s favorite holiday, Halloween. We’ve also got author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE’s Cecil Baldwin.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 52
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 Saundra Mitchell (“Starfall”) and Sam J. Miller (“We Are the Cloud”), along with SF reprints from the new anthologies: MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS (Holly Black’s “Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind)”) and the THE END IS NOW (Tananarive Due’s “Herd Immunity”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Sarah Pinsker (“No Lonely Seafarer”) and Matthew Hughes (“Under the Scab”), and fantasy reprints by Aliette de Bodard (“Prayers of Forges and Furnaces”) and Rhys Hughes (“Eternal Horizon”).
All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with authors Mary Robinette Kowal and Diana Gabaldon. For our ebook readers, we also have a reprint of the novella “Giliad” by Gregory Feeley, and novel excerpts from THE BROTHERS CABAL by Jonathan L. Howard and THE NECROMANCER CANDLE by Randy McCharles.