Bastion Science Fiction Magazine – Issue 6, September 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 6 brings you the following:
“Death Wears Yellow” by J.C. Davis
“The Custody of Memory” by Paul Hamilton
“Debugging the Ghosts” by Damien Krsteski
“The Last Lawsuit” by Maggie Clark
“The Long, Slow War” by Stephanie Herman
“The Loop” by James Hart
and
“Pancakes” by John Herman
Locus September 2014 (#644)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2014 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Nicola Griffith and Yoon Ha Lee, and lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through June 2015.
News coverage includes the 2014 Hugo Awards results, the 1939 Retro Hugo Awards, the Seiun Awards, and news about the Horror Writers Association, Apple, and Amazon.
There are two guest columns in this issue: “Audible, Comixology, Amazon, and Doctorow’s First Law” by Cory Doctorow, and “Writers and Readings: Advice for New Authors” by Tom Whitmore & Karen G. Anderson.
The issue includes a photo report on Detcon1, the 2014 NASFiC, and photos from the summer writing workshops. Reviews cover new titles by Peter Watts, Hannu Rajaniemi, Nancy Kress, Genevieve Valentine, Robert Jackson Bennett, Richard Kadrey, Lev Grossman, Wu Ming-Yi, John Varley, Charles Stross, and many others.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine – Issue 10: September 2014
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedGalaxy’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: Brian Trent, Robert J. Sawyer, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Larry Niven, Laurie Tom, K.C. Norton, Tobias S. Buckell, Ian Whates, Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint.
Serialization: Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Book Reviews: Paul Cook.
Interview: Joy Ward interviews George R. R. Martin
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 96
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 September 2014 issue contains:
Original Fiction by Susan Palwick (“Weather”), JY Yang (“Patterns of a Murmuration, In Billions of Data Points”), and Xia Jia (“Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy”).
Classic stories by Brendan DuBois (“Falling Star”), Leigh Kennedy (“Her Furry Face”), and Peter Watts (“Giants”).
Non-fiction by Mark Cole (Why Science Fiction Isn’t Always to Blame), an interview with Ann Leckie, an Another Word column by Alethea Kontis, and an editorial/special announcement by Neil Clarke.
New York Review of Science Fiction #312
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial The Past Is Present Issue: Maureen Kincaid Speller on Alan Garner’s Corpus; Michael Bishop in Alternate Worlds with PKD; Istvan Csicsery-Ronay: Ian Watson’s Impossible Visitors; Darrell Schweitzer Samples the Past; John Crowley on Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics; Eugene Reynolds on Ann VanderMeer’s Steampunk; David Mead on James Cambias; Jenny Blackford on Leigh Kennedy; Greg Johnson on Max Gladstone
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #155
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #155 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Tony Pi and Alter S. Reiss.
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Five
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA woman climbs an ice-mountain, feeding her companion her own blood to stave off Death….
A fisher discovers the sagas and songs sung by centuries-dead barrow ghost women….
An asexual sun goddess sets impossible challenges that fail to deter her incessant suitor….
A lover wends through city canals and told tales in a living boat to woo a golden woman….
These and other awe-inspiring fantasy stories await in The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Five, a new anthology of seventeen stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award-finalist online magazine that Locus online credits with “revive(ing)… secondary-world fantasy as a respectable subgenre of short fiction, raising it from the midden of disdain.”
The Best of BCS, Year Five features such authors as Richard Parks, Gemma Files, Seth Dickinson, Alex Dally MacFarlane, and Benjanun Sriduangkaew.
It includes “Boat in Shadows, Crossing” by Tori Truslow, a finalist for the 2014 British Science Fiction Association Awards and the Parsec Award, and “The Telling” by Gregory Norman Bossert, winner of the 2013 World Fantasy Award.
Table of Contents
The Telling · Gregory Norman Bossert
Worth of Crows · Seth Dickinson
Three Little Foxes · Richard Parks
Hold a Candle to the Devil · Nicole M. Taylor
Sate My Thirst with Ink and Blood · Adam Callaway
The Study of Monstrosities · Greg Kurzawa
Artificial Nocturne · E. Catherine Tobler
The Penitent · M. Bennardo
The Crows Her Dragon’s Gate · Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Singing like a Hundred Dug-up Bones · Alex Dally MacFarlane
Bakemono, or The Thing That Changes · A.B. Treadwell
Two Captains · Gemma Files
The Girl Who Welcomed Death to Svalgearyen · Barbara A. Barnett
Liaisons Galantes: A Scientific Romance · David D. Levine
A Sixpenny Crossing · Don Allmon
Misbegotten · Raphael Ordoñez
Boat in Shadows, Crossing · Tori Truslow
Flash Fiction Online Issue #11 August 2014
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2014 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
”On the Fly” by Alison McBain. Jorge struggle both in and out of the kitchen. “Kitsune no Yomeiri” by Ashe Thurman. A husband’s attempt to embrace his wife’s culture goes painfully awry. James Aquilone’s, “6 Attempts at Winning Jennifer’s Heart” is a humorous stab at office romance. An editorial by Anna Yeatts. Original artwork by Rich Ware.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #154
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #154 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire and Stephen V. Ramey.
On Spec Magazine – Summer 2014 #97 vol 26 no 5
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Summer 2014 Issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Mikey Hamm (“Bugzapper”), Jason Fischer (“The Glorious Aerybeth”), Anita Dolman (“Handcrafting”), Simon Habegger (“Snapshots of American Scenes”), Karl Johanson (“Piece of History”), Kate Heartfield (“Traveller, Take Me”), and Agnes Cadieux (“Empty Heat”); guest interview by Brent Jans (“Fiction for an RPG Milieu: A Discussion with Amber E. Scott and Dave Gross”); author interview by Roberta Laurie (“Mikey Hamm: Of String Theory, Plane Haunts, and Hairy Slugs”); editorial by Cat McDonald (“One Third”); cover and interior art by Dan O’Driscoll (“SF&F Scenes and Settings”).
Black Static #41
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July–August issue has new horror and dark fantasy fiction by Tim Waggoner, Vajra Chandrasekera, Ralph Robert Moore, Carole Johnstone, Leah Thomas, Ray Cluley, Thersa Matsuura. The cover art is by Richard Wagner, and interior illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Vincent Sammy, and Joachim Luetke. The usual features are present: Coffinmaker’s Blues by Stephen Volk and Blood Pudding by Lynda E. Rucker (comment); Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews); Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews), which includes a substantial interview with A.K. Benedict, and Silver Bullets by Mike O’Driscoll (weird detectives).
Fiction:
None So Empty by Tim Waggoner
illustrated by Vincent Sammy
I approach the Dumpster, a full bag of trash hanging from my left hand. The Dumpster’s concealed behind a high wooden fence, with an opening for residents to step through. A sign on the fence warns, in squiggly hand-lettered words, that there’s NO DUMPSTER DIVING! Classy.
The Dumpster’s plastic lid is down, but the metal side door is partway open, revealing lumps of white plastic bags identical to the one I’m carrying. But nestled between the mounds is a shock of what looks like brown hair, and the first thought that comes to me is, That’s a head.
Caul by Vajra Chandrasekera
I only love girls who love to swim, but I don’t like to see them in the water. I like the sea just fine with nobody swimming in it and me with dry sand under me and a cold beer in my hand. They tell me I’m missing something, but I won’t budge. Maybe that’s why they don’t come back.
Ghosts Play in Boys’ Pajamas by Ralph Robert Moore
illustrated by Joachim Luetke
“Want me to show you something?”
The two boys were up on the hill behind their houses, at the edge of the forest, getting to know each other.
Tom and his dad had been pulling boxes out of the moving van when Peter and his mom walked across the green lawn. Peter’s mom holding a plate of chocolate chip cookies. “Could you men use a break?” She laughed, putting a hand on her hip. “I’m Lisa. Welcome to the neighborhood!”
Equilibrium by Carole Johnstone
I just want to feel. It’s as though I’ve forgotten how; as though my skin has become shrunken and ossified, my internal organs indurate, my thoughts polished marble. I sit and I breathe, I sip warm water from the plastic jug by the bed, I hold his hand, and I can feel none of it.
“How is he today?” I ask the nurse through numb lips, and there are no vibrations inside my chest, my throat when I speak.
The Driveway by Leah Thomas
She held her child’s severed hands behind her back. Bloodied water dripped from his wriggling fingertips down to her flowered apron, but she did not loosen her grip.
The Hutch by Ray Cluley
Jess wasn’t upset when her rabbit died. She wasn’t happy about it, exactly, but she wasn’t upset either. Relieved, maybe. There’d be no more cleaning the hutch, scraping out pellets of poo and damp straw. She wouldn’t have to empty the bowl of that dry dusty muesli stuff it was supposed to eat but never did (in fact, she found a lot of its poo in that bowl). She wouldn’t have to remove the blackened stumps of carrot it always left, either. And it wouldn’t be able to bite her anymore.
The Spider Sweeper by Thersa Matsuura
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Kumo-harai balanced a green and yellow harlot spider on the end of an old, twiggy broom. He was hurrying to reach the persimmon tree before the creature leapt to the ground and scrambled away. Morning spiders were always taken to the same tree and carefully placed in its craggy branches. Everyone knew that they were good luck and should never be harmed. Kumo-harai could boast – if he were the type of man to do such a thing – that in his three years of working at the temple he had never killed or injured a single morning spider
Comment:
Coffinmaker’s Blues by Stephen Volk
Like many people reading this column, I grew up with the lurid, seductive covers of Pan, Fontana, tales they wouldn’t let Hitchcock make, and the gunmen, gallants and ghosts of Dennis Wheatley. Later I’d sink into the warm, black water of Alberto Manguel’s magical realism, which Amazon now calls “a kaleidoscope from the Magi of the imagination”, consuming countless other paperback anthologies along the way.
Blood Pudding by Lynda E. Rucker
Are horror fans and creators of horror in fiction and film and other mediums born or made? Anyone who has read Ramsey Campbell’s harrowing introduction to his novel The Face That Must Die, which deals with his upbringing in a home with estranged parents and a mother descending into mental illness throughout his childhood and early adulthood, might argue for the latter, but Campbell himself doesn’t make particular claims to that effect in his piece, although certainly those experiences must have informed how well he writes about mental illness in his own fiction. We tend to cherry pick the information we need to draw the conclusions we want: few of us can describe an upbringing quite so gothic as the one Campbell writes about, but few of us can remember a childhood without any shadows. And it is to those shadows that people tend to look when they set out to explain what seems an unnatural affinity for all the things we ought to be doing our best to avoid: the dark, the perverse, the terrifying.
Reviews:
Case Notes: Book Reviews by Peter Tennant
CREATURES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW: The Art of Ian Miller, Dark Work by Kieth Minnion, Veins and Skulls by Daniele Serra • MATHESON AND SON: A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson, The Ritual of Illusion by Richard Christian Matheson • GHOSTS AND MERMAIDS: Home and Hearth by Angela Slatter, The Elvis Room by Stephen Graham Jones, Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley • REMEMBERING THE DARKNESS: A.K. BENEDICT: The Beauty of Murder and author interview • THE BOOK(S) OF THE FILM: Carrie by Neil Mitchell, The Thing by Jez Conolly, The Silence of the Lambs by Barry Forshaw, Splice Vol7 #1, The Sorcerers edited by Johnny Mains • DARKFUSE NOVELLAS: Red Cells by Jeffrey Thomas, Marrow’s Pit by Keith Deininger, Deceiver by Kelli Owen, Hell’s Door by Sandy De Luca, Messages From the Dead by Sandy De Luca, Shattered by C.S. Kane, Ash and Bone by Lisa von Biela, Elderwood Manor by Christopher Fulbright & Angeline Hawkes, Dead Five’s Pass by Colin F. Barnes, Whom the Gods Would Destroy by Brian Hodge, I Am the New God by Nicole Cushing, Love and Zombies by Eric Shapiro, Ceremony of Flies by Kate Jonez, When We Fall by Peter Giglio, Sow by Tim Curran
Blood Spectrum: DVD/Blu-ray Reviews by Tony Lee
The Last Horror Movie, Cellar Dweller, Demon Legacy, Pit and the Pendulum, I Frankenstein, Re-Animator, The Pit (aka Jug Face), True Detective, True Blood, 13 Sins, Rapture, Haunter, The Forgotten, The Attic, Delivery, Devil’s Due and others
Silver Bullets: TV Noir on DVD/Blu-ray by Mike O’Driscoll
Weird Detectives: True Detective, Hinterland
Apex Magazine Issue 63
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 the first Tuesday of every month.
FICTION
Ten Days’ Grace by Foz Meadows
Sister of Mercy by Amanda Forrest
The Sandbirds of Mirelle by John Moran
The Good Matter by Nene Ormes
Jupiter and Gentian by Erik Amundsen
NONFICTION
Editorial: Resolute by Sigrid Ellis
The Testosterone Injection That Could Ruin Orphan Black… And How To Make Sure It Doesn’t by Duane de Four
Interview with Cyril Rolando by Loraine Sammy
Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction by Charlotte Ashley
Interview with John Moran by Andrea Johnson
POETRY
A User Guide to the Application of Gem–Flowers by Bogi Takacs
Conservation of Energy by Alvaro Zinos–Amaro
EXCERPT
Zombies & Calculus by Colin Adams
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 51
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 An Owomoyela (“Undermarket Data”) and E. Catherine Tobler (“A Box, a Pocket, a Spaceman”), along with SF reprints by Gardner Dozois (“Morning Child”) and David I. Masson (“Traveller’s Rest”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Tahmeed Shafiq (“The Djinn Who Sought To Kill The Sun”) and Kat Howard (“Meaningful Exchange”), and fantasy reprints by Ken Liu (“State Change”) and Gwyneth Jones (“The Grass Princess”). For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella is “Rule of Engagement,” by Sherwood Smith, and of course we have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with bestselling authors Christopher Moore and Elizabeth Bear. We’ve also got novel excerpts from Dru Pagliassotti (Clockwork Secrets) and Peter Watts (Echopraxia).
Nightmare Magazine Issue 23
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 Desirina Boskovich (“Dear Owner of This 1972 Ford Crew Cab Pickup”) and Ben Peek (“Upon the Body”), along with reprints by Tia V. Travis (“The Kiss”) and Simon Strantzas (“Out of Touch”). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” written this month by Lucy A. Snyder, plus author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview. And for our ebook readers, we’ve got an excerpt from the novel Proud Parents, by Kristopher Rufty.
Bastion Science Fiction Magazine – Issue 5, August 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 5 brings you the following:
“The Skip” by Clint Spivey
“Zip” by Emma Osborne
“Going Solo on a Goldilocks” by Mary Alexandra Agner
“The Cure” by William Delman
“That Place Betwen Déjà vu and a Memory” by J. Daniel Batt
“Mirror of Stars” by Frank Smith
“Nestmaker” by Jared W. Cooper
and
“Sanctuary Farm” by Garrick Fincham
Locus August 2014 (#643)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2014 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Ian McDonald and Ann Leckie, and a column by Kameron Hurley entitled “People Don’t Buy Books They Don’t Know About (Even Great Ones)”. News coverage includes the World Fantasy ballot, the Locus Awards Weekend report, the Readercon 25 report, the SF Hall of Fame inductees, the Shirley Jackson Awards winners, the Prometheus Awards winners, and obituaries and appreciations of Frank M. Robinson, Walter Dean Myers, and others. Reviews cover new titles by Octavia E. Butler, Lucius Shepard, K.J. Parker, Paul Cornell, Daryl Gregory, Jeff VanderMeer, Robin Hobb, James S.A. Corey, Nick Mamatas, and many others.