The Dark Issue 5
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Dark is a quarterly magazine co-edited by Jack Fisher and Sean
Wallace, with the fifth issue featuring all-original short fiction by
Stephen Graham Jones, Octavia Cade, Emily B. Cataneo, and Darja
Malcolm-Clarke.
Black Static #38
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Conscience of the Circuit: Joel Lane obituary by Nicholas Royle. New horror and dark fantasy fiction by Andrew Hook, Tim Waggoner, Malcolm Devlin, Maura McHugh, Danny Rhodes, John Grant. Book reviews by Peter Tennant. DVD/Blu-ray reviews by Tony Lee. Comment columns by Stephen Volk and Lynda E. Rucker. Cover art by Joachim Luetke, interior illustrations by David Gentry, Richard Wagner, George Cotronis, Geoffrey Grisso, Vincent Sammy. 100 award-winning pages!
Interzone #253
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July–August issue of the British Fantasy Award winning magazine contains new stories by James Van Pelt, Andrew Hook, Neil Williamson, D.J. Cockburn (the 2014 James White Award winner), E. Catherine Tobler, and Caren Gussuff. The cover art is by Wayne Haag, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, Daniel Bristow-Bailey. All the usual features are present: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Laser Fodder by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews); Book Zone: reviews of many latest releases plus an interview with John Joseph Adams and Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted column.
Fiction:
My Father and the Martian Moon Maids by James Van Pelt
illustrated by Richard Wagner
When I was six, Dad showed me the UFO detector he’d built in his closet.
“UFOs generate powerful magnetic fields,” he said. Hanging from the inside wall, out of sight, he’d suspended a four-foot long, slender metal rod. It swung freely from a pivot at the top, and at the other end, a small magnet quivered between two electrical contacts. He gave the rod a light touch, moving the magnet against a contact. A buzzer, mounted beside the device, hummed abruptly. I covered my ears.
Flytrap by Andrew Hook
illustrated by Daniel Bristow-Bailey
When Adamson was a boy he imagined a planet. Days were dreamt in visual soliloquies, quiet monologues. He pieced together a harsh, barren, dangerous world from what he knew of the extremities of conditions on Earth. Volcanoes pepper-potted the surface, craters pock-marked its face. The atmosphere suffocated.
The Golden Nose by Neil Williamson
illustrated by Martin Hanford
Felix Kapel believed the sweet smell of success to be that of gold. This was his logic: Gold was the highest standard in the world of finance, and in Felix’s own business as a globally respected olfactory specialist, a nose among noses, it stood to reason that any person who could discern the subtle smell of gold would rightly have attained the pinnacle of the fragrance world. Gold, Felix imagined, would have an aroma that was cool and warm, bright and mellow. It would be rich too of course but, at the same time… Well, it would be pointless to attempt to convey what the smell of gold was like because it would be unique.
Beside the Dammed River by D.J. Cockurn
2014 James White Award Winner
Narong heard children running to the road before he heard the pickup truck. He sighed. When he’d been a child, there had been nothing unusual about cars in Ubon Ratchathani province. All the same, he was happy enough to set down the empty water barrow and stretch his back as the plume of dust approached.
Chasmata by E. Catherine Tobler
You don’t remember, but this is where we began. (I think this is both true and not – just listen.)
This sepia waste of a place, just you and me, and all those wind storms. You wished for rain – eventually it came, flooding Valles Marineris the way you flooded me. You don’t remember, but right now I do, and I will show you again.
The Bars of Orion by Caren Gussoff
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Session One
In this universe, they called it Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In this universe, the treatment was drugs, or prolonged exposure, or cognitive therapy, or eye movement reprocessing.
In his universe, they called it Consequent Distress Condition. Blankenship didn’t know how it was treated; in his universe, he didn’t have it.
Features:
Editorial by Nick Lowe
Ansible Link by David Langford
News and obituaries
Book Zone by Matthew S. Dent, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Jack Deighton, Stephen Theaker, Ian Sales, Paul Graham Raven, Ian Hunter, Andrew J. Wilson, Duncan Lunan, Simon Marshall-Jones, Jim Steel, Jonathan McCalmont
Book reviews including Robot Uprisings edited by Daniel H. Wilson & John Joseph Adams (plus interview with John Joseph Adams), Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem, Koko Takes A Holiday by Kieran Shea, Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica, Extreme Planets edited by David Conyers, David Kernot & Jeff Harris, Kindredby Octavia Butler, The Very Best of Tad Williams by Tad Williams, Morphologies edited by Ra Page, The Madonna and the Starship by James Morrow, Horror World by Michael J. Sullivan, The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen, plus Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted column
Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe
Cinema releases including Edge of Tomorrow, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Tarzan, Godzilla, Maleficent, Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, Patema Inverted, Upside Down, Transcendence, The Young and Prestigious T.S. Spivet
Laser Fodder by Tony Lee
DVD and Blu-ray reviews including If…., Gagarin: First in Space, Her, Under the Skin, The Night is Young, Boy Meets Girl, Frau Im Mond, Mirage Men, Escape From Planet Earth, Hunting the Legend
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 20
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #20 of Shimmer is a great reflection of the beautifully unexpected things we discover in our submissions, and the surprising things we end up loving as editors and readers both. Shimmer leans toward stories that cover new ground, and these four do that. They also
feature authors making their Shimmer debuts — we love when that happens.
The Seaweed and the Wormhole, by Jenn Grunigen
Some days he hated sushi, other days it was all he’d eat. He was stubborn, he was subservient; he was abusive and he hated sex except for when he didn’t. His words were always unpredictable; the only thing you could expect from him was anything.
Ellie and Jim vs. Tony the Nose by Eden Robins
The afterlife resembles nothing so much as an old-fashioned automat. Just this long, narrow, possibly endless room. One wall is lined with shining chrome drawers and those tiny, cloudy windows where you can catch glimpses of sandwiches with wilted lettuce and sometimes more grotesque things, like gall bladders.
Allosaurus Burgers, by Sam J. Miller
Our teacher Mrs. Strunt said the allosaurus coming to Hudson Falls was the best thing that ever happened to Hudson Falls, but the worst thing that ever happened to the allosaurus. She herded us onto the bus looking mad about it, trying to keep us from seeing she was just as excited as we were.
Why I Hate Zombie Unicorns, by Laura Pearlman
The good news is, zombie unicorns almost never bite. The bad news is, even a tiny scratch from a zombie unicorn horn will turn you into a zombie. Mom discovered that by accident.
The Big Click Issue 15
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIn our special Bizarro Crime issue we start things off with Cameron Pierce’s “Drop the World,” the tale of a young woman hoping to heal her life through taking hits to the face in the boxing ring. Then, Stephen Graham Jones gives us a helpful tutorial on how to know you’re a killer in his story “How to Know You’re A Killer.” J David Osborne muses on the intersection of Bizarro and crime fiction in “On Not-Knowing.” As if that wasn’t enough, our capsule reviews of the latest Bizarro crime titles are sure to delight.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #10 July 2014
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July 2014 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
In “The Coyote Howls” by Mary C. Moore, a young woman flees her old life though some pieces of the past can never be left behind.
From R.M. Graves, “Simulation” is a testament to the power of family even when nothing else is certain.
Finally, we have M. Elizabeth Castle’s “31-E”. A mysterious woman holds the power to grant life or death, but an unforeseen connection sets her plan awry.
Editorial by Anna Yeatts. Original artwork by Rich Ware.
Interzone #252
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedMay-June 2014’s ebook issue has 6 new stories. Authors: Neil Williamson – who is interviewed and has his new novel reviewed, Katharine E.K. Duckett, Val Nolan, Oliver Buckram, Claire Humphrey, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. Readers’ poll results for our 2013 British Fantasy Award winning year are included among the regular features. Art from Wayne Haag, Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, Warwick Fraser-Coombe.
Contents:
Fiction:
The Posset Pot by Neil Williamson
illustrated by Richard Wagner
The day I found the posset pot was the last time I got myself into serious bubble trouble. Scared me shitless at the time, letting my guard slip like that and I admit it put me on the downer that, ultimately, sealed poor Ettrick’s fate. I’m not writing this as a confession, but he deserves a record. I miss the old bastard more than I would have thought possible. Every day I wish he’d not been so stupid, but even I can’t shoulder the responsibility for what happened to him. Some things just happen.
The Mortuaries by Katharine E.K. Duckett
illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe
Tem loved the mortuaries, though no one he knew was dead. Still he would beg to go, to grasp the hand of any adult willing to wind down those plush-carpeted stairways, past the sleek vaults, inviting and bright.
Diving Into The Wreck by Val Nolan
illustrated by Wayne Haag
Noon in La Jolla, on Voigt Drive, the university blistering beneath a July sun and the curled cinders of a thousand eucalyptus leaves crushed and crinkled underfoot. Overhead, Marine Corp F-22s stab at the sky in echelons and arrowheads. Students drift around the restaurant at Canyon Vista while high school kids in bright singlets troop in from the soccer camp on the arid fields beyond. The air is still and dry, thick like hot glass and an ever-present weight.
Two Truths And A Lie by Oliver Buckram
Girl Meets Boy
The midnight ocean was as black and enigmatic as an unlabeled videocassette. You swam ashore and stumbled over jagged rocks towards my fire. I fed you marshmallows and dabbed ineffectually at your bloody feet with paper towels.(1) Two truths and a lie is a fun getting-to-know-you game, perfect for breaking the ice at corporate mixers.
(2) I make three statements and you guess which one is false.
(3) I love playing it.
A Brief Light by Claire Humphrey
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Richard woke me by leaning across to shut the window over the bed. “Why the hell did you open that?” he said. “It’s freezing in here.”
I blinked my eyes open against the cashmere of his coat. “Wasn’t me. Maybe it was Benjamin Livingston.”
He shifted back, his tie trailing past my cheek. “Benjamin Livingston doesn’t open windows.”
“Does now,” I mumbled, closing my eyes again.
Sleepers by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
illustrated by Martin Hanford
The newscasters say that the sleepers came without warning, that one day they weren’t here and the next, they were. I don’t believe them. There must have been signs we were too wrapped up in our busy lives to see.
Features:
Polls and Awards: Inclusivity and the Trap of Silence
Editorial
Ansible Link by David Langford
News and obituaries
2013 Readers’ Poll by Martin McGrath
Results and comments
Book Zone by Andy Hedgecock, Jo L. Walton, Paul F. Cockburn, Paul Kincaid, Duncan Lunan, Simon Marshall-Jones, Stephen Theaker, Matthew S. Dent, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Jack Deighton, Barbara Melville, Lawrence Osborn, Peter Tennant, Jonathan McCalmont
Book reviews including The Moon King by Neil Williamson (with author interview conducted by Andy Hedgecock), Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher, Descent by Ken MacLeod, Tesseracts 17 edited by Colleen Anderson & Steve Vernon, The Three by Sarah Lotz, Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor, The Boy with the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick, Astra by Naomi Foyle, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson, Son of the Morning by Mark Alder, Famadihana on Fomalhaut IV by Eric Brown, We Three Kids by Margo Lanagan, plus Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted column
Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe
Cinema releases including The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Legend of Hercules, Noah, Snowpiercer, Divergent, The Double, Under the Skin, The Last Days on Mars, The Machine, Escape from Planet Earth, The Zero Theorem
Laser Fodder by Tony Lee
DVD and Blu-ray reviews including Sparks, Scopers, The Last Keepers, Astronaut, Ice Soldiers, RoboCop
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #151
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #151 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Cat Rambo and Helen Marshall.
Nightmare Magazine Issue 22
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 Lane Robins (“The Black Window”) and Mari Ness (“Death and Death Again”), along with reprints by Denis Etchison (“Talking in the Dark”) and Tom Piccirilli (“The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair”). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with Del Howison of the legendary Dark Delicacies bookstore in Los Angeles.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 50
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 Adam-Troy Castro (“The New Provisions”) and Carrie Vaughn (“Harry and Marlowe Versus the Haunted Locomotive of the Rockies”), along with SF reprints by Jo Walton (“The Panda Coin”) and Howard Waldrop (“All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past”).
Plus, we’ll have original fantasy by Theodora Goss (“Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology”) and Matthew Hughes (“A Hole in the World”), and fantasy reprints by Emma Bull (“De La Tierra”) and Carmen Maria Machado (from my aforementioned HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! anthology, “Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead”).
As always, we’ll have an assortment of author and artist spotlights. We’ve also got feature interviews with award-winning author and futurist Karl Schroeder and legendary video game designer Richard Garriott.
For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella reprint will be “Forlesen” by Gene Wolfe, and novel excerpts from Adrian Cole (The Shadow Academy), Hannu Rajaniemi (The Causal Angel), and Jason Gurley (Eleanor).
Apex Magazine Issue 62
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
The Food in the Basement by Laura Davy
Blessed are the Hungry by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
Insurrection in Silk by Gillian Conahan
Willow Pattern by Jon Singer (eBook/subscriber exclusive)
Courtship in the Country of Machine-Gods by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
The Keys to the Realms: Book Two of the Dream Stewards (excerpt) by Roberta Trahan (eBook/subscriber exclusive)
The Enceladus Crisis: Book Two of the Deadalus Series (excerpt) by Michael J. Martinez
Poetry
Sentience is watching a sunset by Melanie Rees
The First Stone by Anne Carly Abad
Baba Yaga Tries to Donate Money by Rose Lemberg
Cairn by Dark by Cairn by Neile Graham
Nonfiction
Resolute: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief by Sigrid Ellis
We Are Comics: A Visual Message for a Visual Medium by Rachel Edidin
Apex Interview with Victor Fernando R. Ocampo by Andrea Johnson
Apex Interview with Cover Artist Ashley Mackenzie by Loraine Sammy
Clavis Aurea: Short Fiction Review by Charlotte Ashley
Locus July 2014 (#642)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July 2014 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Jeff VanderMeer and K.W. Jeter, spotlights on agents Joshua Bilmes and Ginger Clark, and a column by Cory Doctorow entitled “Security in Numbers”.
News coverage includes the 2014 Locus Awards winners, the Nebula Awards Weekend report, the Campbell and Sturgeon Awards, the Wiscon 38 report, an International Report from Mexico, and obituaries and appreciations of Jay Lake, Daniel Keyes, and others. Reviews cover new titles by Joe Abercrombie, Paul Park, Sheila Finch, Erika Johansen, A.M. Dellamonica, Stephen Leigh, Thomas Ligotti, Mindee Arnett, Charlaine Harris, and many others.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine – Issue 9: July 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/Phoenix Pick, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old (reprint) stories, an interview, columns, book reviews and the serialization of a novel.
Mike Resnick, Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Kary English, Gardner Dozois, Andrea G. Stewart, Robert Sheckley, Laurie Tom, Lou J. Berger, Michael Swanwick, Lisa Tang Liu & Ken Liu, Kay Kenyon.
Serialization: Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Book Reviews: Paul Cook.
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 94
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 July 2014 issue contains:
Original Fiction by Yoon Ha Lee (“The Contemporary Foxwife”), N. K. Jemisin (“Stone Hunger”), and Juliette Wade (“Souls Bargain”).
Classic stories by William Browning Spencer (“The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness”) and Chris Roberson (“Gold Mountain”).
Non-fiction by Susan E. Connolly (Part Two of her Analysis of Gender in Short Fiction”), an interview with Jeff VanderMeer, an Another Word column by James L. Sutton, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Bastion Science Fiction Magazine – Issue 4, July 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 4 brings you the following:
“Degausser” by Axel Taiari
“Abandoned” by Hannah Goodwin
“Red Rubber Nose” by Robert Quinlivan
“The Properties of Water” by Alex Hernandez
“Forever Lights” by Peter Medeiros
“Remember Prometheus” by Eleanor R. Wood
and
“The Maltese Pterodactyl” by George S. Walker
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #2
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 #2 includes 14 short stories:
“Winter Solstice” – Mike Resnick
“Da Capo al Fine” – Patrick Jameson
“The Reanimators” – J. Kenneth Sargeant
“A Concert of Flowers” – Kate O’Connor
“These Are The Things Our Hands Have Made” – Andrew Kozma
“A Trade of Tears” – Tony Peak
“Four Scenes From Wieczniakﾒs Whisk-U-Away, And One Not” – Ferrett Steinmetz
“The Unworthy” – J.W. Alden
“Verdure” – Brandon Barrows
“Million Hearts in the Valley of Death” – Savannah Hendricks
“The Fine Art of Fortune-Telling” – Michelle Ann King
“Marshmallow Walls” – Brittany Foster
“Grimm’s Home for Geriatrics” – Rebecca A. Demarest
“JC the Ski Bum” – Joyce Reynolds-Ward
In the non-fiction section, this issue features:
-Interview With Award Winning Author Mike Resnick
-Interview With Author Tim Pratt
-Interview With The Editors of Strange Horizons
-Artist Spotlight: Sabbas Apterus
-Book Review: Warbreaker (Brandon Sanderson)
-Movie Review: Godzilla (2014) (Gareth Edwards)
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.