- Introduction by Neil Clarke
- Scattered Along the River of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard
- All the Painted Stars by Gwendolyn Clare
- Prayer by Robert Reed
- A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight by Xia Jia
- And the Hollow Space Inside by Mari Ness
- What Everyone Remembers by Rahul Kanakia
- The Bells of Subsidence by Michael John Grist
- The Switch by Sarah Stanton
- Sunlight Society by Margaret Ronald
- A Militant Peace by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell
- All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions by Helena Bell
- In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems by Chris Stabback
- The Womb Factory by Peter M. Ferenczi
- Draftyhouse by Erik Amundsen
- All the Things the Moon is Not by Alexander Lumans
- Fade to White by Catherynne M. Valente
- Astrophilia by Carrie Vaughn
- If The Mountain Comes by An Owomoyela
- From Their Paws, We Shall Inherit by Gary Kloster
- Sirius by Ben Peek
- Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop by Suzanne Church
- Iron Ladies, Iron Tigers by Sunny Moraine
- Mantis Wives by Kij Johnson
- Pony by Erik Amundsen
- Robot by Helena Bell
- The Found Girl by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell
- muo-ka’s Child by Indrapramit Das
- Honey Bear by Sofia Samatar
- The Smell of Orange Groves by Lavie Tidhar
- Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente
- Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes by Tom Crosshill
- You Were She Who Abode by E. Catherine Tobler
- Staying Behind by Ken Liu
- Immersion by Aliette de Bodard
- About the Authors
- Clarkesworld Census
- About Clarkesworld
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe first issue of Fantasy Scroll Magazine features fiction by Ken Liu (“Single-Bit Error”), Seth Chambers (“The Unforgiving Minute”), KJ Kabza (“In The Shadow of Dyrhólaey”) and nine other fantasy and science fiction short stories. In addition, the issue features author interviews, and an interview with editor Neil Clarke.
Issue 1 Introduction
Welcome to Issue #1 of Fantasy Scroll Magazine.
Our first issue comes packed with twelve short stories—some original and some reprints—and several author interviews, plus book and movie reviews.
We are leading with Ken Liu’s “Single-Bit Error,” a story that, like many of Ken’s stories, touches the reader on a deep emotional level. His stories have this ability to thrust an emotional wave inside of you, while at the same time forcing you think, question, and wonder.
Following Ken, we have Seth Chambers with “The Unforgiving Minute,” a story that deals with a never-ending problem we all have: how can we have somebody else perform our necessary functions in life so we can be free to do whatever we truly enjoy?
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #150, Special Double-Issue
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #150 – Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, a special double-issue celebrating our 150th issue, featuring stories by Richard Parks, Adam Callaway, Oliver Buckram, and Stephen Case.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #9 June 2014
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2014 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
In “Home Isn’t,” by Kelly Sandoval, a touching scifi story. And from Shane Halbach, “Copy Machine,” an endearing exploration of romantic love.
Last up this month, an interview with Flash Fiction Online’s Editor-in-Chief, Suzanne Vincent, and Publisher, Anna Yeatts by Mahjabeen Syed. An editorial by Suzanne Ware. Original artwork by Rich Ware
Apex Magazine Issue 61
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
Cape to Cairo by Eden Robins
Soul of Soup Bones by Crystal Lynn Hilbert
The Salt Path by Marissa Lingen
The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link (eBook/subscriber exclusive)
Sineater (excerpt) by Elizabeth Massie (eBook/subscriber exclusive)
Poetry
Afterwards by Alice Dryden
Brighid by Mary Soon Lee
Harry of Five Points by John M. Ford
Nonfiction
Resolute: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief by Sigrid Ellis
Black Communities of the 30th Century: Racial Assimilation and Ahistoricity in Superhero Comics by Osvaldo Oyloa
Apex Interview with Eden Robins by Andrea Johnson
Apex Interview with Cover Artist Tory Hoke by Loraine Sammy
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 49 – Women Destroy Science Fiction! 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.
This month, we present our special anniversary issue, Women Destroy Science Fiction!, an all-science fiction extravaganza entirely written–and edited!–by women.
Guest-edited by long-time LIGHTSPEED assistant editor Christie Yant, our Women Destroy Science Fiction! Issue contains eleven all-new, original science fiction short stories, plus four short story reprints, a novella reprint, and for the first time ever, an array of fifteen flash fiction stories. In addition to all that goodness, we also have more than two dozen personal essays by women talking about their experiences reading and writing science fiction, plus seven in-depth nonfiction articles.
Weightless Author Interview: Sarah Pinsker
Here’s what we’ve got lined up for you in this special issue:
Original science fiction by Seanan McGuire, N. K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, Maria Dahvana Headley, Amal El-Mohtar, Kris Millering, Heather Clitheroe, Rhonda Eikamp, Gabriella Stalker, Elizabeth Porter Birdsall, and K.C. Norton.
Original flash fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ellen Denham, Samantha Murray, Holly Schofield, Cathy Humble, Emily Fox, Tina Connolly, Effie Seiberg, Marina J. Lostetter, Rhiannon Rasmussen, Sarah Pinsker, Kim Winternheimer, Anaid Perez, Katherine Crighton, and Vanessa Torline.
Reprints by Alice Sheldon (a/k/a James Tiptree, Jr.), Eleanor Arnason, Maria Romasco Moore, Tananarive Due, and a novella reprint by Maureen F. McHugh.
Nonfiction articles by Pat Murphy, Stina Leicht, Tracie Welser, plus a roundtable interview by Mary Robinette Kowal with Ursula K. Le Guin, Pat Cadigan, Ellen Datlow, and Nancy Kress, and a feature interview with comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick by Jennifer Willis. Our cover for this issue is brand-new art from Galen Dara, who also conducted our artist showcase interview this month.
Personal Essays by Seanan McGuire, E. Catherine Tobler, Brooke Bolander, Marissa Lingen, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, O. J. Cade, Anne Charnock, Cheryl Morgan, Pat Murphy, Sheila Finch, Kat Howard, Amy Sterling Casil, Nancy Jane Moore, Liz Argall, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Anaea Lay, Helena Bell, Stina Leicht, Jude Griffin, Gail Marsella, DeAnna Knippling, Georgina Kamsika, Sandra Wickham, Kristi Charish, Rachel Swirsky, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Juliette Wade, and Kameron Hurley.
LIMITED EDITION BONUS STORY: “They Tell Me There Will Be No Pain” by Rachael Acks.
Nightmare Magazine Issue 21
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 ?ukasz Orbitowski (“Don’t Go”) and H.L. Nelson (“Dirtman”), along with reprints Michael Cisco (“Machines of Concrete Light and Dark “) and the aforementioned Seanan McGuire story, “Spores.”
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 Mark Morris.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 18
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedOur eighteenth issue features stories in settings both familiar and strange. The characters within are as different as can be, yet they all face hard decisions, their pasts haunting the present as a spectre, sometimes literally!
Editorial – Jennifer Lyn Parsons
The Sacrifice – Robin L. Martinez
The Matron – Sandra Wickham
Tunbi – Chikodili Emelumadu
Tourist Attraction – Nina Shepardson
Yellow Eyes – Natasha Leullier
Revision – Penelope Schenk
Place of Plentiful Water – Molly N. Moss and Shereen Marie Jensen
Ladgarda – Christine Rains
Forget About Me, I Am NO ONE – Megan Neumann
Gretel – Nancy O’Toole
Bastion Science Fiction Magazine – Issue 3, June 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 3 brings you the following:
“Two Gentlemen” by Kurt Bachard
“Past Imperfect” by Dominic Dulley
“The Tree” by Benjamin Sperduto
“Miracle of Asteroid Camp 88” by Michael Andre-Driussi
“Bartleby, the Robot Killer: A Story of Difference Street” by Alex Livingston
“Compile Sensory Information and Extrapolate” by Jenna Bilbrey
and
“The Broken Places” by Melanie Marttila
Locus June 2014 (#641)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2014 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Joe Abercrombie and Eileen Gunn. News coverage includes the 2013 Nebula Awards Winners, the Stoker Awards, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Spectrum 21 Awards, a report on the World Horror Convention, a report on the 14th Science Fiction Conference in India, and much more.
The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2015, and features a column by Kameron Hurley entitled “Busting Down the Romantic Myth of Writing Fiction, and Mitigating Author Burnout”.
Reviews cover new titles by James Morrow, Bradley Denton, William H. Patterson, C. Robert Cargill, Lauren Owen, Mary Robinette Kowal, Lee Thomas, Robert Reed, and others.
Interzone #251
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March–April issue of the 2013 British Fantasy Award winning magazine contains new stories by Greg Kurzawa, John Grant, Suzanne Palmer, Karl Bunker, Tracie Welser, Gareth L. Powell. The cover art (“Levitation”) is by Wayne Haag, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, Jim Burns. 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 Paul Kincaid interviewing Simon Ings and Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted column.
Fiction:
Ghost Story by John Grant
“Who was it on the phone?” says Dverna.
It’s the middle of a Sunday morning and she’s reading the paper at the breakfast table, still in her robe, the one with the pink-cauliflowers design. She has her legs up under the table so her feet are on my chair. I move them to one side and perch next to them.
Ashes by Karl Bunker
illustrated by Jim Burns
The little box was heavy. The word “ashes” makes us think of wood ash, paper ash: light, fluffy, black and gray flakes that can float on a breeze. Human ashes aren’t like that. My apportioned share of Lucia’s ashes was a few tablespoons of gray-white powder that sat leaden in my hand, in a little plastic bag that was in a little cardboard box. Through the clear plastic of the bag it looked like stone dust, though I didn’t look at it much. I didn’t want to look at it, but I couldn’t help feeling its weight. It was heavy.
Old Bones by Greg Kurzawa
illustrated by Jim Burns
A sudden knocking at the door of his garret shocked Simon out of his chair by the portal window. The chair – older even than Simon – tipped backwards and banged against the warped gray floorboards, cracking two of its brittle slats. That sound, so loud in the empty room, and so soon following the first shock, caused Simon to flinch. The knocking had come without warning – no creak of stair from the landing, no veiled whispers or stifled coughs. Simon had been watching the desolate street beneath his little window all day. From time to time he’d seen mummers moving through the perpetual smog, wrapped tight in drab cloaks, but nothing friendly – never anything friendly. But now here was light – probably from a lantern – showing in the gaps around the frame of his door. What kind of fool ventured out with such light?
Fly Away Home by Suzanne Palmer
illustrated by Martin Hanford
Sweat trickled down through the worn seals of the goggles, getting into her eyes and screwing up her line of sight on the impact head. She squinted, blinking furiously to clear her vision, and cursed those same traitorous goggles for keeping her thick-gloved hand from being able to wipe the irritation away. A hand that shook, she noted, as she placed it casually back on the control yoke.
A Doll is Not a Dumpling by Tracie Welser
illustrated by Richard Wagner
“Thank you, come again,” Yopu’s voicebox says, a dutiful, automatic monotone.
The customer grunts in response and hurries to an unoccupied section of brick wall near the street. Turning her face to the wall, she stuffs the immaculate white dumpling into her mouth with fingers that look like they’ve never seen the inside of a bathhouse. Her face is filthy, too, grimy under a shock of orange and green hair, and pale against her black unitard.
On slow days, like when stinging rain falls in sheets over the sooty alleys and crowded thoroughfares of the prefecture, Yopu might sell forty dumplings. Then he’ll spend the rest of his day lumbering from corner to corner on his daily route, and thinking. Not really thinking, just collating data according to program.
This is How You Die by Gareth L. Powell
First, there’s the news. But you don’t pay a great deal of attention to it, do you? You have other things to do. Eventually, though, you see the headlines on your timeline, reposted by friends. Another high school slaying in the States; a civil war in some godforsaken country somewhere in Africa or the Middle East; drone strikes in Central America; and those first, worrying reports from Angola, of a flu-like infection that’s already killed eleven farmers and seems to have jumped from human to human…
Features:
Looking for Real Ones: Editorial by Tony Lee
Ansible Link by David Langford
News and obituaries
Book Zone by Paul Kincaid, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Duncan Lunan, Matthew S. Dent, Jim Steel, John Howard, Barbara Melville, Elaine Gallagher, Ian Hunter, Jo L. Walton, Jack Deighton, Jonathan McCalmont
Book reviews including Wolves by Simon Ings (with author interview conducted by Paul Kincaid), The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. Harris, Empress of the Sun by Ian McDonald, News From Unknown Countries by Tim Lees, The Black Dog Eats the City by Chris Kelso, The Arrows of Time by Greg Egan, Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh, Fiddlehead by Cherie Priest, Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell, Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts, The Copper Promise by Jen Williams, plus Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted column
Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe
Cinema releases including Her, RoboCop, A New York Winter’s Tale, I Frankenstein, 47 Ronin, Only Lovers Left Alive, Mr Peabody & Sherman, The Lego Movie
Laser Fodder by Tony Lee
DVD and Blu-ray reviews including Frankenstein, Bangkok Assassins, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor: The Dark World, Ender’s Game, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Machine, Doctor Mordrid, Robot Wars
Magazines like Interzone cannot survive without subscriptions. If you enjoy it please blog about it, review it, tell your friends, and encourage other people to subscribe. Thank you!
Weird Tales #361
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWeird Tales #361 is devoted to fairy tales and begins with a new story by Peter S. Beagle. Other stories are by Tanith Lee, Teel James Glenn, Nicole Cushing, Morgan Llywelyn, Court Merrigan, J. R. Restrick, Caitlin Campbell, Alex Shvartsman, Jane Yolen, Lauren Liebowitz, Frank Aversa, Marc Bilgrey, Zach Shephard, Dick Baldwin, Alfred Vickers III, and Manny Frishberg.
There’s also poetry from Carole Buggé, Jill Bauman, Andrew J. Wilson, and Arinn Dembo.
Interviews with Ramsey Campbell, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Elizabeth Bear, Orrin Grey, Tessa Farmer, and J. David Spurlock.
And the essay “Ninety Years of Weird Tales” by Darrell Schweitzer
Covers and interior art by Jeff Wong.
Clarkesworld: Year Six
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSince 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all thirty-four stories published in the sixth year of this Hugo Award-winning magazine.
Contents:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #148
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #148 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by M. Bennardo and Garnett Elliot.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #8 May 2014
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2014 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
In “Anywhere and Nowhere,” by Alexander Monteagudo, Nemi must change to survive. But it’s not something she’s willing to do for herself.
And from Shane Dent, a widower finds the desire to change his attitude in honor of his wife and her passion for cars in “Old Roads, New Roads.” Last up this month, a soliloquy to the rich heritage of the B movie horror flick, “To the Monsters, With Love,” by Merc Rustad. An editorial by Suzanne Ware. Original artwork by Rich Ware
Apex Magazine Issue 60
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
“Paperclips and Memories and Things That Won’t Be Missed” by Caroline M. Yoachim
“Falling Leaves” by Liz Argall
“Not Smart, Not Clever” by E. Saxey
“Microbe” by Joan Slonczewski (eBook/subscriber exclusive)
“Afterparty — Excerpt” by Daryl Gregory (eBook/subscriber exclusive)
Poetry
“Likeness” by Judith Chalmer
“Crashdown” by Emma Osborne
“she’s alive, alive” by Gwynne Garfinkle
“Graveyard Rose” by Seanan McGuire
Nonfiction
“Resolute: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief” by Sigrid Ellis
“Finding the Next Lost: What Is an ‘Operational Theme’ and Why Don’t I Have One?” by Javier Grillo-Marxuach
“Apex Cover Artist Interview with Anneliese Juergensen” by Loraine Sammy
“Apex Interview with Caroline M. Yoachim” by Maggie Slater
The Big Click Issue 14
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedOur fiction this month is chock full of romance and bromance. Plus punching and murder, as is our wont. First, Heather L. Nelson’s story, “Gorge,” will delight you with sleeping pill-laced beers and mom-approved revenge plots. Then, Gary Philips will thrill you with “Tobin and Gagarin,” a rampaging tale of rampage and two guys who just can’t get enough of one another. Also, Barry Graham weighs in with “Scary Decorations,” about finding solace in sadness. All this, plus capsule reviews of the latest crime fiction, including another episode of the Mother-in-Law Review Corner!