Apex Magazine Issue 43
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedApex Magazine is a Hugo Award-nominated science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction zine.
Table of Contents
Fiction:
“Blood from Stone”
Alethea Kontis
“Labyrinth”
Mari Ness
“Relic”
Jeffrey Ford
Nonfiction:
“You’re Not Supposed to Write That: Taboos in Speculative Fiction”
Vylar Kaftan
“An Interview with Alethea Kontis”
Maggie Slater
Cover art by Aunia Kahn
Apex Magazine is edited by Hugo award-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas.
Icarus 14: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFall 1012: Icarus 14, like the season of autumn, is more than storytelling around campfires and within the confines of attic bedrooms, but we DO have great stories by Alex Jeffers, Hal Duncan, David Pratt, and Guy Mark Foster. We also have an interview with talented artist Ed Freeman, several book reviews, news about future releases from a variety of presses, and an extra helping of entries from that legendary Guide to Lost Gay Cinematic Characters, vol. 3.
Icarus 13: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSummer 2012: The Summer of 2012 burns with new fiction by award-winning authors exploring the passion of the Fey:
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 31
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis month, we have a pair of connected fantasy stories by husband-and-wife creative duo J.T. Petty and Sarah Langan (“Family Teeth, Part 5: American Jackal” and “Family Teeth, Part 6: St. Polycarp’s Home for Happy Wanderers”), along with fantasy reprints by Brian Evenson (“An Accounting”) and Kelly Link (“Catskin”).
Plus, we have original science fiction by D. Thomas Minton (“Dreams in Dust”) and Ken Liu (“The Perfect Match”), and SF reprints by Yoon Ha Lee (“Swanwatch”) and Marta Randall (“Lazaro y Antonio”).
For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella is “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang, and of course we have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with bestseller Tad Williams and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz. Plus, we have an excerpt of the new Dresden Files novel, Cold Days, by Jim Butcher.
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 realisxm, science-fantasy, and folktales.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 75
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2012 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features the following stories: “Your Final Apocalypse” by Sandra McDonald, “The Wisdom of Ants” by Thoraiya Dyer and “Sweet Subtleties by Lisa L Hannett. Non-fiction includes an interview with Todd Lockwood, an article on Jane C. Loudonís The Mummy! and Victorian Science Fiction by S. J. Chambers, an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Nightmare Magazine Issue 3
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.
In this month’s issue, we have original fiction from new writer J.B. Park (“Chop Shop”) and bestselling author Daniel H. Wilson (“Foul Weather”), along with reprints by Tananarive Due (“Summer”) and Sarah Pinborough (“The Nowhere Man”).
We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” and an interview with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. All that, plus author spotlights with all of our authors, and a showcase on our cover artist.
Locus December 2012 (#623)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2012 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Elizabeth Bear and Ted Kosmatka; the World Fantasy Awards 2012 winners; the World Fantasy Convention 2012 report with photos; and Forthcoming Books lists through September 2013.
The issue also includes news coverage of the Random House and Penguin merger, William Alexander’s National Book Award win, Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Endeavour win, the Carnegie Medal longlist, and much more.
Reviews include new titles by Ursula K. Le Guin, Elizabeth Hand, Adam Roberts, Cherie Priest, Terry Pratchett, Allen Steele, Rob Reid, Libba Bray, and many others.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 12
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe twelfth issue of Luna Station Quarterly, featuring a collection of unique stories by up and coming women writers. Our third Drabble issue!
Electric Velocipede issue 25
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedElectric Velocipede 25 is one of our strongest issues ever. After a one-issue hiatus, there are nine poems in this issue. Don’t be scared; they’re all really good. And the stories? They’re fantastic. We have magic elixirs that take you to secret parties, memory loss commando raids, witches and possessed ravens, a shoemaker who learns a secret, more secrets about composers from year’s past, a traveler who seeks out a castrati for his opera, a girl who wants to fly, and the capper of the issue: a story of gods who wreak havoc with people like a child with his toys. Top it off with Jeremy Zerfoss’ haunting cover image “Wolf Girl in the Woods” and this is an amazing issue that you won’t regret.
COVER
Jeremy Zerfoss
POETRY
“Adaptation” by Heather Albano
“Upstairs Room” by Lida Broadhurst
“Counting Stones” by Alicia Cole
“The Magician Makes a Phoenix” by Alicia Cole
“Peephole” by Daniel W. Davis
“rial” by Daniel W. Davis
“Nuclear Winter” by Ash Krafton
“A Faun’s Lament” by Michael Constantine McConnell
“Menace” by J. R. Salling
FICTION
Novelette
“Musici” by Derek Zumsteg
Short Stories
“The Greatest of His Age” by Bart Allen
“Butterfly Effect” by Mishell Baker
“Glass Boxes and Clockwork Gods” by Damien Walters Grintalis
“The Night We Drank Cold Wine” by Megan Kurashige
“The Master Shoemaker” by Katya Oliva-Llego
“North” by Kristy L. Truax-Nichols
“The Woods of Wistman’s Grove” by Tyson Young
NONFICTION
“Blindfold Taste Test” with Aimee Bender
A Remembrance of the Future by John Klima
Midnight Echo Magazine – 12 month subscription
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Midnight Echo Issue 8
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2012 issue of Midnight Echo Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Joe R Lansdale, Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee, Jason Nahrung, Felicity Dowker, and more, with artwork by Glenn Chadbourne, nonfiction by Gary Kemble, plus poetry, columns, new releases–over 100 pages of All-You-Can-Eat Horror!
New York Review of Science Fiction #291
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLiminality in Little, Big; Archeology of the Future; Leigh Brackett’s Venus; Roger Corman and Edgar Allan Poe; Brittle Innings at the ball park; after the robot holocaust
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #8
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe eighth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features the usual assortment of stories and non-fiction, including:
“Sun Ching Foo’s Last Trick,” by Adam Beau McFarlane
“Do You Love Me?” by Marc Bilgrey
“The Somerset Wonder,” by Ron Goulart
“The Hounds of Basketballville,” by Hal Charles
“Hit One Out of the Park,” by Jeff Baker
“Travelling Light,” by John M. Floyd
“Date Night,” by S. A. Stolinsky
“Anaconda, Montana,” by Bruce Kilstein
“The Man with the Twisted Lip,” by Arthur Conan Doyle
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #108
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #108 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by David D. Levine and Jamie Lackey.
The Big Click Issue 5
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue Five of The Big Click launches with Andrea Gibbons’ “Lost and Found,” the tale of a former guerrilla (and mother) who must make a new life for herself in Los Angeles after the war’s over. Our second story, “Bluebeard’s Ghost” by Ray Banks, lets us into the mind of a convicted sex offender who discovers that the plans you make in prison don’t always work out once you’re a free man. Also, Daphne Gottlieb muses on the nature of courage vs. hope in “_ _ _ _ _ _ _” a piece about Aileen Wuornos, a serial killer who loved cats and Natalie Merchant songs.