- THE HORRID GLORY OF ITS WINGS, Elizabeth Bear
- LOWLAND SEA, Suzy McKee Charnas
- COPPING SQUID, Michael Shea
- MONSTERS, Stewart O’Nan
- THE BRINK OF ETERNITY, BarbaraRoden
- FROST MOUNTAIN PICNIC MASSACRE, <ahref=http://sethfried.blogspot.com/”>Seth Fried
- SEA-HEARTS, Margo Lanagan
- A HAUNTED HOUSE OF HER OWN, Kelley Armstrong
- HEADSTONE IN MY POCKET, Paul Tremblay
- THE COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN, Holly Black
- STRANGE SCENES FROM AN UNFINISHED FILM,Gary McMahon
- A DELICATE ARCHITECTURE, Catherynne M. Valente
- THE MYSTERY, Peter
Atkins - VARIATIONS OF A THEME FROM SEINFELD, Peter Straub
- THE WIDE, CARNIVOROUS SKY, John Langan
- CERTAIN DEATH FOR A KNOWN PERSON, Steve Duffy
- THE ONES WHO GOT AWAY, Stephen Graham Jones
- LENG, Marc Laidlaw
- TORN AWAY, Joe R. Lansdale
- THE NOWHERE MAN, Sarah Pinborough
- THE BONE’S PRAYER, Caitlín R. Kiernan
- THE WATER TOWER, John Mantooth
- IN THE PORCHES OF MY EARS, Norman Prentiss
- THE CINDERELLA GAME, Kelly Link
- THE JACARANDA SMILE, Gemma Files
- THE OTHER BOX, Gerard Houarner
- WHITE CHARLES, Sarah Monette
- EVERYTHING DIES, BABY, Nadia Bulkin
- BRUISE FOR BRUISE, Robert Davies
- RESPECTS, Ramsey Campbell
- DIAMOND SHELL, Deborah Biancotti
- NUB HUT, Kurt Dinan
- THE CABINET CHILD, Steve Rasnic Tem
- CHERRYSTONE AND SHARDS OF ICE, Ekaterina Sedia
- THE CREVASSE, Dale Bailey and Nathan Balingrud
- VIC, Maura McHugh
- HALLOWEEN TOWN, Lucius Shepard
- THE LONG, COLD GOODBYE, Holly Phillips
- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE NIGHT, Michael Marshall Smith
- Introduction by Seanan McGuire
- Stalemate
- Thrall
- The Truth About Brains
- Showtime
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 27
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.
In our August 2012 issue, we have original fantasy by Kat Howard (“Breaking the Frame”) and Linda Nagata (“A Moment Before It Struck”), along with fantasy reprints by Wil McCarthy (“The Necromancer in Love”) and Delia Sherman (“Cotillion”).
Plus, we’ll have original science fiction by 2012 Nebula Award-winner Ken Liu (“The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”) and a collaboration between Caroline M. Yoachim and Tina Connolly (“Flash Bang Remember”), and SF reprints by io9’s Charlie Jane Anders (“Love Might Be Too Strong a Word”) and award-winning author Michael Swanwick (“Slow Life”).
For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella is “A Separate War” by Joe Haldeman, and we have an excerpt of Kitty Steals the Show, the new Kitty Norville novel by bestselling author Carrie Vaughn.
All that, plus our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, and feature interviews with bestselling authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Seanan McGuire (a/k/a Mira Grant).
On Spec Magazine – Summer 2012 #89 vol 24 no 2
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Summer 2012 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Susan Forest (“7:54”), Shen Braun (“Village of Good Fortune”), Peter Darbyshire (“The Only Innocent Soul in Hell”), Paul Kenneback (“In Which Demetri Returns the Elgin Marbles”), Tyler Keevil (“Canine Court”), and Kevin Shaw (“Bespoke”); poetry by F.J. Bergmann (“Penultimate”); guest article by Mike Perschon (“Through a Glass, Brightly: The Goggled Gaze of Steampunk”); author interview by Roberta Laurie (“Shen Braun: Creating Worlds, One Story at a Time”); artist interview by Cat McDonald (“Melissa Wartenberg”); editorial by Diane L. Walton (“To Boldly Go…”); cover art by Melissa Wartenberg; photo by Blue Magic Photography (Vala Grenier).
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedDarkness surrounds us. We can find darkness anywhere: in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town’s annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind the dumpster in the alley where a harpy lives; in The Nowhere, a place where car keys, toys, people disappear to; among Polar explorers; and, most definitely, within ourselves. Darkness flies from mysterious crates; surrounds children whose nightlights have vanished; and flickers between us at the movie theater. Darkness crawls from the past and is waiting in our future; and there’s always a chance that Halloween really is a door opening directly into endless shadow. Welcome to the dark. You may never want to leave. This inaugural volume of the year’s best dark fantasy and horror features more than 500 pages of dark tales from some of today’s finest writers of the fantastique. Chosen from a variety of sources, these stories are as eclectic and varied as the genre itself.
“With this collection of 39 stories originally published in 2009, Guran (Zombies: The Recent Dead) creates an expansive definition of the genre, ranging from overtly fantastic to (mostly) realistic and from the hilarity of Seth Fried’s Pushcart Prize — winning ‘Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre’ to the tender terror of Margo Lanagan’s novella ‘Sea-Hearts.’ Nods to classics abound: Suzy McKee Charnas’s futuristic ‘Lowland Sea’ retells a Poe story of plague, Michael Shea’s ‘Copping Squid’ evokes Lovecraft’s Cthulhu, Sarah Monette’s ‘White Charles’ channels M.R. James, and Catherynne M. Valente’s ‘A Delicate Architecture’ revisits the Brothers Grimm. Others play on present-day pop culture, such as Peter Straub’s ‘Variations of a Theme from Seinfeld.’ Many tales tackle themes of objectification, abuse, and destroyed innocence, cutting straight to the reader’s heart. (Jan.)”
—Publishers Weekly
“Anthologist and editor Guran has collected 39 thrilling and frightening horror stories published in 2009. While some of the authors will be familiar to readers outside the genre—Joe R. Lansdale, Kelley Armstrong, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell—most of the contributors may be new to those who haven’t kept up to date on their urban-fantasy and horror writers. Although they are all technically in the same genre, the stories are quite diverse, from Straub’s quirky “Variations on a Theme from Seinfeld” to Armstrong’s eerie “Haunted House” to Lansdale’s creepy and sad “Torn Away.” Fans of horror and dark fantasy—the latter, Guran explains, defies easy definition, but you know it when you feel it—should welcome this collection with open arms. This is the first edition of this anthology, but if the editor can maintain the same high quality in years to come, it is certain to join the several crime and SF year’s-best collections as a staple in the genre-fiction world.”
—Booklist
CONTRIBUTORS (in alphabetical order):
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #100, Special Double-Issue
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #100 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, a double-issue in celebration of our 100th issue, featuring stories by Richard Parks, Garth Upshaw, Christie Yant, and Amanda M. Olson.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #99
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #99 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich (the 200th story to appear in BCS) and Alex Dally MacFarlane.
The Big Click Issue 3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue Three of The Big Click opens with Jim Nisbit’s “Note From Earth,” a dystopian vision of the future where ice is money and night doesn╒t always arrive, and continues with Wayne Allen Sallee’s “In The Shank of The Night,” the story of a beat cop’s last case╤and why it was his last. Also, in “Being Thrawed,” Tom Piccirilli compares being an author to a form of medieval torture.
Showtime
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFamily drama can be found anywhere: in kitchens, in cafes. Derelict hotels, showground rides. Even dungeons far below ruined Hungarian castles. (Okay, especially in Hungarian dungeons.)
Old family fights can go on forever, especially if you’re undead. If an opportunity came to save someone else’s family, the way you couldn’t save your own, would you take it?
Your family might include ghosts, or zombies, or vampires. Maybe they just have allergies. Nobody’s perfect.
Family history can weigh on the present like a stone. But the thing about families is, you can’t escape them. Not ever. And mostly, you don’t want to.
It’s a beautiful collection of pieces, each one utterly classic and completely new at the same time… In Narrelle’s hands, everything old is new again, and everything new has the weight of age. There’s magic in that, and in this book. — Seanan McGuire
Table of Contents
Cover design by Amanda Rainey
Ebook conversion by Charles Tan
Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA gardensmith crafts fanciful clockworks to enchant his noblewoman love….
Four burghers renege on a dark bargain by commissioning an automaton proxy….
A restless librarian yearns to escape a city that bounces up and down in the sky….
A flock of clockwork birds tries to redeem their Jaguar Knight creator….
These and other awe-inspiring fantasy stories await in Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine , a new anthology of of eighteen steampunk stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the pro-rate online magazine editor/reviewer Rich Horton calls “a really important source of fantasy.”
Ceaseless Steam features such authors as Margaret Ronald, Yoon Ha Lee, 2012 Nebula Award finalist Tom Crosshill, and 2009 Campbell Award finalists Aliette de Bodard and Tony Pi. It includes stories named to the Million Writers Award Notable Stories list for 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Table of Contents
“Salvage,” by Margaret Ronald
“The Curse of Chimère,” by Tony Pi
“To the Gods of Time and Engines, a Gift,” by Dean Wells
“Clockwork Heart, Clockwork Soul,” by Kris Dikeman
“The Leafsmith in Love,” by K.J. Kabza
“Cold Iron and Green Vines,” by Wendy N. Wagner
“The Secret of Pogopolis,” by Matthew Bey
” Kreisler’s Automata,” by Matthew David Surridge
“The God Thieves,” by Derek Künsken
“Playing for Amarante,” by A.B. Treadwell
“Six Seeds,” by Sara M. Harvey
“Waiting for Number Five,” by Tom Crosshill
“The Motor, the Mirror, the Mind,” by T.F. Davenport
“Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood,” by Aliette de Bodard
“The Manufactory,” by Dru Pagliassotti
“Architectural Constants,” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Calibrated Allies,” by Marissa Lingen
“The Mathematics of Faith,” by Jonathan Wood
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 26
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 from A. M. Dellamonica (“The Sweet Spot”) and 2012 Nebula Award finalist Jake Kerr (“Requiem in the Key of Prose”), along with SF reprints by legendary authors Joe Haldeman (“Four Short Novels”) and David Brin (“The Giving Plague”).
We also have original fantasy by Maria Dahvana Headley (“Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream”) and Aidan Doyle (“Ghost River Red”), with fantasy reprints by award-winning authors Theodora Goss (“Singing of Mount Abora”) and Peter S. Beagle (“Gordon, the Self-Made Cat”). For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella is “Lune and the Red Empress” by Liz Williams and Alastair Reynolds, and we have excerpts of the exciting new SF novels vN by Madeline Ashby and Spin the Sky by Katy Stauber.
All that, plus our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, and feature interviews with physicist Brian Green and bestselling author Garth Nix.
New York Review of Science Fiction #286
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWorlds at War: Dave Drake on warriors’ stories and humor; Jen Gunnels on alien occupation on the stage, Michael Andre-Driussi on the new Roadside Picnic; Richard Kellogg on Philip Wylie; Michael Levy on an American Gulliver; Mike Barrett on Leigh Brackett’s planetary fantasies; and Eugene Reynolds on Margarget Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 70
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July 2012 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features the following stories: “Astrophilia” by Carrie Laben, “The Switch” by Sarah Stanton and “Iron Ladies, Iron Tigers” by Sunny Moraine.
Non-fiction includes an interview with Nancy Kress, an article on the Hammer films ’60s science fiction by Mark Cole, and an Another Word column by Ekaterina Sedia.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #98
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #98 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring a story by E. Catherine Tobler and part two of a novella, “Death and the Thunderbird,” by Michael J. DeLuca.
New York Review of Science Fiction #285
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedMay 2012 Issue
Whither Fantasy: Steven Erikson on the Cambridge Companion to Fantasy; A. P Canavan on the future of fantasy scholarship; Yves Menard & Jean-Louis Trudel, sf across the language barrier; memories of paradise; and reviews.
ESSAYS
Steven Erikson: Not Your Grandmother’s Epic Fantasy: A fantasy author’s thoughts upon reading The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature: 1
A.-P. Canavan: Calling a Sword a Sword : 1
Patrick L. McGuire: Wesley Allison—A New Kind of SF Writer: 9
Amy J. Ransom: Bridging the Solitudes: The Bilingual Canadian SF & F of Yves Meynard, Jean-Louis Trudel, and Laurent McAllister: 13
Ursula Pflug: This is Paradise: 19
Another Earth, a film by Mike Cahill, reviewed by Ben Carver: 20
Drew Magary’s The Postmortal, reviewed by Darrell Schweitzer: 21
PLUS
An appreciation of an appreciation of Joanna Russ (14) and an editorial (24).
Samuel R. Delany, Contributing Editor; Kris Dikeman and Avram Grumer, Associate Managing Editors.
Alex Donald, Web Editor; David G. Hartwell, Reviews and Features Editor; Kevin J. Maroney, Managing Editor.
Staff: Ann Crimmins, Jen Gunnels, Heather Masri, M’jit Raindancer-Stahl, Eugene Reynolds, and Anne Zanoni.
Weekly Crew: Josh Kronengold and Lisa Padol; special thanks to Arthur D.
New York Review of Science Fiction 12-issue Subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout The New York Review of Science Fiction:
The New York Review of Science Fiction has spent the last 30 years reading science fiction and fantasy like they matter.
NYRSF is a monthly critical magazine about science fiction and fantasy, published every month since August 1987. We have been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine in 22 of the 30 years we have been published. Each issue has more than 20,000 words of commentary on science fiction and fantasy: reviews, critical articles, personal essays, interviews, and other miscelleany and whatnot, covering f&sf from all genera, media, movements, and eras.
Staff include Kevin J. Maroney, Alex Donald, Kris Dikeman, and Avram Grumer, all watched over by guiding spirit David G. Hartwell. Check out our web site for articles, editorials, and other samples.
Go on. You know you want it.
Apex Magazine – Issue 37
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2012 issue of Apex Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Brit Mandelo (“Winter Scheming”), Ian Nichols (“In the Dark”), and Geoff Ryman (“Blocked”), poetry by Seanan McGuire (“Wounds”), an interview with recent Nebula winner Geoff Ryman, an article by Tansy Rayner Roberts (“Girl Meets House: Kitchen Sinks, Joanna Russ and the Female Gothic”) and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 25
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis month, we have original fantasy by debut writer Kelsey Ann Barrett (“My Teacher, My Enemy”) and award-winning author John Langan (“Renfrew’s Course”), with fantasy reprints by bestselling author Seanan McGuire (“Lost”) and Hugo-winner Tim Pratt (“Cup and Table”).
We also have original science fiction by Maggie Clark (“A Plague of Zhe”) and Simon McCaffery (“The Cristóbal Effect”), along with SF reprints by Eileen Gunn (“Contact”) and bestselling author George R. R. Martin (“The Way of Cross and Dragon”).
For our ebook readers: Our ebook-exclusive is again not a novella, but the second and final part of the two-part serial novel: The Cosmology of the Wider World, by Jeffrey Ford.
We also have excerpts from two new novels: David Brin’s Existence and N. K. Jemisin’s The Killing Moon.
All that plus our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, and feature interviews with bestselling author Anne Rice and documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (director of Comic-Con, Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope).