Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 10
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe tenth issue of Luna Station Quarterly, featuring a collection of unique stories by up and coming women writers.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #96
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #96 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Adam Callaway and Kenneth Schneyer.
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #7
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe seventh issue of “Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine” is another fine selection of tales about Sherlock Holmes, or in the Sherlockian spirit.
Fiction:
The Dead House, by Bruce Kilstein
A Letter from Legrand, by David Ellis
An Old-Fashioned Villain, by Nick Andreychuk
The Premature Murder, by Michael Mallory
The Double, by Janice Law
The Way It Is (novel excerpt), by Carole Buggé
A House Divided, by Marc Bilgrey
Classic reprint:
A Scandal in Bohemia, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Features:
From Watson’s Scrapbook (Editorial), by John H. Watson, M.D.
Moriarty’s Mailbag, by Professor Moriarty
The Adventures of the Six Napoleons…of Crime, by Lenny Picker
C.E. Lawrence — The Darker Half of Carole Buggé (interview)
Sherlock’s Big Finish: An Interview with Nicholas Briggs, conducted by M J Elliott
The Roots of the Psychic Detective in Fiction, by Lee Weinstein
Bull Spec #7
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedBull Spec #7 (Spring 2012) includes:
New speculative fiction from D.K. Thompson, Jason Erik Lundberg, Jason K. Chapman, Natania Barron, Stephanie Ricker, and (flash) J. P. Trostle.
New speculative poetry from Alexandra Seidel, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, Lemuel Harik, Demorah Walker, Athena Andreadis, Mari Ness, Damon Shaw, and Sofia Samatar
Part 3 (of 4) of “The Long Lives of Heroes”, a graphic short story by Jeremy Whitley and Jason Strutz
Interviews of David Drake and John Lambshead (by Jeremy L. C. Jones), Vernor Vinge (by Paul Kincaid), C. S. Friedman (by Dan Campbell), Rebecca K. Rowe (by C. D. Covington), Dario Ciriello (by Rich Horton), and Lauren Beukes (by Preston Grassmann).
Essays on the fiction of J. M. McDermott (by John H. Stevens) and on the classic sf radio show X-Minus One (by Peter Wood).
Cover art by Angi Shearstone, along with illustrations by Jason Strutz, Brigid Ashwood, Gabriel Dunston, and Indrapramit Das.
And a robust reviews section including reviews by Paul Kincaid, Joseph Giddings, J.P. Wickwire, Natania Barron, Duston Monk, Larry Nolen, Paul Kincaid (again), and Nick Mamatas of books by Greg Egan, Ari Marmell, Drew Magary, Clay and Susan Griffith, Tim Pratt, Helen Oyeyemi, Lavie Tidhar, and Cory Doctorow.
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #94
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #94 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Susan Forest and Ann Chatham.
The Big Click Issue 2
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue Two of The Big Click starts off with a snippet of Dan Fante╒s forthcoming novel Point Doom, in which a recovering alcoholic attempts to resolve his issues with PTSD and Jack Kerouac. Our second story is ╥The Man Who Loved Birds,╙ the tale of, well, a man who loved birds, especially illegal-to-possess wild ravens, and how that works out for him after an earthquake destroys his apartment (and his marriage). For our nonfiction, Tom Piccirilli breaks every writer╒s heart in ╥The Mermaid╒s Melody╙ when he muses about being a midlist author hoping for that elusive ╥breakthrough book.╙
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 68
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2012 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features the following stories: “Prayer” by Robert Reed, “Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop” by Suzanne Church and “All the Things the Moon is Not” by Alexander Lumans. Non-fiction includes an interview with Michael J. Sullivan, an article on the fairy tale in the TV age by Alethea Kontis, and an Another Word column by Elizabeth Bear.
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 14
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue 14 of Shimmer Magazine contains 10 delights: we’ve got carnal carnivores, haunted bridges and houses, balloon girls, mud boys, werewolves, an uncanny trashman, ghosts, soldiers, tea-harvesting robots, and of course, an Einstein-award-winning mathematician.
Lois Tilton, of Locus fame, gave two stories the coveted “Recommended” — check out “Food My Father Feeds Me, Love My Husband Shows Me,” by A. Al Balaskovits, and “Gödel Apparition Fugue,” by Craig DeLancey.
“…Whimsical, beautifully written and presented, and with thoughtful stories.”–Not if You Were the Last Short Story.
“Unfailingly well written, which gives hope for the future of the genre. … Read this issue of Shimmer to get a look at the future giants of the field.”–Tangent Online
Table of Contents
Food My Father Feeds Me, Love My Husband Shows Me, by A. A. Balaskovits
My father is a great man of meat. Inside the hot wooden house where he keeps the geese, he stretches their long necks into straight lines and gavages grass and corn into their bellies, and when their wings can barely lift their plump bodies into the air he guts them and sears their livers with pepper and salt. In the pasture he keeps four fat, black cattle that he names after my forefathers: Luc, Pierre, Maurice and Yves. When their bellies skim the ground, he makes tartars of their loins with shallots and piquillo peppers. Then he buys four more fat black cows and names them Luc, Pierre, Maurice and Yves. When he loves me best over my sisters he makes my favorite, Pot au Feu, and he cooks the meat so tender that no matter how much I suck on the flesh I still taste the bone.
I am often my father’s favorite. When all my sisters put their white and smooth hands to their chests and faint at the gore on his killing smock, I gently untie its knots and wash it with my bare hands until they stain red. Because of this, my father gives me the first and largest servings of leg and rib, and when he boils lamb’s head I am always allowed to chew on their glossy, black eyes.
Chinvat, by Sunny Moraine
Nolan hasn’t been on the bridge since the day of the quake, and in this he guesses that he might be the exception rather than the rule. It certainly seems like that, some of the time. For a while, coming to the Golden Gate had been a thing that, for whatever reason, people had done: to look, to feel, to come away and say that they had seen it. To make it real, maybe, what had happened to this corner of the world. He had never been sure.
And here he is at last. He turns and looks back, but can no longer see the mainland, the towers of San Francisco marching in stately order up the rolling hills—invisible now. Fog ahead, fog behind. Without a landmass to secure his perspective, he feels abruptly untethered, not quite lost but perhaps running parallel to the feeling. He doesn’t know that he had expected to feel this way. He doesn’t know that he expected anything at all. The bridge, in its permanent state of semicollapse, has moved beyond expectations into a place where no one wants to look at it but no one can stop. Just in the way that now, people don’t seem to be able to stop coming here.
Made of Mud, by Ari Goelman
The first time I saw the mudlings I had just taken the long way home to avoid Chris Evans and Billy Decker. It must have been ninth–no, eighth–grade because by ninth grade Chris and Billy were gone. That afternoon Chris and Billy were still in town, and they were looking for me.
This House was Never a Castle, by Aaron Polson
We’ve lived in the new house since the fire, and the new house has exactly fifteen interior doors. We keep the inside doors shut most of the time, like tiny little chambers in a nautilus. I remember reading about a nautilus in Grandfather’s library once. Sometimes I like to imagine our house stays above the mud of the forest floor because of the empty rooms—they make it buoyant like the pockets of air in a nautilus’s shell. It’s nice to have a home with so many doors, especially with the wolves and soldiers outside. We can hide should they come for us, Rosamond says.
Minnow, by Carlea Holl-Jensen
And then I swelled up like a helium balloon. I found myself stretched, skin thin. I grew transparent, empty.
I went up, broke my tethers, rose above the tops of all the whitewashed houses, where I could see all the green copper roofs of the city buildings. I swung there on the breeze and the clouds brushed cool and damp past my face. It was the beginning of spring, and even high up in the sky, the air smelled of damp hyacinth and ornamental pear blossoms, fresh, sweet, sickly.
Trashman, by A.C. Wise
The trashman knows all your secrets. He knows all the secrets up and down all the streets, everywhere. He knows you, maybe even better than you know yourself.
He’s pieced your life together from the shredded stubs of each bill you’ve paid. He’s tasted the remnants of every one of your meals, scrying coffee grinds and tuna cans, egg shells and banana peels, laying them out like an augur’s bones. He’s counted the bottles you set by the curb, sniffed the sticky-sweet residue trapped in green and blue and white glass. He understands the language of that which you’ve left behind: red wine the color of blood to drown your sorrow; vodka the color of melted snow to drown your dreams. He knows which pill bottles you’ve emptied. He knows what you’ve tried to burn and what you’ve tried to pretend never existed at all.
We Make Tea, by Meryl Ferguson
I made my way through the house to the dining room and surveyed the chaos. Kitchen Four crouched on her tracks in the middle of the room. She scooped her creations off the table and hurled them at the walls. Bread, cakes, pastries fell like rain. Serving staff rushed to collect ruined crockery, their narrow tracks grinding food into the carpet. K4, twice the mass of the little constructs that formed the wait staff, hefted a cast-iron bread pan with ease and flung it at the wall, showering nearby staff with plaster chips.
I left them to it.
Bad Moon Risen, by Eric Del Carlo
Moonup, and hear the bastards yowling. Squawk is there’s movement on the south edge of town, down by the burnt shell of the KFC. I got clear memories of when I was way young going there with my daddy, eating crispy-crispy chicken that was like nothing I can describe to anybody who hasn’t tasted it themselves. Now it’s canned beef and Relief corn and whatever you can grow in a backyard, but at least we eat. I’ve been hungry and seen starving, and both are better than being what’s ate.
“They gonna get through, gonna get through, gonnagetthr—”
Jinny swings her gloved palm, barely looking, pops Buck on the back of his head, shutting the little squeak up. I don’t want Buck with us. He’s too young, too scared, but he’s one more trigger. And maybe he’ll surprise me. I hope he does.
Some Letters for Ove Lindström, by Karin Tidbeck
Hi Dad,
It’s Saturday and it’s been thirty-six days since they found you. You lay in the apartment for three days before the neighbors called the police because the cat was howling. That was on a Friday. They said at the hospital it looked like a massive heart attack, probably quick. They asked if you and I were close. I said no: I couldn’t cope with your drinking, and broke off contact many years ago.
That same night I dreamed about Mum for the first time in many years. She was standing at the edge of the forest, her back turned. Her dark hair tumbled in tangles down her back. The hem of her red dress dragged at the ground. I was sitting in the sandbox. I couldn’t move. She walked in among the trees and there was a tinkling sound on the air, like tiny bells.
Gödel Apparition Fugue, by Craig DeLancey
Kurt Gödel pushes through the café doors. The clinking of cups punctuates the shouts of philosophers. Gödel heads for the back, but Moritz Schlick seizes his arm.
“Kurt! You missed the new guy, Wittgenstein.”
“Sorry,” Gödel whispers. “I was at a séance.”
Schlick rolls his eyes as Rudolf Carnap comes to his side. “How can you? You know it’s nonsense.”
“I don’t know that.”
Carnap rises to Gödel’s defense. “A philosopher needs an open mind.”
Apex Magazine – Issue 36
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2012 issue of Apex Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Rachel Swirsky (“Decomposition”), Rahul Kanakia (“Tomorrow’s Dictator”), and Nnedi Okorafor (“The Chaos Magician’s Mega Chemistry Set”), an interview with Rachel Swirsky, an article by Tim Akers (“Faith in the Fantastic”) and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 24
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 May 2012 issue, we have original science fiction by Linda Nagata (“Nightside on Callisto”) and C. C. Finlay (“The Cross-Time Accountants Fail To Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does The Twist”) and SF reprints by Nicola Griffith (“Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese”) and David Langford (“Different Kinds of Darkness”).
We also have original fantasy by Dale Bailey (“The Children of Hamelin”) and Melanie Rawn (“Mother of All Russiya”), along with fantasy reprints by Catherynne M. Valente (“A Hole to China”) and the late Kage Baker (“The Ruby Incomparable”).
And, in our ebook edition, we’ll also have an excerpt of Paolo Bacigalupi’s new young adult novel The Drowned Cities and Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312.
All that plus our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, and feature interviews with Vernor Vinge and Michael Chabon.
On Spec Magazine – Spring 2012 #88 vol 24 no 1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring 2012 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Edward Willett (“A Little Space Music”), Derek Künsken (“Long Leap”), Regan Wolfrom (“The Hill Where Thorvald Slew Ten Skraelings”), Marissa Lingen (“Carter Hall and the Motley Lions”), Kim Despins (“Hoodoo Boy”), Scott Overton (“A Taste Of Time”), Dave Cherniak (“There’s Nothing to Fear”), and Catherine Knutsson (“Thought and Memory”); poetry by Saint James Harris Wood (“/Pieces/ A Deathly Time (Twoette)”); author interview by Roberta Laurie (“Scott Overton: A Taste for Writing”); artist interview by Cat McDonald (“P. John Burden”); editorial by Cat McDonald (“Capitalism, Writers, and the Tangled Web”); cover art by P. John Burden (“Finder Pixie”).
Mythic Delirium 26
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedOur 26th issue features 22 new poems, including the return of multiple Rhysling Award-winner Amal El-Mohtar to our pages with an account of an encounter both frightening and seductive, Mythic Delirium regular Sonya Taaffe and newcomer April Grant presenting linked poems of archetypal magic, the award-winning team of Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel contemplating dark matter, J.C. Runolfson examining the mystery of child prodigy Barbara Newhall Follett’s disappearance, C.S.E. Cooney imagining the Furies in their infancy, and more.
Fireside Magazine
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedDear Weightless Books Fireside Subscribers,
IF YOU FOLLOWED our last Kickstarter at all, you’ll know that it was a very close thing getting Issue Three funded. We knew there was going to be a point of Kickstarter fatigue with doing single issues that way, and we have hit it.
So Fireside is retooling with an eye on longer-term sustainability. We don’t have the details quite worked out yet, but we are planning something that will allow us to fund for a full year. Unfortunately, this plan involves not offering ebooks through Weightless Books any longer. I’m sorry I can’t offer more detail than that at the moment, but we aren’t ready to announce the plan quite yet. I can say that we will still be producing ebooks and there will be a subscription option.
Weightless Books will be refunding the unused potions of your subscription payments.
Please keep an eye on Firesidemag.com for the announcement about our plan. We’re going to be Kickstarting it in Feburary.
If you have any questions, concerns, or problems with the refund, please email me at brian@firesidemag.com.
Thanks, and sorry for the turmoil.
—Brian White
First published on April 17, 2012.
Fireside is a quarterly multigenre fiction and comics magazine that began publishing in spring 2012. Our aim is to publish story-driven fiction and comics by new and established writers, without regard to genre, and to pay writers and artists at a rate that helps them make a living producing creative work.
Each issue has four short stories and one comic.
It is edited by Brian White (brian@firesidemag.com).
Fireside Magazine – Issue 1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFirst published on April 17, 2012.
The debut issue of Fireside, a multigenre fiction and comics magazine.
This issue includes stories by Tobias Buckell (“Press Enter to Execute), Ken Liu (“To The Moon”), Chuck Wendig (“Emerald Lakes), and Christie Yant (“Temperance”), and a comic written by Adam P. Knave and D.J. Kirkbride, illustared by Michael Lee Harris, and lettered by Frank Cvetkovic (“Snow Ninjas of the Himalayas”).
The cover art and interior illustrations are by Amy Houser.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #93
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #93 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Mike Allen and Christian K. Martinez.
Space and Time Magazine Issue #116
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring issue of Space and Time Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Scott Edelman (“A Test of Faith for a couple of True Believers”) and John R. Fults (“The Gnomes of Carrick County”), an interview with Kevin J. Anderson, poetry by David M. Rheingold and an editorial by Hildy Silverman.