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Apex Magazine – Issue 35

by Michael April 3rd, 2012

The April 2012 issue of Apex Magazine.

This *international SF-themed* issue features fiction by Lavie Tidhar (“Love is a Parasite Meme”), Thoraiya Dyer (“The Second Card of the Major Arcana”), and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (“Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life”), poetry by Amal El-Mohtar (“No Poisoned Combs), an interview with Lavie Tidhar, an article by Charles Tan (“World SF: Our Possible Future”) and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #92

by Gavin Grant April 1st, 2012

Issue #92 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Tom Crosshill and Cory Skerry.

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Lightspeed Magazine Issue 23

by Gavin Grant April 1st, 2012

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 realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.

In our April 2012 issue, we have original fantasy by Half-Life creator Marc Laidlaw (“Forget You”) and Eric Gregory (“The Sympathy”), along with fantasy reprints by Caitlin R. Kiernan (“The Steam Dancer (1896)”) and M. K. Hobson (“Domovoi”).

For our original science fiction offerings, we have Vandana Singh’s “Ruminations in an Alien Tongue” and Caroline M. Yoachim’s “Mother Ship,” and our SF reprints will include “Our Town” by bestselling, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson and, from my new anthology Armored, “Nomad” by Karin Lowachee.

All that plus our artist showcase, our usual assortment of author spotlights, and feature interviews with bestselling authors William Gibson and Robin Hobb.

And for our ebook exclusives this month, we’re pleased to present the award-nominated novella “The Political Officer” by C. C. Finlay, along with excerpts from Nancy Kress’s, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, her new novel coming out this month from Tachyon and from Holly Black’s new novel, Black Heart, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.

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New York Review of Science Fiction #284

by Michael April 1st, 2012

On the Edges: Science fiction in the borders of the world; John Jakes’s f&sf short fiction; Pinocchio and the Borg Queen; surprisingly perverse early sf; weird fiction from an Estonian master; and reviews.

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Icarus 12

by Gavin Grant March 27th, 2012

In this issue, the finale of Scot D. Ryersson’s Victorian-era dark fantasy novella, “The Arsenic Flower,” will not disappoint; our handsome friend across the pond, James Bennett, offers readers a story of fate and regret dealt to the man in “Half Light House”; Alex Jeffers provides the next installment in his cycle of tales about the fey teen Liam’s coming-of-age struggles in “Liam and His Dads”; a frustrated writer on a lonely drive is haunted by a voice “On the Radio” by Warren Rochelle; and, in honor of our gorgeous cover android, there’s a story from Lethe Press publisher Steve Berman involving teenage boys and robots. Plus all our usual sweets—reviews, gossip, and Tom Cardamone’s column on forgotten gay books.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #91, Special Issue for Science-Fantasy Month

by Michael March 18th, 2012

Issue #91 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, a special issue for BCS Science-Fantasy month, featuring stories and author interviews by Yoon Ha Lee and Megan Arkenberg.

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Something Wicked Magazine 12 Month Subscription

by Gavin Grant March 13th, 2012

From Editor Joe Vaz:

Apr 2012

Firstly let me apologise for the lengthy silence. Things have come to pass in Something Wicked Land that we were hoping to avoid and have spent a good deal of the last 7 weeks trying to come up with alternatives, which, I think, we have.

This has been a strange and tumultuous year so far, with neither Vianne nor I managing to obtain the oh-so-needed freelance work that keeps both us, and the magazine alive, and unfortunately we’ve had to triage our lives. First comes us and the family, and then the magazine. As a result everything has been put on the back burner while we’ve been attempting to make ends meet. To make matters even more complicated, we’ve committed ourselves to a family get-together in Europe which has put further strain on our time and finances, but it’s a commitment that we can’t get out of, as too many family members are involved to cancel now. We were hoping to get the April, May and June issues finished before we left, but with us concentrating on travel plans and trying to find work, this has just not been possible.

And so here comes the piece of news you’ve been dreading but probably already knew was coming. Something Wicked is officially stopping our monthly publication schedule. We simply can’t keep up, and we’re not making enough to be able to hire help (or even pay the regulars, for that matter).

The online mag was always going to be an experiment and I think, as such, we succeeded; we managed to publish ten issues beyond our print grave and collected some damn good stories by some damn good writers. And we’re not done yet.

Even though we have stopped the monthly issues, we are still going ahead with the promised Annual Print Anthologies, the first of which, Something Wicked Volume One, should be out by mid-July/early-August. Look out for an announcement within the next week.

Once again, this is not the end.
Vianne, Mark and I love publishing Something Wicked and we will continue to do so for as long as possible. In the long run we are hoping to put out an annual print/electronic anthology rather than a monthly e-magazine.
We will also endeavour to publish one story a month on the website, starting with Angel Propps’s “The Time Hangs Heavy” and we’ll keep the website and community alive with sporadic reviews and interviews.

The rest of Issue 20 will be available for sale as an e-Magazine eventually, but it is not actually finished yet. We will be releasing the rest of Issue 20 slowly over the next few months, starting with the already mentioned “The Time Hangs Heavy”, by Angel Propps and followed by CS Fuqua’s “Demons”, Taylor Hanton’s “Lanchester Square” and Grey Freeman’s exquisite ghost story, “Promises”.

We also have an interview with Alastair Reynolds and review of his latest book, Blue Remembered Earth, which, as above, will be published in due time.

All of this and more, still coming, I just don’t know when.

With our schedule tossed to the four winds, the best way to keep up to date is to either subscribe to our RSS feed (http://www.somethingwicked.co.za/feed/) or follow us on twitter, (www.twitter.com/Somethin_Wicked), and we’ll keep you posted.

Till next time…

Joe

Something Wicked was a monthly online and electronic-download science fiction and horror magazine until April 2012.

Something Wicked was founded in 2006 as a print magazine and ran for ten issues before moving to online in May of 2011.

We publish science fiction and horror fiction from around the world and have featured several award-winning authors including Arthur C Clarke Award winner Lauren Beukes, Sarah Lotz and Abigail Godsell.

Published monthly, we feature some of the best new voices in horror and science fiction from around the world.

Our monthly publication schedule consists of three pieces of short fiction and one novella, along with nonfiction articles. Content is posted weekly from the first Tuesday of every month. Ebook editions and editorials are available from the 1st of each month.

To advertise with us please look at our advertising rate card.

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Chelsea Station Issue 2

by Michael March 7th, 2012

Chelsea Station is a new literary magazine of gay writing, edited by Jameson Currier. The second issue features ten short stories, six new poems, a never-before-published one-act play, a travel memoir, and several essays, interviews, book columns, and reviews on gay literature. Contributors include Eric Andrews-Katz, Nicholas Boggs, Perry Brass, Tom Cardamone, Anthony R. Cardno, Lewis DeSimone, Michael Graves, Charles Green, Jonathan Harper, Matthew Hittinger, Wayne Hoffman, Lee Houck, Daniel M. Jaffe, Richard Johns, Michael T. Luongo, Raymond Luczak, Jeffrey Luscombe, Jeff Mann, Jon Marans, Stephen Mead, Jarrett Neal, Eric Nguyen, David Pratt, Trumbull Rogers, Robert Siek, Charles Silverstein, and Scott Wiggerman.

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Apex Magazine – Issue 34

by Michael March 6th, 2012

The March 2012 issue of Apex Magazine.

This issue features fiction by Richard Bowes (“A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell”), Mari Ness (“Copper, Iron, Blood and Love”), and Jay Lake (“Lehr, Rex”), an interview with Jay Lake, an article by Julia Rios (“Reaching into the QUILTBAG: the Evolving World of Queer Speculative Fiction”) and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #90, Special Issue for Science-Fantasy Month

by Michael March 5th, 2012

Issue #90 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, a special issue for BCS Science-Fantasy month, featuring stories and author interviews by Chris Willrich and Anne Ivy.

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The Big Click Issue 1

by Michael March 1st, 2012

The Big Click╒s inaugural issue kicks off with Ken Bruen’s “Angel of Hospitality,” in which a would-be embezzler chooses the rightest wrongest hotel in Manhattan to use as a safehouse. Then, in “Triangulation,╙ Anonymous-9 gives us three perspectives on a woman╒s scheme to teach her friend to be less trusting around men. Tom Piccirilli cogitates on the topics of envy and theft in ╥Fat Burglar Blues,╙ and we also have a bonus interview with Joe R. Lansdale.

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Lightspeed Magazine Issue 22

by Michael March 1st, 2012

“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 realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.

In our March 2012 issue, we have original science fiction by new writer Kali Wallace (The Day They Came) and Steven Utley (Test), and SF reprints by award-winning authors Mary Rosenblum (My She) and Kathleen Ann Goonan (Electric Rains).

We also have original fantasy by S. L. Gilbow (Alarms) and David Barr Kirtley (Beauty), and fantasy reprints by bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler (Halfway People) and the legendary Gene Wolfe (The Legend of XI Cygnus).

All that plus our artist showcase, our usual assortment of author spotlights, and feature interviews with R. A. Salvatore and Ian McDonald.

And, exclusively for our ebook readers, we have the novella “Cleopatra Brimstone” by Elizabeth Hand, and an excerpt of the forthcoming novel The Games by Ted Kosmatka.”

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Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 66

by Gavin Grant March 1st, 2012

The March 2012 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.

This issue features fiction by Margaret Ronald (“Sunlight Society”), Michael John Grist (“The Bells of Subsidence”) and Gary Kloster (“From Their Paws, We Shall Inherit”), interviews with Nathan Long and John R. Fultz and an article on ruins by E. C. Ambrose.

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New York Review of Science Fiction #283

by Michael March 1st, 2012

Origins of the Future: The forgotten French origin of sf; new techniques to present sf in the theatre; sf at the British Library; more medical errors; Canadian horror; John Jakes: sf novelist; and reviews.

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Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 9

by Gavin Grant March 1st, 2012

The ninth issue starts year three off just right with a collection of unique stories by up and coming women writers.

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Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?

by Michael February 14th, 2012

infinity plus singles #2 [Oct 2011]

When he arrives in Edinburgh, he sees his future as an infinitely bleak expanse. But then he meets Kristie … Award-winning author John Grant has created not just a tender, erotic tale about the conquest of grief and a fantasy of the highest order, but also a marvelously evocative Edinburgh story. Contains adult content. “…like a Ray Bradbury story for mature audiences only” –Matthew Cheney, SF Site.

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