The Time-Lapsed Man
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Emerging from flux after three months of mind-pushing a starship through the nada-continuum, Thorn realised he could not hear. He was on his second drink, an hour later, when a sound startled him. But it was the wrong sound… Classic short science fiction, and winner of the 1988 Interzone poll for best story of the year.
Head Shots
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What if the paparazzi could read their targets’ minds? Anna-Louise is a young and ambitious reporter, on the trail of an adulterous footballer, trying to hear through the mind noise to find out what he’s really up to. Contemporary SF from an author described by Locus as belonging in “the recognized front ranks of SF writers”.
Old Soldiers
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In the room across the hall the old soldier shouts, just as he has done for years… And behind her, something in the shadows stirs. “One of our brightest cultural commentators” –Publishers Weekly
The Life Business
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With astonishing power, award-winning author John Grant portrays the human facility to falsify history, using as his backdrop the beginnings of the late-20th-century troubles in Northern Ireland, as an unwitting mainland schoolboy finds himself caught up in a violence he barely understands.
One Step Closer
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Life jumps the rails, runs away from you and there’s no catching it up. Not ever. A free short story from Iain Rowan, winner of the Derringer Award for best short crime story. “I mean it,” the gunman shrieked, and he pointed the revolver at Ward, the end of the barrel moving in tiny circles with the shaking of his hands. “I mean it. One step closer…” A number one story download at Amazon.
Picking Blueberries
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A powerfully evocative portrait of an alternative community in the early 1970s, told with a child’s-eye simplicity by a young resident. Short fiction from an author whose work has been described by World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer as “Rapacious, intelligent and witty”.
Playmate
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The little boy next door is just so good. In fact, he’s pretty much perfect. And he has a strangely powerful influence on Danny. A disturbing story from an author whose short fiction has been described by scifi.com as “Brilliant on all levels”.
The Death of Cassandra Quebec
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Cassandra Quebec: an artist who had shown the world her soul. At the height of her career she was the world’s most celebrated artist; a year later she was dead. And now… her death has become a work of art. Powerful and clever science fiction from the two times winner of the BSFA short story award.
The Bone Flute
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Venn, a fickle and restless young musician, is drawn to the “lost planet” of Habille where, it is said, human nature has changed, and love once experienced can never die. In an afterword written especially for this edition, Lisa Tuttle explains her controversial decision to refuse the Nebula Award for this story.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Science-Fantasy Month Bundle, 2012
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssues #90 and #91 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, the two issues from BCS Science-Fantasy Month in March 2012, featuring stories by Yoon Ha Lee, Chris Willrich, Megan Arkenber, and Anne Ivy, two of which made the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2012.
Apex Magazine – Issue 33
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe February 2012 issue of Apex Magazine (Issue 33).
This issue features fiction by: David J. Schwartz (“Bear in Contradicting Landscape”), A.C. Wise (“My Body, Her Canvass”), and Maureen F. McHugh (“Useless Things”), poetry by Carrie Vaughn (“Caverns of Science”), nonfiction by Alex Bledsoe (“No Mortals Allowed”), an interview with Maureen F. McHugh, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 65
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe February 2012 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Mari Ness (“And the Hollow Space Inside”), Xia Jia (“A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight”) and Helena Bell (“All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions”), interviews with Lev Rosen and Lisa Hannett, an article on food in science fiction and fantasy by Matthew Johnson and the results of our annual reader’s poll.
New York Review of Science Fiction #282
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedDream Mysteries: Noir and weird in collision; from Surrealism to Postmodernism; Ballard’s biography; the murder of Poe; Dirac and Hawking; cowboys and zombies; and reviews.
On Spec Magazine – Winter 2011/2012 #87 vol 23 no 4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Winter 2011/2012 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by David K. Yeh (“At The End of the World”), Kirsty Logan (“Suckers”), Hilary C. Smith (“Drinking Problem”), Steve McGarrity (“John-A-Dreams”), Brent Knowles (“Touch the Dead”), Erin O’Neill (“Henry”), and Andrew S. Fuller (“Block Party”); poetry by Christian McPherson (“Reality Check” and “Buddhist Jet Lag”), author interview by Roberta Laurie (“The Wild and Whirling Words of Steve McGarrity”), artist interview by Cat McDonald (“Ellen Jewett”), editorial by Susan J. MacGregor (“Writing as a Violent Act”); cover art by Ellen Jewett (“Dodophant”).
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 21
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 February 2012 issue, we have original fantasy by new writer Brooke Bolander (“Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring”) and Fantasy-favorite Genevieve Valentine (“The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring”), and fantasy reprints by Chris Willrich (“The Mermaid and the Mortal Thing”) and the legendary Robert Silverberg (“Not Our Brother”).
Plus, we have original science fiction by Keith Brooke (“War 3.01”) and bestselling author Carrie Vaughn (“Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil”), plus SF reprints by award-winning authors Gregory Benford (“Dark Sanctuary”) and Kristine Kathryn Rusch (“Craters”).
All that plus our artist showcase, our usual assortment of author spotlights, and feature interviews with bestselling authors Chuck Palahniuk and Daniel H. Wilson.
And, for our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella this month is the dark, brutal tour de force “Hands Up! Who Wants to Die?” by Lucius Shepard.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #86
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #86 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Marissa Lingen and E. Catherine Tobler.