Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 63
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2011 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Ben Peek (“Sirius”), Chris Stabback (“In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems”) and Catherynne M. Valente (Part 3/3 of “Silently and Very Fast”), an interview with Aliette de Bodard, an article on the off-planet locations on Earth by Brenta Blevins and seasons greetings from the Clarkesworld staff.
Fantasy Magazine Issue 57
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFrom modern mythcraft to magic realism, Fantasy Magazine is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow:
Our lead story this month is from new author Nike Sulway, who captures the soul-changing powers of grief in “Her Lover’s Golden Hair.”
Everyone casts a shadow, but somehow shadows are still mysterious, powerful, intriguing. Joe R. Lansdale explores one man’s strange relationship with his shadow in “Torn Away.”
Children love to play at being heroes. In Seanan McGuire’s “Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage,” one teenage girl has found a world where she really can save the day. But can she stay there?
Alasdair Stuart examines travel via portal magic in his article “Falling With Style.”
Journey back to ancient Rome in “Vici,” by Naomi Novik—and learn just what Julius Caesar meant when he said: “veni, vidi, vici.”
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 19
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEvery month Lightspeed Magazine features all kinds of science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between:
Vylar Kaftan returns to Lightspeed with “The Sighted Watchmaker,” a story about a being coming face-to-face with her race’s long-dead creator, and the choice it must make as it guides its own creation to sentience.
In “After the Days of Dead-Eye ‘Dee,” author Pat Cadigan introduces us to a tough old woman who has been pushed aside one time too many, and the alien who dares to approach her.
Andrew Penn Romine makes his professional debut with “The Parting Glass,” in which an aging Augment gets the chance of a lifetime—but the price might be more than advertised when he considers the source.
Arthur C. Clarke gives us the story of Captain Robert Singh, tasked with averting world-wide disaster from an asteroid strike in “The Hammer of God.”
New York Review of Science Fiction #280
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedOctober & Atrocity: J. G. Ballard’s most engimatic work; Roger Zelazny’s final novel; blow-up dolls; Lord Dunsany on the silver screen; the secret life of neckties; memories of William Golding, Thomas Clareson, and Joanna Russ; and reviews.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 8
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe eighth issue, featuring a collection of unique stories by up and coming women writers. Our second Drabble issue!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #83
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #83 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Megan Arkenberg and Nadia Bulkin.
Icarus 11
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedOur Winter 2011 issue features a chilling Victorian tale of revenge from Scot D. Ryersson, a weird tale of transformation by Rodello Santos & Damon Shaw, and a dystopian science-fiction story by Thomas Carl Sweterlitschan.
Of course, there’s more to Icarus than just fiction: there’s Tom Cardamone’s column on classic works of gay spec fic; the imaginative and sensual art of young Carleton Starr to enjoy; reviews of the latest books; and gossip about your favorite writers of gay fiction.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #82
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #82 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring Pt. II of a novella by Michael Anthony Ashley and a story by Wren Wallis.
Part 9: The Iron Temple
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected, The RifterThe Rifter is a ten-part serialized novel by award-winning author, Ginn Hale. The first episode, The Shattered Gates, was published on March 8, 2011. Further installments will be published on the second Tuesday of each month.
Part 9, The Iron Temple, was published on Tuesday, November 8th.
When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world.
“The true sorcery here is in Ginn Hale’s writing, which is by turns funny, fierce and lyrical. I can’t say enough good things about her work. Rifter is an astonishing story: terrifying and yet romantic. I was bewitched from the first sentence.”
—Josh Lanyon
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 18
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEvery month Lightspeed Magazine features all kinds of science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between:
Martian folklore is brought to life in Lisa Nohealani Morton’s powerful debut, “How Maartje and Uppinder Terraformed Mars (Marsmen Trad.).”
Maureen F. McHugh brings us a story of an AI discovered in an unlikely place, by an unlikely heroine, in “The Kingdom of the Blind.”
New writer Mark Pantoja channels Ray Bradbury and Brian Aldiss as he examines what might happen to smart houses and machines after their inhabitants and operators are long gone in his first published story, “Houses.”
In John Crowley’s “Snow” we examine the grief, memory, and the memorials of the future.
Fantasy Magazine Issue 56
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFrom modern mythcraft to magic realism, Fantasy Magazine is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow:
Leo Tolstoy reminded us, “Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” But in K. M. Ferebee’s tale “Seven Spells to Sever the Heart,” one unhappy family has magic to blame for its misery.
Next up, Theodora Goss summons a spirit who changes the course of four girls’ lives in her tale “Christopher Raven.”
Revenge is a dish served cold, and with perhaps a dash of soy sauce, in Lavie Tidhar’s “Red Dawn: A Chow Mein Western.”
A great swordsman and his lover cope with a surprisingly assertive fan in “The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death,” by Ellen Kushner.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #81
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #81 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring Pt. I of a novella by Michael Anthony Ashley and a story by Stephen Case.
Chelsea Station Issue 1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedChelsea Station is a new literary magazine of gay writing, edited by Jameson Currier. The first issue features six original short stories, fourteen new poems, a never-before-published one-act play and memoir, and several interviews, columns, and reviews on gay literature and theater. Contributors include Eric Andrews-Katz, Billie Aul, Tom Cardamone, Anthony R. Cardno, Jameson Currier, Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, David Eye, Michael Graves, William Henderson, Wayne Hoffman, Lisa Huffaker, Alex Jeffers, Richard Johns, Shaun Levin, Vince Liaguno, Jeff Mann, Thomas March, Kevin McLellan, Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, Stephen S. Mills, Eric Norris, Felice Picano, David Pratt, Robert A. Schanke, Charles Silverstein, Jerry L. Wheeler, Emanuel Xavier, and Cal Yeomans.
Apex Magazine – Issue 30
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2011 issue of Apex Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Elizabeth Bear (“The Leavings of the Wolf”), Catherynne M. Valente (“The Bread We Eat in Dreams”), and Robert Shearman (“This Creeping Thing”). Poetry by Tim Pratt (“Lion Heart”) and Bryan Thao Worra (“Wight” and “Swallowing the Moon”). Three nonfiction pieces including “The Australian Dark Weird” by Tansy Rayner Roberts, an editorial from incoming chief Lynne M. Thomas, and an editorial from outgoing chief Catherynne M. Valente. Finally, this mega-sized issue is rounded out by three interviews: cover artist Scott Murphy, all-star author Elizabeth Bear, and Hugo Award-winner Lynne M. Thomas.
Chelsea Station 1-Year Subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedChelsea Station is a new literary magazine of gay writing, edited by Jameson Currier. The first issue features six original short stories, fourteen new poems, a never-before-published one-act play and memoir, and several interviews, columns, and reviews on gay literature and theater. Contributors include Eric Andrews-Katz, Billie Aul, Tom Cardamone, Anthony R. Cardno, Jameson Currier, Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, David Eye, Michael Graves, William Henderson, Wayne Hoffman, Lisa Huffaker, Alex Jeffers, Richard Johns, Shaun Levin, Vince Liaguno, Jeff Mann, Thomas March, Kevin McLellan, Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, Stephen S. Mills, Eric Norris, Felice Picano, David Pratt, Robert A. Schanke, Charles Silverstein, Jerry L. Wheeler, Emanuel Xavier, and Cal Yeomans.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 62
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2011 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell (“A Militant Peace”), Lavie Tidhar (“The Smell of Orange Groves”) and Catherynne M. Valente (Part 2 of “Silently and Very Fast”), a group discussion on The Weird, an article on English chap in SF by Nathaniel Tapley and an editorial by Neil Clarke.