New York Review of Science Fiction #275
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedOutsiders: Thomas Disch’s conversation with modernism; outsider writers; the ridiculous and the sublime in Heinlein’s Job; and reviews.
Icarus, Issue 9
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction. Summer 2011 issue: The always impressive and versatile (or so we hear) Hal Duncan pays gay homage to one of the most well-known films ever, Casablanca. Award-winning poet Geoffrey A. Landis must have known my fondness for daikaijū. A devoted servant to the heir of the throne is tested in British author Nyki Blatchley’s story. Kristopher Reisz’s tale of urban fae and the pain of a real “lost and found” is…well, memorable. And to prove we love science fiction as much as we do the fantastical and horrific, we’re pleased to publish Michael C. Thompson’s story of obsession + black holes = “Aldo.”
Plus book reviews and Icarus’s usual side delights.
Icarus: 4 issue subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIcarus is closed to new subscribers and will end publication with issue 18. Existing subscriptions will be fulfilled as usual.
About Icarus
Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction, a quarterly full-color magazine, features fantastical and weird stories and occasional poetry with gay male themes. We’ve published such acclaimed authors as Hal Duncan, Alex Jeffers, and Sandra McDonald. It is published by Lethe Press and the print edition is available here.
Read reviews on Tor.com and Rainbow Reviews.
Steve Berman, owner and publisher
Toby Johnson, layout and design
Dan Kravitz, promotion
Craig L. Gidney, assistant editor
Alex Jeffers, copy editor
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #71
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #71 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring Part II of a novelette by Bradley P. Beaulieu and a story by Therese Arkenberg.
Reviews
“nice insights about life and death and commitment”
—Lois Tilton, Locus online
Part 4, Witches’ Blood
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe 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 4, Witches’ Blood, will be published on Tuesday, June 14th.
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
Something Wicked Issue 10
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSomething Wicked Magazine is a monthly Horror and Science Fiction short story magazine publishing some of the great new voices in the horror and science fiction genres. This issue of Something Wicked Magazine features some awesome stories from Abigail Godsell, Paula R Stiles, A Roberts, Brett Venter, Neil Uys, Peter Simon, Sean and Craig Davis and William Meikle and Graeme Hurry. With over 50,000 words of fiction and articles, including part 3 of our quarterly column by John Connolly. Print editions available from www.SomethingWicked.co.za
Issue 10 Cover Art by Vincent Sammy
CONTENTS
FEATURES
Trace by Brett Venter
art by Pierre Smit
Zombieville by Paula R Stiles
art by Pierre Smit
The Guitar Case by Abigail Godsell
art by Vincent Sammy
Phadder’s Sins by Sean & Craig Davis
art by Vincent Sammy
A Question of Faith by A. Roberts
art by Vincent Sammy
The Minds of Centaurus by Peter Simon
art by Pierre Smit
The Blue Hag by William Meikle and Graeme Hurry
art by Joe Doe
The Day The Goats Flew by Ace Cornelius
art by Hendrik Gericke
FEATURES
Editorial
Mark Sykes’s Sixth Sense of Humour
Confessions of an Accidental Author
DVD Reviews
Book Reviews
Featured Artists
Apex Magazine Issue 25
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedApex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field.
Kathryn Weaver (in her first professional sale!) comes to the pages of Apex with the story “The Doves of Hartleigh Gardens.” Anaea Lay takes us on a tour of great cities and exposes how fragile they can be in “Your Cities.” Relive the horrors of Shira Lipkin’s chilling “Valentines.” Seana Mcguire’s darkly humorous poem “Clockwork Chickens” shows us the dangers inherent to marrying a mad genius, and finally Chesya Burke’s neo-noir urban zombie story “CUE: Change” (from her Apex collection Let’s Play White) rounds out another strong issue of Apex Magazine.
Apex Magazine is edited by award-winning author and editor Catherynne M. Valente.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #70
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #70 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring Part I of a novelette by Bradley P. Beaulieu and a story by Michael J. DeLuca.
Reviews
“this short piece is lovely to read. Recommended”
—Lois Tilton, Locus online
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 13
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.
K.C. Ball gives us an A.I.’s view of the complexities of love, space travel, and physics in “Snapshots I Brought Back from the Black Hole.”
“Frost Painting” by Carolyn Ives Gilman takes a poignant look at a relationship in the wake of a very different kind of alien invasion.
In Grady Hendrix’s story “Transcript of Interaction Between Astronaut Mike Scudderman and the OnStar Hands-Free A.I. Crash Advisor” an A.I. gives the best advice it can, based on its analysis of human behavior.
In our final story this month, Ian McDonald brings us “Recording Angel,” the story of a journalist sent to report on the party at end of the world, and the first contact with the alien life that caused it.
Fantasy Magazine Issue 51
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFrom modern mythcraft to magic realism, Fantasy Magazine is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow:
In this story from the new Welcome to Bordertown anthology, a teenage girl learns about the power of art and the depth of love in a city of tricky magic. Alaya Dawn Johnson takes us back to Bordertown—a world originally created by fantasy master Terry Windling—in her story “A Prince For Thirteen Days.”
When you’re a teenage net-mage, there’s a lot more to surviving high school than just getting a date to prom—especially when your school’s been overrun by zombies. Find out how the hero of Jeremiah Tolbert’s story, “You Have Been Turned Into a Zombie By a Friend,” survives the attack with only her wits, friends, and cameraphones.
Holly Phillips captures the desperation of World War II desert warfare in her story “Virgin of the Sands.” There might not be any rules in love or war, but necromancy has laws that can never be broken.
If you could get a second chance at your life, what changes would you make? In Cat Rambo’s “The Immortality Game,” a group of friends tries life again . . . and again . . . and again. . . .
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 57
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2011 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Genevieve Valentine (“Semiramis”) and Mari Ness (“Trickster”), an interview with Erin Hoffman, an article on terraforming by Sarah Goslee and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
New York Review of Science Fiction #274
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedTriffids, Theatre, and Talking Dogs: Ethics within John Wyndam’s classic; a wide-ranging interview with playwright/critic Andrea Hairston; mankind and mastery on stage in Dog Act; and reviews.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 6
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe sixth issue of Luna Station Quarterly, featuring a collection of unique stories by up and coming women writers.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #69
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #69 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Margaret Ronald and Wendy N. Wagner.
Reviews
“beautifully written… lingers in the mind after the read.”
—Tangent Online
Weird Tales #357
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe 357th issue of Weird Tales magazine is a celebration of short fiction, with a selection of great new stories by Karen Heuler, J. Robert Lennon, Karen Tidbeck, N.K. Jemisin, Peter M. Ball, and Mark Meredith. Features include The Eyrie, Lost in Lovecraft, and an interview with Caitlin R. Kiernan.
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine 4-Issue Subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNew Holmes stories, classic reprints, new fiction, cartoon, reviews, and more. Edited by Marvin Kaye. Published by Wildside.