Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #5
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe fifth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine — a special Holmes Fiction Issue — features an amazing new Holmes short novel by Carla Coupe, “The Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes,” plus great Holmes stories and features by Bruce I. Kilstein, Mark Wardecker, Gary Lovisi, Paula Volsky, Marc Bilgrey, Stan Trybulski, Len Moffatt, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Lenny Picker, Alan McCright, and M J Elliott.
Our biggest issue ever, at 196 pages!
Weird Tales #350
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe 350th issue of Weird Tales magazine.
FICTION: “All In,” by Peter Atwood, “How I Got Here,” by Ramsey Shehadeh, “Belair Plaza,” by Adam Corbin Fusco, “An Invitation Via Email,” by Mike Allen, “Mainevermontnewhampshiremass,” by Nick Mamatas, “The Stone-Hearted Queen,” by Kelly Barnhill, “Ganaranok,” by Rory Steves, “Evolution,” by Karen Heuler, “Right You Are If You Say You Are,” by Norman Spinrad.
Plus poetry, non-fiction, and many special features!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #68
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #68 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Genevieve Valentine (set in the world of her novel Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti) and Jason S. Ridler.
Apex Magazine Issue 24
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.
Our May issue is sure to delight as the stories happen to swing back toward dark SF. Jeremy R. Butler channels the adventure and dangers of deep space mining with his “Recipe Collecting in the Asteroid Belt.” Annalee Newitz explores love and particle physics in “Twilight of the Eco-Terrorist.”
Our classic reprint is Will Ludwigsen’s chilling “In Search Of” where the answers to all your questions are better left unknown.
Apex presents two poetry selections this month. The first is “Black, Red, White” by Rachel Swirsky. The second is Elizabeth McClellan’s “The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of John: Six Cantos.”
Finally, Monica Valentinelli gives fans and writers some important tips on how to enjoy the world of literary fan conventions with “Grab Your Badge. Ready, Set, Meet!”
Apex Magazine is edited by award-winning author and editor Catherynne M. Valente.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 12
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.
In “The Harrowers,” author Eric Gregory gives us the story of Ez, who believes far more in bullets than blessings in fighting the dead, but who agrees to take a preacher’s kid outside the safety of the cities anyway—for a price.
Having an exotic, desirable roommate can make any college freshman miserable, but when your roommate is from another planet it makes things even more complicated. Tessa Mellas tells us all about it in “Bibi From Jupiter.”
Nancy Kress brings us a near-future story, “Eliot Wrote.” Eliot’s genius father sees a vision of ineffable truth in a toaster pastry, and refuses to have the memory erased, despite the damage it’s done to them both.
“Scales” by Alastair Reynolds, master of space opera, takes his first foray into military SF . . . with stunning results.
Fantasy Magazine #50
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFrom modern mythcraft to magic realism, Fantasy Magazine is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow:
In “Study, For Solo Piano,” Genevieve Valentine shines the spotlight on what it means to yearn for beauty and love in a cruel post-apocalyptic world.
A stick-man comes to life and a boy struggles to reconcile his Sunday School education with experience in Jeffrey Ford’s “Creation.”
In “The Devil in Gaylord’s Creek,” Sarah Monette gives us a feisty teen action heroine who’s tattooed, undead, and read to kick some serious paranormal monster butt. Buffy would totally approve.
Violence breeds vengeance in “Sandmagic,” Orson Scott Card’s tale of a young man orphaned by political turmoil. His search for retribution takes him into the heart of the desert—and into the realm of dangerous magic.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 56
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2011 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Cat Rambo (“Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know”) and Jason K. Chapman (“The Architect of Heaven”), an interviews with Lauren Beukes, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, a retrospective on the career of John Barry by John T. Stanhope and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
New York Review of Science Fiction #273
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Moderns: Philip Dick’s Greek family; synthetic conversations; space stations; Swanwick in and on Russia; and sf and the interdisciplinary conquest of knowledge; and reviews.
On Spec Magazine – Spring 2011 #84 vol 23 no 1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring 2011 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Kate Riedel (“The Guardians”), Stacy Sinclair (“Skipping Stones Until Nightfall”), Matthew Marinett (“The Birds of Floor Number Forty-Seven”), Bruce Taylor (“Of Diamonds and Facets”), Robert P. Switzer (“Happy Elephants”), Angela Dorsey (“Walled Gardens”), Steven M. Saus (“Broken”), and Steve Vernon (“Harry’s Mermaid”); poetry by Peter Chiykowski (“Transverse Love”) and Rebecca Lilly (“The Moon” and “Trees”); guest editorial by Mark Shainblum (“Trademark. Chill.”); author interview by Roberta Laurie (“Matthew Marinett: A Writer with a Future”); artist interview by Cat McDonald (“Justin Currie: Feature Artist”); editorial by Robin Carson (“First Came the Bard”); cover art by Justin Currie (“Walking on the Moon”).
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #67
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #67 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Marie Brennan (part two of a novella set in the world of her novels Warrior and Witch) and Greg Linklater.
Bull Spec #5
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue 5 (“Spring 2011”) issue of Bull Spec, a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction.
This issue features fiction by Rebecca Gomez Farrell (“Bother”), Tim Pratt (“Hell’s Lottery”), Cat Rambo (“The Coffeemaker’s Passion”), M. David Blake (“Absinthe Fish”), Preston Grassman (“Cael’s Continuum”), and Roger Williams (“Mortal Passage”); part 1 of 4 of the Jeremy Whitley (story) and Jason Strutz (art) graphic short story “The Long Lives of Heroes”; interviews with Jonathan Strahan, Gail Z. Martin, David Halperin, Hannu Rajaniemi, and Jason Morningstar and Steve Segedy; poetry, reviews, art, and more. Cover art by Richard Case.
Rifter 3: Black Blades
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 3, Black Blades, was published on Tuesday, May 10th.
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
Rifter 2: Servant of the Crossed Arrows
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.
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
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #66
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #66 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Marie Brennan (part one of a novella set in the world of her novels Warrior and Witch) and Heather Fawcett.
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 11
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.
In “All That Touches the Air,” author An Owomoyela explores the boundaries of differing moralities, as humanity tries to live alongside an unlikely ally—a parasitic being that believes only in natural law.
In “Maneki Neko” Bruce Sterling takes us to a networked Tokyo, where strangers offer anonymous gifts, and what is needed is freely given without question.
Tom Crosshill brings us a story of a boy, his dog, a lab, and many universes in “Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son.”
“Velvet Fields,” by Anne McCaffrey, is a tale of a newly-settled world, the consequence of ignorance and the price people of conscience might pay for it.
Apex Magazine Issue 23
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.
Our April issue begins the first of our new expanded editions. More great content for one great price!
Eugie Foster returns to the pages of Apex with the Japanese-flavored “Biba Jibun.” Michael J. Deluca marks his first appearance with the rather dark fantasy story “The Eater.” Relive the horrors of Mike Allen’s award-nominated “The Button Bin.” Rose Lemberg’s poem “Thirteen Principles of Faith”, Jennifer Pelland’s Nebula Award-nominated story “Ghosts of New York,” and the history of the Nebula Awards by Michael A. Burstein round out a robust and hefty issue of Apex Magazine.