Bull Spec #4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue 4 (“Winter 2010-11”) issue of Bull Spec, a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction.
This issue features fiction by Andrew Magowan (“Freedom Acres”), David Tallerman (“The Burning Room”), Nick Mamatas (“O, Harvard Square!”), Don Norum (“A Mathematician’s Apology”), Erin Hoffman (“A City of Shadow and Glass”), and James Maxey (“Tornado of Sparks”); an excerpt of Mark L. Van Name’s novel Children No More; part 4 of 4 of Mike Gallagher’s graphic short story “Closed System”; interviews with Van Name, Gallagher, Lou Anders, Clay and Susan Griffith, and Orson Scott Card; poetry, reviews, art, and more. Cover art by Jason Strutz.
The Rifter Subscription
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. The final installment, His Holy Bones, was published on December 13th, 2011.
It is available as a zipped file of the 10 installments in the format of your choice (pdf, epub, mobi, lit). There will not be a one-volume edition in the foreseeable future as the 1000+ page ebook would be too unwieldy. However, there is a now a three volume print edition available from Blind Eye Books:
The Rifter One: The Shattered Gates (First 3 ebooks: The Shattered Gates, Servant of the Crossed Arrows, and Black Blades)
The Rifter Two: The Holy Road (Next 4 ebooks: Witches’ Blood, The Holy Road, Broken Fortress, and Enemies and Shadows)
The Rifter Three: His Sacred Bones (Final 3 ebooks: The Silent City, The Iron Temple, and His Holy Bones)
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
“Hale is a master storyteller.”
—Jessewave Reviews
Individual Installments
Rifter 1: The Shattered Gates
Rifter 2: Servant of the Crossed Arrows (April)
Rifter 3: Black Blades (May)
Rifter 4: Witches’ Blood (June)
Rifter 5: The Holy Road (July)
Rifter 6: Broken Fortress (August)
Rifter 7: Enemies and Shadows (September)
Rifter 8: The Silent City (October)
Rifter 9: The Iron Temple (November)
Rifter 10: His Holy Bones (December)
Praise for Ginn Hale
“An intricate world, well-integrated social issues, believable sexual encounters, and an interesting mystery make this dense, languorous tale appealing for any fan of romantic fantasy.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
“Lushly detailed, with believable, fully developed characters, this fantasy with homoerotic overtones is reminiscent of Mercedes Lackey’s Vanyel novels and should appeal to a similar readership.”
—Library Journal
“This ingenious fantasy romance continues to resonate in my imagination.”
—Drewey Wayne Gunn, Lambda Literary Report
“Hale is a natural storyteller, and knows how to plot. It’s hard to believe that this is a first effort. I found both sections of the novel unputdownable.”
—Craig Gidney, Fantasy Book Spot
“Wicked Gentlemen… is so sharply observed, so uniquely constructed, so original, and so touching in places that I have to give it a high recommendation.”
—Janine, Dear Author
About the Author
Ginn Hale lives in the Pacific Northwest, donates blood as a pastime, and tinkers with things. She is the author of The Lord of the White Hell (Blind Eye Books), Wicked Gentlemen (Spectrum Award Winner; Lambda Award Finalist; Blind Eye Books), “Feral Machines” in Tangle (Blind Eye Books), “Touching Sparks” in Hell Cop (Loose Id), “Such Heights” in Hell Cop 2 (Loose Id), and “Shy Hunter” in Queer Wolf (Queered Fiction). She is currently working on a sequel to Wicked Gentlemen.
Rifter 1: The Shattered Gates
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
Clarkesworld Magazine: 12-Month Subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout Clarkesworld Magazine
Clarkesworld is a science fiction and fantasy magazine that has been published monthly since October 2006. Each issue contains at least three pieces of original fiction from new and established authors, as well as art, articles, interviews and more.
Fiction from Clarkesworld has won or been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Sturgeon, Shirley Jackson, Stoker, WSFA Small Press and Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards. Clarkesworld itself received the 2010 and 2011 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine and Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke is a 2012 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Editor Short Form.
More information about Clarkesworld can be found at their website, www.clarkesworldmagazine.com.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 53
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe February 2011 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Rachel Swirsky (“Diving After the Moon”) and D. Elizabeth Wasden (“Three Oranges”), an interview with David Weber, and articles by Kerry Tynan Fraser (“Neologism and Linguicide”) and Julie Dillon (“The Process of Creating ‘Nautili'”).
Lightspeed Magazine, February 2011
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLightspeed Magazine is a monthly science fiction magazine that features all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between:
Our lead story for February is “Long Enough and Just So Long” by Cat Rambo, the tale of two teen, Heinleinesque Moon-residents who meet a liberated sexbot from Earth.
Next up is “The Passenger” by Julie E. Czerneda, the tale of a man and a committee aboard a generation ship, that examines justice, hypocrisy, art, and our ability to rationalize and explain away the most horrific things. (Reprint)
New author Ken Liu also explores the creation of digital lifeforms in his first story for Lightspeed, “Simulacrum,” in which the innovator of a vividly-realistic holographic technology finds that creating and interacting with fake people may be easier than maintaining relationships with real ones.
“Breakaway, Backdown” by Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author James Patrick Kelly gives the reader a chance to be a fly on the wall during a conversation about the allure and perils of space.
Realms 1: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedStep into a world of wonder, epiphany, and danger. From the return of old gods to the adventures of the last dragon on Earth, from quantum physics to manticores trained for the circus, this unique anthology takes readers on journeys to realms both distant and oddly familiar. . .
Selected from the critically-acclaimed online magazine Clarkesworld, Realms collects the work of 24 visionary writers of short fiction, including such World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Tiptree, Hugo, and Campbell Award winners and finalists as Jay Lake, Jeff VanderMeer, Elizabeth Bear, Catherynne M. Valente, Caitlin Kiernan, Ian Watson, Sarah Monette, and Holly Phillips—and amazing stories from up-and-comers like Ekaterina Sedia, Cat Rambo, Barth Anderson, and many more!
Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSelected from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated Clarkesworld Magazine, Realms 2 collects the work of twenty-four visionary writers of short fiction, including such World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Tiptree, Hugo and Campbell Award winners and finalists as Jeffrey Ford, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, Tim Pratt, and Catherynne M. Valente—and amazing stories from up-and-comers like, Paul Jessup, Yoon Ha Lee, Margaret Ronald and many more!
On Spec Magazine – Winter 2010/2011 #83 vol 22 no 4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Winter 2010/2011 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Andrew Boden (“Chorus of Final Sighs”), Terry Hayman (“Something to Remember You By”), Louise Moon (“If Truth Be Told”), Michal Wojcik (“Dreaming of Jerusalem”), Kate Riedel (“The Man Who Loved His Work”), Scott Overton (“The Wind Man”), Marcelo Adrián Lillo (“A Kidnapping”), and Bruce Barber (“The Crystaiad”); author interview by Roberta Laurie (“Scratching the Surface with Terry Hayman”); artist interview by Lyn X (“Eric Orchard”); editorials by Diane L. Walton (“You Never Know What You’re Going to Get”) and Barb Galler-Smith (“Newsflash!”); cover art by Eric Orchard.
Lightspeed Magazine: 6-Month Subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout Lightspeed Magazine
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. No subject is off-limits, and we encourage our writers to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope.
Lightspeed was a finalist for the 2011 Hugo Award, and stories from Lightspeed have been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award.
Each month at Lightspeed, we bring you a mix of originals and reprints, and featuring a variety of authors—from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven’t heard of yet. When you read Lightspeed, it is our hope that you’ll see where science fiction and fantasy comes from, where it is now, and where it’s going.
Lightspeed also includes feature interviews, fiction podcasts, and Q&As with our authors that go behind-the-scenes of their stories. While Lightspeed originally published only science fiction, in January 2012, we merged with our sister publication, Fantasy Magazine, and we now publish an equal amount of fantasy and science fiction.
Our current publication schedule each month includes four pieces of original fiction and four fiction reprints, along with two feature interviews and an artist gallery showcasing our cover artist. New content (Fiction and Nonfiction) will be posted on the first four Tuesdays of each month. Ebook editions will be available on the 1st of the month.
A 6 month subscription to Lightspeed includes 48 stories (about 240,000 words of fiction), plus assorted nonfiction. That’s about 2.5 regular-sized books worth of fiction!
John Joseph Adams, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
John Joseph Adams, in addition to serving as publisher and editor of Lightspeed, is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as Brave New Worlds, Wastelands, The Living Dead, The Living Dead 2, By Blood We Live, Federations, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and The Way of the Wizard. In 2011, he was nominated for two Hugo Awards and two World Fantasy Awards, and he has been called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble.com. John is also the co-host of io9’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. Find him on Twitter @johnjosephadams.
Apex Magazine Issue 20
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedGet your dark science fiction and fantasy short story fix at Apex Magazine. New issue released on the first Monday of every month!
Fiction:
“The Itaweon Eschatology” by Douglas F. Warrick
“The Tolling of Pavlov’s Bells” by Seanan McGuire
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Mary Robinette Kowal
Poetry:
“The Terminal City” by Preston Grassmann
“The Unkindest Kiss” by Mike Allen
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 52
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2011 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Yoon Ha Lee (“Ghostweight”) and Ken Liu (“Tying Knots”), an interview with Walter Jon Williams, and an article on Romance in Science Fiction movies by Daniel M. Kimmel.
Lightspeed Magazine, January 2011
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLightspeed Magazine is a monthly science fiction magazine that features all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between:
In our first fiction story of 2011, “Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow,” debut author Corey Mariani shows us a future in which connections are limitless, love can be quantified, and your social networking status is your greatest asset.
A lonely drug dealer’s strange relationship with space cucumbers leads to a tentative new friendship in “Cucumber Gravy” by Susan Palwick.
Turns out not all gorgeous, sparkling men are angst-ridden vampires. In Tanith Lee’s “Black Fire,” we see what happens when you let that gleaming stranger—who just happens to show up after you see a strange object soar across the evening sky—into your home.
And for our final story of January, we bring you Orson Scott Card’s “The Elephants of Poznan,” in which animals know more about saving mankind than we do.
Zombies: The Recent Dead
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedYou can’t kill the dead! Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be ever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginative interpretations: the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero’s living dead, societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic. Evidently, we have an enduring hunger for this infinite onslaught of the ever-hungry dead. Hoards of readers are now devouring zombie fiction faster than armies of the undead could chow down their brains. It’s a sick job, but somebody had to do it: explore the innumerable necrotic nightmares of the latest, greatest, most fervent devotion in the history of humankind and ferret out the best of new millenial zombie stories: Zombies: The Recent Dead.
“In this hefty anthology of 22 short stories originally published between 2000 and 2010, zombies run the gamut from shambling, mindless killers to transformed super-cool high school students. Introductions by Guran and David J. Schow contextualize the zombie oeuvre. In Kevin Veale’s darkly hilarious ‘Twisted,’ two men manage to escape the zombies by ingesting huge amounts of drugs. In Kit Reed’s call-and-response ‘The Zombie Prince,’ a strange creature and a recently rejected woman have an increasingly intimate conversation about loss and life. Tim Lebbon’s coming-of-age novella, ‘Naming of Parts,’ in which a boy and his parents flee zombies across postapocalyptic England, delivers an emotional punch despite its by-the-numbers adult — child role reversal. In ‘Zora and the Zombie,’ Andy Duncan combines fact and fiction as Zora Neale Hurston confronts zombies in Haiti. This collection has something for every zombie fan.”—Publishers Weekly
People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFrom Sholom Aleichem to Avram Davidson, Isaac Bashevis Singer to Tony Kushner, the Jewish literary tradition has always been one rich in the supernatural and the fantastic. In these pages, gathered from the best short fiction of the last ten years, twenty authors prove that their heritage is alive and well – in the spaces between stars that an alphabet can bridge, folklore come to life and histories become stories, and all the places where old worlds and new collide and change.
Introduction by Ann VanderMeer.
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA girl who eats dreams, a woman who chooses the apes, and a barbarian hero rendered as a collage. These are just a few of the people readers first met online thanks to the explosion of webzines. Ellen Datlow, editor of Omni Online, Event Horizon, and SciFiction, led the charge into the brave new world of online science fiction. Digital Domains collects some of the best and most controversial of those stories — in print for the first time.