- from John Klima at Tor.com
- from Adam Golaski at Open Letters Monthly
- From Rich Horton’s The Elephant Forgets
- On Deborah J. Brannon’s Livejournal, Talks to Wolves
The Homeless Moon III [Steampunk!]
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedJuly 2010
Five Odyssey grads fit together like a (steam-powered) mutant Voltron to bring you a (third) cache of eclectic fiction.
Contents:
Scott H. Andrews, “New! The ‘GEARWORK ROSE’™”
Jason S. Ridler, “Iron Horse in the City of Stone”
Michael J. DeLuca, “The Unicyclist’s Fate”
Erin Hoffman, “Precise and Invariable Laws”
Justin Howe in Absentia
PLUS Erin Hoffman’s astounding Steampunk Story Generator v1.0
Hey–if you love Weightless Books like we do and support what they do, go ahead and pay a dollar for this. Homeless Moon and Weightless Books will split it two ways–our half will go to defraying the costs of the next chapbook, and their half will go to bringing you more great indie ebooks. Otherwise, you can download it for free:
Homeless Moon Chapbook 3 – DRM-free, print-quality PDF (3.9mb)
Homeless Moon Chapbook 3 – Mobipocket PRC (274k)
Homeless Moon Chapbook 3 – EPUB (147k)
The Homeless Moon chapbooks are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
The Homeless Moon II: Imaginary Places
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedJuly 2009
Five Odyssey grads fit together like a piecemeal mutant Voltron to bring you a (second) cache of eclectic genre fiction.
This year, each of us took inspiration from one of the fictional lands found in Manguel and Guadalupi’s Dictionary of Imaginary Places.
Contents:
Jason S. Ridler, “A Cemetery Romance”
Michael J. DeLuca, “The Cannon and the Prophetess”
Erin Hoffman, “In Lixus, Close to Waking”
Scott H. Andrews, “Adrift in Ishtakar”
Justin Howe, “Signature Days”
Hey–if you love Weightless Books like we do and support what they do, go ahead and pay a dollar for this. Homeless Moon and Weightless Books will split it two ways–our half will go to defraying the costs of the next chapbook, and their half will go to bringing you more great indie ebooks. Otherwise, you can download it for free:
Homeless Moon Chapbook 2 – DRM-free, print-quality PDF
The Homeless Moon chapbooks are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
The Homeless Moon I [Codename: Spider Bot]
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedJuly 2008
Five Odyssey grads fit together like a piecemeal mutant Voltron to bring you a cache of eclectic genre fiction.
Contents:
Michael J. DeLuca, “Construction-Paper Moon”
Jason S. Ridler, “Impracticable Dreams”
Scott H. Andrews, “Colonized”
Erin Hoffman, “The Recurrence of Orpheus”
Justin Howe, “Welcome to Foreign Lands”
Reviews:
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Homeless Moon Chapbook 1 – DRM-free, print-quality PDF
The Homeless Moon chapbooks are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 49
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 2010 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Eric Brown (“Laying the Ghost”) and Jacques Barcia (“Salvaging Gods”), interviews with Jay Lake and Mary Robinette Kowal, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2010
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 2010 issue of Lightspeed Magazine 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 lead story this month, “Hindsight,” horror author Sarah Langan tells the story of an apocalypse-in-progress, a world in which the laws of physics no longer seem to behave properly, and a mysterious cosmic anomaly called Black Betty. The last remaining survivors have one last hope, but can the technological singularity defeat the threat of a gravitational one?
In “Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back,” author Joe R. Lansdale tells the tale of a mad scientist and his family who spend twenty long, hard years Down Under waiting for the war to end. By doing so, they manage to survive the end of the world, but when they go back Topside, they find a world very different than the one they remember—a world in which even a rose is supremely dangerous…and not just because of its thorns.
Imagine you’re awakened early from cryonic stasis aboard a starship traveling to a colony world where tens of thousands of starving colonists will die if you don’t get there to help them. John R. Fultz’s chilling “The Taste of Starlight” explores whether the lives of many outweigh the lives of few, as we experience the lengths the good Doctor Pelops is willing to go to in order to ensure his mission’s success. Would you—should you—be able to do the same thing?
There are few authors in the world about whom you can honestly say “he needs no introduction.” But when you’re talking about Stephen King, that’s most certainly the truth. “Beachworld,” one of the horror master’s rare forays into straight-up science fiction, follows the plight of the two survivors of a far-future interstellar spaceflight, who crash land on a harsh and unforgiving planet.
Apex Magazine Issue 17
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.
Original Fiction:
“Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)” by Ian Tregillis
“The Girl Who Had Six Fingers” by Brenda Stokes Barron
Reprint:
“Citizen Komarova Finds Love” by Ekaterina Sedia (originally appeared in EXOTIC GOTHIC 3)
Poetry:
“Love’s Ecology” by Rose Lemberg
“Anything So Utterly Destroyed” by Elizabeth McClellan
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #52
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #52 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Margaret Ronald and Therese Arkenberg.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #51
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #51 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Garth Upshaw and E. Catherine Tobler.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 48
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2010 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Robert Reed (“The Cull”) and Stephen Gaskell (“Paper Cradle”) , interviews with Karen Lowachee and Angela Slatter, and an article on lives and times of Magnus, Robot Fighter by Bill Spangler.
Lightspeed Magazine, September 2010
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2010 issue of Lightspeed Magazine 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 lead story this month, “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain,” author Yoon Ha Lee explores the notions of evitability and inevitability in a story about ancestry, multiple universes, an extraordinary gun…and the extraordinary woman who wields it; in “The Long Chase,” author (and NASA scientist) Geoffrey A. Landis tells the story of a survivor of a brutal, ideological war who escapes to the stars the only way she can. But she quickly finds that her enemies do not give up easily and are extremely patient when pursuing their prey.…; “Amid the Words of War” by Cat Rambo also tells the story of the survivor of an interstellar war. This tale takes place on the space station TwiceFar, where you can find a house of leisure called The Little Teacup of the Soul, whose patrons promise to fulfill any need…or die trying; and legendary author Robert Silverberg’s far-future “Travelers” take us on a journey throughout the galaxy, hopping from solar system to solar system as they explore everything from the living seas of Megalo Kastro to the monsters of Sidri Akrak. But what is it they’re really looking for?
Apex Magazine Issue 16
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.
Original Fiction:
“L’esprit de L’escalier” by Peter M. Ball
“Portage” by An Owomoyela
Reprint:
“each thing i show you is a piece of my death” by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer (originally appeared in Clockwork Phoenix 2)
Poetry:
“Ghosha” by Shweta Naryan
“The Chorus of Dead Girls” by JoSelle Vanderhooft
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe third issue of Luna Station Quarterly, featuring a collection of unique stories by up and coming women writers.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #50
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #50 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Marie Brennan and Liz Coleman.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #49
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #49 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Erin Cashier and Rachael Acks.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 47
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2010 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Catherynne M. Valente (“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time”) and Julia M Sidorova (“Messenger”) , a group interview with members of the Altered Fluid Writers Group, and an article on the changing face of magazines by Neil Clarke.
Lightspeed Magazine, August 2010
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2010 issue of Lightspeed Magazine features all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between:
—Catherynne M. Valente teaches us “How to Become a Mars Overlord,” with her step-by-step program that enables each and every one of us to find the right Mars for us to rule over
—Tananarive Due tells the tragic story of “Patient Zero” in her chilling account of a child being raised in isolation, ignorant of an apocalyptic infection raging in the outside world
—in the audacious “Arvies,” author Adam-Troy Castro tells the story of a post-poverty utopia in which everybody lucky enough to be plugged into the society’s opportunities gets to do whatever the heck they want to do with their lives, indulging their slightest whims—including living their lives inside a living womb.
—for our final fiction selection of the month, we present “More Than the Sum of His Parts” by Joe Haldeman, an examination of one man’s transformation from human to cyborg that asks the question: As a person becomes less and less organic, might they become less and less human?