Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 38, May 2019
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 38: May 2019
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Emily McCosh, James Reinebold, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Alex Shvartsman, Robert Silverberg. Eric S. Fomley, Rachelle Harp, Todd McCaffrey, Eric Leif Davin, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Michael Swanwick
Serialization: Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield
Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford
Recommended Books: Richard Chwydyk
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Gordon Van Gelder
Galaxy’s Edge is a bi-monthly magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by Robert J. Sawyer and Gregory Benford, book recommendations by Richard Chwydyk and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.
Locus May 2019 (#700)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2019 issue of Locus has interviews with G. Willow Wilson and Ilana C. Myer. Grand Master Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) and Vonda N. McIntyre (1948-2019) are remembered with obituaries and appreciations. News includes the 2019 Hugo Awards ballot, 1944 Retro Hugos ballot, Audrey Shulman’s Philip K. Dick Award win, the new Tor horror imprint, Gabriela Damián Miravete’s Tiptree win, the closure of the Gemmell Awards, Saga’s move to Gallery, and more. Awards season news also covers BSFA, Spectrum, Kitschie, and Guggenheim winners, and finalists or shortlists for the Prometheus, Seiun, and Ditmar Awards, among others.
Convention coverage with photos and reports includes the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards, and the 2019 Williamson Lectureship. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Steering with the Windshield Wipers”. Other obituaries and appreciations remember Carol Emshwiller, W.H. Pugmire, and Frances Yerxa Hamling. Reviews cover new titles by Ted Chiang, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jo Walton, Sarah Tolmie, S.M. Stirling, Gareth L. Powell, Fran Wilde, Iona Datt Sharma, Greg Egan, Jack Skillingstead, Waubgeshig Rice, Bryan Camp, Karen Russell, Max Porter, Dave Hutchinson, Michelle Sagara, Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Anna-Marie McLemore, J.S. Breukelaar, Stephen R. Donaldson, Nisi Shawl (ed.), and many others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 152
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedClarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our May 2019 issue (#152) contains:
* Original fiction by Xia Jia (“Tick-Tock”), A. T. Greenblatt (“Move Forward, Disappear, Transcend”), Cory Skerry (“Empress in Glass”), Arula Ratnakar (“Insaan Hain, Farishte Nahin”), and R.S.A. Garcia (“The Sun from Both Sides”).
* A reprint by , Alexander Jablokov (“Bad Day on Boscobel”).
* Non-fiction by Carries Sessarego, an interview with Jack McDevitt, an Another Word column by Alethea Kontis, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 52
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedForever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.
Our May 2019 issue features “Jackie’s Boy” by Steven Popkes, “Entangled” by Ian R. MacLeod, and “An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away” by John Barnes.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #275
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #275 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Nghi Vo and Jessica Paddock.
Apex Magazine Issue 119
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. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.
EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief by Jason Sizemore
FICTION
Professor Strong and the Brass Boys by Amal Singh
All Votes Will Be Counted (We Promise) by Paul Crenshaw
Face by Veronica Brush
A Fool’s Baneful Gallantry by Derek Lubangakene
NONFICTION
Interview with Author Amal Singh by Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Marcela Bolívar by Russell Dickerson
The Pros and Cons of Stage Directions by Alethea Kontis
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 151
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedClarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our April 2019 issue (#151) contains:
* Original fiction by Natalia Theodoridou (“The Last Eagle”), Yukimi Ogawa (“Ripen”), Eric Schwitzgebel (“Gaze of Robot, Gaze of Bird”), Soyeon Jeong (“The Flowering”), Priya Chand (“Social Darwinism”), Nian Yu (“In Search of Your Memories”), and Y.M. Pang (“Skyscrapers in the Sand”).
* Reprint by Nick Wolven (“Confessions of a Con Girl”).
* Non-fiction by Douglas F. Dluzen, interviews with Jack Skillingstead and Anna Kashina, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 107 (April 2019)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLIGHTSPEED 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.
Ever wonder what it would be like if archaeology could skip digging in the dirt and just go straight to excavating time? Caroline M. Yoachim explores just this idea in her new short story “The Archronology of Love.” Our cover art this month, from Reiko Murakami, illustrates this story. Our other original SF short is by Matthew Corradi (“Gundark Island, or Tars Tarkas Needs Your Help”), taking us adventuring with a group of boys and their very interesting companion. You can also enjoy SF reprints by Cory Doctorow (“To Market, To Market: The Branding of Billy Bailey”) and Michael Swanwick (“The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin”). Ashok K. Banker’s Legends of the Burnt Empire series comes to an explosive conclusion in “The Seeds of War,” a new story about Vrath and the terrible repercussions of his vows. Shweta Adhyam takes a look at the pros and cons of prophecy in her new story “A Conch-Shell’s Notes.” We also have fantasy reprints by Carmen Maria Machado (“Blur”) and Carrie Vaughn (“The Lady of Shalott”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. We also have an interview with Rebecca Roanhorse. For our ebook readers, we also have a reprint of the novella “The Speed of Belief,” by Robert Reed. You can also enjoy an excerpt from the novel UPON A BURNING THRONE, by Ashok K. Banker.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 79 (April 2019)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Our first new original short is from Mari Ness: “The Girl and the House.” It’s a story guaranteed to make you think differently about gothic novels. Dennis E. Staples gives us a most unusual heart condition in his new short story “The One You Feed.” We also have reprints by Priya Sharma (“The Ballad of Boomtown”) and Stephen Gallagher (“Shepherds’ Business”). Kevin J. Anderson talks about the marriage between humor and horror in the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word.” We also have author spotlights with our authors, and a media review from Adam-Troy Castro.
The Dark – Issue 47
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Michael Kelly, and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
An Open Coffin by H. Pueyo
Children of Air by Gabriela Santiago (reprint)
Seventy-Seven by Francisco Ortega, translated by David Bowles
My House Is Out Where the Lights End by Kirsty Logan (reprint)
Locus April 2019 (#699)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2019 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Jasper Fforde and Sarah Beth Durst and a spotlight on David Baldacci. The issue includes the 2018 British Book Summary, coverage of FOGcon, and a report on SF in India by Mysore Srinihari. News covers PEN and Audie Awards Winners, Sturgeon and Aurealis Awards finalists, Carnegie Medal and Kitschies Shortlists, Curtis’s Dell Award win, the closure of InterGalactic Medicine Show, Nebula Awards controversy, and much more. Janet Asimov (1926-2019) is remembered with an obituary. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “The Future is Intrinsically Hopeful”. Reviews cover new titles by Ian McDonald, Linda Nagata, Chen Qiufan, Gwyneth Jones, Max Gladstone, Claire O’Dell, Michelle Sagara, Cate Glass, Barbara Hambly, Ben H. Winters, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Meg Elison, Pola Oloixarac, Arwen Elys Dayton, Ben Aaronovitch, Scotto Moore, K.J. Parker, Gareth Hanrahan, Roshani Chokshi, Howard Andrew Jones, and many others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #67 April 2019
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2019 Issue of Flash Fiction Online. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
A selection of literary short stories from Flash Fiction Online curated by Editor-in-Chief Suzanne W. Vincent.
The April 2019 Issue of Flash Fiction Online includes four flash fiction stories, an editorial by Editor-in-Chief Suzanne W. Vincent, and a new writing advice column by Jason S. Ridler.
“A Lady of Ganymede, a Sparrow of Io” by Dafydd McKimm
“Junk Life” by Chris Milam
“From Her Mouth, the Ashes” by Jessica Jo Horowitz
“Gator and the Big Buzz” by Peter S. Drang
Change happens.
Challenges come.
Endurance conquers.
It’s tax season here in the U.S. This weekend my dear husband will be poring over stacks of papers and scratching his head over a maze of instructions to find out if we’ll be getting or paying this year. We’re nearly empty nesters and no longer have minor children. We don’t have a great deal of expense that would qualify us for loads of exemptions. Wish us luck.
And as I sit here, contemplating my first world problems, I begin to think about people who have troubles a great deal worse than having to fill out a tax return. I think about years in our marriage when that refund meant the difference between squeaking by and losing everything. I think about the ups and downs of life, about lean and fat years, about some of the most joyous and most terrible days of my life.
We convince ourselves that life should be a flatline–just flying along at cruising altitude, no bumps in the road. Some part of our brain seems to expect that, though our sense of reason tells us otherwise. Change happens. Challenges come. For some reason, though, when turbulence hits, we react with shock. We feel isolated, alone in our suffering, as if the world has fallen away from beneath our feet, leaving us at the bottom of a deep, dark hole with no way out. But trials and tribulations don’t last. We eventually climb out of that hole in one way or another. Some unknown person once said, “On particularly rough days, when I’m sure I can’t possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100%, and that’s pretty good.”
This month’s stories are all about people with different challenges. Interestingly, when we read about characters overcoming their fictional challenges, something in our brain fires up, teaching us how to handle our own troubles. Most importantly, however, stories can teach us the crucial skill of empathy–an understanding of others, their choices and challenges. It is from empathy that we draw sympathy, from sympathy that we find it within ourselves to be kinder, to give to those in need, to love, shelter, and protect. It is empathy that allows us to be better people, and, by extension, gives us the power to make a better world.
So read, learn, do something to make your corner of the world a little broader, a little softer, a little better.
We hope you enjoy these grand stories as much as we did, and may the tax gods smile upon your efforts!
Forever Magazine – Issue 51
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedForever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.
Our April 2019 issue features a novella by Eleanor Arnason (“The Potter of Bones”), a short story by Karl Bunker (“The Woman from the Ocean”), and a short story by Robert Reed (“The Residue of Fire”).
On Spec Magazine #110, Vol 29 No 3-4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 29 No 3-4 (Double issue)
Black Static #68
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis March-April issue contains new cutting edge horror fiction by Stephen Volk, Tim Lees, Kay Chronister, David Martin, Amanda J. Bermudez, and Tom Johnstone. The cover art is ‘Memento’ by Joachim Luetke, and interior illustrations are by Joachim Luetke, Dave Senecal, Ben Baldwin, and Richard Wagner. Regular features: Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore; Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker; Case Notes book reviews by Georgina Bruce, Mike O’Driscoll, Laura Mauro, Daniel Carpenter, Andrew Hook, Philip Fracassi, and David Surface; Blood Spectrum film reviews by Gary Couzens.
Space and Time Magazine Issue #133
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring/Summer 2019 issue of Space and Time Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Gordon Linzner (“A Door Opens”), Derwin Mak (“XY-Girls”) and Evey Brett (“Twisted-Up Things”), an interview with Terrible Tim & the Drive-In Movie Maniacs, poetry by John Reinhart, K.B. Kofoed and Christina Sng, and more!