Interzone #280
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March–April 2019 issue of Interzone contains new cutting edge science fiction and fantasy by Shauna O’Meara, Maria Haskins, Nicholas Kaufmann, Val Nolan, and Sarah Brooks. The 2019 cover artist is Richard Wagner, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner and Martin Hanford.
Features: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews); Andy Hedgecock’s Future Interrupted (comment); Aliya Whiteley’s Climbing Stories (comment); guest editorial by Shauna O’Meara.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 27
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March/April 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Karen Osborne, Tina Connolly, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Marie Brennan, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and A.T. Greenblatt. Reprinted fiction by Aliette de Bodard, essays by Tracy Townsend, Briana Lawrence, Marissa Lingen, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Beth Cato, D.A. Xaolin Spires, Cassandra Khaw, Sandi Liebowitz, and Chloe N. Clark, interviews withBonnie Jo Stufflebeam and A.T. Greenblatt by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Christopher Jones, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 118
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
Musings from Maryland — Lesley Conner
FICTION
The Prison-house of Language — Elana Gomel
Where Gods Dance — Ben Serna-Grey
Curse Like a Savior — Russell Nichols
Letty — Regina Bradley
O Have You Seen the Devle with his Mikerscope and Scalpul? — Jonathan L. Howard
NONFICTION
Interview with Author Elana Gomel — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Aaron Jasinski — Russell Dickerson
The Art of Peace: Mari Evans’ Legacy of Peaceful and Ethical Engagement — Tabitha Barbour
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 150
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 March 2019 issue (#150) contains:
* Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (“But, Still, I Smile”), Erin K. Wagner (“When Home, No Need to Cry”), Rich Larson (“Death of an Air Salesman”), Nin Harris (“Dreams Strung like Pearls Between War and Peace”), Kai Hudson (“Treasure Diving”), and Emily C. Skaftun (“The Thing With the Helmets”).
* Reprints by Kij Johnson (“26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss”) and Catherynne M. Valente (“The Future is Blue”).
* Non-fiction by Paul Riddell, interviews with Sarah Pinsker and Jean-Michel Jarre, an Another Word column by Fran Wilde, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 106 (March 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.
This month, Carolyn Ives Gilman takes citizen science to the stars in her original science fiction short “On the Shores of Ligeia.” Our other SF short, “My Children’s Home,” by Woody Dismukes, paints a picture of a far future orphanage with disturbing social implications. We also have SF reprints by Violet Allen (“The Synapse Will Free Us From Ourselves”) and Charlie Jane Anders (“A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime”).
Maria Romasco Moore brings us our first original fantasy short–“Self Storage Starts with the Heart”–which gives us a plastic-wrapped solution to loneliness. Of course, Ashok K. Banker’s series continues with “A Hundred Thousand Arrows,” a short story hinging on a very thrilling chariot race. We also have fantasy reprints by Richard Kadrey (“Ambitious Boys Like You”) and Kat Howard (“Those Are Pearls”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. For our ebook readers, we have an ebook-exclusive reprint of the SF novella “Of Love and Other Monsters,” by Vandana Singh, and an excerpt from Arkady Martine’s new novel A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 78 (March 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.
This month, we have a new short story from Cadwell Turnbull: “All the Hidden Places,” which is about life after a particularly monstrous apocalypse. Adam-Troy Castro takes us into the near future in his new short “Example,” which looks at a dark change to the corrections system. We also have terrific reprints by Kaaron Warren (“Bridge of Sighs”) and Seanan McGuire (“Carry On”). In our column on horror, “The H Word,” writer Nibedita Sen writes about the body horror of pregnancy. Plus, we have author spotlights with our authors, and a book review from Terence Taylor.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – March/April 2019
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each double-sized bimonthly issue offers:
compelling short fiction by writers such as David Gerrold., Ursula K. Le Guin, Terry Bisson and many others;
the science fiction field’s most respected and outspoken opinions on Books, Films and Science;
humor from our cartoonists and writers.
For more information and to sample some of our articles, Please visit our web site.
NOVELLAS
All of Me – R.S. Benedict
NOVELETS
The Plot Against Fantucco’s Armor – Matthew Hughes
Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun – Jerome Stueart
Contagion’s Eve at the House Noctambulous – Rich Larson
SHORT STORIES
The Unbearable Lightness of Bullets – Gregor Hartmann
At Your Dream’s Edge – S. Qiouyi Lu
Miscellaneous Notes from the Time an Alien Came to Band Camp Disguised As My Alto Sax – Tina Connolly
The Mark of Cain – John Kessel
Playscape – Diana Peterfreund
The Free Orcs of Cascadia – Margaret Killjoy
Dear Sir or Madam – Paul Park
Bella and the Blessed Stone – Nick Dichario
POEMS
In the Caverns of the Moon – Mary Soon Lee
Away – Sophie M. White
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Musing on Books – Michelle West
Science: E.T. Shmee-T – Jerry Oltion
Films: The Yawning Abyss – David J. Skal
Coming Attractions –
Curiosities – Graham Andrews
CARTOON
Nick Downes, Nick Downes, Bill Long, Arthur Masear, Danny Shanahan.
COVER
Kent Bash for “Contagion’s Eve at the House Noctambulous”
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 37
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAs we begin the TENTH YEAR of Luna Station Quarterly (Holy @#$&!) we are proud to present an incredibly varied slate of female fronted fiction for you to enjoy. From the dystopian to the semi-medieval, from Irish Faerie stories to tales of queer discovery, these stories have a giant, a mermaid, a unicorn, an eccentric aunt and a sinister raccoon, often in the most surprising settings and situations! But most importantly of all, woven throughout the different tones and genre trappings, these are NEW STORIES, showing the bright minds, sharp tongues and large hearts of the women whose aim is nothing less than to reshape the landscape of what is possible in short fiction.
We’re Luna Station. It’s Year Ten. Come on in.
The Dark – Issue 46
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:
“After Life” by Shari Paul
“Here and There” by Karen Heuler (reprint)
“Modern Science” by Nelson Stanley
“The Body is Concentrated Ground” by Kirsten Kaschock (reprint)
Flash Fiction Online Issue #66 March 2019
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March 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.
Mark Twain once said, “It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
Here in the heart of the Rockies this year, March 1st is a bit early for spring fever. It’s still colder than a brass toilet seat in the Yukon. But the signs are there. The robins and mourning doves have returned. We get the occasional sunny warm-up day, where it starts at fifteen degrees Fahrenheit and warms up enough by late afternoon to open the windows for a little fresh air. Often to be followed, of course, by yet another snowstorm.
This time of year my heart definitely aches for something. Unlike Twain, though. I know exactly what it is. It’s green. It’s warm. It’s thawed. It’s being able to walk out the door without an arsenal of warm socks, boots, scarves, hats, gloves, coats. Being able to climb into the car and drive away without first scraping ice from the windows.
All that want, that yearning, tends to drive us all crazy, doesn’t it? That’s why we call it spring fever.
I was about six years old when I contracted scarlet fever as a child. I remember having crazy dreams. In one, my brother came home from work and walked down the hallway to my room. All I could see were his big work boots, stomping down the hallway, getting bigger and bigger, until one huge cartoonish boot filled the doorway. I remembering being both fascinated and terrified, out of my head with the fever and the sickness.
That’s the kind of crazy spring sometimes brings with it, and the kind of crazy we have for you this month. Cartoonish, fascinating, terrifying.
As always, we hope you are deer-in-the-headlights glued to your computer screen from first word to last.
Circle, Circle, Slash, Slash by Jason A. Zwiker
A Plea for a Haunting by Ray Yanek
Pianissimo by Chelsea Hanna Cohen
knick knack, knick knack by Holly Lyn Walrath
And a new writing advice column from Jason S. Ridler!
Locus March 2019 (#698)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March 2019 issue of Locus has interviews with Leigh Bardugo and S.A. Chakraborty. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through December 2019. Betty Ballantine and Carol Emshwiller are remembered with obituaries, photos, and appreciations from friends and colleagues.
News includes the Nebula Awards Ballot, Kuang’s Crawford win, an alternate Heinlein novel forthcoming from Phoenix Pick, the Stoker Awards final ballot, SFWA candidates, the closure of Spiegel & Grau, and much more. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Terra Nullius”. Other obituaries remember Carrie Richerson, Michaelene Pendleton, and Cary Heater.
Reviews cover new titles by Charlie Jane Anders, G. Willow Wilson, Zen Cho, Tade Thompson, Sarah Pinsker, Alastair Reynolds, Malka Older, Curtis C. Chen, Jacqueline Koyanagi & Fran Wilde, Jenna Glass, Jenn Lyons, Ian McDonald, K. Chess, Samanta Schweblin, Arkady Martine, James S.A. Corey, Alison Goodman, Yoon Ha Lee, Claire Legrand, K.K. Pérez, Anne Bishop, Sebastien de Castell, Jim C. Hines, Faith Hunter, Seanan McGuire, Carol J. Perry, S. Andrew Swann, Charlie N. Holmberg, Thoraiya Dyer, Farah Mendlesohn, Shaun Tan, John Howe, Michael Whelan, and more.
Forever Magazine Issue 50
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 March 2019 issue features “In the Quake Zone” by David Gerrold, “The Dragon of Pripyat” by Karl Schroeder, and “The Chameleon’s Gloves” by Yoon Ha Lee.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 37, March 2019
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 37: March 2019
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Larry Hodges. Floris M. Kleijne, Orson Scott Card, Brian Trent. Sean Patrick Hazlett. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, J.W. Alden, J.P. Sullivan, Brennan Harvey, Mercedes Lackey, Thomas K. Carpenter, George Nikolopoulos, Nick DiChario, Joe Haldeman
Serialization: Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield
Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford
Recommended Books: Bill Fawcett and Jody Lynn Nye
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Jody Lynn Nye
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 Bill Fawcett and Jody Lynn Nye and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.
Apex Magazine Issue 117
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 — Jason Sizemore
FICTION
The Crafter at the Web’s Heart — Izzy Wasserstein
Cold Iron Comfort — Hayley Stone
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions — Wole Talabi
Hole in the World (novel excerpt) — Brian Keene
NONFICTION
Interview with Author Izzy Wasserstein — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Julia Griffin — Russell Dickerson
The Anatomy of a Transracial Child — Woody Dismukes
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 77 (February 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.
We’re opening this month with an original short from Micah Dean Hicks, “Quiet the Dead,” the story of a haunted family in a town whose biggest industry is the pig slaughterhouse. Rafeeat Aliyu’s new short story “58 Rules To Ensure Your Husband Loves You Forever” is full of good relationship advice…if you don’t mind feeding your husband human flesh. We’re also sharing reprints by Kelley Armstrong (“We Are All Monsters Here”) and Nick Mamatas (“The Glottal Stop”). Our nonfiction team has put together their usual array of author spotlights, and in the latest installment of “The H Word,” Richard Thomas talks about exciting new trends in horror films. Since it’s Women in Horror Month, Lisa Morton has put together a terrific panel interview with Linda Addison, Joanna Parypinski, Becky Spratford, and Kaaron Warren–a great group of female writers and scholars.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 105 (February 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.
This month, Matthew Baker looks beyond ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK to imagine the future of corrections. Is his idea better than our current prison system? Decide for yourself after you read “Life Sentence.” If you like your science fiction with a steampunk flavor, we’re happy to share “Harry and Marlowe and the Disinclined Laboratory,” the latest installment in Carrie Vaughn’s The Aetherian Revolution series. We also have SF reprints from Elizabeth Bear (“Okay, Glory”) and Gord Sellar (“The Incursus by Asimov-NN#71”).
Our fantasy selections start off with an original take on Canadian folklore from KT Bryski: “Ti-Jean’s Last Adventure, as Told to Raccoon,” a tale of trickster versus trickster. The saga of Vrath and Sha’ant continues in the newest installment of Ashok K. Banker’s Legends of the Burnt Empire, “The Terrible Oath.” We also have fantasy reprints by Crystal Koo (“The Perpetual Day”) and Dennis Danvers (“Healing Benjamin”).
Our nonfiction lovers will enjoy our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. We also have an interview with author Lilliam Rivera. For our ebook readers, we have an ebook-exclusive reprint of Kat Howard’s novella “Hath No Fury.” Our book excerpt is from Micah Dean Hicks’ new novel, BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES.