Uncanny Magazine Issue 24
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September/October 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Our Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue! Guest edited by Dominik Parisen and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Nicolette Barischoff, S. Qioyi Lu, and Judith Tarr.
Featuring new fiction by William Alexander, Rachel Swirsky, Jennifer Brozek, A.T. Greenblatt, A. Merc Rustad, Katharine Duckett, Nisi Shawl, Stu West, P.H. Lee, Fran Wilde, and Marissa Lingen, essays by Andi C. Buchanan, Fran Wilde, Zaynab Shahar, John Wiswell, A.J. Hackwith, Ira Gladkova, Gemma Noon, teri.zin, and Marieke Nijkamp, and poetry by Rita Chen, Rose Lemberg, Genevieve DeGuzman, Robin M. Eames, Sarah Gailey, Alicia Cole, Khairani Barokka, Bogi Takács, and Julia Watts Belser, interviews with Rachel Swirsky and Marissa Lingen by Sandra Odell, a cover by Likhain, and an editorial by Dominik Parisien and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry.
Apex Magazine Issue 112
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 for Thought—Jason Sizemore
FICTION
Field Biology of the Wee Fairies—Naomi Kritzer
River Street—S.R. Mandel
Coyote Now Wears a Suit—Ani Fox
A Siren’s Cry Is a Song of Sorrow—Stina Leicht
Talking to Cancer—Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
NONFICTION
The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5—Cristina Jurado
The Power of Anger, Acceptance, and Affirmation in Dirty Computer—Lashawn M. Wanak
COLUMNS
Page Advice—Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant
Between the Lines with the Print Run Podcast—Laura Zats and Erik Hane
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Naomi Kritzer—Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Joel Chaim Holtzman—Russell Dickerson
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 144
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 September 2018 issue (#144) contains:
* Kelly Robson (“A Study in Oils”), D.A. Xiaolin Spires (“Waves of Influence”), Elly Bangs (“Dandelion”), and Luo Longxiang (“The Foodie Federation’s Dinosaur Farm”).
* Reprints by Karen Lord and Tobias S. Buckell (“The Mighty Slinger”) and Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy (“Mayfly”).
* Non-fiction by Doug Dluzen, an interview with Mary Robinette Kowal, an Another Word column by Fran Wilde, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 44
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 September 2018 issue features a novella by Alec Nevala-Lee (“The Proving Ground”), a novelette by Eleanor Arnason (“Ruins”), and a short story by Lavie Tidhar (“The Road to the Sea”).
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 34, September 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 34: September 2018
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Grayson Bray Morris, Brenda Kalt, Jack McDevitt, Shawn Proctor, George Nikolopoulos, Alex Shvartsman, Jane Yolen, A. Merc Rustad, Doug Dandridge, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Larry Hodges, Sharon Diane King, Robert Silverberg
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 Larry Niven
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.
Nightmare Magazine, September 2018 (Issue 72)
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 have original fiction from Weston Ochse (“House of Small Spiders”) and M. Rickert (“True Crime”), along with reprints by Barbara Roden (“The Brink of Eternity”) and Conrad Williams (“The Pike”). In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” Grady Hendrix digs into the role of paranoia in horror. Plus, we have author spotlights with our authors, and Adam-Troy Castro reviews Paul Tremblay’s new novel, THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD.
Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018 (Issue 100)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLIGHTSPEED #1 was launched in June 2010, and now eight years later, we’ve reached a milestone: Issue 100. To celebrate, we’re publishing a super-sized issue, with ten original stories–more than twice the amount of original fiction than usual–plus ten reprints and some special nonfiction to boot. And to make things even more commemorative, the vast majority of our fiction in this issue, both original and reprint, comes from our most frequently published fiction contributors—the LIGHTSPEEDiest writers to ever LIGHTSPEED. It’s a distillation of what we’re made of, and we’re beyond excited to share it with all of you.
Our cover art this month comes from Hugo award-winning artist (and fifty-three-time LIGHTSPEED illustrator) Galen Dara, illustrating new science fiction from Vylar Kaftan: “Her Monster, Whom She Loved.” We also have new SF from Carrie Vaughn (“Harry and Marlowe and the Secret of Ahomana”), Adam-Troy Castro (“The Last to Matter”), Ken Liu (“The Explainer”), and Sofia Samatar (“Hard Mary”), plus reprints from A. Merc Rustad (“How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps”), Charles Yu (“NPC”), Caroline M. Yoachim (“Stone Wall Truth”), An Owomoyela (“Travelling Into Nothing”), Seanan McGuire (“Frontier ABCs: The Life and Times of Charity Smith, Schoolteacher”), and David Barr Kirtley (“They Go Bump”).
On the fantasy side of the ledger, we’re featuring new work from Maria Dahvana Headley (“You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You”), Cadwell Turnbull (“Jump”), Genevieve Valentine (“Abandonware”), Sam J. Miller (“Conspicuous Plumage”), and Kat Howard (“A Brief Guide to the Seeking of Ghosts”), plus we have reprints from Yoon Ha Lee (“The Coin of Heart’s Desire”), Theodora Goss (“Elena’s Egg”), Charlie Jane Anders (“The Super Ultra Duchess of Fedora Forest”), and Jeremiah Tolbert (“The Girl with Sun in Her Head”).
We’ve also got an array of nonfiction features, including a special celebration of our contributors’ and staff members’ favorite LIGHTSPEED stories of all-time, and then our novel excerpt this month is from Gene Doucette’s THE SPACESHIP NEXT DOOR.
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 45
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThere’s a fairy tale you half remember: a girl, a ghost, the memory of wood talking, telling her stories inside of stories. There’s a place you half remember: flowers and steam and a shadow moving toward you. There’s a feeling inside your ribs: anxious, fluttery, dying. That’s this issue of Shimmer.
The Ghost Pet Detective, by Ryan Row
Art’s funeral is full of crying girls. Law thinks this should tip some of them off, but there it is. Crying girls everywhere. White flowers in their hair. Black dresses and the scent of clean underwear and Ivory soap. There’s a ghostly snake wrapped around one of the girl’s nylon ankles. It slithers up her leg like the white stripe of a candy cane until its flat head disappears under her skirt. She doesn’t notice. The ghost of a tiger lounges beside the coffin. It died in the zoo, maybe. Or else it came straight out of Law’s head. He rubs his neck. Through the tiger’s semi-translucent fur, he can see a tiny bird fluttering around inside the cage of its ribs like a weird, trapped heart.
By the Hand That Casts It, by Stephanie Charette
If there was one thing Briar Redgrave hated most about her current profession, it was the clients.”But I wish it to be yellow, and vibrant,” the client insisted with a shake of her head. The crown of ostrich feathers on her wide-brimmed hat convulsed as though the bird that died for fashion’s sake was near resurrection.”It is my signature color. How else will the Viscount know that the flowers are from me?”
Find On Your Body the Bruise, by Maricat Stratford
First, you are everything. Then, you are a drop of blood on a blade of grass. You are the grass, the dirt beneath it, the network of aspen roots buried in the dirt — no, not yet. Pull yourself together now. You are a network of neurons spastically misfiring inside a broken skull. You are a fading chemical reaction, you are a feeling, you are a collection of memories. You are dead. You are not surprised.
Lighthouse Waiting, by Gwendolyn Clare
I am alone now. The gates mostly stand dark against the starscape; you are the first to come this way in some time. I hold myself together, hold myself out, and after so much practice I can do it almost without thinking. I sing my warning song made of radio waves and light. This, too, is reflexive. Before you, there was no one here to sing to.
Dead Things, by Becca De La Rosa
She comes to the manor screaming. Red hair, a tempest. Blood and bruises. Bare feet drumming the flagstones, disaster breeding disaster. Odile watches from her perch on the newel post. Marvels, shuffles. What a terrible creature, she says, to the oaken banister. The banister creaks in answer.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – September/October 2018
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.
NOVELETS
Shooting Iron – Cassandra Khaw and Jonathan L. Howard
Powerless – Harry Turtledove
Taste of Opal – Yukimi Ogawa
SHORT STORIES
The Memorybox Vultures – Brian Trent
The Men Who Come from Flowers – Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
The Gallian Revolt as Seen from the Sama-Sama Laundrobath – Brenda Kalt
We Mete Justice with Beak and Talon – Jeremiah Tolbert
Suicide Watch – Susan Emshwiller
Emissaries from the Skirts of Heaven – Gregor Hartmann
Impossible Male Pregnancy: Click to Read Full Story – Sarina Dorie
Blessed – Geoff Ryman
POEMS
What Loves You – Jeff Crandall
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Books – Elizabeth Hand
Science: The Telltale Vein – Jerry Oltion
Television: A Better Place – Tim Pratt
Coming Attractions
Curiosities – Mike Ashley
CARTOONS
Bill Long, Arthur Masear, Kendra Allenby.
COVER
Michael Garland for “Powerless”
The Dark – Issue 40
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“A Prayer to the Many-Eyed Mother” by Eliza Victoria
“Things Behind the Sun” by David Martin (reprint)
“Maria’s Children” by Tobi Ogundiran
“Sun Dogs” by Laura Mauro (reprint)
Locus September 2018 (#692)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2018 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Kelly Robson and Campbell and Hugo Award winner Rebecca Roanhorse, and a spotlight on Jason Kirk of 47North.
The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through June 2019. Awards news includes the Hugo Awards winners, the 1943 Retro-Hugo Awards, the Mythopoeic, Chesley, and Sidewise winners, and the Dragon Award finalists. Additional news covers the Worldcon & NASFiC site selection, Frazetta auction, Abrams acquires Overlook, and more.
There are photo stories on the summer workshops, and a report on the successful George R.R. Martin and John Picacio fundraiser for Locus. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Big Tech: We Can Do Better Than Constitutional Monarchies”. Obituaries remember Michael Scott Rohan and Gerald M. Weinberg. Reviews cover new titles by Claire G. Coleman, Charlie Jane Anders, Adrian Tchaikovsky, T.J. Berry, Tim Pratt, Sean Grigsby, Glen Hirshberg, Priya Sharma, Dave Hutchinson, Christopher Priest, Dale Bailey, Deborah Harkness, Janeen Webb, Yoss, Gail Carriger, Charlaine Harris, Seanan McGuire, and many others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #60 September 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2018 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.
In his play, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare penned this lovely line: “If music be the food of love, play on.”
This month’s stories aren’t so much about music or love, but they are about food–in one way or another. Peppers, eggs (at least one very BIG egg), ice cream, and a Southeast Asian stimulant called paan.
If I were to play with Shakespeare (and reflect my own feelings), I might say, “If food be the music of life, eat up!”
“Slaked Lime, Iron Knife” by Aparna Nandakumar
“Ghost of the Pepper” by M.K. Hutchins
“A Good Egg” by Shawn Proctor
”Ice Cream and English Summers” by Sunyi Dean
And a new writing advice column from Jason S. Ridler.
Illustrated by Dario Bijelac
WELCOME TO OUR FIRST SEMI-WHENEVER-WE-FEEL-LIKE-IT FFO CLASSICS ISSUE!
After some serious reminiscing, we decided we’d like to share with you some of our staff favorites from past issues, along with a bit of our actual reminiscences on why we love these stories. The hard part, you should know, was narrowing it down to these few, which means a Second Semi-Whenever-We-Feel-Like-It FFO Classics Issue is likely to happen. Sometime. When we feel like it.
“Just Before Recess” by James Van Pelt
“James Brown Is Alive and Doing Laundry in South Lake Tahoe” by Stefanie Freele
“Beholder” by Sarah Grey
“Hungry” by Tree Riesener
“Portrait of My Wife as a Boat” by Samantha Murray
And a new writing advice column from Jason S. Ridler.
Illustrated by Dario Bijelac
On Spec Magazine #108, Vol 29 No 1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 29 No 1
Table of Contents
Fiction
“Medicus” by Robin S. Carson
“Tamarack and the Stone” by Timothy Reynolds
“When You Invite a Maenad to Dinner” by Allison Floyd
“Tide Child” by Sean Robinson
“The Saffron Curse” by Marcelle Dubé
“A Fire Across the World” by David Versace
“Dirty Sheets in the Acreage” by Chris Kuriata
“The Cloaked Lady Butterfly” by Lisa Carreiro
Non-Fiction
Editorial by Barb Galler-Smith, “Love the art; Hate the Artist: A Dilemma”
“Light in the Darkness,” by Sarah Johnson
Canada’s Twistorian: An Interview with Tim Reynolds by Roberta Laurie
“The Last Jedi and the Emotional Wringer” by A.J. Wells
Bill Tracer— Artist Interview by Cat McDonald
“Why the Blue Whale Risked its Neck” by Mark McCutcheon
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #259
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #259 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Dean Wells and Justin Howe.
New York Review of Science Fiction #348
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Outsiders Issue: Derwin Mak: The Perpetually Foreign Asian in SF; Andy Duncan: The Other Species in Stanley Weinbaum’s “The Adaptive Ultimate”; Brian Stableford on the decadent Jane De La Vaudère; Mike Barrett on Robert Westall’s overlooked YA horror; Terry Thompson on Doubling in Henry James; Michael Andre-Driussi on Lem’s letters to Kandel; Plus: A Poem and So Much Winning!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #258
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #258 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Jeremy A. TeGrotenhuis and Marc Criley.