- From the Editor by Neil Clarke
- Sweepin’ the Clouds Away–Toastmaster, Martin P. Robinson’s Appearance at the 2018 Nebula Conference by Kate Baker
- Beginning with Conventions by Brenda W. Clough
- Hopepunk: Narratives for Hopeless Times by Lettie Prell
- Using Redundancy in Worldbuilding: Magic Versus Technology? by Bogi Takács
- The Joys–and Challenges–of Collaboration by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
- Manuscript Critiques For Fun and Profit by Lucy A. Snyder
- The Science of Search and Rescue by Ken Chiacchia
- The Alpha Workshop by Katie Krantz
Apex Magazine Issue 111
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.
This month our guest editor Sheree Renee Thomas brings together an issue themed around the zodiac.
EDITORIAL
Under Ancient Stars, New Dreams Are Born — Sheree Renée Thomas
FICTION
For Southern Girls When the Zodiac Ain’t Near Enough — Eden Royce
Prism — Stefanie Elrick
La Ciguapa, For the Reeds, For Herself — J.M. Guzman
Gasping — Brandon O’Brien
Jewel of the Vashwa — Jordan Kurella
The Barnum Effect — Celia Neri
POETRY
How to Paint Mercury — Mary Soon Lee
Capricorn — Tara Betts
How to Fly by Neptune — Mary Soon Lee
Celestial Mary (Galilean Daughter) — Sherese Francis
How to Speak to Pluto — Mary Soon Lee
A Theorized Form of Matter — Ashely Adams
NONFICTION
‘There’s No Racism Here?’ A Black Woman in the Dominican Republic — Kiini Ibura Salaam
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 Eden Royce — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Stacey Robinson — Russell Dickerson
Lightspeed Magazine, August 2018 (Issue 99)
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.
Our cover story this month is an original science fiction short by Sarah Grey (“A Bond as Deep as Starlit Seas”), illustrated by Waiji Choo. We also have original SF from Alex Irvine (“The Atonement Path”), along with SF reprints by Bruce McAllister (“Angels”) and Dominica Phetteplace (“Project Extropy”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Manuel Gonzales (“Scavenge, Rustic Hounds!”) and Kate Elliott (“A Compendium of Architecture and the Science of Building”), and fantasy reprints by Sheree Renée Thomas (“Treesong”) and Dennis Danvers (“Here’s What I Know”). 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 also have the ebook-exclusive reprint of the SF novella “Native Seeds,” by Catherine Wells. Our book excerpt this month comes from Sam Hawke’s debut novel, CITY OF LIES.
Nightmare Magazine, August 2018 (Issue 71)
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 original fiction from Nino Cipri (“Dead Air”) and G.V. Anderson (“Crook’s Landing, by Scaffold”), along with reprints by Terry Dowling (“Mariners’ Round”) and Gary McMahon (“Kill All Monsters”). In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” Nadia Bulkin connects horror to anxiety. Plus, we have author spotlights with our authors, and a heavy metal-themed book review from Terence Taylor.
The Dark – Issue 39
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:
“The Last Epic Pub Crawl of The Brothers Pennyfeather” by L Chan
“The Stories We Tell About Ghosts” by A.C. Wise (reprint)
“For All His Eyes Can See” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“The God of Low Things” by Stephen Graham Jones (reprint)
Flash Fiction Online Issue #59 August 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 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.
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
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 143
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 August 2018 issue (#143) contains:
* Henry Szabranski (“The Veilonaut”s Dream”), R.S.A. Garcia (“The Anchorite Wakes”), Robert Reed (“Kingfisher”), Kij Johnson (“The Privilege of the Happy Ending”), Hao Jingfang (“The Loneliest Ward”).
* Reprints by James Patrick Kelly (“Yukui!”) and Rich Larson (“Othermother (Annex Excerpt)”).
* Non-fiction by Carrie Sessarego, an interview with Emily Devenport, an Another Word column by Fran Wilde, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Locus August 2018 (#691)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2018 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Martha Wells and Curtis Chen. Grand Master Harlan Ellison is remembered with an obituary, photos, and appreciations. Photo reports include the Locus Awards weekend, Readercon 29, SF in Scotland, SF in China, and the Danzhai SF Camp. News covers the 2018 World Fantasy Awards nomination results and the Campbell, Sturgeon, Clarke, Shirley Jackson, Gemmell, and Prometheus award winners. Data file looks at the Le Guin memorial, the Dozois memorial, the new Academy prize, Díaz news, and more. Kameron Hurley’s column is entitled “So You Still Have a Day Job….”. Other obituaries remember Eugene E. Olson and Clive King. Reviews cover new titles by Jeffrey Ford, John Varley, Michael Blumlein, Jo Walton, Rob Boffard, Claire Legrand, Brian McClellan, P. Djèlí Clark, Ania Ahlborn, Gemma Files, Rio Youers, Rick Claypool, Mary Robinette Kowal, T. Kingfisher, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Robert Jackson Bennett, Nancy Springer, Christopher Barzak, Stephen King, James Smythe, Kaaron Warren, Cynthia Hand, Justina Ireland, and many others.
Heart’s Kiss: Issue 10, August-September 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine Celebrating Romance: Issue 10: August-September 2018
Love romance? Love discovering the best new writers with bite-sized stories? Or maybe you prefer to treat yourself by escaping into a sure-to-please favorite authorís world now and again, but donít have the time to read a full-length novel. Heartís Kiss magazine offers delicious variety and more.
Each issue has 70,000 plus words of fiction from names readers will recognize, to newly discovered writers, including interviews and articles talking about what romance readers love mostóthe books they love, why romance is important in todayís world, their love of the genre and what to enjoy next.
Heartís Kiss is filled with a sweet-spicy-erotic mix of historical, contemporary, paranormal, suspense and futuristic romance stories that will be sure to make you yearn for more.
IN THIS ISSUE:
OPENING EDITORIAL by Lezli Robyn
HEARTíS KISS INTERVIEWS L. PENELOPE by Lezli Robyn
BEFORE I RUN by L. Penelope
PENNY DREADFUL by Andrea Dale
WHEN THE OCEAN CALLS by Petronella Glover
BIG TROUBLE by Gracie Wilson
OLD SCARS by Meghan Ewald
RUNNING FROM LOVE, ALREADY LOST by Rei Rosenquist
THE PIANO TUTOR by Anthea Lawson
PREGNANT GIRLíS GUIDE TO FALLING IN LOVE by Alice Faris
YOU READ THAT?: DIVERSITY. DIVERSITY. DIVERSITY? by Julie Pitzel
RECOMMENDED BOOKS by C.S. DeAvilla
An excerpt from BREATHLESS by Celeste Bradley and Susan Donovan
CLOSING EDITORIAL by Tina Smith
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 38
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected2018. Print edition: 62 pages. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731487
Something to dive into. Sneaking out into the world in July 2018. New fave stories by new fave writers.
In LCRW 39 your neighbor’s secrets are exposed. Yours too, sorry. Whereas in LCRW 38 it is the pure fictive product poured upon the page, dried in the sun, and brought to you by the lovely people at your local indie bookstore.
Table and Chairs of Contents
fiction
Ellen Rhudy, “The Remaining”
James L. Cambias, “René Descartes and the Cross of Blood”
Emily B. Cataneo, “Bears at Parties”
A. B. Young, “Vain Beasts”
Sarah Monette, “The Oracle of Abbey Road (Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night)”
Joanna Ruocco, “Stone, Paper, Stone”
S. Woodson, “Lime and the One Human”
nonfiction
Nicole Kimberling, “Comfort Food”
About the Authors
poetry
Neile Graham, “About God(s)(desses), Parts 1 & 2”
cover
Joamette Gill, “Metsona”
About
This is Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 38, July 2018. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731487. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW has sometimes been subtitled An Occasional Outburst and is usually published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress @ gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. twitter.com/smallbeerpress · Print edition printed at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com · 413-585-0414). Subscriptions: $20/4 issues (see page 45 of the print issue for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions are available through EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c.
This issue is the first to be available at Moon Palace Books (3032 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis MN 55406 · moonpalacebooks.com) yay & thanks, mighty indie booksellers!
Contents © 2018 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration “Metsona” © 2018 by Joamette Gill (joamettegil.com). Thank you, generous authors and artists.
In among these dark days we celebrate Juan Martinez’s Best Worst American: Stories winning the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Debut Award for Speculative Fiction. Yay! Also: Jeffrey Ford’s A Natural History of Hell: Stories was a finalist for the Ohioana Award and Sofia Samatar’s Tender: Stories is a finalist for the British Fantasy Award.
Please send submissions (we are always especially seeking weird and interesting work from women and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Peace.
About these Authors
James L. Cambias is a science fiction writer and game designer. Originally from New Orleans, he was educated at the University of Chicago and lives in western Massachusetts. His novels include A Darkling Sea, Corsair, and the forthcoming Arkad’s World. His short stories have appeared in Nature, F&SF, and several anthologies. He is a partner in Zygote Games and his most recent game (for Pinnacle) is Weird War I.
Emily B. Cataneo is a writer and freelance journalist currently based in Raleigh, NC. Her fiction has appeared in magazines such as Nightmare Magazine, The Dark, and Interfictions. She has reported for venues NPR and the Financial Times on three different continents. She is graduate of the Odyssey and Clarion Writers Workshops, and is currently pursuing her MFA at North Carolina State University. She likes hats, crafts, history, and dogs.
Joamette Gil is a queer Afro-Cuban cartoonist best known for her work as P&M Press, publisher of Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology, Power & Magic: Immortal Souls, and Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy.
Neile Graham has a trophy (which came attached to a World Fantasy Award) for her work writer-wrangling for the Clarion West Writers Workshop. She also has a well-autographed Meritorious 2nd Banana from the Locus Awards. In addition to collecting these objects, she has two new poetry collections coming out in 2019: The Walk She Takes and Cedar and Stone. She is ecstatic about all of these things and delighted to be here in LCRW.
Nicole Kimberling lives in Bellingham, Washington, with her wife, Dawn Kimberling. She is a professional cook and amateur life coach. Her first novel, Turnskin, won the Lambda Award and she is also the author of the Bellingham Mystery Series.
Sarah Monette and Katherine Addison are the same person. She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the three secret cities of the Manhattan Project. She has a B.A. from Case Western Reserve and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Despite being summa cum laude, none of her degrees is of the slightest use to her in either her day job or her writing, which she feels is an object lesson for us all. She currently lives near Madison, Wisconsin. Her novels include Melusine, The Virtu, The Mirador, Corambis, and Locus Award winner The Goblin Emperor (published as Katherine Addison). She has two short story collections, The Bone Key and Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, and has co-written three novels and a number of short stories with Elizabeth Bear, the most recent of which is An Apprentice to Elves. Twitter: @pennyvixen; Patreon: pennyvixen
Ellen Rhudy (ellenrhudy.com | @ilifi) lives in Philadelphia, where she works as an instructional designer. If you ever happen to be in Eastern Europe she recommends you visit Mavrovo—it is a town of real charm and not easily forgotten. Her work has previously appeared in LCRW no. 15 and is forthcoming in cream city review.
Joanna Ruocco is the author of several books, including, most recently, Dan, The Week, and Field Glass, written with Joanna Howard. She is an assistant professor in the English Department at Wake Forest University.
S. Woodson lives in Virginia and is a graduate of the Hollins University M.A. in Children’s Literature program. She’s written a handful of Twine games, but this is her first story in print. You can find her on Twitter @Citrushistrix.
A. B. Young learned to tell stories from playing with Barbies. She learned to tell stories well at California College of the Arts. She now teaches kids how to read stories and write essays about them as a high school Media and English teacher. This is her first published story.
Black Static #64
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July-August issue contains new horror fiction by Simon Avery, Phoenix Alexander, Seán Padraic Birnie, Tim Cooke, Sam Thompson, and Jack Westlake. The cover art is by Martin Hanford, and interior illustrations are by Richard Wagner. Regular features include Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore, Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker, Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews), Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (film reviews).
Interzone #276
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July–August issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by Ryan Row, Rachael Cupp, Darby Harn, James Warner, Tim Major, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, and Paul Crenshaw. The cover art is by Vince Haig, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, and Dave Senecal. 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); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment); ‘Braving the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape’ by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #256
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #256 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Tamara Vardomskaya and Kathryn Yelinek.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 23
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July/August 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Our Dinosaur Theme Issue! Featuring new fiction by Sam J. Miller, K.M. Szpara, R.K. Kalaw, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry & A. Merc Rustad, Brooke Bolander, Brit E.B. Hvide, Alex Bledsoe, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Anya Ow, essays by Tobias S. Buckell, Alasdair Stuart, Marissa Lingen, and Tansy Rayner Roberts, and poetry by Mari Ness, Cassandra Khaw, Brandon O’ Brien, Ali Trotta and Cynthia So, interviews with K.M. Szpara and Anya Ow by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Galen Dara, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
“The Uncanny Dinosaurs—Introduction” by Brooke Bolander, Sam J. Miller, Mari Ness, Nicasio Andres Reed, A. Merc Rustad & Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, K.M. Szpara, JY Yang, and Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Apex Magazine Issue 110
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 Chariots, the Horsemen — Stephanie Malia Morris
When You’re Ready — M. Ian Bell
Kerouac’s Renascence — Tal M. Klein
All Clear — Hao He
The Whipping Girls — Damien Angelica Walters
NONFICTION
Interview with Stephanie Malia Morris — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Kim Myatt — Russell Dickerson
Undead: The Making of a Poetry Anthology — Katerina Stoykova
Nexhuman: From Origin to Transaltion: The Long Path from Italy to the US — Francesco Verso
Five Things to Remember When Running a Writer’s Convention — Kelly Swails and Melanie R. Meadors
COLUMNS
Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Page Advice with Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant
POETRY
the undead — Allison Thorpe
Ghost Ships — Amy MacLennan
The SFWA Bulletin Issue 212
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe SFWA Bulletin is the official publication of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and is published quarterly. This issue features:
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 44
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Passenger, by Emily Lundgren
I try to take a picture of the eerie. The power’s out, so I’m like, okay, standing outside the Pump n’ Stuff, looking at the gas pumps. My last customer was twenty minutes ago. Down the street by the McDonald’s, the black veiny power lines seizure under the blinking traffic lights. I listen to the curdles of wind. There’s no one around. No one at the Kum & Go across the way. No one in the dirt parking lot outside Toby’s bar. Just cars rumbling along on the I-29 overpass.
Milkteeth, by Kristi DeMeester
Daddy told me to keep to myself after the foxes disappeared, but there’s only so still you can keep your hands when your belly’s rumbling, and you think you’re seeing claws at the ends of your fingers instead of skin.
Bleeding From the Shadows, by David Rees-Thomas
The store has been here for a hundred years. It’s outlived the coal mines, the dead of world wars, the indecencies of Thatcher, the indiscriminate violence of South Wales valleys youth.
Rapture, by Meg Elison
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wakes up again. It’s the third time today. She thinks awakenings are far more common in springtime, but all year long she is called this way. She sighs and tucks her dark hair back under her cap. She will not refuse the call.