Uncanny Magazine Issue 22
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May/June 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Naomi Novik, Katharine Duckett, Marina J. Lostetter, Kelly Robson, A. Merc Rustad, and C.L. Clark, reprinted fiction by Aliette de Bodard, essays by Greg Pak, Briana Lawrence, Kelly McCullough, and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, and poetry by Theodora Goss, Ali Trotta, Sarah Gailey, and Betsy Aoki, interviews with Katharine Duckett and A. Merc Rustad by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – May/June 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
The Barrens – Stephanie Feldman
Inquisitive – Pip Coen
Argent and Sable – Matthew Hughes
Crash Site – Brian Trent
Behold the Child – Albert E. Cowdrey
SHORT STORIES
Tender Loving Plastics – Amman Sabet
The Bicycle Whisperer – Lisa Mason
Unstoppable – Gardner Dozois
What You Pass For – Melanie West
Ku’gbo – Dare Segun Falowo
The Properties of Shadow – Nina Kiriki Hoffman
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Books – James Sallis
Plumage from Pegasus: Live By the Word, Die By the Word – Paul Di Filippo
Science: Asking Questions – Pat Murphy And Paul Doherty
Films: Downsizing To Little Too Late – Kathi Maio
Competition #95 –
Coming Attractions –
Curiosities – Phoenix Alexander
CARTOONS
Kendra Allenby, Kendra Allenby, Kendra Allenby, Arthur Masear, Nick Downes.
COVER
Alan D. Clark for “The Barrens”
NOVELETS
The Barrens – Stephanie Feldman
Inquisitive – Pip Coen
Argent and Sable – Matthew Hughes
Crash Site – Brian Trent
Behold the Child – Albert E. Cowdrey
SHORT STORIES
Tender Loving Plastics – Amman Sabet
The Bicycle Whisperer – Lisa Mason
Unstoppable – Gardner Dozois
What You Pass For – Melanie West
Ku’gbo – Dare Segun Falowo
The Properties of Shadow – Nina Kiriki Hoffman
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Books – James Sallis
Plumage from Pegasus: Live By the Word, Die By the Word – Paul Di Filippo
Science: Asking Questions – Pat Murphy And Paul Doherty
Films: Downsizing To Little Too Late – Kathi Maio
Competition #95 –
Coming Attractions –
Curiosities – Phoenix Alexander
CARTOONS
Kendra Allenby, Kendra Allenby, Kendra Allenby, Arthur Masear, Nick Downes.
COVER
Alan D. Clark for “The Barrens”
NOVELETS
The Barrens – Stephanie Feldman
Inquisitive – Pip Coen
Argent and Sable – Matthew Hughes
Crash Site – Brian Trent
Behold the Child – Albert E. Cowdrey
SHORT STORIES
Tender Loving Plastics – Amman Sabet
The Bicycle Whisperer – Lisa Mason
Unstoppable – Gardner Dozois
What You Pass For – Melanie West
Ku’gbo – Dare Segun Falowo
The Properties of Shadow – Nina Kiriki Hoffman
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Books – James Sallis
Plumage from Pegasus: Live By the Word, Die By the Word – Paul Di Filippo
Science: Asking Questions – Pat Murphy And Paul Doherty
Films: Downsizing To Little Too Late – Kathi Maio
Competition #95 –
Coming Attractions –
Curiosities – Phoenix Alexander
CARTOONS
Kendra Allenby, Kendra Allenby, Kendra Allenby, Arthur Masear, Nick Downes.
COVER
Alan D. Clark for “The Barrens”
NOVELETS
The Barrens – Stephanie Feldman
Inquisitive – Pip Coen
Argent and Sable – Matthew Hughes
Crash Site – Brian Trent
Behold the Child – Albert E. Cowdrey
SHORT STORIES
Tender Loving Plastics – Amman Sabet
The Bicycle Whisperer – Lisa Mason
Unstoppable – Gardner Dozois
What You Pass For – Melanie West
Ku’gbo – Dare Segun Falowo
The Properties of Shadow – Nina Kiriki Hoffman
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Books – James Sallis
Plumage from Pegasus: Live By the Word, Die By the Word – Paul Di Filippo
Science: Asking Questions – Pat Murphy And Paul Doherty
Films: Downsizing To Little Too Late – Kathi Maio
Competition #95 –
Coming Attractions –
Curiosities – Phoenix Alexander
CARTOONS
Kendra Allenby, Kendra Allenby, Kendra Allenby, Arthur Masear, Nick Downes.
COVER
Alan D. Clark for “The Barrens”
The Dark – Issue 36
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 Pine Arch Collection” by Michael Wehunt
“The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners” by Angela Slatter (reprint)
“Our Mortal Undressing” by Hamilton Perez
“The Sea Half-Held by Night” by E. Catherine Tobler (reprint)
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 96 (May2018)
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’s cover art is by Galen Dara, illustrating the original fantasy short “Godmeat,” by Martin Cahill. We also have an original fantasy short story from Kodiak Julian (“Our Side of the Door”), and fantasy reprints by Xia Jia (“Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse”) and John Grant (“His Artist Wife”). Our science fiction originals include work by Carolyn Ives Gilman (“We Will Be All Right”) and Jane Lindskold (“A Green Moon Problem”), plus we have SF reprints by Tobias S. Buckell (“Sunset”) and David Brin (“The Crystal Spheres”).
All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, an interview with author (and frequent LIGHTSPEED contributor) Sam J. Miller, along with our book and media review columns. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive novella reprint (“Great Work of Time” by John Crowley), an excerpt from Emily Devenport’s new novel MEDUSA UPLOADED, and bonus excerpt from NOW WE CAN SEE THE MOON by Berit Ellingsen.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 68 (May 2018)
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 Nalo Hopkinson (“Ally”) and Stephanie Malia Morris (“Bride Before You”), along with reprints by Trent Hergenrader (“The Hodag”) and Stephen Graham Jones (“Till the Morning Comes”).
In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” Lisa Morton writes about dementia. Terence Taylor gives us reviews of fresh new fiction, and of course we have author spotlights with our authors.
Apex Magazine Issue 108
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
Stars so Sharp They Break the Skin — Matthew Sanborn Smith
Mother Jones and the Nasty Eclipse — Cherie Priest
Cherry Wood Coffin — Eugenia Triantafyllou
Luisah’s Church — Nisi Shawl
Fifteen Minutes Hate — Rich Larson
Cold Blue Sky — JE Bates
NONFICTION
Interview with Matthew Sanborn Smith — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Anna Dittmann — Russell Dickerson
How I Learned to Follow My Own Advice and Let It Go — Tobias S. Buckell
Signal Intrusion — Kirk Jones
COLUMNS
Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Page Advice with Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant
Flash Fiction Online Issue #56 May 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 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.
This month’s stories feature some of the trials and joys of life’s journey through some of those many phases in the circle of life–from a futuristic childcare dilemma, to a tender coming-of-age story, to the problems and opportunities of being an independent adult, to the challenges of caring for aging parents.
We know you’ll love every word. We do.
Stories from Alexis A. Hunter, Tomiko Breland, Kelli Fitzpatrick, and Charlotte Huggins.
Plus a new column from Jason S. Ridler.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 32, May 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 32: May 2018
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories: Effie Seiberg, Alex Shvartsman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Laurence Raphael Brothers, Karlo Yeager Rodríguez, Gardner Dozois, Walter Dinjos, Leah Cypess, Kij Johnson, Brian K. Lowe, Brian Trent, Joe Haldeman, Barry N. Malzberg
Serialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski
Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford
Recommended Books: Bill Fawcett and Jody Lynn Nye
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Catherine Asaro
Galaxy’s Edge is a Hugo-nominated 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.
Locus May 2018 (#688)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2018 issue of Locus has interviews with Nick Harkaway and Ada Palmer. Main Stories include the 2018 Hugo Awards ballot, 1943 Retro Hugos ballot, Carrie Vaughn’s Philip K. Dick Award win, BSFA winners, Groff and Miéville’s Guggenheim Fellowships, an update on the flooding damage at ENMU Special Collections Library, and more. Awards season news covers Aurealis, Kitschie, Ditmar, and Pulitzer winners, and finalists or shortlists for Sturgeon, Prometheus, and Neukom awards, among others.
Convention coverage with photos and reports includes the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Norwescon 41, the Chinese SF New Year Gala, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards, the Outer Dark Symposium, and the 2018 Williamson Lectureship. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “The Engagement-Maximization Presidency”. Obituaries and appreciations remember Peter Nicholls, Philip Kerr, Ahmed Khalid Towfik, and David Bischoff. Reviews cover new titles by Simon Ings, Catherynne M. Valente, Ian McDonald, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Gareth L. Powell, David Weber, Timothy Zahn & Thomas Pope, David Drake, Nancy Kress, Neal Asher, Alma Katsu, Paul Tremblay, Simon Avery, Holly Black, Alisa Kwitney, Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs, and many others.
Ark Land
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA century has passed since the arks appeared out of the depths of space and into the blue sky of their humble planet.
The alien animals on board have made this planet their new home. They live in their wilderness, they’re sold in their markets, and their mysterious origins are even worshipped by some. Like hovering shipwrecks, many of the old arks still orbit the planet, waiting to plummet to the ground below.
Kairn is an Ark Land scavenger—someone that tracks ark debris impacts to salvage and later pawn. But when the local radio station announces a contest offering a sizable reward for the latest ark debris, Kairn is unwittingly thrust into a quest full of colourful characters, strange places, and bizarre creatures.
On Spec Magazine #107 Vol 28 No 4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 28 No 4 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Hayden Trenholm (“When Winter Comes”), Chelsea Vowel (“Dirty Wings”), Susan Forest (“The Fat Man”), Jordan Taylor (“Death and Natalie, Natalie and Death”), Robert Luke Wilkins (“Ashwright”), CJ Lavigne (“Side Effects May Include”), and Sally McBride (“Thank Yew Very Much”). Poetic Tribute by Sarah Tolmie (“Ursula K. Le Guin in the Underworld”) and poetry by Josh Pearce (“Theodroid”). Non Fiction by Virginia O’Dine (“But My Butt is Sore…”), Diane Walton (“Can-Con 2017 Report”). Interviews with Chelsea Vowel and Chris Harms by Roberta Laurie and Tim Reynolds. Cover by Chris Harms.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 37
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis electronical edition was shot into the sky, bounced off the moon, and floated gently into the internet. There are names you may know and, excitingly, names you may not. This zine: always and forever a good read.
Here: Two Poems.
There: Three Poems of the Abyss.
New fiction from Maria Romasco Moore, Leslie Wilber, Howard Waldrop, Izzy Wasserstein, and James Sallis — who returns to LCRW for the first time since LCRW #14. Nicole Kimberling’s column “Sweet, Sweet Side Dish” might be about what you’re thinking of, if you’re thinking of eggplant. Those two, three, three — and then one more — poems are from Holly Day, Juan Martinez, Catherine Rockwood, and Michael Werner. We stretched out the backpages and included a bonus story from a collection we published within the last five years.
Table of Contents
Fiction
Maria Romasco Moore, “Dying Light” Leslie Wilber, “Time Served” Howard Waldrop, “Till the Cows Come Home to Roost” Izzy Wasserstein, “Their Eyes Like Dead Lamps” James Sallis, “Dayenu”
Nonfiction
Nicole Kimberling, “Sweet, Sweet Side Dish ”
Poetry
Holly Day, Two Poems Juan Martinez, Three Poems of the Abyss Catherine Rockwood, Three Poems Michael Werner, “The Opossum”
Cover photo
Dawn Kimberling
About these Authors
Holly Day has taught writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 2000. Her poetry has recently appeared in Tampa Review, SLAB, and Gargoyle, and her books include Walking Twin Cities, Music Theory for Dummies, and Ugly Girl.
Juan Martinez lives in Chicago where he is an assistant professor at Northwestern University. His work has been collected in Best Worst American and has appeared in Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s, Huizache, Ecotone, Mississippi Review, NPR’s Selected Shorts, and elsewhere and is forthcoming in the anthology Who Will Speak for America? Visit and say hi at fulmerford.com.
Maria Romasco Moore’s stories have appeared in Unstuck, Interfictions, and Lightspeed’s Women Destroy Science Fiction. Her flash fiction collection, Ghostographs, is forthcoming from Rose Metal Press. She is an alumni of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and holds an MFA in Fiction from Southern Illinois University.
Catherine Rockwood is an early-modernist and lapsed (alas) martial artist. She lives near Boston with her family. Poems in concis, the Fem, The Rise Up Review, Liminality, and elsewhere. Reviews and essays in Strange Horizons, Rain Taxi, and Tin House.
Best known for the Lew Griffin series and Drive, Jim Sallis has published 17 novels, multiple collections of stories and essays, four collections of poetry, a landmark biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau’s novel Saint Glinglin. He’s received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature policière.
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 Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. She is also the author of the Bellingham Mystery Series.
Howard Waldrop, born in Mississippi and now living in Austin, Texas, is an American iconoclast. His highly original books include Them Bones and A Dozen Tough Jobs, and the collections Howard Who?, All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past, Night of the Cooters, Other Worlds, Better Lives, Things Will Never Be the Same, and Horse of a Different Color. He won the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his novelette “The Ugly Chickens.”
Izzy Wasserstein teaches writing and literature at a midwestern university, and writes poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Pseudopod, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review and elsewhere. She shares a home with her spouse and their animal companions. She’s a graduate of Clarion West and likes to slowly run long distances.
Michael Werner’s work has been recognized with a Troubadour International Poetry Prize and an American Academy of Poets honorary prize. He has taught history, Latin American studies, and human rights at Moravian College, Iowa State University, and Laney College, among others. He was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, and Culture, which Choice named one of the academic books of the year. He presently lives in Jerusalem.
Leslie Wilber is a former newspaper reporter and current bicycle mechanic. She tinkers with words and bikes in Denver.
All That and All That and All That
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet is texty. This is issue number 37, Spring (Northern Hemisphere), 2018. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731470. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow.
Prime quotes from Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
LCRW is (usually) published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. twitter.com/smallbeerpress
Paper edition printed at Paradise Copies, 21 Conz St., Northampton, MA 01060. 413-585-0414.
Paper subscriptions: $20/4 issues (see page 45 of the print edition for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions are available through EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook here on Weightless Books!
Contents © 2018 the authors. Cover photo © 2018 by Dawn Kimberling. All rights reserved. Thank you, skilled authors and artists. Raise a glass of your favorite beverage with us as we celebrate Jeffrey Ford’s A Natural History of Hell winning a World Fantasy Award. And, a glass raised to the memory of Ursula K. Le Guin. And a glass and these walking shoes to every march there is against guns and fascism.
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.
New York Review of Science Fiction #346
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Ursula K. Le Guin Issue: Sandra Lindow: Ursula K. Le Guin’s sprawling, subversive Hainish cycle; Mark Scroggins: Michael Moorcock, Essayist; Mike Barrett: A.N.L. Munby, Prison Camp Horrorist; Brian Stableford: Rocket past the Moon, en français; Peter Rawlik on Jacqueline Baker’s The Lost Hours; Darrell Schweitzer on Nat Segaloff’s biography of Harlan Ellison
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #249
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #249 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Rahul Kanakia and Joanne Rixon.
Apex Magazine Issue 107
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
Clap Your Hands — Andrew F. Kooy
The Sharp Edges of Anger — Jamie Lackey
Murders Fell From Our Wombs — Tlotlo Tsamaase
What to Do When It’s Nothing but Static — Cassandra Khaw
NONFICTION
Interview with Andrew F. Kooy — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Chase Henson— Russell Dickerson
Lovecraft and the Occult — Mary SanGiovanni
My Road Trip With David Koresh & Jerry Gordon
COLUMNS
Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Page Advice with Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 139
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 2018 issue (#139) contains:
* Original fiction by Rich Larson (“Carouseling”), Eleanna Castroianni (“What Will We Do Without Exile”), Nin Harris (“Violets on the Tongue”), Amanda Fitzwater (“Logistics”), and Jiang Bo (“The Wings of Earth”).
* Reprints by Ian McHugh (“The Baby Eaters”) and Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz (“KIT: Some Assembly Required”).
* Non-fiction by Lucas Rosa, an interview with Vandana Singh, an Another Word column by Alethea Kontis, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.