Shimmer Magazine – Issue 41
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSometimes, it’s what you don’t see that is scariest of all. (But then sometimes you glimpse it? And it’s all teeth and claws and dripping light encased in darkness and you think shit I need a bigger flame thrower and then everything is dark forever.) These four stories pull the curtain back, and more.
Black Fanged Thing, by Sam Rebelein
January was a shit month. It never snowed. Sun barely came out of hiding. Instead, a death-cold rain dripped endlessly. Mist curled inwards from the fringes of the woods. It covered the town for weeks, as Christmas decorations slowly drifted back into garages and basements. Everything here, just off-road of the Connecticut wine trail, lived for the fall.
An Incomplete Catalogue of Miraculous Births, or, Secrets of the Uterus Abscondita, by Rebecca Campbell
Mary Toft is in the garden on an August morning rich with bees. Five months along, her belly presses against the rough linen of her skirt while one hand curves protectively around it, half support, half caress. She thinks: This time next year, what will she be? And after that? In the corner of her eye she glimpses a child—like a ghost, or a prefigure–running through the morning from the kitchen door to the garden wall.
Me, Waiting for Me, Hoping For Something More, by Dee Warrick
I’m aware that there is an extra set of stairs in the basement that doesn’t usually exist. Behind the big silver ventilation pipes, past the row of tenants’ bikes parked down here until springtime: a long, dark hole framed by rusted banisters, stone steps leading thereinto. And I think I might be the only one who can see the new stairs.
Held, by Ian O’Reilly
Madu is a satchel who is in love with Eliza, who is a woman and who is also a princess. Sometimes Madu thinks of herself as a girl, and sometimes she thinks of himself as a boy, and at other times all she thinks is that she is just another thing that Eliza carries around with her. That’s okay because sometimes Eliza thinks of herself as a warrior princess who sometimes thinks she is a girl, and sometimes Eliza thinks she is neither of these things but a piece of flotsam on a swollen river, or a movable bank account beholden either to her parents or her job or the State.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 20
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January/February issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Elizabeth Bear, S.B. Divya, Arkady Martine, Marissa Lingen, Sunny Moraine, Vivian Shaw, and R.K. Kalaw, reprinted fiction by Vandana Singh, essays by Fran Wilde, John Wiswell, Iori Kusano, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Sarah Monette, and poetry by Sofia Samatar & Del Samatar, Nitoo Das, Sonya Taaffe, and Ana Hurtado, interviews with S.B. Divya and Sunny Moraine by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Tran Nguyen, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 104
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.
Double issue special!
Our magazine is now available in print!
EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore
FICTION
Asylum of Cuckoos — Lila Bowen
To Blight a Fig Tree Before It Bears Fruit — Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
A Night Out at a Nice Place — Nick Mamatas
The Heaven-Moving Way — Chi Hui (translated by Andy Dudak)
Symphony to a city under the stars — Armando Salda
The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photo Fires — Cassandra Khaw
The Best Friend We Never Had — Nisi Shawl
Origin Story — T. Kingfisher
NONFICTION
Interview with Lila Bowen (Delilah S. Dawson) — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Daniele Serra — Russel Dickerson
Orrin Evans: The Pioneer of Black Comic Book Publishing — Shawn Pryor
Fear of Failure 2.0 — Damien Angelica Walters
POETRY
Treebound — Mary Soon Lee
Monster: Puppeteer — Mary Soon Lee
the saddest of angels — Jeremy Paden
COLUMNS
Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Page Advice with Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 136
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 January 2018 issue (#136) contains:
* Original fiction by Tobias S. Buckell (“A World to Die For”), Osahon Ize-Iyamu (“Say it Low, then Loud”), Erin Roberts (“Sour Milk Girls”), Bo Balder (“A Cigarette Burn In Your Memory”), and Bao Shu (“The Lighthouse Girl”).
* Reprints by James Tiptree Jr. (“Her Smoke Rose Up Forever”), Michael Swanwick (“For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again”).
* Non-fiction by Mark Cole, an interview with Sue Burke, an Another Word column by Kelly Robson, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 36
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 January 2018 issue features a novella by Ian R. MacLeod (“Breathmoss”), a short story by Dominic Green (“The Clockwork Atom Bomb”), and a short story by Michael Swanwick (“A Midwinter’s Tale”).
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 64 (January 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 Lori Selke (“A Head in a Box, or, Implications of Consciousness after Decapitation”) and Vincent Michael Zito (“The Owner’s Guide to Home Repair, Page 238: What to Do About Water Odor”), along with reprints by Halli Villegas (“The Family”) and Lynda E. Rucker (“Different Angels”). We also have Gwendolyn Kiste bringing us the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with up-and-comer S.P. Miskowski.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 92 (January 2018)
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 art this month is by Alan Bao, illustrating a new science fiction short by Adam-Troy Castro (“The Streets of Babel”). Susan Jane Bigelow gives us our other piece of original SF (“The Eyes of the Flood”). We also have with SF reprints by Catherynne M. Valente (“Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy”) and James Patrick Kelly (“Someday”). Our fantasy originals are from José Pablo Iriarte (“The Substance of My Lives, The Accidents of Our Birth”) and Sarah Pinsker (“The Court Magician”). Our fantasy reprints are by Joanna Ruocco (“Auburn”) and Roger Zelazny (“Divine Madness”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns, and an interview with author Fonda Lee. For our ebook readers, our exclusive novella is by Will McIntosh (“A Thousand Nights Till Morning”). And of course we have a book excerpt just for our ebook readers, too–it’s a snippet from THE NIGHT MARKET by Jonathan Moore.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – January/February 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.
NOVELLAS
Jewel of the Heart – Matthew Hughes
NOVELETS
Widdam – Vandana Singh
Galatea in Utopia – Nick Wolven
The Donner Party – Dale Bailey
SHORT STORIES
Aurelia – Lisa Mason
Neanderthals – Gardner Dozois
A List of Forty-Nine Lies – Steven Fischer
An Equation of State – Robert Reed
The Equationist – J.D. Moyer
A Feather on Her Cap – Mary Robinette Kowal
POEMS
This Way – Neal Wilgus
Dear Creator – Mary Soon Lee
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Books – Elizabeth Hand
Films: Get Off the Sink and Other Unheeded Commandments – Kathi Maio
Plumage from Pegasus: Toy Sorry – Paul Di Filippo
Coming Attractions –
Curiosities – Graham Andrews
CARTOONS
Arthur Masear, Bill Long, S. Harris.
COVER
Mondolithic Studios for “Galatea In Utopia”
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 30, January 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 30: January 2018
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories: Nick DiChario, Laurie Tom, Joe Haldeman, David Afsharirad, George Nikolopoulos, Kij Johnson, M. E. Garber, David VonAllmen, Mercedes Lackey, Sean Patrick Hazlett, Eric Leif Davin, Orson Scott Card
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 Lois McMaster Bujold
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.
The Dark – Issue 32
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:
“Necksnapper” by MP Johnson
“The Vault of the Sky, the Face of the Deep” by Robert Levy (reprint)
“When the Night Blooms, an Artist Transmutes: A Three-Act Play” by Nin Harris
“Lump in Your Throat” by Robert Shearman (reprint)
Mythic Delirium 4.3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWinter has come. Our stories in this issue venture into the shadows, and few who follow after will emerge unscathed.
In “When the Bough Breaks,” Jaymee Goh shows us how terrible it can be to see the warning signs, supernatural and not, when those with power won’t heed them. A heartbreaking injustice burns at the core of Jennifer R. Donohue’s “A Thing with Feathers,” while evil calls coyly to evil in Tiffany Trent’s “The Papyrotomist.”
As for poetry, Beth Cato returns with a darksome narrative of sibling vengeance, as well as the moving work that inspired our cover artist, Ruth Sanderson. Christina Sng chronicles a growing nightmare, while Donald Raymond hints at hungry myths. Cassandra Rose Clarke also provides two poems, visions of eerie magic and sensuous death.
Our cover image is “This Body Made” by Ruth Sanderson, based on the poem of the same name by Beth Cato.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• “When the Bough Breaks” by Jaymee Goh
• “Summer Rain” by Cassandra Rose Clarke
• “Legends of Coyote Creek, Part 1: The Wall of Monsters” by Donald Raymond
• “A Thing with Feathers” by Jennifer R. Donohue
• “This Body Made” by Beth Cato
• “After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls” by Beth Cato
• “The Papyrotomist” by Tiffany Trent
• “Born of Blood and Tears” by Christina Sng
• “Porphyria’s Other Lover” by Cassandra Rose Clarke
Flash Fiction Online Issue #52 January 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2018 Issue of Flash Fiction Online Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
Change—especially for the better—doesn’t come because of a page on the calendar. It comes because we are prepared for it.
By that, I mean that life circumstances prepare us for the inevitability of change.
Pregnancy, by its very nature, prepares us for parenthood. Misery prepares us for the struggle to climb from its grip. The process of aging prepares us to meet our eventual end.
But at some point, the process of change requires something from us. It requires choice. It requires action. It requires us to make decisions about how we will react, what we will do. At some point, we must all take our lives into our own hands. We must all make of ourselves the kind of person we want to become.
And in that light, I think this quote from country musician Brad Paisley is as true of July 23rd or November 6th as it is of January 1st:
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
This month’s stories are all about change, new beginnings, that first page. Some by choice, some by chance.
From Holly Collingwood, “The Solid Years of My Life” – a science fiction short story about an astronaut who travels a long, long way for a new beginning and a cup of coffee.
From Kaely Horton, “Rachel Unerased” – a literary story of love and family.
“Mother’s Rules for a Burned Girl” by Rebecca Mix. A new beginning is found in a dragon’s flames.
And finally, from returning FFO author, Krystal Claxton, “Life, hacked.”
We hope you enjoy.
Locus January 2018 (#684)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2018 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with John Crowley and JY Yang. News includes the World Fantasy Awards judges, an International Report on SF in the Ukraine, Best-of lists from Amazon, PW, Audible, and Goodreads, and much more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention”. Reviews cover new titles by K.J. Parker, Henry Wessells, James S.A. Corey, Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Graham Jones, Gwendolyn Kiste, Victor LaValle, Laura Mauro, Tade Thompson, Grady Hendrix, Joe Hill, Jim C. Hines, Liz Ziemska, E.J. Swift, Steven Brust, Rachel Caine, Kristin Cashore, Kate Milford, Maggie Stiefvater, and many others.
New York Review of Science Fiction #344
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Universes of SF Issue: Sandra Lindow: Nnedi Okorafor’s Worlds of SF; Henry Wessells: SF as a World Entire; Brian Stableford: Antediluvian Worlds of French SF; David Drake: Soldiers and Their Governments; Michael Swanwick Interviews Sergei Lukyanenko; Darrell Schweitzer on Lord Dunsany; Dan’l Danehy-Oakes on Chris Roberson; Plus: More poetry and holiday wishes
On Spec Magazine #106 Vol 28 No 3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 28 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Alec Austin & Marissa Lingen (“A Lab of One’s Own”),Al Onia (“Rising Cold”), James Van Pelt (“Amos Adams Stops a Lynching”),Claude Lalumière (“Nothing Can Stop the Gravytrain!”), and Robert Runté (“Sermon on the Mount”). Poetry by Daniel Ausema (“Alien Artifact Restoration”).
Non Fiction by Madison Pilling (“The Writing Stick”), Vanessa Cardui (“Love Song”). Interviews with Al Onia ands Vanessa Cardui by Roberta Laurie and Tim Reynolds. Special In Memoriam tribute by Candas Jane Dorsey for Hank Hargreaves and Brian Aldiss. Cover by Corey Lansdell.
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction – Issue 9
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Autumn 2017 issue of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction.
This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia.
Inside these pages, you’ll find: treachery and exploitation in colonial Indochina by Aliette de Bodard; the rediscovery of statuary gods by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo; communicable scarification during Lunar New Year by Philip Holden; volcanic dragons in post-apocalyptic Indonesia by Sean Jones; a simian revolution in Brunei by KH Lim; and speculative poetry by Mariel Annarose Nicole Alonzo, Melvin Chen, Russ Hoe, DA Xiaolin Spires, Inez Tan and Lakan Umali.
Also included is a special supplement: the continuing seralisation of Dean Francis Alfar’s brilliant novel Salamanca, winner of the Palanca Award Grand Prize for the Novel and Gintong Aklat Award for Literature.
LONTAR is the world’s only biannual literary journal focusing on Southeast Asian speculative fiction.