Apex Magazine Issue 103
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
Behind Her, Trailing Like Butterfly Wings — Daniela Tomova
The Edge of Things — Katharine E.K. Duckett
Cemetery Man — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
NONFICTION
Interview with Daniela Tomova — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Clarissa Ferguson — Russell Dickerson
COLUMNS
Page Advice — Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant
Between the Lines — Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 91 (December 2017)
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, we have original science fiction by Rachael K. Jones (“The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant,” with a cover illustration by Lovely Creatures Studios) and Cadwell Turnbull (“A Third of the Stars of Heaven”), along with SF reprints by Charlie Jane Anders (“Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived By Her Mercy”) and Robert Reed (“Blood Wedding”).
Plus, we have original fantasy by A. Merc Rustad (“The House At the End of the Lane Is Dreaming”) and Mari Ness (“You Will Never Know What Opens”), and fantasy reprints by Tim Pratt (“A Wedding Night’s Dream”) and Sonya Taaffe (“The Boatman’s Cure”). 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 an ebook-exclusive reprint of the novella “The Fullness of Time” (John Brunner) and an excerpt from the novel THE TIGER’S DAUGHTERS, by K. Arsenault Rivera.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 63 (December 2017)
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 (“Which Super Little Dead GirlTM Are You?”) and Matthew Kressel (“Will You Meet Me There, Out Beyond the Bend?”), along with reprints by Tamsyn Muir (“The Woman in the Hill”) and Lisa Morton (“Poppi’s Monster”). As for nonfiction, we’ve got Paul Jessup discussing ontological horror and the weird in the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus we have author spotlights with our authors, and Adam-Troy Castro brings us a movie review.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #51 December 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2017 Issue of Flash Fiction Online Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
Our stories this month are about persistence, hope, and ultimately, love—even when it hurts.
Returning to Flash Fiction Online, Charity Tahmaseb brings us “Steadfast,” a beautiful yet modern retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Steadfast Tin Soldier.”
Jennifer Haupt’s “The Girl Waits” is an encapsulated moment in one girl’s life. Yet it has an enormous dynamism not often found in such small, quiet stories, and that’s the underlying tension of hope.
John Wiswell returns to Flash Fiction Online, and no, it’s not April (his usual month for FFO appearances). Read “The First Stop Is Always the Last.” Grief, self-doubt, and hope play out in second chances, all set on a city bus.
And finally, to round out the issue is Stewart C Baker’s “Excerpt from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th edition Regarding the Departed” (previously published in The Sockdolager).
To sum up this issue, I’ll leave you with an excerpt from Stewart’s story.
“(The practitioner) must be willing to accept that pain is universal, and that beauty can, like a sudden surge of snow, be deadly.”
An editorial from Publisher, Anna Yeatts.
Illustrated by Dario Bijelac.
Enjoy!
The Dark – Issue 31
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)
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 32
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedYear eight of Luna Station Quarterly comes to a close, with a group of dark tales that would make Scrooge’s gruel turn even colder than usual.
These are not Christmas stories. Mercifully. As Christmas would likely never recover from the death, dystopia & melancholy presented here. But you’re ready for a different perspective, and a counterbalance to the endless loop of Jingle Bells while squeezing your way through the mall shopping for things no one needs. Right?
So find a quiet place, away from the noise, and let us entertain and upset you. From the longest night of the year to the long dark night of the soul, you can always count on Luna Station to reflect the world around us. Brrrrr.
This issue features stories by:
Emma Grygotis • Irene Grazzini • E. K. Wagner • Agrippina Domanski • Elizabeth Martin • Hannah Sternberg • Cathrin Hagey • Katherine Inskip • T. Walker
Our gorgeous cover was created by:
Miranda Meeks
Forever Magazine Issue 35
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 December 2017 issue features a novella by Ken Liu (“The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary”), a novelette by Eleanor Arnason (“Stellar Harvest”), and a short story by Peter Watts (“Malak”).
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 135
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 December 2017 issue (#135) contains:
* Original fiction by Natalia Theodoridou (“The Rains on Mars”), Lettie Prell (“Crossing LaSalle”), Josh Pearce (“Falling in Love with Martians and Machines”), Eleanna Castroianni (“Darkness, Our Mother”), and Cassandra Khaw (“Landmark”).
* Reprints by Ken MacLeod (“Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359”) and Ian McDonald (“Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan”).
* Non-fiction by Craig DeLancey, an interview with Ken Scholes, an Another Word column by Alethea Kontis, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Locus December 2017 (#683)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2017 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Seanan McGuire and Mike Allen. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2018. Main Stories include the World Fantasy Awards, Jesmyn Ward’s National Book Award win, the Carnegie Medals shortlist, Borderlands Books’ new site purchase, Tachyon’s new Particle Books ebook imprint launch, and Peter Beagle lawsuit news. The World Fantasy Convention and ICon in Tel Aviv are covered with reports and photos.
Kameron Hurley’s column is entitled “Fear, Procrastination, and the Thorny Problem of Demanding What You’re Worth”. Gregory Bernard Banks is remembered with an obituary. Reviews cover new titles by Molly Tanzer, Rivers Solomon, M. John Harrison, Louise Erdrich, Angela Slatter, S.A. Chakraborty, Ken MacLeod, James Gunn, Ann Leckie, Andy Weir, Tim Pratt, Robin Sloan, K. Arsenault Rivera, Leena Likitalo, Tade Thompson, Nnedi Okorofor, Sarah Gailey, and many others.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #240
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #240 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by M. Bennardo and Stephen Case.
Black Static #61
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November-December issue contains new dark fiction by Georgina Bruce, Ralph Robert Moore, Ruth EJ Booth, Carly Holmes, Andrew Humphrey, and Mel Kassel. The cover art is by Tara Bush, and interior illustrations by Joachim Luetke, Vince Haig, and George C. Cotronis. 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).
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #239
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #239 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Adam-Troy Castro & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro and Michael Anthony Ashley.
Interzone #273
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November–December issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new long and short stories by Laura Mauro, Rachael Cupp, Dan Grace, Erica L. Satifka, R. Boyczuk, and 2017 James White Award winner Stewart Horn. The cover artist for 2017 is Dave Senecal, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, and Vincent Sammy. Features: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews); Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment); and a guest editorial by Erica Satifka.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 19
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November/December 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Sam J. Miller & Lara Elena Donnelly, Karin Tidbeck, Sarah Monette, Tina Connolly, Troy L. Wiggins, and Tansy Rayner Roberts, reprinted fiction by Zen Cho and Rachel Swirsky, essays by Dimas Ilaw, Tim Pratt, Mallory Yu, Mari Ness, and Natalie Luhrs, and poetry by Nin Harris, Sharon Hsu, Sara Cleto & Brittany Warman, Betsy Aoki, Cassandra Khaw, Valerie Valdes, Millie Ho, and Dominik Parisien, interviews with Sam J. Miller & Lara Elena Donnelly and Tansy Rayner Roberts by Shana DuBois, a cover by Julie Dillon, a guest editorial by Julia Rios, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 102
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
An Unexpected Boon — S.B. Divya
Untilted — K.A. Teryna
The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft — Nick Mamatas & Tim Pratt
NONFICTION
Interview with S.B. Divya — Andrea Johnson
The Sublet, Terrifying Familiar: A Feature and Interview with Direct David Ainsley — Lesley Conner
Interview with Cover Artist Max Mitenkov — Russell Dickerson
COLUMNS
Page Advice — Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant
Between the Lines — Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 90 (November 2017)
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, for science fiction, we’ve got original shorts by Ashok K. Banker (“A Vortal in Midtown”) and Charlie Jane Anders (“Cake Baby”), along with SF reprints by Leslie What (“The Mutable Borders of Love”) and Philip Raines and Harvey Welles (“Alice and Bob”). We’ve also got original fantasy by Kathleen Kayembe (“The Faerie Tree”) and Max Wynne (“A Wound Like an Unplowed Field”), and fantasy reprints by Rachel Swirsky (“The Day the Wizards Came”) and Jonathan L. Howard (“The Commission of The Philosophical Alembic”). All that fiction, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. Our interview this month is with novelist Molly Tanzer–plus, if you’re an ebook reader, you can check out an excerpt of her new novel, Creatures of Will and Temper. Also for our ebook readers, we have our ebook-exclusive reprint of Gene Wolfe’s novella “Tracking Song.”