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.”
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 62 (November 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 Will Ludwigsen (“The Zodiac Walks on the Moon”) and Karin Lowachee (“The Summer Mask”), along with reprints by Molly Tanzer (“Mysterium Tremendum”) and Jayaprakash Satyamurthy (“My Saints Are Down”). In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” author Emily Suvada chews on the nature of cannibalism. We’ve also got author spotlights with our authors and our quarterly book review column from Terence Taylor.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – November/December 2017
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
Stillborne – Marc Laidlaw
NOVELETS
Attachments – Kate Wilhelm
Carbo – Nick Wolven
Water God’s Dog – R.S. Benedict
Racing the Rings of Saturn – Ingrid Garcia
Whatever Comes After Calcutta – David Erik Nelson
SHORT STORIES
Big Girl – Meg Elison
By the Red Giant’s Light – Larry Niven
Marley and Marley – J.R. Dawson
POEMS
Down at the Goblin Boutique – John W. Sexton
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Musing on Books – Michelle West
Science: The Science of Invisibility – Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
Films: It’s a Wrap – David J. Skal
Competition #94 –
Coming Attractions –
Index To Volumes 132 & 133 –
Curiosities – David Langford
CARTOONS
Bill Long, Danny Shanahan, Nick Downes, Arthur Masear, S. Harris.
COVER
Kent Bash for “Attachments”
Flash Fiction Online Issue #50 November 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2017 Issue of Flash Fiction Online Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
The November 2017 Issue of Flash Fiction Online celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.
From Sheila Massie, the dark fantasy short story “Baker” is part magical culinary skills and part theological reflection on good and evil. The human spirit is put to the test as a simple baker does anything within his power to make life a little easier.
Emily McCosh brings us “The Stars and the Rain,” a heartwarming science fiction story. A photographer and her brother test the bounds of familial love across the far reaches of space.
In a historical flash fiction story, Brian Trent gives us “Crater Meet.” Immerse yourself in the strange camaraderie between British and German soldiers. Sometimes the human spirit is stronger than any manmade conflict.
Lina Rather returns to Flash Fiction Online with “Last Long Night” (previously published in Daily Science Fiction). A small band of survivors spend their last moments together at the end of the universe.
An editorial from editor-in-chief, Suzanne W. Vincent.
Enjoy!
The Dark – Issue 30
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 Better Part of Drowning” by Octavia Cade
“Silk Bones” by Neil Williamson (reprint)
“The Sound of His Voice Like the Colour of Salt” by L. Chan
“Sugared Heat” by Lisa L. Hannett (reprint)
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 29, November 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 29: November 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by Larry Hodges. David L. Hebert, Mercedes Lackey, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Daniel J. Davis, Kevin J. Anderson, Eric Leif Davin, Steve Pantazis, Barry N. Malzberg, Dan Koboldt, Sandra M. Odell, Nancy Kress
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 Jack McDevitt
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 November 2017 (#682)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2017 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with David Marusek and Aliette de Bodard and a spotlight on Andy Weir. Awards news includes Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize win, Jesmyn Ward’s MacArthur “genius grant”, and the British Fantasy, Aurora, and Sunburst Awards winners, among others. Other news includes the return of Pulphouse magazine, B&N’s recent announcement of expansion, and the suspension and resignation of Amazon Studios head Roy Price.
Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “How to do Everything (Lifehacking Considered Harmful)”. Kit Reed, Julian May, Yoji Kondo, Harvey Jacobs, ElizaBeth Gilligan, and Hugh Hefner are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Victor LaValle, Sage Walker, Peter S. Beagle, Jane Yolen, Megan Hunter, N.J. Campbell, John Crowley, Lewis Shiner, Michael Bishop, Tim Pratt, Sarah Gailey, Elizabeth Bonesteel, Elizabeth Bear, Michael Griffin, S.P. Miskowski, Julie E. Czerneda, Seanan McGuire, Paul McAuley, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, Daniel José Older, and many others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 134
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 November 2017 issue (#134) contains:
* Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (“Prasetyo Plastics”), Suzanne Walker (“Retrieval”), Mike Buckley (“Dead Heroes”), Sue Burke (“Who Won the Battle of Arsia Mons?”), and Nicoletta Vallorani (“The Catalog of Virgins”).
* Reprints by Daryl Gregory (“Second Person, Present Tense”), Allen M. Steele (“Martian Blood”).
* Non-fiction by Mark Cole, an interview with Paul McAuley, an Another Word column by James Patrick Kelly, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 34
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 November 2017 issue features a novella by Walter Jon Williams (“Incarnation Day”), a novelette by Mercurio D. Rivera (“Missionaries”), and a novella by Sean Williams (“Inevitable”).
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 40
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedForty issues! Forty issues of Shimmer! Forty! Shimmers! As with many of our stories, these four encompass love, loss, destruction, and the hope of renewal. They explore new territories for their characters–the idea of new lives, of lives lost, of lives shed and begun again. Recipes for resurrection.
Boneset, by Lucia Iglesias
The blind Bonesetter’s townhouse enacts the architecture of a skull. Windows imitate eye sockets the Bonesetter has known. The front door comments on the vigor of the jaw, swinging up and down on mandibular hinges. When the hinges thirst for oil, the door munches up the lucklorn gutter-mice who skitter over the threshold, chewing them into flesh-jelly and spitting them across the foyer until the Bonesetter serves the hinges their oil from a crystal eyedropper.
The Atomic Hallows and the Body of Science, by Octavia Cade
A spear breaks its blade upon ribs and punctures hearts. It shines with ice-coated needles in the salt air, over breakfast. “Ive had a letter,” says Lise to her nephew. He’d come to visit for the holidays so she wouldn’t be alone in the cold country of her exile. “I’ve had a letter and I don’t know what to make of it.” She thinks she might be worried.
Raise-the-Dead Cobbler, by Andrea Corbin
The air was muggy, a heatwave burning through the spring, on the night that we met to conjure two people out of almost nothing at all. None of us could’ve done it without the others, and none of us would’ve dared, except Mason said please and I said maybe and Jun said we could, and so we did. You need a few materials first, then follow a sort of recipe. Call it Raise-the-Dead Cobbler.
The Weight of Sentience, by Naru Dames Sundar
The bullet fire drew a boundary between Masak and me and the rest of our brethren, laser tracers demarcating the distinction between safety and capture. While we curled up small and invisible underneath the leaking truck, those who were not so lucky were rounded up. Pushed into a small circle, their alloy limbs gleamed under the neon brightness of the cameras. The soldier wielding the wipe-wand moved from one kneeling body to the next, drowning my ears with its static hiss, the sound of memories dying.
New York Review of Science Fiction #343
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Atrocity Exhibition Issue: Victor Grech: Crimes against humanity in Star Trek; Paul Voermans: How sf engages with genocide; Brian Stableford: Maucire Magre’s final quest for the ideal; Mike Barrett: Looking back at E.C. Tubb’s Dumarest; Joe Sanders on James Morrow’s Reality by Other Means. Plus: Eclipses, Aldiss, and a Robotﾗ-avant la lettre
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #237
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #237 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Marissa Lingen and Bennett North.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #236
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #236 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Natalia Theodoridou and Emily B. Cataneo.
Apex Magazine Issue 101
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
My Struggle — Lavie Tidhar
So Sings the Siren — Annie Neugebauer
Penelope Waits — Dennis Danvers
The Case of the Mysterious Meat — Kate Ingram
Tree of the Forest Seven Sbells Truns the World Round Midnight — Sheree Renée Thomas
Haven, Kansas (Novel Excerpt) by Alethea Kontis
NONFICTION
Interview with Dennis Danvers — Andrea Johnson
8-Bit Rage, Black Hole Zion, Industrial Music, and Science Fiction — Ed Grabianowski
Interview with Cover Artist Rubén Castro — Russel Dickerson
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 89 (October 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 A. Merc Rustad (“Longing for Stars Once Lost,” with an original cover illustration by Reiko Murakami) and Adam-Troy Castro (“What I Told My Little Girl About The Aliens Preparing to Grind Us Into Hamburgers”), along with SF reprints by Hugh Howey (“The Walk Up Nameless Ridge”) and Aliette de Bodard (“Crossing the Midday Gate”). We’re enjoying a change of pace in our fantasy department as we serialize an original novella (in two parts) from Jeremiah Tolbert (“The Dragon of Dread Peak”). We’ll also have fantasy reprints by Sofia Samatar (“The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle”) and Rachel Swirksy (“Becoming”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns, and a feature interview with Tade Thompson.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 61 (October 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 Cassandra Khaw (“Don’t Turn on the Lights”) and Joanna Parypinski (“We Are Turning on a Spindle”), along with reprints by Brian Evenson (“Click”) and Robert Shearman (“Suffer Little Children”). Over on “The H Word,” Kristi DeMeester shares her thoughts on horror. Plus, we also have author spotlights with our authors and a feature interview with Josh Malerman.