- “The Elevator Illimitable” by James Van Pelt
- “Baucis and Philemon” by Trent Walters
- “The Heart Stopped (Mid-Race)” by Virginia M. Mohlere
- “The Desert Cure” by Daniel Ausema
- “Backswamp Atlantis” by Alix Bosley
- “Submerged” by Maura McHugh
- “The Water and the World” by Premee Mohamed
- “Lotus Moon” by Mary Soon Lee
- “Signs” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- Women of Color in Speculative Fiction: Roundtable Discussion, Interviews, Fiction & Non-Fiction from authors including Cassandra Khaw, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Priya Sharma, Vandana Singh, Isabel Yap, S.B. Divya, Shveta Thakrar, Mary Anne Mohanraj & Mimi Mondal
- The State of Current German Speculative Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion featuring Diana Menschig, Oliver Plaschka, Kai Meyer, Alessandra Ress
- Erik Born’s translation of Kurd Lasswitz’s “The Universal Library” from German. This classic German story, which inspired the likes of Borges, has never been published in its entirety before.
- Original fiction & reprints from Jasper Sanchez (Stories We Carry On The Back Of The Night), Kurd Lasswitz (The Universal Library), Vandana Singh (The Mountain Mahesh), Raman (Hide), Priya Sharma (Blonde) Shveta Thakrar (Thorns In My Throat), S.B. Divya (Binaries), Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali (Five Lessons in the Fattening Room), Tehseen Baweja (Partition), Mary Anne Mohanraj (Excerpts: Hammer in the Dark) and Anil Menon (Excerpts: Half of What I Say)
- Excellent poetry from John Philip Johnson (Four Moons), Naru Sundar (Cup of Tea), Laura Page (Her Chemo Friend Explains Capricorn), Rose Lemberg (Pollen), Bruce Boston (Surreal Bucket List #3), Mary Soon Lee (Alternate Genders, Chronology Of Items Found On The Moon, Boatman), Steve Simpson (When We Were Young), David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Traces) and Bryan Thao Worra (What Kills A Man, An Archaeology of Snow Forts)
- Book Reviews include “Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler” by Alison Akiko McBain, “Under the Radar: Sultana’s Dream” by Mahvesh Murad, ‘”To hold contradictions in balance…”: Tashan Mehta’s The Liar’s Weave’ by Gautam Bhatia, “Borne by Jeff Vandermeer” by Aditya Singh, and “Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor” by Isha Karki.
The Dark – Issue 29
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 Whalebone Parrot” by Darcie Little Badger
“Neither Time Nor Tears” by Angela Slatter (reprint)
“The Weirdo” by Davide Camparsi
“Mr. Doornail” by Maria Dahvana Headley (reprint)
Flash Fiction Online Issue #49 October 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 2017 Issue of Flash Fiction Online Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
Yet again, this issue proves that flash fiction can wield a large force. The short stories in this issue are powerful, dark, and gripping.
The October issue of Flash Fiction Online starts off with an editorial, “Love and Monsters!” from Editor-in-Chief Suzanne Vincent. Her family’s love of classic literary monsters takes pumpkin carving to a whole new level. In the same way, love elevates this month’s stories into something more than merely monster tales. These short horror, dark science fiction and fantasy stories bring heart … and all the feels.
Returning Flash Fiction Online author Steven Fischer gives us “A Siren Song for Two,” a science fiction flash that’s beautiful in a cold, bone-chilling way only found in space. Planetary miners are sung to their dooms by mysterious voices. But can anyone be saved?
“Claire Weinraub’s Top Five Sea Monster Stories (For Allie)” by Evan Berkow is part love story, part heartbreak, and all around beautiful with a dash of monster thrown in for spice. Though list stories don’t often win us over, this one is worth reading. We’ll take this set of book recommendations any day.
What does a word mean? How much does language affect the way we shape our thinking? And how would an alien language change humankind forever? All this and more is explored in “Fluency” by Matt Mikalatos in his return to Flash Fiction Online. This science fiction story first appeared in Daily Science Fiction but we’re pleased to reprint it.
Sometimes there are monsters that even the greatest love can’t stop. “Monsters” by Edward Ashton, yet another FFO alumnus, tackles this kind of love between a brother and sister.
Finally, a new FXXK WRITING column from HEX-Rated author, Jason S. Ridler, “THE GUTTERS: STINK LESS, STINK BETTER.” Check it out for writing advice from the trenches with a healthy left hook of sarcasm.
Enjoy!
Locus October 2017 (#681)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 2017 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with James Patrick Kelly and Annalee Newitz. Worldcon 75 in Helsinki is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report. Awards news includes the Sidewise Awards, Dragon Awards, Joan Aiken prize, National Book Award longlist, and more. Other news and milestones include SFWA’s call for grants, Sarem’s removal from the New York Times bestsellers list, and Robert J. Sawyer’s investiture as a member of the Order of Canada.
Kameron Hurley’s column is entitled “What Comes After the Ship Is Sunk?” Jerry Pournelle and Len Wein are remembered with obituaries and appreciations. Reviews cover new titles by John Crowley, Paolo Bacigalupi, Walter Jon Williams, R.S. Belcher, N.K. Jemisin, Lisa Maxwell, Paul Cornell, Nat Segaloff, Jeff VanderMeer, Ann Leckie, Paul Kincaid, Elizabeth Bear, David Marusek, Adam Roberts, Steven Brust, JY Yang, Fran Wilde, Melinda Snodgrass, Anna-Marie McLemore, and many others.
Mythic Delirium 4.2
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedOur autumn issue is here, full of work that we suspect you’ll find strangely uplifting — in the case of at least one story, literally so. We offer this new issue of Mythic Delirium in the spirit of sharing the fun we have as science fiction publishers.
James Van Pelt joins us for the first time with “The Elevator Illimitable,” a story that demonstrates the range of adventures one can have while standing in the same spot day after day. Daniel Ausema, who first appeared in our pages with poetry, contributes the surreal epistolary tale “The Desert Cure.” Premee Mohamed, another newcomer to our digital pages, provides a triumphant sports story with a preternatural twist in “The Water and the World.”
Our poetry this time around comes from Alix Bosley, Maura McHugh, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Mary Soon Lee, Virginia M. Mohlere, and Trent Walters, covering distractions of the heart, learning to breathe water, a drowned ship, the mysteries of horses and trees, and the wisdom of heeding omens.
Our wonderful cover art, “Immaculate Atom Heart,” comes from Lasse Paldanius, an artist we found through the Worldcon 75 art show in Helsinki.
- Here’s the table of contents:
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 133
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 October 2017 issue (#133) contains:
* Original fiction by Jack Skillingstead (“The Sum of Her Expectations”), Natalia Theodoridou (“The Nightingales in Plátres”), Finbarr O’Reilly (“The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon”), Xia Jia (“The Psychology Game”), Genevieve Valentine (“Intro to Prom”)
* Reprints by Nisi Shawl (“Shiomah”s Land”) and Gareth L. Powell (“Red Lights, And Rain”).
* Non-fiction by Julie Novakova and Tomas Petrasek, an interview with Elizabeth Bear, an Another Word column by A.M. Dellamonica, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 33
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 October 2017 issue features a novella by Rachel Swirsky (“Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)”), a novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman (“Okanoggan Falls”), and a novella by Maureen F. McHugh (“Protection”).
Mithila Review – Issue 9
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedMithila Review is an international science fiction and fantasy journal founded in 2015. We publish literary speculative fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, articles, art, etc. from around the world.
This special double issue (#9) contains:
Thank you so much for your love and support!
Interzone #272
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September–October issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new long and short stories by Aliya Whiteley, Paul Jessup, T.R. Napper, and Erica L. Satifka.
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, including interviews with Adam Roberts and Hal Duncan); Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment); and a personal recollection of Brian W. Aldiss by Andy Hedgecock.
Black Static #60
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe tenth anniversary issue contains new dark novellas and novelettes by writers who published their very first stories here: Carole Johnstone, Tim Lees, Ray Cluley, and Stephen Hargadon, with a guest editorial by the legendary Mick Reeks.
The cover art is by Ben Baldwin, who also began his career here, as did Lynda E. Rucker who’s now in every issue with her Notes From the Borderland column. Other features include Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore; Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews and an in-depth interview with Daniel Mills); Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (film reviews). Story illustrations are by Ben Baldwin, Jim Burns, Richard Wagner, and others.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #235, Ninth Anniversary Double-Issue
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #235 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, our Ninth Anniversary Double-Issue, featuring stories by Richard Parks, Kameron Hurley, Rebecca Campbell, and T.S. McAdams.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 36
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected2 x 18. 3 x 12. 4 x 9. 6 x 6. There are many ways to look at or approach the number 36. It is a square and therefore seemingly as far from a prime number as it is possible to get. (37 is a prime: so the previous statement sounds interesting, but is wrong.) There are not 36 short short stories within. But there are at least 2 poems although they are not 18 pages each.
There is a cover from kAt Philbin.
There are stories of possibly eerie encounters; stories of regrettable encounters; stories that do not hold a single encounter, except the imminent encounter between you, the reader, and the writer who is somewhere other in space and now retreating further in time each day. And if the enchantment of fiction — and poetry and nonfiction — works as planned, that magic will take someone’s thought that has been encapsulated in words, those words that were encased by ink, that ink that was pinned to paper, and then maybe, just maybe, that magic will be enacted upon you by the act of reading and you will take into your synapses, the space between your synapses, something of what that far distant writer hoped to impart in these words.
Table of Contents
Fiction
Gabriela Santiago, “Children of Air”
Lily Davenport, “The Crane Alphabet”
T. L. Rodebaugh, “The Secret History of the Original Line”
Mollie Chandler, “Evidence of a Storm”
Todd Summar, “Watching You Without Me”
Laurel Lathrop, “Cunning”
Christi Nogle, “The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future”
Zhao Haihong, “Windhorse”
Nonfiction
Nicole Kimberling, “How to Cook (Dis)Comfort Food”
Poetry
D M Gordon, Two Poems
About these Authors
Mollie Chandler is soon to complete her MFA in poetry at Lesley University, where she also concentrates in fantasy, fairy tale, and pedagogy. She works in Boston as an editorial assistant at an educational publishing company. Off the clock, she studies jazz vocals and acting, haunts thrift stores, and hunts for the best diners in New England. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Charles River Journal, Light: a Journal of Photography and Poetry, Paradise in Limbo, Poems2Go, and others.
L. M. Davenport is a first-year MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. She has read Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness a ridiculous number of times, and once knitted a five-and-a-half-foot-long giant squid. Her work has previously appeared at Hobart, Shimmer, and Luna Station Quarterly.
D M Gordon is the author of Fourth World and Nightly, at the Institute of the Possible, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award and International Book Award. Gordon’s poems and stories have been published widely. Prizes include First Prize from Glimmer Train, and Editor’s Choice Awards from the Beacon Street Review and descant. An MCC Artist Fellow in fiction for a portion of her novel Geography, as well as a two time finalist in poetry, she’s a freelance editor in multiple genres, and the editor for Hedgerow Books.
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.
Laurel Lathrop is studying fiction in the Creative Writing PhD program at Florida State University, where she has been awarded a Legacy Fellowship. She teaches composition and works as Assistant Nonfiction Editor of the Southeast Review.
Christi Nogle teaches college writing in Boise, Idaho. She has published in CDM recording studio’s Portable Story Series and the Pseudopod podcast and has a story forthcoming in C. M. Muller’s literary horror anthology Nightscript III.
T. L. Rodebaugh is a clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He lives with his wife and two children. When not conducting psychological research or writing fiction, he enjoys being barely competent in playing the guitar and gardening. Although he has published widely in the field of psychology, this is his first published short story. You can find him on twitter.
Gabriela Santiago grew up in Illinois, Florida, Montana, and Yokosuka, Japan; these days she lives in St. Paul, where she spends her days professionally playing with kids at the Minnesota Children’s Museum. She is a graduate of Macalester College and the Clarion writing workshop, as well as a proud member of Team Tiny Bonesaw. Her fiction has appeared in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!, People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror!, Betwixt, Black Candies—Surveillance: A Journal of Literary Horror, and States of Terror; her Black Candies story is also available in audio form on the GlitterShip podcast. You can find her online on Tumblr or Twitter.
Todd Summar writes fiction and essays, and serves as an editor for publishers and individuals. His work has appeared in Literary Hub, PANK, and Electric Literature, among others. He is the founding editor of Goreyesque and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. You can learn more about him on toddsummar.com or ToddSummar.
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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 36 Early Autumn 2017. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731395. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW 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 · Printed at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com), 21 Conz St., Northampton, MA 01060. 413-585-0414. SPaper subscriptions: $20/4 issues. 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. Contents © 2017 the authors. Cover illustration “I Was Raised by the Forest” ©2017 by kAt Philbin (katphilbin.com). All rights reserved. Thank you, lovely authors and artists. Please send submissions (we are always especially seeking weird and interesting work from women and writers of color), guideline requests, playlists, &c. to the address above. Peace.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #234
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #234 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Michael J. DeLuca and Will Greatwich.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 18
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September/October 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by N.K. Jemisin, Fran Wilde, C. S. E. Cooney, Catherynne M. Valente, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Delia Sherman, reprinted fiction by Malinda Lo, essays by Sophie Aldred, Cecilia Tan, Sarah Kuhn, Sam J. Miller and Jean Rice, and Sabrina Vourvoulias, poetry by Jo Walton, Brandon O’Brien, Ali Trotta, and Gwynne Garfinkle, interviews with C. S. E. Cooney and Delia Sherman by Julia Rios, a cover by Ashley Mackenzie, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 100
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
Tumbledown — Kameron Hurley
The Man in the Crimson Coat — Andrea Tang
Bad Penny — Carrie Laben
The Lightning Bird — Kristi DeMeester
While the Black Stars Burn — Lucy A. Snyder
NONFICTION
Interview with Kameron Hurley — Andrea Johnson
Apex at 100: An Introspective — Jason Sizemore and et al.
In Space, Can Anyone Hear Your Philosophy?: A Look at Alien and Philosophy with Editor/Contributor Jeffrey Ewing — M. B. Sutherland
Interview with Cover Artist Carolina Rodiguez Fuenmayor — Russel Dickerson
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 31
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected“As we each face our own obstacles, stories can provide a touchstone for the journey. Surely somewhere in the tales we read, the answers we seek are waiting for us. Sometimes things are simply hard and right now many of us are facing this harsh new world we’re in and struggling. But just as the heroes in our tales do, we all endure. For we must. I believe a happier ending for us all is still possible, but to get there we must persist.”
– from the editorial
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – September/October 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.
NOVELETS
Leash on a Man – Robert Reed
The Hermit of Houston – Samuel R. Delany
Children af Xanadu – Juan Paulo Rafols
SHORT STORIES
Evil Opposite – Naomi Kritzer
We Are Born – Dare Segun Falowo
Tasting Notes on the Varietals of the Southern Coast – Gwendolyn Clare
The Care of House Plants – Jeremy Minton
On Highway 18 – Rebecca Campbell
Hollywood Squid – Oliver Buckram
Still Tomorrow’s Going to Be Another Working Day – Amy Griswold
Bodythoughts – Rahul Kanakia
Riddle – Lisa Mason
The Two Choice Foxtrot of Chapham County – Tina Connolly
Starlight Express – Michael Swanwick
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Books – James Sallis
Science: Vanishing Act – Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
Films: On Finding Her Inner Kaiju – Kathi Maio
Coming Attractions –
Curiosities – Robert Eldridge
CARTOONS
Danny Shanahan, Nick Downes, Arthur Masear, S. Harris.
COVER
Maurizio Manzieri for “Starlight Express”