Nightmare Magazine, Issue 60 (September 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 Silvia Moreno-Garcia (“Jade, Blood”) and Ashok K. Banker (“No One Prays to the Goddess”), along with reprints by Chesya Burke (“He Who Takes Away the Pain”) and John Skipp (“Art is the Devil”). In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” we have S.P. Miskowski discussing a classic topic in the genre: ghosts. Plus we have author spotlights with our authors and a fresh new review from Adam-Troy Castro.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 88 (September 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 Timothy Mudie (“An Ever-Expanding Flash of Light”) and Giovanni De Feo (“Ugo”), along with SF reprints by Marissa Lingen (“Blue Ribbon”) and Genevieve Valentine (“Carthago Delenda Est”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Jaymee Goh (“The Last Cheng Beng Gift”) and Tony Ballantyne (“A Pound of Darkness, a Quarter of Dreams”), and fantasy reprints by Tamsyn Muir (“The Magician’s Apprentice”) and Tobias Buckell (“Shoggoths in Traffic”).
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 Theodora Goss. For our ebook readers, we have a reprint of the novella “Near Zennor,” by Elizabeth Hand, and an excerpt from the novel Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz. And our cover this month is by Alan Bao, illustrating “The Last Cheng Beng Gift.”
The Dark – Issue 28
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:
“Lucky Girl” by Erica L. Satifka
“The Embalmer” by Helen Marshall (reprint)
“These Bones Aside” by Lora Gray
“Red String” by Cassandra Khaw (reprint)
Flash Fiction Online Issue #48 September 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2017 Issue of Flash Fiction Online Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader. In the past we’ve asked you, dear reader, to bear with us, to stretch your minds and hearts, to try new things.
For example, last March we asked you to indulge us in a Horror issue. You trusted us, and we gave you four terribly creepy tales that we hope you enjoyed, despite your preconceived notions of what makes horror what it is.
We’re asking you to trust us again. This time with Science Fiction.
Ray Bradbury, a legendary master of science fiction as an art form, a writer whose work you probably read in high school, said this about Science Fiction:
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
How true. And, in our opinion, Science Fiction is at its greatest when it touches the heart as well. Our four stories this month do all that in spectacular and beautiful ways. From heartbreaking apocalypse to heartwarming sequel; from sweet revenge in an alien saloon to bitter heartbreak in a robot scrapyard.
From A.T. Greenblatt, “Listen and You Will Hear Us Speak.”
From Jared W. Cooper, “What Lasts.”
From John Guzlowski, “The Last Man on Earth Crawls Back to Life – A Mini-Novel Sequel.”
From Steven Fischer, “And All Our Bones Were Dust.”
Plus a FXXK Writing interview with Jason S. Ridler and Anna Yeatts
Enjoy!
Locus September 2017 (#680)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2017 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Matt Ruff and Karin Tidbeck, and SF Grand Master Brian Aldiss is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through June 2018. News includes the Hugo Awards Winners, Whitehead’s Clarke Award win, Dragon Awards developments, Macmillan’s plan to leave the Flatiron Building, a new Sendak picture book, and the Seiun, Sidewise, Mythopoeic, and Scribe Awards winners. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Demon-Haunted World”. Obituaries include Jeff Carlson, William Sanders, Jordin Kare, and Mustafá Ibn Ali Kanso.
Reviews cover new titles by Annalee Newitz, Nnedi Okorafor, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Jeffrey Ford, Dave Hutchinson, Josh Malerman, Neil Jordan, Angus Watson, Bath Cato, Kat Howard, K.S. Merbeth, Margaret Killjoy, Linda Nagata, Maggie Shen King, and many others.
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 39
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedGhosts. We all have them, some more apparent than others. The ghosts of people who are no longer with us, the ghosts of dreams we used to have, the ghosts that linger in places we once lived. This issue of Shimmer contains a bundle of ghosts. They are beautiful and frightening and tragic and everything you imagine a Shimmer ghost would be.
The Creeping Influences, by Sonya Taaffe
She came out of the peat like a sixpence in a barmbrack, her face shining like wet iron between the spade-edge and the turf, the bright rusty plait of her hair broken like a birth-cord around her neck.
En la Casa de Fantasmas, by Brian Holguin
Everyone knows about La Bruja. They say she lives somewhere down in the Avenues south of Eagle Rock. She is a tiny thing, short and round. Always dressed in black no matter the weather or time of year. Draped in mourning, they say, like La Llorona.
Fixer, Worker, Singer, by Natalia Theodoridou
The sky creaks as Fixer makes his way across the steel ramp that is suspended under the firmament. It’s time to turn on the stars. He pauses a few steps from where the switches and pulleys are located and looks down. He allows himself only one look down each day, just before sunset.
Hare’s Breath, by Maria Haskins
It’s Midsummer’s Eve, and even this close to midnight there’s no darkness, only a long, translucent dusk that will eventually slip into dawn. Britt and I are fifteen, and she has just come back from That Place, the one the adults won’t talk about even when they think I’m not listening. Something’s happened to her there, but I don’t understand what it is, and she can’t find the words to tell me.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 132
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 September 2017 issue (#132) contains:
* Original fiction by A. Brym (“Antarctic Birds”), Eric Schwitzgebel (“Little /^^^&-“), Suzanne Palmer (“The Secret Life of Bots”), Jess Barber and Sara Saab (“Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics”), and Gu Shi (“M?bius Continuum”).
* Reprints by Tom Purdom (“Bonding with Morry”) and Geoff Ryman (“Warmth”).
* Non-fiction by Stephanie M. Bucklin, an interview with Charles Stross, an Another Word column by Kelly Robson, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 28, September 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 28: September 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Robert Jeschonek, Rachelle Harp, Kevin J. Anderson, Larry Hodges, Sean Patrick Hazlett, John DeChancie, Zach Shephard, Stewart C Baker, Barry N. Malzberg, Nick DiChario, T. R. Napper, James Wesley Rogers
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 Nancy Kress
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.
Space and Time Magazine Issue #129
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Summer 2017 issue of Space and Time Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Paul Michael Anderson (“How I Became a Cryptid Straight out of a 1970s Horror Movie”) and Gordon Linzner (“Settling”), an author self-portrait by Mary Fan, poetry by Christina Sng and Annette Schlichter, and more!
New York Review of Science Fiction #342
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Sacred Dragons Issue: David Swanger: The Landscape of Fantasy; Takayuki Tatsumi: The Genius of Yoshio Aramkai; Joe Sanders: Rediscovering Michael Bishop; Bernadette L. Bosky: Rereading Rose Madder; Brian Stableford: Magre, Lucifer & Albigensians; Terry Thompon: A Biblical Echo in Frankenstein; David Langford: Random Returns!; Michael Andre-Driussi: Terry Nation’s Surviors; Gustavo Bondini: A Brazilian Snapshot. Plus: Fran Wilde on Ellen Klages and Screed!
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 87 (August 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.
Our cover this month is by Reiko Murakami, illustrating a new original science fiction short from Ashok K. Banker (“Tongue”). Our other original SF this month is from Christopher East (“An Inflexible Truth”). We also have SF reprints by Andrea Kail (“The Sun God At Dawn, Rising From A Lotus Blossom”) and Carrie Vaughn (“Swing Time”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Susan Palwick (“The Shining Hills”) and Bruce McAllister (“Ink”), and fantasy reprints by Ken Scholes (“East of Eden and Just a Bit South”) and Seanan McGuire (“A Citizen in Childhood’s Country”). All that, and of course we also have our book and media review columns, spotlights on our fantastic writers, and an interview with Annalee Newitz. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive reprint of the novella “Steppin’ Razor,” by Maurice Broaddus. Our excerpt this month is from Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel, THE CLOCKWORK DYNASTY.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 59 (August 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 James Rabb (“The Devil of Rue Moret”) and Nick Mamatas (” The Spook School”), along with reprints by V.H. Leslie (“Senbazuru”) and Nalo Hopkinson (“Shift”). We also have Gemma Files bringing us the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a fiction review from Terence Taylor.
The Dark – Issue 27
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:
“Ghostling” by E. Catherine Tobler
“Tekeli-li, They Cry” by A.C. Wise (reprint)
“Skins Smooth as Plantain, Hearts Soft as Mango” by Ian Muneshwar
“Mary, Mary” by Ray Cluley (reprint)
Apex Magazine Issue 99
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.
A special North American Indigenous Fantasists Issue
EDITORIAL
Words from the Guest Editor—Amy H. Sturgis
FICTION
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience(TM)—Rebecca Roanhorse
If a Bird Can Be a Ghost—Allison Mills
Skinny Charlie’s Orbiting Teepee—Pamela Rentz
The Trip—Mari Kurisato
NONFICTION
Interview with Author Allison Mills—Andrea Johnson
Indigenous Wonderworks and the Settler-Colonial Imaginary—Daniel Heath Justice
Interview with Cover Artist Dana Tiger—Russell Dickerson
Locus August 2017 (#679)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2017 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with John Scalzi and Justina Ireland and a series author spotlight on Janny Wurts. News includes the World Fantasy Awards ballot, Whitehead’s Carnegie win, the Chesley Awards winners, Omni’s return to original publisher Penthouse, the Locus Survey results, an SF in Finland report, and more, including the Prometheus, Gemmell, James White, and Rhysling winners and the BSFA and Sunburst shortlists. Kameron Hurley’s column is entitled “Did ‘Being a Writer’ Ever Mean. . . Just Writing?”
Events coverage with photos and reports includes the 2017 Locus Awards Weekend and Readercon 28. George A. Romero and Dwain Kaiser are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Michael Poore, James Patrick Kelly, Sofia Samatar, Kij Johnson, Christopher Rowe, Callie Bates, Natasha Pulley, Ed McDonald, Sarah Gailey, Carrie Vaughn, Ben Aaronovitch, Charles Stross, Nancy Kress, Catherynne M. Valente, Susan R. Matthews, Ilona Andrews, and many others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #47 August 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2017 issue of Flash Fiction Online. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader. For this issue of Flash Fiction Online, we bring you a time travel collection done in miniature. Four short stories about things that shouldn’t be possible, but are. In each one, characters might not understand but it doesn’t change the extraordinary reality of the worlds they inhabit.
Andrea Corbin’s “Three Ways to Ruin Your Best Friend’s Birthday (And How She Fixes It)” is a delightful caper filled with adventure and hijinks across time and space. It’s an exploration of how our best intentions often go awry and how a true friend is willing to overlook even the most egregious gaffs … like escaped polar bears.
In “PLAIN JANE LEARNS TO KNIT WORMHOLES,” a humorous science fiction story, by Wendy Nikel, the Martha Society and their knitting will never be quite same. It only takes one wormhole for everything to go to hell. Casseroles not included.
Travis Burnham brings us a bittersweet yet heartbreaking exploration of love and loss in “That Dark, Sweet Magic.” A talking apple tree and a shoe golem might be beyond understanding, but the main character’s love for his late wife resonates in all of us. If you enjoy love stories with a fantastical twist, this one is for you.
And finally, appearing yet again (it’s like we can’t get rid of him), Stewart C Baker has allowed us to reprint “Proceedings from the First and Only Sixteenth Annual One-Woman Symposium on Time Manipulation” originally published in Time Travel Tales. The academic lecture circuit has never had a travel budget quite like this. Not that it would need one. Or would it? You’ll have to read this one to make up your own mind.
Enjoy!