Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 131
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 August 2017 issue (#131) contains:
* Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (“Twisted Knots”), Nin Harris (“Reversion”), Octavia Cade (“The Stone Weta”), Sunny Moraine (“In the Blind”), Chen Qiufan (“A Man Out of Fashion”).
* Reprints by Sandra McDonald (“Fleet”) and Kim Stanley Robinson (“Venice Drowned”).
* Non-fiction by Olga Kuno, an interview with Annalee Newitz, an Another Word column by Cat Rambo, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 31
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 August 2017 issue features a novella by Ian McDonald (“Vishnu at the Cat Circus”), a novelette by Vandana Singh (“Oblivion: A Journey”), and a novelette by John Barnes (“My Last Bringback”).
Interzone #271
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July–August issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by Julie C. Day, Tim Casson, Michael Reid, Eliot Fintushel, Chris Barnham, and Andy Dudak. The cover artist for 2017 is Dave Senecal, and interior colour illustrations are by Jim Burns, Richard Wagner, and Martin Hanford.
Features: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews, including an interviews with Nina Allan conducted by Maureen Kincaid Speller, and Emily B. Cataneo conducted by Peter Tennant); Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment).
Black Static #59
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July–August issue contains new dark stories by seven women authors: Kristi DeMeester, Kirsten Kaschock, Rosalie Parker, Damien Angelica Walters, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Sarah Read, and YZ Chin. The cover art is by Richard Wagner.
Features: Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore; Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker; Case Notes by Peter Tennant (24 pages of reviews of books by women authors, and an in-depth interview with Gwendolyn Kiste); Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (film reviews).
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #231
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #231 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Stephen Case and Jeremy A. TeGrotenhuis.
See the Elephant, Issue 3: Slipping Through the Cracks
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSee the Elephant, Issue 3: Slipping Through the Cracks explores what it means to slip through a crack, intentionally or not, into oblivion or freedom; how it feels to be threatened by some terrible, broken thing, or to break ourselves. These stories range from the darkest impulses of human (and inhuman) nature, to humor, love, and the possibility of change that can come when we dare to look at broken things in a new way, and painstakingly fuse the pieces back together with some finer stuff.
New stories by Genevieve Williams, Michaele Jordan, Mathew Scaletta & Rebecca Brewster, Kyle E. Miller, Edoardo Albert, Rachel Verkade, Rose Szabo, S. Kay Nash, and Matthew Sanborn Smith, and reprints by H. V. Chao and Marleen S. Barr, with a foreword by editor Melanie Lamaga.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 17
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July/August 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Seanan McGuire, Kat Howard, Maurice Broaddus, Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, and T. Kingfisher, reprinted fiction by Aliette de Bodard, essays by Sarah Gailey, Dimas Ilaw, Sam J. Miller, and Alasdair Stuart, poetry by Joyce Chng, Shveta Thakrar and Sara Cleto, Chloe N. Clark, and Rose Lemberg, interviews with Maurice Broaddus and Mary Robinette Kowal by Julia Rios, a cover by Kirbi Fagan, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 98
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
L’appel du vide—Rich Larson
THE TURING MACHINES OF BABEL—Eric Schwitzgebel
«Légendaire»—Kai Ashante Wilson
Entertaining Demons (Novel Excerpt)—Daniel I. Russell
NONFICTION
Interview with Author Eric Schwitzgebel—Andrea Johnson
Entities of Modern Evil—Daniel I. Russell
Interview with Cover Artist Quentin Castel—Russell Dickerson
Mothers Who Consume—Kristi DeMeester
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 58 (July 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’re bringing you original fiction from Caspian Gray (“Promises of Spring”) and Caroline Ratajski (“And With Her Went the Spring”), along with reprints by Stephen Graham Jones (“Brushdogs”) and Cynthia Ward (“The Midwife”). In the latest installment of “The H Word,” we have Nathan Carson sharing the creepy truth about goats. Plus, we’ve got author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with DONNIE DARKO’s Richard Kelly.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 86 (July 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, our cover art is by Reiko Murakami, illustrating a new science fiction story by John Grant (“The Law of Conservation of Data”). We also have a new story from E. Catherine Tobler (“Mix Tapes from Dead Boys”), along with SF reprints by Chris Beckett (“Marcher”) and James Tiptree, Jr. (“The Last Flight of Doctor Ain”).
Plus, we have original fantasy by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro & Adam-Troy Castro (“A Touch of Heart”) and Debbie Urbanski (“How to Find a Portal”), and fantasy reprints by A.G. Howard (“Stitches”) and Will Ludwigsen (“Acres of Perhaps”).
Our nonfiction department is serving up our monthly book review column, as well as Carrie Vaughn’s assessment of the new Wonder Woman movie. Speaking of Carrie, we’re also giving our readers a chance to really get to know her, as she’s the subject of this month’s feature interview–and if you’re an ebook reader, you can get a little taste of her new novel, BANNERLESS, out this month from John Joseph Adams Books. Our ebook edition also has a reprint of the novella “From Whence You Came,” by Laura Anne Gilman. You’ll also get a bonus excerpt from AN OATH OF DOGS, by our own Wendy N. Wagner.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – July/August 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
There Was a Crooked Man, He Flipped a Crooked House – David Erik Nelson
NOVELETS
The Masochist’s Assistant – Auston Habershaw
The Bride in Sea-Green Velvet – Robin Furth
I Am Not I – G.V. Anderson
Afiya’s Song – Justin C. Key
SHORT STORIES
In a Wide Sky, Hidden – William Ledbetter
A Dog’s Story – Gardner Dozois
An Obstruction to Delivery – Sean Adams
An Unearned Death – Marissa Lingen
POEMS
Northwest Cruise – Sophie M. White
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Musing on Books – Michelle West
Science: With the Best of Intentions – Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
Films: Ghoulies Ghosties, Beasties – David J. Skal
Coming Attractions –
Curiosities – Paul Di Filippo
CARTOONS
Nick Downes.
COVER
Nicholas Grunas For “There Was A Crooked Man, He Flipped A Crooked House”
The Dark – Issue 26
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:
“A Performance for Painted Bones” by Kelly Stewart
“Girl, I Love you” by Nadia Bulkin (reprint)
“A Lasting Legacy” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
“Harvest” by Michael Harris Cohen (reprint)
Mythic Delirium 4.1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedOur summer 2017 issue begins Mythic Delirium’s fifth year as a digital magazine.
We’re pleased to welcome “Dispo and the Crow” author Rich Larson to our pages. Having previously appeared in our our sister publication, Clockwork Phoenix, Larson is an author who has been generating a lot of buzz. The end-of-the-world theme in his story carries over into up-and-coming writer Sandra Odell’s even quirkier “Resistance on a Park Bench, with Stale Bread and Ducks.” This is Odell’s first appearance in our pages, and we’re delighted to welcome her.
The motifs of art, apocalypse, and resistance resonate with “Sunrise with Sea Monsters,” our concluding story. David Sandner is a veteran of Clockwork Phoenix and of the print version of Mythic Delirium. This is his first time appearing in the digital incarnation.
Our poets this time out, Jennifer Crow, Mari Ness, Sonya Taaffe, and Jane Yolen, all have long histories with the magazine. Their verses tell of gods and marriages, tragedies and descents, and contemplate the mysteries of the heavens.
Frequent contributor Paula Arwen Owen returns with this issue’s cover art, “Warrior of the Night Feather Tribe,” inspired by Larson’s “Dispo and the Crow,” but taken in a direction of her own wonderful invention.
Table of Contents
“Dispo and the Crow” by Rich Larson
“Marrying the Bear” by Jane Yolen
“Hunter” by Mari Ness
“Resistance on a Park Bench, with Stale Bread and Ducks” by Sandra M. Odell
“Other People’s Tragedies” by Jennifer Crow
“On the Day When Dumuzi Comes Up” by Sonya Taaffe
“Sunrise with Sea Monsters” by David Sandner
“Masques and Mayhem” by Jennifer Crow
“Night Does Not” by Jane Yolen
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 27, July 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 27: July 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Stephen Lawson, J.P. Sullivan, Jody Lynn Nye, Edward M. Lerner, Rachelle Harp, Lou J Berger, Michael Swanwick, Leena Likitalo, Paul Di Filippo, Kay Kenyon, Gregor Hartmann, Gordon Eklund, Jack McDevitt
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 Kij Johnson
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 Barry Malzberg and Gregory Benford, book recommendations by Bill Fawcett and Jody Lynn Nye and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.
Locus July 2017 (#678)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July 2017 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Cory Doctorow and Sam J. Miller. News includes the Locus Awards winners and Locus Poll writeup, the 2017 Nebula Awards Conference report with photos, the WisCon 41 report with photos, the Sturgeon and Campbell Awards, Dark Carnival’s planned closure, the Ditmar Awards, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, and much more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Be the First One to Not Do Something that No One Else Has Ever Not Thought of Doing Before”.
Reviews cover new titles by Nina Allan, Sam J. Miller, John Crowley, Kit Reed, Charles Stross, Mariana Enriquez, Benjamin Percy, Cherie Priest, Rio Youers, Wendy N. Wagner, Jack Campbell, A. Merc Rustad, Nicky Drayden, Mishell Baker, Robyn Bennis, Stephanie Burgis, Tanya Huff, Curtis Chen, and many others.
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 38
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSometimes, especially now, you need a dash of the old-fashioned adventure story. You’ll find a couple of those herein, but we’ve also thrown old-fashioned out the window, because we’re Shimmer, and that tends to be what we do.
Salamander Six-Guns, by Martin Cahill
He descended on the town like a saint sent from Dark Heaven six-guns shining like twin torches in his hands, down to the border where we had our battle on. Summers are always the worst in Sunblooders Stand, as the scale-folk grow riled earlier in the bright days.
Itself at the Heart of Things, by Andrea Corbin
On the floor, I hiked my skirts up and began to disassemble myself, starting with my left knee. “How is that going to stop the Szemurians? How is that going to protect us? Can’t you help me, for God’s sake?”
Maps of Infinity, by Heather Morris
The difference between you and the humans, when it comes right down to it, is not in the protrusions of gnarled bone and horn that jut from the apex of your skull, or in the coarse fur that contrasts so spectacularly with the other parts of you, the parts that are mere human skin, or in your roar, or your pain, or their avarice.
The Moon, the Sun, and the Truth, by Victoria Sandbrook
Dust rising over the next scrub-covered hill gave away the rider’s position even before the incoming trash-guzzler’s growl settled around Andy’s ears. She waited as patiently as you could on a jittery horse that didn’t know you well, in sun that’d singe any hint of bare skin.