- Original fiction by Arkady Martine (“Ruin Marble”), Brian Daniel Green (“The Tailings”) and Haris A. Durrani (“Champollion’s Foot”). Reprint by Eliza Chan (“Datsue-Ba”)
- Original poetry by Michael Janairo (“Instructions for Astronauts”), Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Gwynne Garfinkle (“family [a form somehow must]”), Hester J. Rook (“How to build a woman, sodden flowered and strong”) and Layla Al-Bedawi, Holly Lyn Walrath & Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (The Santa Monica Prophecies: A Collaborative Triptych).
- This special issue partly devoted to science fiction in visual arts contains two visual poems by Holly Lyn Walrath, and articles from Ugandan filmmaker Dilman Dila (“Her Broken Shadow: How I Made a Science-Fiction Feature Film in East Africa), Nepali artists Ashim Shakya (“From the Ruins of the Quake”) and Indian artist Ashish Mathew Mammen (“An Indian Architecture Student’s Art Journal”).
- Apart from the visual spotlight, Rachel Cordasco’s talks about “Robots, Ghosts, and Dreams: Some Preoccupations of World SF,” while Urna Mukherjee takes us through “Aliens with a Human Face: The Human-like Non-Humans of Doctor Who.”
- Book reviews include “Asian Monsters, Edited by Margrét Helgadóttir” by Ajapa Sharma, and “The Collected Poems of Bruce Boston: Dark Roads and Brief Encounters With My Third Eye” by Salik Shah.
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction – Issue 8
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring 2017 issue of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction.
This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand.
Inside these pages, you’ll find: fishing for mermaids in the Mekong River by Alyssa Wong; an otherworldly ancestral homecoming by Michael Janairo; a rebellion against inevitable eugenics by Clara Chow; snapshots of the fantastic in the mundane by Wilfred Cabrera; and speculative poetry by Tilde Acuña, Bernise Carolino, Judith Huang, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Christina Sng, Sharlene Teo and David Wong Hsien Ming.
Also included is a special supplement: part one of Dean Francis Alfar’s brilliant novel Salamanca, winner of the Palanca Award Grand Prize for the Novel and Gintong Aklat Award for Literature, serialised here for the first time anywhere.
LONTAR is the world’s only biannual literary journal focusing on Southeast Asian speculative fiction.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 16
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May/June 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Ursula Vernon, John Chu, Chinelo Onwualu, Naomi Kritzer, Hiromi Goto, and K.M. Szpara, reprinted fiction by Carlos Hernandez, essays by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Sarah Gailey, Sam J. Miller, Sarah Pinsker, Mimi Mondal, David J. Schwartz, Kelly McCullough, LaShawn M. Wanak, Yamile Saied Méndez, and DongWon Song, poetry by Roshani Chokshi, Sonya Taaffe, Betsy Aoki, and Theodora Goss, interviews with John Chu and Hiromi Goto by Julia Rios, a cover by Galen Dara, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 96
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
How Lovely Is the Silence of Growing Things – Evan Dicken
The Three-tongued Mummy – E. Catherine Tobler
Hiraeth: Tragedy in Four Acts – Karen Lord
NONFICTION
Interview with Author Evan Dicken – Andrea Johnson
In the Eye of the Beholder: An Interview with Stephen Korsha – Lesley Conner
Interview with Cover Artist Marcela Bolivar – Russell Dickerson
Why Write? (Excerpt from Yours to Tell) – Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
Quantum Night: An Interview with Author Robert J. Sawyer – Andrea Johnson
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 37
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue of Shimmer inadvertently celebrates growing things; the planting of life into the ground so that more life can flourish. Seeds. Water. Sunlight. Dare we say, it’s basic science, in a time when science is under threat. Perhaps it has always been.
Buy the issue for our editorial and interviews with our authors.
Fallow, by Ashley Blooms
They find the bottle in the barn. There are a lot of things there, whole piles of things: tractor-part things, tire things, cutting things and bolting things, all tired things, slowly fading toward the same color of rusty brown. The inside of the barn smells of stale hay and beer. Misty picks the bottle that is the least broken and William holds it between two fingers and lets the water drain from its open mouth onto the packed-earth floor.
Feathers and Void, by Charles Payseur
We are crows, circling round the wake of death, black wings silent as we glide, waiting, waiting. The big one’s gonna hit. Any second now. Iv’s thoughts coat mine like oil, slide away, always so clear in the moment but impossible to hold on to. Iv, my crow. My shell. My ship.
We Lilies of the Valley, by Sonja Natasha
If Yvonne presses her cheek to the thick window of the space station, and cranes her neck just so, she can see a crescent slice of Earth, marbled in desert. She traces what she can see of the western coast of Mexico. Her toes just barely graze the floor as she floats with her elbows braced against the window ledges. Beyond Earth’s curve, there’s the lingering haze of Siding Spring 4’s comet tail.
Dandelion, by John Shade
Before the border wall, we scatter. Dandelions. The nanomachines grind us down and we float up and through the cracks, molecule to molecule, like holding hands.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 128
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 May 2017 issue (#128) contains:
* Original stories by Nick Wolven (“Streams and Mountains”), Kelly Robson (“We Who Live in the Heart”), E. Catherine Tobler (“Baroness”), and Tang Fei (“The Person Who Saw Cetus”).
* Reprints by Kage Baker (“Running the Snake”) and James Tiptree Jr. (“The Man Who Walked Home”).
* Non-fiction by Mark Cole, an interview with Aliette de Bodard, an Another Word column by A.M. Dellamonica, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 28
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 May 2017 issue features a novella by Paul J. McAuley (“Sea Change, with Monsters”), a short story by Jack Skillingstead (“Life on the Preservation”), and a novelette by Nancy Kress (“Laws of Survival”).
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 84 (May 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 Bruce McAllister (“This Is for You”) and Susan Jane Bigelow (“The Heart’s Cartography”), along with SF reprints by Tobias S. Buckell (“Ratcatcher”) and Seanan McGuire (“Dragonflies”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Adam-Troy Castro (“James, in the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter”) and Kendra Fortmeyer (“Octopus vs. Bear”), plus fantasy reprints by Greg Hrbek (“Paternity”) and Amal El-Mohtar (“Weialalalea”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. We also have an interview with Steven Barnes. Our cover art is by Sam Schechter, and illustrates Adam-Troy Castro’s “James, in the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter.” For our ebook readers, we also have a reprint of Rebecca Ore’s novella “Hypocaust & Bathysphere” and a book excerpt.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 56 (May 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 Giovanni De Feo (“Kiss of the Mouthless Girl”) and Charles Payseur (“The Sound Of”), along with reprints by Priya Sharma (“Pearls”) and Helen Marshall (“The Vault of Heaven”). We also have David Bowles discussing dark Latino folklore in the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word.” As usual, you can expect some great author spotlights with our authors. But the big news this months is the exciting premier of our new book review column by Terence Taylor, called “Read This!”
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – May/June 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
Witch’s Hour – Shannon Connor Winward
Dirty Old Town – Richard Bowes
The Prognosticant – Matthew Hughes
My English Name – R.S. Benedict
SHORT STORIES
A Thousand Deaths Throught Flesh and Stone – Brian Trent
The History of the Invasion Told in Five Dogs – Kelly Jennings
What the Hands Know – Gregor Hartmann
The Woman with the Long Black Hair – Zach Shepard
The First Day of Someone Else’s Life – John Schoffstall
Neko Brushes – Leah Cypess
Rings – Nina Kiriki Hoffman
POEMS
The Path to Peace – Mary Soon Lee
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Books – Elizabeth Hand
Plumage from Pegasus: Happiness Is a Worn Gunn – Paul Di Filippo
Science: Robots on the Road – Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
Television: Western Histories – David J. Skal
Competition #93
Coming Attractions
Curiosities – Mark Esping
CARTOONS
Bill Long, Arthur Masear, Nick Downes.
COVER
Maurizio Manzieri for “The Prognosticant”
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 26, May 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 26: May 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Eric Cline, Edward M. Lerner, George Nikolopoulos, Effie Seiberg, Spencer Ellsworth, Lou J Berger, Robert Silverberg, Patrick Hurley, Emily McCosh, Kevin J. Anderson, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Niven.
Serialization: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
Columns by: Barry N. Malzberg, 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 May 2017 (#676)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2017 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Ellen Klages and Paul Tremblay. News coverage includes the 2016 Hugo Awards ballot, Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer win, World Fantasy trophy news, and notes on Travel in the Time of Trump: Wesley Chu reports he has withdrawn as a Swancon guest of honor due to the Trump administration’s customs and immigration policies, and Sean Williams reports his plans to cancel his upcoming events in the U.S., also due to the political climate.
Awards season news covers the Aurealis, Baen, BSFA, Philip K. Dick, Dell, Eugie, Prometheus, and Compton Crook Awards among others. Convention coverage with photos and reports includes the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards, Norwescon 40, and the 2017 Williamson Lectureship. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Weaponized Narrative”. Mike Levy and Paula Fox are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Ellen Klages, Jeff VanderMeer, George Saunders, Robert Jackson Bennett, Antonia Honeywell, Samantha Shannon, Ian McDonald, James S.A. Corey, Clive Barker, Orrin Grey, Nicholas Kaufmann, Mariko Koike, Ed Kurtz, Mark Morris, Sarah Pinborough, Michael Shea, Marie Brennan, Cassandra Khaw, and many others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #44 May 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2017 issue of Flash Fiction Online.Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader. Our stories this month all meditate on the theme of transformation in one way or another. ”The Peculiar Grace of Bees” by Jennifer Johnson is a story of breaking, of rebuilding, and of healing. ”The Machine of the Devil” by Maria Haskins is about the transformative power of words and memory in even the darkest places. And there is no larger transformation that humans experience than the transformation from living to dead–unless you count the transformation of a whole lot of people from living to dead. ”The Stars That Fall” by Samantha Murray and ”Waiting for the Floor OR The Bathers” by Natalia Theodoridou (originally published in Litro) each give us their own take on the apocalypse—as doom falling from the sky or as a rising, inescapable flood. Guest editorial by Hannah Vincent Lambert. Edited by Suzanne W. Vincent. Enjoy!
New York Review of Science Fiction #340
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Scientific Inquiry Issue: John Foyster on the Scientists in Science Fiction; Lee Weinstein: Neither Vegetable nor Animal Be; Andy Duncan: A Master’s Thesis; Brian Stableford: Paradise and the Future of Amour; Victor Grech: Avatar as a New Western; Donald M. Hassler: Jules Verne in New Words; A. P. Canavan on Wynonna Earp; Plus: Pat Frank, Prophet of Apocalypse
Mithila Review – Issue 8
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedMithila Review is an international science fiction and fantasy magazine founded in 2015. We publish literary speculative fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, articles, art, etc. from around the world.
Our April 2017 issue (#8) contains:
You can watch “Instructions for Astronauts”—a film adapatation of one of the poems that appear in the issue here on Youtube.
Space and Time Magazine Issue #128
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring 2017 issue of Space and Time Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Scott Edelman (“One of the Lucky Ones”) and Larry Hodges (“The Many Heads of Mr. Krup”), a author self-portrait by Bracken Macleod, poetry by Sara Tatlinger and Jill Bauman, and more!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #223
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #223 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Carrie Vaughn and Evan Dicken.