The Dark – Issue 21

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    Each 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 Lily Rose” by Emily B. Cataneo
    “A Discreet Music” by Michael Wehunt (reprint)
    “Can Anything Good Come” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
    “We is We” by Michael Harris Cohen (reprint)

     

    Flash Fiction Online Issue #41 February 2017

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    The February 2017 issue of Flash Fiction Online.Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
    This month, we’ve compiled a list of fabulous stories about Love and Roses.
    First on the ticket is “Product Recall” by Robert Bagnall. Electronic love at its best.
    Then we hope you’ll enjoy “Marking the Witch” by Lina Rather. “Love is a chrysalis, my dear; everything inside it transforms.” Beautiful!
    Next up is “I Don’t Want to Hurt You Either” by Ryan Row. A different kind of love story. Creepy and strange, but we love it.
    Last, but certainly not least, our reprint for the month, originally published in Daily Science Fiction in April 2016, “Once I, Rose,” by Merc Rustad. Plus a new FXXK Writing article by Jason S. Ridler. Cover illustration by Dario Bijelac.

    Locus February 2017 (#673)

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    The February 2017 issue of Locus magazine is the annual Year in Review issue with essays, the Locus 2016 Recommended Reading List, and book and magazine summaries tracking the progress of the industry over the year.

    The issue also features an interview with Alastair Reynolds, and news including the 2016 SF&F Hall of Fame inductees, the Philip K. Dick Award and Prometheus Hall of Fame Award finalists, the ALA Awards, the SFF.net shutdown, and more.

    The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “If You Want to Level Up, Get Back to Basics”.

    Reviews cover new titles by Ken Liu, Kameron Hurley, Peter S. Beagle, S. Jae-Jones, Katherine Arden, Susan W. Lyons, Jaqueline Carey, Ken MacLeod, Greg Bear, Carrie Vaughn, Alex Bledsoe, Charles Stross, Max Gladstone, Matt Wallace, Ben Aaronovitch, Elan Mastai, Patricia Briggs, Kate Milford, and many others.

    Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 125

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    Clarkesworld 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 February 2017 issue (#125) contains:

    * Original stories by Jack Skillingstead and Burt Courtier (“Assassins”), Nin Harris (“Prosthetic Daughter”), Simone Heller (“How Bees Fly”), and Chi Hui (“Rain Ship”).

    * Reprints by Cecelia Holland (“Dragon”s Deep”) and K.J. Parker (“The Dragonslayer of Merebarton”).

    * Non-fiction by Christopher Mahon, an interview with Nnedi Okorafor, an Another Word column by Genevieve Valentine, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

    Mithila Review Yearly Subscription

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    About Mithila Review

    Mithila Review is a speculative arts and culture magazine founded in 2015. We publish speculative poetry, fantasy and science fiction, film and book reviews, essays and interviews from across the world. A hypertext of original narratives and home of the translated from around the globe, Mithila Review is also an inquiry into the process of translating and the craft of storytelling.

    To learn more, please visit http://mithilareview.com. For news and updates, follow us on Twitter and Facebook

    New York Review of Science Fiction #338

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    Special Ender and the Beast Issue: Leah Krippner: Ender’s Evolving Editions; Brian Stableford: The First (French) Fantasy Novel?; Terry Thompson: H.G. Wells’s debt to Jonathan Swift; Barbara Bengels: SF Writers In Childhood; Joe Sanders: Roger Zelazny’s Jack of Shadows; Dan’l Danehy-Oakes: Michael Swanwick’s “Not So Much,” Said the Cat; Michael Levy: Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon

    Mithila Review – Issue 7

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    Mithila Review’s first quarterly issue for 2017 features excellent speculative poetry and fiction, essays, interviews and roundtable discussions on the state of speculative fiction in Latin America, Czech Republic and China!

    Contributors include Cixin Liu, Jaroslav Mostecký, Vlado Risa, Martin Sust, Julie Novakova, Carlos Hernandez, David Bowles, Ernest Hogan, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, William Alexander, Gwendolyn Kiste, Margaret Wack, Mari Ness, Jamie Samdahl, Sandi Leibowitz, Sonya Taaffe, Regina Kanyu Wang, Shaoyan Hu, Andy Dudak, Priya Sharma, Isha Karki, Gautam Bhatia, and Aditya Singh. Editorial by Salik Shah. Cover art by Archan Nair.

    Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #218

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    Issue #218 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Marissa Lingen and Margaret Killjoy.

    Black Static #56

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    The January–February issue contains new dark fiction by Scott Nicolay, Eric Schaller, Danny Rhodes, Eugenia M. Triantafyllou, Charles Wilkinson, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, and Ian Steadman. The cover art is by Joachim Luetke, with interior illustrations by Ben Baldwin, Richard Wagner, Vince Haig, and George C. Cotronis. Features: Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore (new regular column); Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker (comment); Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews, including an in-depth interview with Stephen Volk); Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (DVD/Blu-ray reviews).

    Interzone #268

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    The January–February issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by Julie C. Day, Christien Gholson, Michael Reid, Mel Kassel, Val Nolan, and T.R. Napper. The cover artist for 2017 is Dave Senecal, and interior colour illustrations are by Dave again, Richard Wagner, and Martin Hanford. Features: Guest Editorial by Dave Senecal; Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews); Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment).

    Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #217

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    Issue #217 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Tony Pi and Cae Hawksmoor.

    Nightmare Magazine, Issue 52 (January 2017)

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    NIGHTMARE 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.

    We have original fiction from Cadwell Turnbull (“Loneliness is in Your Blood”) and Carrie Vaughn (“Redcap”), along with reprints by Lilliam Rivera (“The H8te”) and Ashok Banker (“Blood Mangoes”). In our nonfiction department, author Kat Howard talks about the terror of changelings in the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word.” Plus we have author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant.

    Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 80 (January 2017)

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    LIGHTSPEED 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.

    We have original science fiction by Adam-Troy Castro (“The Whole Crew Hates Me”) and Molly Tanzer (“Nine Tenths of the Law”), along with SF reprints by James S.A. Corey (“Rates of Change”) and Mary Rosenblum (“Tracker”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Kat Howard (“Seven Salt Tears”) and Jeremiah Tolbert (“The West Topeka Triangle”), and fantasy reprints by Jeffrey Ford (“Daddy Longlegs of the Evening”) and Kima Jones (“Nine”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive reprint of the novella “Awakening,” by Judith Berman, and an excerpt from Sean O’Brien’s new novel, Beltrunner.

    Uncanny Magazine Issue 14

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    The January/February 2017 issue of Uncanny Magazine.

    Featuring new fiction by Sam J. Miller, A. Merc Rustad, Cassandra Khaw, Maria Dahvana Headley, Theodora Goss, and Tansy Rayner Roberts, reprinted fiction by Ann Leckie, essays by Mark Oshiro, Natalie Luhrs, Delilah S. Dawson, and Angel Cruz, poetry by Carlos Hernandez, Nin Harris, and Nicasio Andres Reed, interviews with A. Merc Rustad and Maria Dahvana Headley by Julia Rios, a cover by John Picacio, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

     

    Apex Magazine Issue 92

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    Apex 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.

    Special double issue!

    EDITORIAL
    Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore

    FICTION
    Soliloquy in a Cheap Dinner Off Route 66—James Beamon
    The Dark Birds—Ursula Vernon
    The Invisible Box—J.J. Litke
    Next Station, Shibuya—Iori Kusano
    The Quiltmaker—Mike Allen
    Mag, the Habitat and We—Lia Swope Mitchell
    Masked—Rich Larson

    NONFICTION
    Interview with Author James Beamon—Andrea Johnson
    The Once and Future Chief: Tecumseh in (Science) Fiction—Amy H. Sturgis
    Interview with Cover Artist Aaron Nakahara—Russell Dickerson

    POETRY
    Disobedient—Barton Paul Levenson
    On the Edge of the Stone-Meadow—Laura Madeline Wiseman
    Wormhole—Tracy May Adair
    The Galatea—Amanda Pekar

    The Dark Issue 20

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    Each 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:

    “Twilight Travels with the Grape-Paper Man” by Sara Saab
    “Child of Thorns” by Ray Cluley (reprint)
    “Little Digs” by Lisa L. Hannett
    “A Wisdom that is Woe, a Woe that is Madness” by E. Catherine Tobler (reprint)