The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – January/February 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.
CARTOONS: Arthur Masear, Bill Long.
Cover by Charles Vess for “Vinegar and Cinnamon”
| NOVELLAS | ||
| Homecoming | Rachel Pollack | |
| NOVELETS | ||
| Vinegar and Cinnamon | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | |
| One Way | Rick Norwood | |
| Dunnage for the Soul | Robert Reed | |
| There Used to Be Olive Trees | Rich Larson | |
| SHORT STORIES | ||
| The Regression Test | Wole Talabi | |
| A Gathering on Gravity’s Shore | Gregor Hartmann | |
| On the Problem of Replacement Children: Prevention, Coping, and Other Practical Strategies | Debbie Urbanski | |
| Alexandria | Monica Byrne | |
| Wetherfell’s Reef Runics | Marc Laidlaw | |
| POEMS | ||
| Kingship | Mary Soon Lee | |
| DEPARTMENTS | ||
| Books To Look For | Charles de Lint | |
| Books | James Sallis | |
| Science: Brainless Robots Stroll the Beach | Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty | |
| Television: Stranger (Yet Oddly Familiar) Things | Tim Pratt | |
| Coming Attractions | ||
| Curiosities | David Langford |
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 24, January 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 24: January 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Larry Hodges, Nick DiChario, Mercedes Lackey, Liz Colter, Kevin J. Anderson & Neil Peart, Marina J. Lostetter, Edward M. Lerner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Fabio F. Centamore, Paul Eckheart, Michael Swanwick
Serialization: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Recommended Books: Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Robert Silverberg
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 Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #40 January 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2017 issue of Flash Fiction Online.Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
This month’s original stories are each about regret in some aspect or another. Obsessing about it, giving into it, denying it by taking that leap of faith.
First, from Edward Ashton, a literary thriller, “Vernal Fall.”
Next, “Women’s Work,” a paranormal gothic fantasy in only a thousand words written Amelia Aldred.
And finally, a haunting romance plus mythical creatures in “A Lumberjack’s Guide to Dryad Spotting,” by Charles Payseur.
In addition, we have “A Woman’s Glory,” a literary reprint by Ashley Kunsa that first appeared in issue #10 of the Los Angeles Review, and won the A Room of Her Own Orlando Prize for 2011.
Locus January 2017 (#672)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2017 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Mary Robinette Kowal and Blake Charlton, and spotlights featuring Ellen Kushner on Tremontaine and Kelly Abbott on Great Jones Street. News includes Colson Whitehead’s National Book Awards win and Brenda Cooper’s Endeavor Award win, the sale of J.G. Ballard’s home, the PW Best Books of 2016, changes to SFWA game writing qualifications, the NEA fellowships, and more. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “It’s Time to Short Surveillance and Go Long on Freedom.” Obituaries remember Bill Warren, Paul Carter, William Trevor, and André Ruellan. Reviewers cover new titles from Colson Whitehead, Ellen Klages, Nnedi Okorafor, Richard A. Lupoff, Laure Eve, Daniel Polansky, Ian Tregillis, Ben Aaronovitch, Rae Carson, Sarah Prineas, Michelle Sagara, Delia Sherman, Destiny Soria, Jonathan Stroud, and others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 124
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 January 2017 issue (#124) contains:
* Original stories by Rich Larson (“The Ghost Ship Anastasia”), Vina Jie-Min Prasad (“A Series of Steaks”), Lettie Prell (“Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities”), Gary Kloster (“Interchange”), and Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini (“Milla”).
* Reprints by John Kessel (“Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance”) and Aliette de Bodard (“The Shipmaker”).
* Non-fiction by Benjamin C. Kinney, an interview with James S.A. Corey, an Another Word column by Kelly Robson, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 35
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue of Shimmer contains stories that tell us evil may be overcome even if we’re small and unsure. Love can be a weapon and a shield. Keep fighting in whatever way you can.
We’re excited to share with you Malon Edwards’ sequel to “The Half Dark Promise.” We also welcome Mary Robinette Kowal to the pages of Shimmer for the first time since she was Shimmer‘s art director. Two new-to-Shimmer authors also join the party, with stories of exploration, revelation, and ultimately, love.
Hic Sunt Leones, by L.M. Davenport
It’s true that the house walks. It’s also true that you can only find it if you don’t know about it. Once, a boy in my high-school art class drew a picture of it, but didn’t know what he’d drawn; the thing in the center of his sketchpad had ungainly, menacing chicken legs caught mid-stride and a crazed thatch roof that hung askew over brooding windows. I knew it was the house right away because his eyes had that sleepy, traumatized look that people get once they’ve seen the house. I was used to seeing this look, mostly on my mother’s face.
Shadow Man, Sack Man, Half Dark, Half Light, by Malon Edwards
You keep running, even though you know you can’t escape the fifty-foot-tall Pogo. But you were built for this. You are taller than all of the girls and most of the boys in your Covey Four class. Your legs are longer. Your steam-clock heart is stronger. Your determination is unmatched. Even against the rocks they throw. Even against the insults they hurl. Even when they entimide you and chase you home after school every day, all because your mother could not save their friends.
Trees Struck by Lightning Burning From the Inside Out, by Emily Lundgren
It is sweet and fitting to die with one’s pack under the full moon, but the sky is clouded by the city lights: orange and yellow and red like fire. Roque is running. Like a cracked whip, without sense. Under a sliver of jagged sound, under the leering fray of glossy towers, he smells a dog without a leash, the sharp of silvered bolts. He sees a woman with a cardboard sign reading something-something about the world, who catches his eye, whose own eyes widen, whose mouth opens and makes a howling noise: something-something about wolves! wolves! The road towards dawn outstretches before him, choking on cars and steam and fur and bone. Roque is running, running. His paws thump in tandem with the code of his heart, and he transforms.
Your Mama’s Adventures in Parenting, by Mary Robinette Kowal
Your mama adjusted her face mask and checked the chronometer on her eyepiece. Darn it. The filter would only be good for another fifteen minutes. She was nowhere near finished with the job. And this particular theft would fetch a good price on the energy market, what with the price of methane. She slid the siphon tube across to the capture valve and turned on the suction pump. If your mama could get most of the gas into the polysteel tank on her back…
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #216
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #216 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Claire Humphrey and Eleanna Castroianni.
Space and Time Magazine Issue #127
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Winter 2016 issue of Space and Time Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Peter David (“Franklinstein”) and Jessica Amanda Salmonson (“By the Will of Wisp”), an interview with Leanna Renee Hieber, poetry by Catherine Edmunds and Robert O. Harris, JR, and more!
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 35
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedDecember 2016 · paper edition 56pp · Ebook ISBN: 9781618731388
The most popular zine to be published on this day on this planet in this language. Probably.
Three million years from now a thought form called oufaobf will randomly coalesce into LCRW 35 at the same time as 1.2 million monkeys type it out. Which means there will be 2 copies out there in that there far future galaxy. Will Nicole Kimberling’s recipe blow them away? Fiction by Danielle Mayabb or James Warner? Could be.
Eleven stories, 4 poems, a column. A zine. An occasional outburst.
History is written by the people who write.
These are not usual days.
These are not the usual times.
This is a time of grief.
This is a time of gloominess.
This is a time of anger.
This is a time of witnessing.
This is a time to stand up and be counted.
We will support the ACLU.
We will fight for equality, inclusiveness, for health care.
We will fight racism, misogyny, hatred, and intolerance.
We will write the history of our times together.
Gavin J. Grant
Kelly Link
Table of Contents
Fiction
Danielle Mayabb, “People Are Fragile Things You Should Know By Now”
James Warner, “The History of Harrabash”
Clinton Lawrence, “The Peach Orchard”
Kate Story, “The Ghost of the Cherry Blossom”
Jessy Randall, “Anonymized Orgies, Inc.”
Andrew Ervin, “Presently Engulfing the Mid-Atlantic States”
Jack Larsen, “The Equipoise with Lentils”
Diana M. Chien, “Maria Taglioni and the Highwayman”
S. E. Clark, “Genius Loci”
Henry Wessells, “Extended Range; or, The Accession Label”
Emily Jace McLaughlin, “Above the Line”
Nonfiction
Nicole Kimberling, “Holiday Treats: Believe the Dream”
Poetry
Catherine Fletcher, “Four Poems from Spook Speak, A Tale of Espionage”
Cover
Aatmaja Pandya, “A Wizard of Earthsea”
About the Authors
Diana M. Chien is a writer, scientist, and illustrator. Her poetry has appeared in journals including Tin House and Boulevard; this is her first published story. She holds a PhD in Microbiology from MIT, where she teaches and manages a science communication program.
S. E. Clark is a proud graduate of Lesley University’s Creative Writing MFA program. Her work has appeared in Rose Red Review, GeekForceFive, and the Drum Magazine. She lives in a small town outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where she collects local folklore and forages through old cemeteries for names.
Andrew Ervin is the author of the novel Burning Down George Orwell’s House and a collection of novellas, Extraordinary Renditions. His nonfiction Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed our World is forthcoming. He lives in Philadelphia.
Catherine Fletcher is a writer and artist based in New York City. Her poetry has appeared in The Offing, Poetry Wales, Bird’s Thumb, and New Contrast, among other publications, and she has performed at venues in the United States, Mexico, and India. She is an editor for Rattapallax magazine, a 2016 New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Su-Casa Artist-in-Residence, and a 2016-17 TWP Science and Religion Fellow.
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.
Jack Larsen is a writer and student living in Wellington, New Zealand. At last count his cupboard contained fifty-one kinds of tea. This is his first story in print.
Clinton Lawrence’s fiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Lore, and number of small press and electronic publications. For twenty years, he worked as an electrical engineer, designing and testing equipment for the cellular phone industry, but has never owned a cell phone. He now teaches high school science. He lives in Davis, California.
Danielle Mayabb is a web developer who lives in Reno, Nevada with her wife, four cats, and a rabbit. She spends her spare time on assorted geekery, reading, writing, and looking in dark corners for magical creatures. This is her first story in print.
Emily Jace McLaughlin is a graduate of the Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she won seven Hopwood awards for her novel, short stories, essays and play. Her short stories have appeared in VICE, Fiction, and Joyland, and she has written for the critically-acclaimed TV show Supernatural. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan.
Aatmaja Pandya is a cartoonist and illustrator from New York. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2014 with a BFA Illustration degree. Her current project is Travelogue, a fantasy “diary” comic with a focus on worldbuilding. She likes drawing comics about wizards and video games and surly teens.
Jessy Randall’s stories, poems, and other things have appeared in Asimov’s, Flurb, and McSweeney’s. She has published two stories in LCRW: “You Don’t Even Have a Rabbit” and “The Hedon-Ex Anomaly”. She is a librarian at Colorado College and her website is bit.ly/JessyRandall.
Kate Story is a writer and performer. A Newfoundlander living in Ontario, Canada, her first novel Blasted received the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic’s honourable mention. She is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Foundation’s K. M. Hunter Award for her work in theatre. Recent publications include short stories in Carbide Tipped Pens, Gods, Memes, and Monsters, “Show and Tell” Playground of Lost Toys, Clockwork Canada, and Imaginarium: Best Canadian Speculative Writing 2015. Upcoming publications include Those Who Make Us and The Sum of Us.
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James Warner lives in San Francisco. His stories have appeared most recently in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ZYZZYVA, and Santa Monica Review. He is also the author of the novel All Her Father’s Guns. He is working on more stories set in the world of Harrabash. You can find more information about him at www.jameswarner.net or follow him on Twitter at @jameshjwarner
Henry Wessells is a writer and antiquarian bookseller in New York City. He is author of Another green world and The Private Life of Books, and editor of several volumes by American fantasist Avram Davidson, including El Vilvoy de las Islas, The Wailing of the Gaulish Dead, and, with Grania Davis, The Other Nineteenth Century and Limekiller. His imprint, Temporary Culture, has published works by Michael Swanwick, Ellen Kushner, Don Webb, Gregory Feeley, and Judith Clute. He likes to walk around in the woods and in the dictionary.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 35 December 2016. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731388. 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 · Subscriptions: $20/4 issues (see page 32 of the print edition for options). 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 © 2016 the authors. All rights reserved. “Extended Range; or, The Accession Label” Henry Wessells © 2015 Temporary Culture. First published with two etchings by Judith Clute on 17 December 2015. Thank you, lovely authors. Submissions, requests for guidelines, & all good things should be sent to the address above. Printed by quick and accurate people at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com), 21 Conz St., Northampton, MA 01060. 413-585-0414.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 123
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 December 2016 issue (#123) contains:
* Original stories by Maggie Clark (“A Tower for the Coming World”), Wang Yuan (“Painter of Stars”), Eleanor Arnason (“Checkerboard Planet”), Yukimi Ogawa (“Blue Grey Blue”), and Yosef Lindell (“A Future Far Too Bright”).
* Reprints by David Moles (“A Soldier of the City”) and Nancy Kress (“The Most Famous Little Girl in the World”).
* Non-fiction by Julie Novakova, an interview with Bruce Sterling, an Another Word column by Ken Liu, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 23
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 December 2016 issue features a novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (“Inhuman Garbage”), a novelette by Mary Rosenblum (“Casting at Pegasus”), and a novelette by Aliette de Bodard (“Butterfly, Falling at Dawn”).
The Dark Issue 19
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editor Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“Too Many Ghosts” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“The Curtain” by Thana Niveau (reprint)
“As Cymbals Clash” by Cate Gardner
“The Absent Shade” by Priya Sharma (reprint)
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 79 (December 2016)
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.
We have original science fiction by Rich Larson (“The Cyborg, the Tinman, the Merchant of Death”) and Joseph Allen Hill (“The Venus Effect”), along with SF reprints by Margo Lanagan (“The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross”) and Christie Yant (“This Is As I Wish To Be Restored”).
Plus, we have original fantasy by Carlie St. George (“Every Day Is the Full Moon”) and Charles Payseur (“The Death of Paul Bunyan”), and fantasy reprints by William Alexander (“The War Between the Water and the Road”) and Shweta Narayan (“Daya and Dharma”).
As usual, we’ve put together some terrific nonfiction, including an interview with award-winning author Nancy Kress, plus our usual author spotlight mini-interviews. Of course, our media and book review team has put together some sensational insights about what to read and watch, as well.
For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive novella reprint from Michael Bishop (“Twenty Lights to ‘The Land of Snow'”) and a book excerpt.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 51 (December 2016)
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.
We have original fiction from Dale Bailey (“I Was a Teenage Werewolf”) and Livia Llewellyn (“The Low, Dark Edge of Life”), along with reprints by Brian Evenson (“The Blood Drip”) and Priya Sridhar (“The Opera Singer”).
In our “The H Word” column, Alex Hofelich of Pseudopod talks about what makes the audio experience of horror so great. We’ve also got author spotlight mini-interviews with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a panel discussion of the show PENNY DREADFUL.
Luna Station Quarterly Issue 028
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedYear Seven wraps up with ten more stories of the wild, magical, complex worlds that live in the minds of our outstanding writers.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #39 December 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2016 issue of Flash Fiction Online. This month’s stories are all about change. For some, it is expected, for others not. Each character deals with it differently, some successfully, some not. But each story touches the heart and, hopefully, will make your next life change a little richer.
First up, from Hannah Dela Cruz, an understated literary piece about a snowy day and Robert Redford—“A Box Full of Winter.”
From FFO Alum, a fantasy offering about the metaphysical manifestations of grief in Kelly Sandoval’s “A Menagerie of Grief.”
Another FFO Alum, Kat Otis, offers us “Hinterlight Abby.” A science fiction story, life aboard a generation ship pairs with belief in unexpected and unsettling ways.
And, finally, this month’s reprint selection, “Molten Heart,” by yet another FFO Alum, Alexis A. Hunter. Get out your tissues. This science fiction tale of maternal love found in an unlikely place will touch even the stoniest hearts.
Plus a new FXXK WRITING column by Jason S. Ridler. Fiction has always fought back.
Just remember, if nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies.