- Editorial: Being Proud of Where You Came From, by Mur Lafferty
- Editorial: Check It Again Against Your List and See Consistency, by Sunil Patel
- Fiction: Noteworthy Customer Service Interactions, Example 12: Mendoza and Squeakybuns, by Laura Pearlman
- Fiction: Rescue, by Sarah Gailey
- Nonfiction: Game Review: Have You Met My New Birdie? He’s a Lawyer, by Rachael Acks
- Fiction: The Indigo Ace and the High-Low Split, by Annalee Flower Horne
- Fiction: Dear Future Customer, by Darin Ramsey
- Nonfiction: Story Ideas from the Oxford English Dictionary, by Karen Bovenmyer
- Nonfiction: Interview: Jackson Lanzing and Company Take Us All on a Joyride, by Adam Gallardo
- Fiction: At the Village Vanguard (Ruminations on Blacktopia), by Maurice Broaddus
- Nonfiction: The Story Doctor Is (In) by James Patrick Kelly
- Fiction: Making a Good Impression, by James Hart
- Nonfiction: NaNoWriMo: Pro or Con?, by Mur Lafferty
- Fiction: The Penelope Qingdom, by Aidan Moher
- Fiction: The Last Half Hour of Winter, by Meghan Ball
- Coming Soon/Masthead
New York Review of Science Fiction #337
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Politics Issue: Ada Palmer’s Lightning Strikes Twice; Brian Stableford: Théo Varlet’s Apocalpyse; Mike Barrett on Harold Lawlor’s Ghosts; Douglas Van Belle: Scientists in Science Fiction; Victor Grech on National Geographic’s Star Trek; David Mead on Timothy Zahn’s short fiction; Walter Kivet on Nick Mamatas’s Providence; Dan’l Danehy-Oakes on the Year’s Best; Plus: Torquato Tasso & Where We Are
Interzone #267
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November–December issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by Harmony Neal, Ryan Row, Sarah Brooks, Rich Larson, Samantha Henderson, and David Cleden.
Cover art is by Vincent Sammy and interior colour illustrations are by Jim Burns, Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, and Dave Senecal. Features: Martin McGrath on the James White Award; Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Laser Fodder by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews); Book Zone (book reviews, including an interview with Tade Thompson by Maureen Kincaid Speller, and an interview with Chris Beckett by Juliet E. McKenna); Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment).
Black Static #55
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November–December issue contains new dark fiction by Stephen Hargadon, Lisa Tuttle, David Hartley, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Simon Avery, and Jeff Bowles. The cover art is by Martin Hanford, with interior illustrations by Ben Baldwin, Richard Wagner, and George C. Cotronis. Features: Coffinmaker’s Blues by Stephen Volk (comment); Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker (comment); Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews, including an in-depth interview with V.H. Leslie); Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (DVD/Blu-ray reviews).
Apex Magazine Issue 90
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction
Every Winter — E. Catherine Tobler
When She Comes — Onu-Okpara Chiamaka
The Island in the Attic — Natalia Theodoridou
After We Walked Away — Erica L. Satifka
Rosewater (Novel Excerpt) — Tade Thompson
Shadow — Tade Thompson
Nonfiction
Interview with Author E. Catherine Tobler — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Artist Ania Tomicka — Russell Dickerson
Poetry
Love’s Idea Envisioned by a Satyr — Tiffany Midge
The Annual Scarecrow Festival — John Paul Davis
Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Mothership Zeta Magazine – Issue 5
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Q4 2016 issue of Mothership Zeta.
Mothership Zeta is the first ezine project to come out of Escape Artists (publisher of podcast magazines Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and Podcastle). We are an ebook-only zine that focuses on new fiction with a fun undertone along with nonfiction from experts in science fiction, science, and more!
Table of Contents:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #212
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #212 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Stephen Case and Evan Dicken.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 78 (November 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.
This month, we have original science fiction by Chris Kluwe (“Dinosaur Killers”) and Alyssa Wong (“Natural Skin”), along with SF reprints by Lavie Tidhar (“Under the Eaves”) and Mary Robinette Kowal (“For Solo Cello, op. 12”). Plus, we have original fantasy by J.B. Park (“Shooting Gallery”) and Helena Bell (“I’ve Come to Marry the Princess”), and fantasy reprints by Alex Jeffers (“Two Dead Men”) and Catherynne M. Valente (“A Dirge for Prester John”). 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 our usual ebook-exclusive novella reprint and an excerpt from THE GENIUS ASYLUM by Arlene F. Marks.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 50 (November 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.
This month, we have original fiction from Adam-Troy Castro (“Four Haunted Houses”) and Maria Dahvana Headley (“Little Widow”), along with reprints by Rachael K. Jones (“Who Binds and Looses the World with Her Hands”) and Usman T. Malik (“Laal Andhi”). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a panel discussion on witches in the horror genre.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 13
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November/December 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Paul Cornell, Brooke Bolander, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Bledsoe, Kat Howard, and Nalo Hopkinson, reprinted fiction by Amal El-Mohtar, essays by Alyssa Wong, Monica Valentinelli, Navah Wolfe, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Keidra Chaney, and Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu), poetry by Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, and Sofia Samatar, interviews with Jennifer Marie Brissett and Alex Bledsoe by Julia Rios, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 23, November 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 23: November 2016
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Brian Trent, Ron Collins, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Cline, Rebecca Birch, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Jay O’Connell, Laura Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, David A. Kilman, Leena Likitalo
Serialization: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Recommended Books: Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Harry Turtledove
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 #38 November 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2016 issue of Flash Fiction Online.This month some string of planets in some other arm of the galaxy has apparently aligned in just such as way as to cause something of a publishing anomaly, at least at Flash Fiction Online. This month we’re running stories from three of our FFO alumni. THREE of them!
That doesn’t often happen around here. In fact, I don’t remember it ever happening. But it has. This issue is as rare as a blue moon.
To make things even more fun, we’re including a link to each author’s previously published story. Be sure to click through to those.
And our three returning authors are:
Samantha Murray, with “Boxes and Lockets and Clocks.”
(Previous story: “Portrait of My Wife as a Boat,” July 2015)
Alexis A. Hunter, with “Perfectly Not Normal.”
(Previous story: “Gold Dress, No Eyes,” February 2015)
Matt Dovey, with “Quartet of the Far Blown Winds.”
(Previous story: “This Is the Sound of the End of the World,” March 2016)
Also, this month, our reprint selection, “Project Earth is Leaving Beta,” by J.W. Alden. This story originally appeared in the May 2016 issue of Nature. Plus a new FXXK WRITING article by Jason S. Ridler.
The Dark – Issue 18
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:
“The House That Jessica Built” by Nadia Bulkin
“Neithernor” by Richard Gavin (reprint)
“And In Our Daughters, We Find A Voice” by Cassandra Khaw
“Full Up” by Mark Morris (reprint)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – 6 Issue Subscription
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 Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michael Moorcock 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.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – November/December 2016
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 | ||
| The Cat Bell | Esther M. Friesner | |
| The Farmboy | Albert E. Cowdrey | |
| The Vindicator | Matthew Hughes | |
| Passelande | Robert Reed | |
| SHORT STORIES | ||
| Between Going and Staying | Lilliam Rivera | |
| The Place of Bones | Gardner Dozois | |
| Lord Elgin at the Acropolis | Minsoo Kang | |
| Special Collections | Kurt Fawver | |
| A Fine Balance | Charlotte Ashley | |
| The Rhythm Man | James Beamon | |
| Merry Christmas from All of Us to All of You | Sandra Mcdonald | |
| DEPARTMENTS | ||
| Books to Look For | Charles de Lint | |
| Books | Chris Moriarty | |
| Films: Getting High | David J. Skal | |
| Competition #92 | ||
| Coming Attractions | ||
| Index to Volumes 130 & 131 | ||
| Curiosities | Graham Andrews |
CARTOONS: Arthur Masear (3), Bill Long (2), Nick Downes (3), S. Harris.
COVER by Kristin Kest for “The Cat Bell”
Locus November 2016 (#670)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2016 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Pat Cadigan and Cat Rambo, and a series author spotlight on Diana Rowland. Main Stories include the British Fantasy Awards, the Gemmell Awards, the Copper Cylinder Awards, Ian McDonald’s Gaylactic Spectrum win, and more. Preston Grassmann reports on science fiction in Japan. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Sole and Despotic Dominion”. Obituaries remember Robert E. Weinberg, Ed Gorman, and Kate Yule, with an additional appreciation for David A. Kyle.
Reviews cover new titles by Alastair Reynolds, Bruce Sterling, Indra Das, Kai Ashante Wilson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Juliet Marillier, Alyc Helms, Ali Shaw, Margaret Atwood, Laird Barron, Richard Gavin, Ilona Andrews, Stephanie Burgis, Seanan McGuire, Sharon Shinn, and others.
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 34
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe devil you allow into your room. The Hitler you cross time to kill. The ghosts that saturate ancient homes. The war we have all lost. The four stories in our final issue of 2016 tread familiar ground, and yet within each, the ground seems entirely new. You’ve never really been to any of these places until you crack open this issue of Shimmer.
Skills To Keep the Devil In His Place, by Lia Swope Mitchell
If you think about him, he’s got a way in. He’ll creep into your pupils, waft up your nose, croon through your earholes singing moody devil songs. From there, into your brain. I’ve seen it happen—it’s happened to me. And then everything you see starts to look like temptation. An object, something to use or destroy. Then you’re yelling at friends, telling lies, and stealing Mom’s credit card to buy $200 jeans off the internet and who even knows where all this ends.
Number One Personal Hitler, by Jeff Hemenway
Dr. Francis Waxmann invented time travel in the summer of 2075. It broke the universe some sixty years earlier.
Spirit Tasting List for Ridley House, April 2016, by Rachael Acks
Welcome, honored guest, to Ridley House; the acquisition of this charming 18th-century Palladian Revival villa has been something of a coup for our club and we are beyond pleased to present a wide array of tastes for your pleasure, if for a limited time. Take a moment to enjoy the grounds, particularly the stately elms with their attendant garlands of Spanish moss, and the mist rising from the ponds and nearby irrigation canals.
Now We’ve Lost, by Natalia Theodoridou
The war is over, we hear. We’ve lost. We look at each other in the dark. What does this mean? We’ve lost so much already. What is it we’ve lost now?