Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 74 (July 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 Ted Kosmatka (“The One Who Isn’t”) and Jilly Dreadful (“5×5”), along with SF reprints by Genevieve Valentine (“Small Medicine”) and Seth Fried (“Hello Again”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (“Magnifica Angelica Superable”) and Kenneth Schneyer (“Some Pebbles in the Palm”), and fantasy reprints by A. Merc Rustad (“Finding Home”) and Spencer Ellsworth (“The Child Support of Cromdor the Condemned”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns, and an interview with screenwriter and film director Alex Garland.
For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive reprint of Walter Jon Williams’s novella “Surfacing” and a novel excerpt.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 46 (July 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 Gavin Pate (“Red House”) and writing team Rachel Swirsky and An Owomoyela (“Whose Drowned Face Sleeps”), along with reprints by Nick Mamatas (“Der Kommissar’s in Town”) and Seanan McGuire (“Anthony’s Vampire”).
We also have Tananarive Due writing the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a panel discussion about demon possession with Stoker Award-winner Paul Tremblay, Horrorstör author Grady Hendrix, and editor Jordan Hamessley London.
Mythic Delirium 3.1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue begins the fourth year of Mythic Delirium’s digital age by giving center stage to a trio of voices from the far side of the world.
Suzanne J. Willis brings a beautiful and gruesome story of maps inked on skin and where they lead. Benjanun Sriduangkaew shares a story of a space-faring arms dealer who is herself a weapon. And Yukimi Ogawa rejoins us with a mash-up of mythology and multiple genres that’s unlike anything you’ve ever read.
Our poetry crew this time around consists of Jane Yolen, Lynette MejÍa, Christina Sng, Ada Hoffman, Kavitha Rath and Lyndsey Silveira, who together take us on tours through realms of legend and sorcery, dinosaurs and death personified.
Our cover art this time out comes from Lissanne Lake, illustrator of the Buckland Romani Tarot.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 21, July 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 21: July 2016
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Martin L. Shoemaker, Larry Hodges, Kij Johnson, Laurie Tom, Robert Silverberg, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Dantzel Cherry, Steve Pantazis, Nathan Dodge, George R. R. Martin.
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 Robert J. Sawyer
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.
Locus July 2016 (#666)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July 2016 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Peter Straub and Joe Hill. News includes the 2016 Locus Awards winners, the Kate Greenaway Medal, the PEN/Pinter Prize, the Chesley Awards, the Campbell Award finalists, British Fantasy Award nominees, Mythopoeic Award finalists, changes to the Retro Hugo Ballot, the Eugie Foster Memorial Award, and more.
Events coverage with photos and reports includes the SFWA Nebula Conference and WisCon 40. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Peak Indifference”. Lois Duncan is remembered with an obituary.
Reviews cover new titles by Nina Allan, Claire North, Neil Gaiman, Dan Vyleta, Patricia A. McKillip, Charles Stross, Neal Asher, Paul McAuley, Joe Hill, Damien Angelica Walters, Livia Llewellyn, Stephen King, Guy Gavriel Kay, Kat Howard, G.D. Falksen, and others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #34 July 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe July 2016 issue of Flash Fiction Online.
AS WOMEN, maternal instinct runs deep in some of us. I say some of us because, like any human trait, its presence or absence can vary to a great degree. I suppose it could be said that variation from the norm is the norm.
I had no maternal instinct as a child and young adult. I hated dolls, didn’t like ‘playing house,’ I was a Sandlot kind of girl, hanging with the boys instead of babysitting, ripping the knees out of countless pairs of pants, hair a wild tangle, more likely to have dirt than makeup on my face.
But then one day in 1992 someone put a baby in my arms. Not any baby. MY baby. And, Boom! There it was. A sudden and sweet and nurturing love and protectiveness. Mama Bear was born. It surprised no one more than me.
For what it’s worth, I’m still more likely to have dirt than makeup on my face.
This month’s stories all rely strongly on some aspect or another of maternal instinct.
First up, “Green on the Inside” by Star Spider–a haunting little piece of magical realism and a mother’s regret.
Next, from Lora Gray, “Nuclear Daughter,” in which the strain of post nuclear devastation and the strength of the maternal instinct meet.
Chloe Clark’s “So This” is a powerful literary story of longing and loss and healing.
Lastly, our recycled story of the month, “Birthday Child,” by FFO multi-published author, Caroline M. Yoachim, a fascinating look at a near-future world of infertility and pre-fab babies.
Enjoy! New article by Jason Ridler. Edited by Suzanne W. Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac and Lura Schwarz Smith
The Dark – Issue 14
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:
“Postcards from Natalie” by Carrie Laben
“There is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold” by Seanan
McGuire (reprint)
“The Last Sailing of the _Henry Charles Morgan_ in Six Pieces of
Scrimshaw” (1841) by A.C. Wise
“The Marginals” by Steve Duffy (reprint)
New York Review of Science Fiction #333
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Medical Fantasies Issue: Drs. Kovacs & MacDonald: More Medical Errors; Mike Barrett: The Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series; Sarah Yoon: Dualism and The Left Hand of Darkness; Brian Stableford: Nightmare Antiutopias; Arthur Hlavaty: Judith Merril’s collected criticism; Joe Milicia: On cult SF films; Plus: Forgotten early SF TV; a poem; and Screed!
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 118
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 July 2016 issue (#118) contains:
* Original fiction by Mike Buckley (“Helio Music”), Eric Schwitzgebel (“Fish Dance”), John Chu (“The Sentry Branch Predictor Spec: A Fairy Tale”), Jack Schouten (“Sephine and the Leviathan”), and A Que (“Against the Stream”).
* Reprints from Linda Nagata (“Nahiku West”) and Mary Rosenblum (“Lion Walk”).
* Non-fiction by Christopher Mahon (Paradise Lost: A History of Fantasy and the Otherworld), an interview with Michael Swanwick, an Another Word column by Peter Watts, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Shimmer Magazinew – Issue 32
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIn astronomy, we’re often taught to use “averted vision,” that is to look to the side of the object we want to see, because our eyes operate in a way that allow us to see it most clearly when we’re not actually looking at the object at all. These four stories use a kind of averted vision themselves, showing us characters who are not entirely what we see them as being, but in the end could be nothing else at all.
Painted Grassy Mire, by Nicasio Andres Reed
Heat like a hand at her throat, then a breeze kicked up from Lake Borgne to swat Winnie sweetly across the face. One of those breezes every hour. A muddy, warm thing that got her through the day. What would life be without a breeze off the lake? Nothing. Nothing, just everyone gone to moss and decay.
The Wombly, by K.L. Morris
The Wombly arrives first on my father’s back. He brings it home, and it travels ‘round the family faster than a whip crack. It passes from him to Liza Lee to Mom to me, except I don’t tap, so Mom doesn’t tap back. The circle hangs open around our necks, a family all Post-Wombly except for one, that’s me, I’m still Pre.
glam-grandma, by Avi Naftali
The seagulls were strung like irritable white pearls across the Los Angeles sky. They floated through the alleyways, complaining and complaining. It was the hottest time of the year.
The Singing Soldier, by Natalia Theodoridou
When Lilia came into her parents’ bedroom one night, eyes sleepy and tin soldier firmly clasped in her little hands, complaining that his singing wouldn’t let her sleep, her Ma thought she’d had a nightmare. She pried the soldier from her daughter’s fingers, placed him on a high shelf in the closet and locked the door. Then, she motioned towards Lilia’s sleeping father and let the girl slip under the covers between the two of them.
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #13
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazineﾒs mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience.
Issue #13 includes 10 short stories and one graphic story:
“TOP SECRET: The Union Station Hypersphere Incident” ﾗ Marco Panessa
“The Stubbornness of Wizards” ﾗ Eugene Morgulis
“O!” ﾗ B. Morris Allen
“Pealing Skin” ﾗ Steve Toase
“My Mother After Life” ﾗ Amethyst Loscocco
“No Gods but Men” ﾗ Evan Dicken
“Standard Deviant” ﾗ Holly Schofield
“Murmuration” ﾗ Jennifer Noelle Welch
“Phase II” ﾗ Frank Oreto
“Bedroom Community” ﾗ Nancy Waldman
“Shamrock – Part 8 – Illusion” ﾗ Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez
In the non-fiction section, this issue features:
he non-fiction section, this issue features:
Interview with Author Angela Slatter
Interview with Author Brian Staveley
Book Review: God of Clay by Ryan Campbell
Movie Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane
The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.
Congress Magazine Issue 01 June 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedCongress Magazine‘s inaugural issue starts things off with Livia Llewellyn’s “Bohemian Grove, 1916,” perfect summer reading if you love rumpled dresses, tanned thighs, and owls. Then, Robert Levy takes us to a world of drugs, love, and transgression with “My Heart’s Own Desire.” Our reprint this month is Matthew Addison’s “Wish Girls,” where we learn that if wishes were sexy immortal cheerleaders, beggars would… well, they’d ride. That’s what they’d do. And we finish out the issue with David Nickle’s “The Bicameral Twist,” which features Greek mythology and a machine that lets people see one’s dreams. Always a good idea…
Congress Magazine 12-Month Subscription
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedCongress Magazine launches in June 2016.
Apex Magazine Issue 85
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
Folk Hero — Mary Pletsch
Cuckoo Girls — Douglas F. Warrick
Memorials — Aliette de Bodard
The Kraken Sea (Novel Excerpt) — E. Catherine Tobler
Nonfiction
Interview with Author Mary Pletsch — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Artist Joe Badon — Russell Dickerson
SEEKING TANIS. Runner Available. — Betsy Phillips
Poetry
Later, they found her journal — Tina Parker
Ghost Plague — Tina Jens
By Payette Lake — Cullen Groves
Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
New York Review of Science Fiction #332
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial Lens Flare Issue: Lisa Padol: Morality through the overlapping lenses of furry animals, myth, and role-playing games; Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley & Anne-Marie Callus: Disability through the lens of Star Trek; Brian Stableford: A better future through the lens of a past empire; Mike Barrett: L.C.T’s weird fiction; Joe Sanders: The fiction of Felix Gilman; David Mead on Cixin Liu
Locus June 2016 (#665)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2016 issue of Locus magazine has an interview with Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling and spotlights on Masumi Washington of Haikasoru and David Steffen of Diabolical Plots. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2017.
News includes the 2015 Nebula Awards, the Stoker Awards, the Spectrum 23 Awards, the Asimov’s Readers’ and Analog AnLab Awards, the Clarke Award shortlist, 2016 Science Fiction Hall of Fame nominees, the SF Signal shutdown, Hugo Awards news with revisions due to withdrawals, and more. Event coverage with photos and reports includes World Horror, the first StokerCon, and Hal-Con 2016 in Japan.
The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “Hard Publishing Truths: Relationships Matter”. There are obituaries for Katherine Dunn and Hector Raul Pessina. Reviews cover new titles by Ada Palmer, Eleanor Arnason, Patricia A. McKillip, Tim Powers, Andrea Hairston, Sonia Orin Lyris, Genevieve Cogman, E. Catherine Tobler, Madeline Ashby, Hugh Howey, Angela Slatter, Philip Reeve, Gemma Files, and others.