Nightmare Magazine, Issue 44 (May 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 (“The Old Horror Writer”) and Lisa Goldstein (“Sawing”), along with reprints by Joe Hill (“Twittering from the Circus of the Dead”) and Sarah Langan (“The Lost”). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with Angela Slatter.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 72 (May 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 An Owomoyela (“Three Points Masculine”) and Mari Ness (“Deathlight”), along with SF reprints by Haris A. Durrani (“Tethered”) and Tora Greve (“The Philosopher’s Stone”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Seanan McGuire (“The Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch”) and Wole Talabi (“Wednesday’s Story”), and fantasy reprints by Tim Pratt (“North Over Empty Space”) and Elizabeth Hand (“Hungerford Bridge”). 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 a reprint of Hugh Howey’s “The Plagiarist” and a new excerpt from Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WATER KNIFE, which is out in trade paperback this month, from Vintage Books.
See the Elephant, Issue Two
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue two of See the Elephant: Love and War in the Slipstream, features new stories by Diane Glancy, Karen Heuler, James Van Pelt, Cassandra Khaw, F. Brett Cox, Michael Canfield, Alana I. Capria, Rose Wednesday, Jane Lebak, Kristen Falso-Capaldi, Brian T. Hodges, and M. Glyde, reprints from Leslie What and Rebecca Schwarz, and an editorial from Melanie Lamaga.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 20, May 2016 (George R. R. Martin Special)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 12: May 2016
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Auston Habershaw, Kij Johnson, Shephard, Nick DiChario, George R. R. Martin, Stewart C Baker, Jeff Calhoun, Jack McDevitt, Tina Gower, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Paul Di Filippo, Sheila Finch
Serialization: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Book Reviews: Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett
Interview: Joy Ward interviews George R. R. Martin
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 reviews by Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.
Locus May 2016 (#664)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2016 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Guy Gavriel Kay and Molly Tanzer. News includes the 2016 Hugo Awards ballot and 1941 Retro Hugo Awards ballot, and many awards season winners for the BSFA Awards, the Philip K. Dick Awards, the Tiptree Awards, the Ditmar Awards, the Aurealis Awards, the Dell Awards, and more. News also covers the creation of Dragon Con’s Dragon Awards, Galaktika Piracy, the end of the Authors Guild lawsuit, and more. Event coverage with photos and reports includes the 2016 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Norwescon 39, the 2016 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards, and the Williamson Lectureship. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Peace in Our Time”. There are obituaries for Justine Leiber, Peggy Ranson, and Jill Calvert. Reviews cover new titles by Guy Gavriel Kay, Patricia A. McKillip, Frances Hardinge, Mike Ashley, Peter Newman, Gavriel Saint, Lian Hearn, Jack Cady, Eleanor Arnason, C.J. Cherryh, Glen Hirshberg, Stephen Graham Jones, Mishell Baker, Will McIntosh, Mercedes Lackey, and others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 116
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 2016 issue (#116) contains:
* Original fiction by Cat Rambo (“Left Behind”), Robert Reed (“The Universal Museum of Sagacity”), Cassandra Khaw (“Breathe”), Rich Larson (“Jonas and the Fox”), and Luo Longxiang (“Away from Home”).
* Reprints from Joe Abercrombie (“Tough Times All Over”) and Sunny Moraine (“A Heap of Broken Images”).
* Non-fiction by Andrew Liptak (Destination: Venus), an interview with James Gunn, an Another Word column by Jason Heller, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
New this month: Clarkesworld is now available in PDF format.
Forever Magazine Issue 16
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, author, 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 sixteenth issue features a novella by Robert Silverberg (“Hawksbill Station”), a short story by Ken Scholes (“Invisible Empire of Ascending Light”), and a short story by Sam J. Miller (“Calved”).
New this month: Forever is now available in PDF format.
The Dark – Issue 12
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 Haferbräutigam” by Steve Berman
“The Body Finder” by Kaaron Warren
“Caroline at Dusk” by Kali Wallace
“The Jacaranda Wife” by Angela Slatter
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 31
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedOur five May stories contain unique voices that will carry readers to beautiful and tragic places, be it to distant star empires, robot-infested cities, the cracked world in the wake of an earthquake, or the inner chambers of the human heart.
All the Colors You Thought Were Kings, by Arkady Martine
Moonrise glitters dull on the sides of the ship that’ll take you away. She’s down by the water, her belly kissing the sand and her skinny landing-legs stuck out like a crab. You and Tamar watched her land, stayed up half the night like babies staring at their first meteor storm, peeking over the railings of Tamar’s balcony and marveling at how the falling star-glimmer lit up the lights under your skins like an echo. You two have been full up with starstuff for as long as you’ve been old enough to go outside the creche by yourselves. Now you’re almost home.
Suicide Bots, by Bentley A. Reese
The car won’t go faster. Why won’t it go faster? It needs to go faster. We’re laughing. I grind my foot against the gas pedal. I stand half off my seat and lay into it. I scream at the gas. The gas is no good. The gas needs to go faster. I hear plastic snap and the pedal breaks under my foot—we go a wild two-thirty. We fly across the road. The Mustang’s engine punches out of the hood. A steaming, choking monster, it wants us to want it. I wanna ride it. I want to ride the engine screaming and burning into stupid oblivion. I’ll rut the world so it remembers I existed. So I remember that I existed.
Define Symbiont, by Rich Larson
They are running the perimeter again, slipping in and out of cover, sun and shadow. Pilar knows the route by rote: crouch here, dash there, slow then quick. While they run, she ticks up and down the list of emergency overrides, because it has become a ritual to her over the course of the long nightmare, a rosary under her chafed-skinless fingertips
An Atlas in Sgraffito Style, by A.J. Fitzwater
It’s the third month after the cities collide when the women dance out of the walls. They are the worthy women, the terrible, bright, ugly, and genius. Terrifying puppet vandals.
.subroutine:all///end, by Rachael Acks
The first despairing sob of Helen’s cracked voice registers, matches waveforms, and executes number 88 out of my 2,102 hanging subroutines.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #32 May 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May 2016 issue of Flash Fiction Online. MOTHER’S DAY IS A CELEBRATION OF MOTHERS, motherhood, and the profound influence women have on shaping the world of the future. The holiday is observed in over 40 nations worldwide, with well over three quarters of those nations celebrating in the month of May.
When I was a child, Mother’s Day was an affair rife with flowers and a simple dinner (not always made by Dad), so we could pack up in the Chevy Suburban after church for an hour-long drive to visit my only surviving grandparent–my mother’s mother–because that’s where my mother wanted to be.
This photo was probably taken on one of those early Mother’s Day excursions. That’s my mom, standing on the left. Her sister standing beside her. The seated woman on the right is my grandmother; the other is her mother. That chubby baby in my great grandmother’s arms is my oldest brother. I was still 11 years away from being born–the youngest of six.
Now, as a mother myself, my Mother’s Day is spent at home with my husband and children–because that’s where I want to be.
So, Mothers, wherever you go or whatever you choose to do this Mother’s Day, we hope you have a lovely day–and we hope someone else will cook dinner for you.
In honor of mothers, this month’s issue is packed with powerful motherhood.
First, from Lynette Mejía, a tender and hopeful account of one mother’s struggle with the loss of a child, “Now Watch as Belinda Unmakes the World.”
Next up, “Nothing Less Rare, Nor Precious,” from Evan Dicken, a beautiful allegorical tale of new motherhood.
And, a special treat that isn’t necessarily about mother’s but involves a wonderfully talented mother, “Sparrows,” by Gary Chandler, with gorgeous artwork by his own mother, Lura Schwarz Smith. Also enjoy an essay by Gary–a lovely tribute to his family.
Finally this month, a recycled story from our own FFO staffer, Stewart C. Baker. Originally published in Nature Physics, September 2015, “Love and Relativity” is an achingly beautiful story of love and loss and motherhood.
Enjoy! And Happy Mother’s Day!
New article by Jason Ridler.
Edited by Suzanne W. Vincent.
Artwork by Dario Bijelac and Lura Schwarz Smith
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction – Issue 6
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring 2016 issue of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction.
This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia and Laos.
Inside these pages, you’ll find: the high cost of cheap footwear by celebrated novelist and translator Ken Liu; the consequence of domesticating mythical beasts by rising star Eka Kurniawan (translated by Tiffany Tsao); a mind-bending familial space opera by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo; the connection between a talented girl and the toys she brings to life by JY Yang; a break-up that descends into artistic oblivion by Jennifer Anne Champion; an academic examination into the legend of Bukit Merah by award-winner Ng Yi-Sheng; a comic on the consuming danger of the manananggal by Budjette Tan & Kajo Baldisimo; and speculative poetry from Jonel Abellanosa, Ang Si Min, Russ Hoe, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Christina Sng, Sokunthary Svay, Krishna Udayasankar, Brendan Walsh and Marco Yan.
LONTAR is the world’s only biannual literary journal focusing on Southeast Asian speculative fiction. LONTAR also has a Patreon.
Apex Magazine Issue 83
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
The Laura Ingalls Experience — Andrew Neil Gray
The Teratologist’s Brother — Brandon H. Bell
The Quidnunx — Catherynne M. Valente
Collecting James — Geoffrey Girard
Nonfiction
Interview with Author Andrew Neil Gray — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Artist Sarah Zar — Russell Dickerson
Poetry
Fertility — Craig Finlay
The Farmer’s Milk — John Yu Branscum
Myth of the Mud God — Michael VanCalbergh
Song of the Encantado — Jeremy Paden
Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 71 (April 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 Carrie Vaughn (“Origin Story”) and Matthew Bailey (“The Birth Will Take Place on a Mutually Acceptable Research Vessel”), along with SF reprints by Patricia Strand (“Cause for a Haunting”) and Peter Watts (“Collateral”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Nghi Vo (“Dragon Brides”) and Rudy Rucker (“The Knobby Giraffe”), and fantasy reprints by Theodora Goss (“Lily, With Clouds”) and Ken Scholes (“Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise”). 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 “Incident on a Small Colony,” by Kristine Smith, and an excerpt from Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s new novel, HEX.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 43 (April 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 Ian Whates (“Reaper’s Rose”) and Rahul Kanakia (“The Girl Who Escaped From Hell”), along with reprints by Kaaron Warren (“Death’s Door Cafe”) and P.D. Cacek (“The Grave”). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, a showcase on our cover artist, and a feature interview with author David J. Schow.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #31 April 2016
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2016 issue of Flash Fiction Online.April is a month of holidays, some odd (Hug an Australian Day), some historic (Cosmonaut’s Day, Russia), some religious (Passover, Jewish), some patriotic (Day of Valor, Philippines).
I think I’ve found the perfect holiday for each of our stories this month. See what you think.
April 1st, April Fool’s Day (Western Europe and the United States): This silly holiday may be older than Geoffrey Chaucer, who (some believe) wrote of Chanticleer the Cock being tricked by a fox on the 32nd day of March–April 1st. For the fun of it, enjoy “Foreign Tongues,” by returning Flash Fiction Online alumnus, John Wiswell. It’ll make you hesitate next time you visit the ice cream parlor.
On the more serious side, April 30th is Mexico’s National Children’s Day. Children are a precious resource, a treasure, our very future. But, as our next story shows, not every child is treated as such. From author Jennifer Todhunter, “The Knives of Her Life.”
April 27, South Africa will celebrate Freedom Day to commemorate the first democratic election in 1994, after the demise of apartheid. In our third story, “Songbird,” by Shveta Thakrar, a young woman learns the value of freedom when she loses hers. A beautiful story.
To finish up, author Laurie Tom gives us this month’s story revival, “The Ancestors,” a story of a Chinese-American family celebrating Ching Ming (April 4) in their own very unique way. This story first appeared at Crossed Genres in 2014, and was included in that year’s anthology, Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction.
After reading her story, click over to a fascinating interview with Laurie by our publisher, Anna Yeatts.
And, by the way, Happy Talk Like Shakespeare Day (April 23)!New article by Jason Ridler. Edited by Suzanne W. Vincent. Artwork by Dario Bijelac.
Locus April 2016 (#663)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2016 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Paolo Bacigalupi and Tim Pratt. News includes Penguin Random House cuts, the sale of Perseus Book Group, the Solstice Award, Carnegie and Greenaway Medal Shortlists, the 2016 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award finalists, Spectrum 23 Awards finalists, the 2015 Stoker Awards final ballot, and more. The issue includes an international report on Cuba by Yoss & Tom Crosshill, and a report on Fogcon. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “Cultivating Inspiration on Deadline”. Obituaries include Umberto Eco, Mark Justice, Jake Page, Jef Smith, and Ann Downer. Reviews cover new titles by Ken Liu, Madeline Ashby, Lavie Tidhar, K.J. Parker, Betsy James, Fred Chappell, Stephanie Burgis, Marie Brennan, Judith Merril, Zachary Brown, Austin Grossman, Mishell Baker, Robert J. Sawyer, Patricia Briggs, Lois McMaster Bujold, and others.