- “Pure Southern” by James Robert Smith, in which a traumatized ex-soldier guarding a warehouse takes on the mobsters who want to rob it;
- “Big Davey Joins the Majority” by Barry Graham;
- and “Denny” by Kit Reed, a heartbreaking tale of two parents and their son who have three very distinctive perspectives on family life, the threat of teenage violence, and kids growing up.
- More new things this week: Bullettime by Nick Mamatas (“David Holbrook exists everywhere and nowhere . . . “),
- Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye by Paul Tremblay (” FARM WANTS YOU!”),
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #115 (stories by James L. Sutter and Leslianne Wilder),
- Innsmouth Magazine Issue 12 (a girl that cannot die, a bizarre birth and a guest appearance by Nyarlathotep.”[!]),
- and Shimmer Magazine Issue 16 with “thirteen elegant and original stories.”
Puerto del Sol, Galaxy’s Edge, Big Click, Apex, NYRSF, Tiptree winners
Tags: Caitlin R. Kiernan, Kiini Ibura Salaam, The Big Click, Tiptree Awards
It’s a big magazine day here at Weightless. We just added two new magazines: the first is Puerto del Sol, 47 years young and “dedicated to providing a forum for innovative poetry, prose, drama, criticism and artwork from emerging and established writers and artists.” Got to love that. Also, at $2.99 per issue ($4.99/2-issue subscription)—and those issues go up to 300 pages!—it is such a huge bargain I am tempted to tag all the issues under sales. How many can you get? 46.1 and 2, 47.1, 47.2, and next week, the new issue, #48.1. You can get the print issues here.
We also have the debut issue of Galaxy’s Edge as well as subscriptions: only $9.99 for 6 issues. Another hard to beat deal! The first issue features Robert J. Sawyer, Kij Johnson, Nick DiChario, Lou J. Berger, Jack McDevitt, Alex Shvartsman, Stephen Leigh, Robert T. Jeschonek, James Patrick Kelly, Daniel F. Galouye, Mike Resnick, Barry Malzberg, Horace E. Cocroft, and Paul Cook.
Today also saw new issues from Apex and The Big Click. Apex has a new story from National Book Award William Alexander (that’s not something I get to write often), Rachel Swirsky, Tim Pratt and others. The seventh issue of The Big Click has noir and crime stories from Sean Craven and the very busy and popular Ekaterina Sedia, as well as Raechel Dumas’s “helpful cheat sheet for diving into the world of Japanese crime fiction.”
The 294th(!) issue of NYRSF features Borges, Lovecraft, and souls; John Morressy’s fantasy novels; Greg Mellor, Australian wondersmith; Manly Wade Wellman, Plains reporter; Farah Mendlesohn on fantasy; Jean-Luc Picard, epitome; Robots on stage; and more. Don’t miss the special offer.
Also, for those who look at the world and see no discrimination, the VIDA Count for 2012 is in. Feh.
And, with VIDA showing that the Tiptree Award is always necessary, congratulations to the two winners of this year’s award: Kiini Ibura Salaam (Ancient, Ancient—check out the video!) and Caitlin R. Kiernan (The Drowning Girl). As usual there is also an Honor List of interesting books, which includes Karin Tidbeck’s Jagannath and Lesley Wheeler’s “The Receptionist” (in The Receptionist and Other Tales.
I still a have print subscription, not digital, to Locus, but when I saw on their site that there was a review of the new LCRW I checked it out. Happily Rich Horton likes it. Yay! There’s also a review of Ancient, Ancient, and, you know, many other books, and I look forward to reading it properly when my old paper copy arrives. You can get it now, of course.
Next week: more titles from Aqueduct, more goodies all round. If you’re in Boston at AWP this weekend, stop by the Small Beer Press table in the book fair and say hi!
Welcoming The Big Click
Tags: BCS, Nick Mamatas, Paul Tremblay, Shimmer Magazine, The Big Click
Noir fans, this is your time.
The kids are reading it courtesy of Lemony Snicket and Holly Black. The movies keep going back to it. And now here’s a new magazine devoted to it. This week we’re happy to welcome The Big Click edited by Jeremiah Tolbert (readers may fondly remember his earlier magazine, The Fortean Bureau). The latest Issue, # 6, has three stories:
And I’m happy to say you can get all the back issues here and dedicated readers can sign up for The Big Click: One Year Subscription. There are six 3-story issues a year featuring “noir, tales of the criminal lifestyle, confessional fiction, peculiar literary specimens, and great characters.”
If you like the sound of that, check out How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery by Joyce Thompson, where “the Bay Area welcomes a new detective: he’s black, he’s spiritual, he’s stunning. And he’s in great danger.”
That should take care of the weekend.
Although tonight, if all goes as planned (hey, often it doesn’t), we’re off to our friend and neighbor Robert Redick’s reading/party at Amherst Books celebrating the publication of the fourth & final volume in “The Chathrand Voyage Quartet”—The Night Swarm. Earler volumes (in order) are The Red Wolf Conspiracy, The Ruling Sea, & The River of Shadows.