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The 2010 Best Semiprozine Hugo nominees are:

Best Semiprozine

• Ansible edited by David Langford
• Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan
• Interzone edited by Andy Cox
• Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong, & Liza Groen Trombi
• Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. Segal

There were 377 ballots cast in this category. It placed 6th in the categories with the most ballots behind Novel, Dramatic Long Form, Short Story, Editor Short Form, and Novelette. Semiprozines received more nominations than Novella, Campbell Award, Pro Artist, Fan Writer, Fanzine, Editor Long Form, Dramatic Short, Best Related, Graphic Story and Fan Artist.

The Spring 2010 issue of Space and Time should be arriving in bookstores this week.

Contents:

Fiction:
* “One Lone Mountain, Shining White” by Richard Parks
* “Spacer’s Gamble” by Josepha Sherman
* “Another Fine Messiah” by F. Gwynplaine McIntyre
* “Parallel Moons” by Mario Milosevic
* “Barbara Bloodbath” by Chet Gottfried
* “The Tortoiseshell Cat in the Dark Box” by Tim W. Burke
* “The Hungry Wind” by William Gerke
* “In the Dreaming House” by Darrell Schweitzer

Poetry:
* “Quantum Passion” by Carolyn Clink
* “Dream Fix” by Paul A. Friedlander
* “Giving up the Ghost: California, Circa 2013″ by Stephen Wilson
* “Vaccination Scifaiku” by Francis W. Alexander
* “Botanical Quasi-Dactyl” by Michael McAfee
* “Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing Butterflies” by Carol Allen
* “(tanka)” by Joshua Gage
* “Pluto” by Bruce Golden
* “Moon Boat” by Gary Every
* “I Am” by Scheila Scheffler

Non-Fiction:
* “Word Ninja” by Linda D. Addison

Cover Art:
* L.W. Perkins

Interzone issue 227 is out now, with new stories by Chris Beckett, Nina Allan, Jon Ingold, Mercurio D. Rivera, Jim Hawkins, Steve Rasnic Tem; colour art by Warwick Fraser-Coombe, Jim Burns, Robert Dunn, Ben Baldwin, Dave Senecal; all the usual features by David Langford, Nick Lowe, Tony Lee, book reviews, Connie Willis interviewed…

For more details see their issue announcement.

Issue 16: STEAMPUNK is now available on the Crossed Genres website and features:

FICTION
“Dead’s End to Middleton” by Natania Barron
“Whirligig Fingers and Globular Thumbs” by Polenth Blake
“The Vostrasovitch Clockwork Animal and Traveling Forest Show at the End of the World” by Jessica Reisman
“Twentieth Century” by Michael Glenn Farquhar
“The Recondite Riddle of the Rose Rogue” by Dawn Vogel

ARTICLE
“Doctor Tsoundpounder’s Euterpean Soliliquizer” by J.C. Hay

ART
“Rotterdam Bay” by Shaun Lindow

The March issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is now online and features:

FICTION
“Alone With Gandhari” by Gord Sellar
“Alone With Gandhari” (AUDIO VERSION) by Gord Sellar, read by Kate Baker
“The History Within Us” by Matthew Kressel

NONFICTION
“A Terrifying Mix of Honesty and Rigor: A Conversation with Kij Johnson” interview by Jeremy L. C. Jones
“Future Brains: Neuroscience Fiction versus Neuroscience Fantasy” by Luc Reid

COVER ART
“Retro Robots” by Georgi Markov

On the 15th of February, their podcast will feature “The History Within Us” by Matthew Kressel.

The March 2010 issue of Ansible is now available.

The 2009 Nebula Awards ballot is now available and includes the following works originally appearing in semiprozines:

Short Story

• “Non-Zero Probabilities” by N. K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld, November 09)
• “Spar” by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, October 2009)

Novelette

• “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” by Eugie Foster (Interzone, February 2009 and later reprinted by Apex Magazine)

Novella

• “Sublimation Angels” by Jason Sanford (Interzone, October 2009)

Congratulations to Clarkesworld, Interzone, Nora, Kij, Eugie and Jason!

The 2009 Locus Recommended Reading list has been published. The following short stories from semiprozines made the list:

Clarkesworld Magazine

• “In the Lot and in the Air” by Lisa Hannett, July ‘09
• “Spar” by Kij Johnson, October ‘09
• “Of Melei, of Ulthar” by Gord Sellar, October ‘09
• “The Dying World” by Lavie Tidhar, April ‘09
• “The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew” by Catherynne M. Valente, August ‘09

Fantasy Magazine

• “Voice Like a Cello” by Catherine Cheek, 5/4/09
• “Early Winter, Near Jenli Village” by J. Kathleen Cheney, 5/4/09
• “The Men Burned All the Boats” by Patricia Russo, 2/9/09

Interzone

• “Home Again” by Paul M. Berger, 3-4/09
• “Lady of the White-Spired City” by Sarah L. Edwards, 5-6/09
• “Butterfly Bomb” by Dominic Green, 5-6/09

The February 2010 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is now available online.

FICTION
Torquing Vacuum by Jay Lake
Torquing Vacuum (AUDIO VERSION) by Jay Lake, read by Kate Baker
The Language of the Whirlwind by Lavie Tidhar

NONFICTION
Chameleon of the Fantastic: An Interview with Jeffrey Ford interview by Jason S. Ridler
Earth Science Gets No Respect by Russ Colson
2009 Reader’s Poll Results

COVER ART
Transfiguration of Sergeant 05 by Bryan Sola

On the 15th of February, our podcast will feature The Language of the Whirlwind by Lavie Tidhar.

From GUD, news of their 5th issue:

Issue 5 wraps a scientific core with our most eclectic selection to date—including two mini graphic novels and a script that will have you bubbling over with mirth.

We open with Rose Lemberg’s “Imperfect Verse”, a tale of poetry, deception, and warring gods; then span the years to Andrew N. Tisbert’s “Getting Yourself On”, which sees mankind taken to the stars but suffering new forms of wage-slavery.

There’s science fiction that stretches to the fantastic, science that once stretched the fantastic and has now become brilliantly pervasive, and dollops of science in otherwise mundane lives (see “The Prettiest Crayon in the Box”).

Of course, we’ve got fantasy, psychological horror, humor, and drama; poetry serious, sublime, and satirical; and art that stretches from the real, to the surreal, to the violently semi-abstract.