From the Brain Harvest website:
As writers, we’re warned constantly against resorting to tried-and-true tropes, usually for very good reason. In fact, our colleagues at Strange Horizons have assembled a very smart list of contrived plots seen too many times (http://strangehorizons.com/guidelines/fiction-common.shtml).
But here at Brain Harvest, we’d actually like to see if you can untrope the tropes, [...]
The July 2009 issue is Apex’s first since their brief hiatus. It includes:
FICTION:
“She Called Me Sweetie” by Glenn Lewis Gillette
“…That Has Such People in It” by Jennifer Pelland
“The Frozen Sky” by Jeff Carlson
AUDIO FICTION:
“Foiled” by Alethea Kontis
NON-FICTION:
BEAUTY AND DYNAMITE: “Here Lies an Era” by Alethea Kontis
Interview with Nate Kenyon
Interview with J.M. McDermott
Editorial: [...]
Issue #20 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies is now available:
The Land of Empty Shells by Caroline M. Yoachim
The rest of the birthing was hard work, but painless. Dziko and Terra sprinkled water over the clay to soften it and kneaded the flesh together until there was no way to separate his riverbed brown from [...]
The July issue of Ansible (their 264th issue) is now available online.
The July issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is now available:
FICTION
Placa del Fuego by Tobias S. Buckell
Placa del Fuego (AUDIO VERSION) by Tobias S. Buckell, read by Mike Allen
On the Lot and In the Air by Lisa Hannett
NONFICTION
Dirty Hands and Invisible Words: Speculative Fiction Book Editors Speak Out, Part 1 of 2 interview by Jeremy L. C. [...]
From the Talebones blog:
Special current issue sale at the Talebones website! I’ve got copies, and I’d like to move them to good homes.
FIVE BUCKS gets you a copy of #38. That’s two dollars off the regular rate. AND FREE POSTAGE!
