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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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!