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Sad news reported in Locus Magazine this morning: Locus publisher, editor, and co-founder Charles N. Brown, 72, died peacefully in his sleep July 12, 2009 on his way home from Readercon. Details here.

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 [...]

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!

According to Jason Sizemore on the Apex blog: “We’re pulling Apex Magazine out of hiatus and plan on releasing a new issue on the first Monday of July (July 6th). Why now? And why the magazine? As I’ve said before, I’m stubborn. That’s playing a role in this decision. But I also try to be [...]

Taken from Patrick Swenson’s blog: Talebones the magazine is closing up shop. There are many reasons, some of which I’ve mentioned before in earlier attempts to close the magazine (I thought I was out…but they dragged me back in!). Subscribers are hard to come by. I could throw numbers at you, but why bother? They’re not pretty. [...]

The Ditmar Awards have been awarded at the Australian National Science Fiction conventions since 1969 in order to recognise achievements in Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror. Nominees and Winning Stories from Semiprozines Best Novella “Night Heron’s Curse”, Thoraiya Dyer (in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #37) “Painlessness”, Kirstyn McDermott (in GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Issue [...]

Some quick updates from semiprozines. (If you are involved in a semiprozine, please send items for news updates to neil (at) clarkesworldmagazine.com.) Abyss & Apex editor Wendy S. Delmater has an editorial on the Semiprozine Hugo. Ansible 263, June 2009 is now available. Beneath Ceaseless Skies issue 17 is now online. Brain Harvest will start [...]