Realms of Fantasy, October 2011
“Return to Paraiso” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“The Man Who Made No Mistakes” by Scott William Carter
“Second Childhood” by Jerry Oltion
“Sweeping the Hearthstone” by Betsy James
“Barbie Marries the Jolly Fat Baker” by Nick DiChario
Apex Magazine #30, November 2011
“The Leavings of the Wolf” by Elizabeth Bear
“The Bread We Eat in Dreams” by Catherynne M. Valente
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #79 & #80, Oct. 6 and 20, 2011
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #79, Oct. 6, 2011
“The Tiger’s Turn” by Richard Parks
“The Calendar of Saints” by Kat Howard
“A Spoonful of Salt” by Nicole M. Taylor
“The Judge’s Right Hand” by J.S. Bangs
From last month’s series of ghosts, vampires, zombies, and the supernatural, we return now to the stark reality of space and the exploration of the Moon. Frank M. Robinson’s “The Reluctant Heroes” appeared in the January 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. X Minus One dramatized it for radio on December 19, 1956. It deals …
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Clarkesworld #61, October 2011
“Staying Behind” by Ken Liu
“Pony” by Eric Amundsen
“Silently and Very Fast” by Catherynne M. Valente (Part 1)
The Book of Cthulhu
Edited by
Ross E. Lockhart
Night Shade Books
(Sept. 2011, 529 pp.)
“Andromeda Among the Stones” by Caitlin R. Kiernan
“The Tugging” by Ramsey Campbell
“A Colder War” by Charles Stross
“The Unthinkable” by Bruce Sterling
“Flash Frame” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“Some Buried Memory” by W.H. Pugmire
“The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins” by Molly Tanzer
“Fat Face” by Michael Shea
“Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear
“Black Man with a Horn” by T.E.D. Klein
“Than Curse the Darkness” by David Drake
“Jeroboam Henley’s Debt” by Charles R. Saunders
“Nethescurial” by Thomas Ligotti
“Calamari Curls” by Kage Baker
“Jihad Over Innsmouth” by Edward Morris
“Bad Sushi”by Cherie Priest
“The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” by John Hornor Jacobs
“The Doom that Came to Innsmouth” by Brian McNaughton
“Lost Stars” by Ann K. Schwader
“The Oram County Whoosit” by Steve Duffy
“The Crawling Sky” by Joe R. Lansdale
“The Fairground Horror” by Brian Lumley
“Cinderlands” by Tim Pratt
“Lord of the Land” by Gene Wolfe
“To Live and Die in Arkham” by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
“The Shallows” by John Langan
“The Men from Porlock” by Laird Barron
C. J. Cherryh (left) at her first convention, MidAmeriCon, the Kansas City Worldcon, Sept. 1976 (also known as Big Mac). Roger Zelazny (right) at I-Con I, Iowa City, IA, Oct. 31, 1975. . Iguanacon, Phoenix, AZ, 1978 Worldcon (L to R): Kate Wilhelm, Damon Knight, Jacqueline Lichtenberg Archon XX, October 4, 1996, (outside St. …
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Read More...Tomorrow is Halloween. To celebrate the occasion we feature two Old Time Radio shows to get you in the mood. If you hate spiders as much as I do, you’ll find yourself involuntarily prone to at least one quick shiver while listening to “The Crawling Thing” and then heading to find the bug spray. It’s …
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Redstone Science Fiction #17, October 2011
“iTime” by Ferrett Steinmetz
“How We Fall” by Andrew Knighton
Altered States, edited by Amy Locklin
(Mint Hill Books, September 2011)
“Green Grow the Lilacs” by Larry Lefkowitz
“The Guide” by Eva Langston
“Living the Dream” by Terresa Haskew
“Daughter-of-the-Tides” by Vivian Faith Prescott
“A Woman of Letters” by Lauren Yaffe
“A Stitch in Time” by Tim Goldstone
“Night Is Nearly Done” by Adam McOmber
“Welcome to Crazytown, Martin Buehl” by Brian Leung
“Rodent Town” by Craig O’Hara
“A Very Old Story” by Mark Pearson
“The Prisoners of Gravely Rock ” by Janean McBrearty
“That Business with the Hole” by Mark Rigney
“Now in Charge” by Lou Fisher
“The Blind Cat” by Mardelle Fortier
“The Glass Child” by Alyce Miller
“Motherly Parts” by Jennifer Tomscha
“Becoming” by Ivy Rutledge
“*****” by Shannon Gibney
“The Divided States of America” by Lucille Gang Shulklapper
“The Weight” by Esther K. Willison
“Shadows” by Adeline Carrie Koscher
“Transformed, the Office Narcissus” by P. Kobylarz
“Falling Sideways” by T. Shontelle MacQueen
“Afloat ” by J. Weintraub
“Sea Change” by Ellen Prentiss Campbell