Online Periodicals, late May
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Literary adventure fantasy, since 2008; publisher and editor-in-chief Scott H. Andrews
• Format: Online; PDF and ebook formats
• Frequency: biweekly
• http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/
May 2012—
Issue 94,95, cover art by Zsofia Tuska
• This issue, posted May 17, has stories by Margaret Ronald and Marie Croke, plus a podcast of a story by Ann Chatham.
• Issue 94 has stories by Susan Forest and Ann Chatham, plus an audio fiction podcast by Christian K. Martinez.
(Sun 27 May 2012)
Strange Horizons
• Fiction, art, articles, poetry, and reviews; founded September 2000; editor-in-chief Susan Marie Groppi through 2010, Niall Harrison beginning 2011
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Weekly; reviews posted three times a week
• http://www.strangehorizons.com/
May 2012—
• Posts this month include John Clute’s Scores column, on Robert Sheckley and Brian Evenson, and Matthew Cheney’s final Lexias column.
• Fiction this month has included Nghi Vo’s Tiger Stripes, Samantha Henderson’s Beside Calais, and Robert Reed’s Bright Lights.
• Also recently posted, poetry by Rachael Jennings, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, and John Zaharick, and numerous reviews, of new books by Will McIntosh, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Harkness, among others.
(Sun 27 May 2012)
Tangent
• Review magazine for short SF & Fantasy, since 1993; founder and managing editor Dave Truesdale
• Format: Online
• Frequency: daily
• http://www.tangentonline.com/
May 2012—
• Recent posts on this site include an X Minus One broadcast of Clifford D. Simak’s “Drop Dead”, from 1957. Also, recent reviews of Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bull Spec, and Asimov’s, accessed through the site’s category headings based on publication format (print/e-market) and publication frequency (weekly/bi-weekly/monthly/bi-monthly/quarterly/bi-annual/irregular/other). A strict chronological posting listing would be more helpful.
• Earlier: Nader Elhefnawy on Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness.
(Sun 27 May 2012)
Tor.com
• SF & fantasy fiction, reviews, commentary, founded 2008; staff includes fiction editors Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Liz Gorinsky
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Daily
• http://www.tor.com/
May 2012—
• New fiction posted this past month are Emmy Laybourne’s Dress Your Marines in White, posted May 16; Pat Murphy’s About Fairies, posted May 9; and Erin Hoffman’s At the Foot of the Lighthouse (Todai Moto Kurashi), posted May 3.
• There were also numerous novel excerpts, by Orson Scott Card, Ian Tregellis, Jack Vance, and others, as posted on the site’s fiction page.
(Sun 27 May 2012)