Periodicals, late April
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/
April 2014—
Issue 144-145, cover art by David Demaret
• This issue, posted April 17, has stories by Seth Dickinson and Alex Dally MacFarlane, plus an audio podcast by Raphael Ordoñez.
• Issue 144, posted April 3, has stories by Benjanun Sriduangkaew and Raphael Ordoñez, with an audio podcast of the former.
(Fri 25 Apr 2014)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• Fiction, reviews, and features; published since 1949; edited by Gordon Van Gelder
• Format: Print
• Frequency: Bimonthly
• http://www.fandsf.com/
May/June 2014—
Vol. 126 No. 5&6, $7.99, 258pp, cover art by Cory & Catska Ench
• This issue has a novella by Katie Boyer, novelets by David D. Levine, Marc Laidlaw, and Naomi Kritzer, and short stories by Alyssa Wong, Pavel Amnuel, Oliver Buckram, Tim Sullivan, and Jonathan Andrew Sheen.
• Departments include Charles de Lint’s “Books to Look For”, covering titles by Duncan Eagleson, Joe Haldeman, and others; James Sallis’ “Books” column, covering Gene Wolfe and a title about Cordwainer Smith; a “Plumage from Pegasus” installment by Paul Di Filippo; a “Films” column by David J. Skal; a “Curiosities” page by Bud Webster, about a 1946 Will F. Jenkins book; and the results of the latest F&SF competition with rules for the next.
• Lois Tilton reviewed the issue in her latest short fiction column.
(Mon 14 Apr 2014)
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/
April 2014—
• Fiction posted this past month include a reprint of Vonda N. McIntyre’s Little Faces, and new stories by Amanda Downum, Shira Lipkin, and Malcolm Cross.
• There are columns by Eleanor Arnason, about SF and politics, Renay, about fanwork and fan work, and John Clute, whose latest Scores reviews cover books by Nnedi Okorafor and Karl Schroeder.
• There is also poetry by Wendy A. Howe, Boudreau Freret, Alex Dally MacFarlane, and Neile Graham, and thrice-weekly reviews.
(Fri 25 Apr 2014)
Subterranean
• Fiction and reviews, since 2007; head editor William K. Schafer
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Quarterly issues; periodic updates
• http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/
Spring 2014—
• This issue has fiction by Kelley Armstrong, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Ian R MacLeod, Kat Howard, Stephen Gallagher, Chaz Brenchley, and Aliette de Bodard.
• Lois Tilton reviewed the issue in her latest short fiction column.
(Fri 25 Apr 2014)
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/
April 2014—
• Original stories posted this past month include Dale Bailey’s The End of the End of Everything, Nicola Griffith’s Cold Wind, Emmy Laybourne’s What Mario Scietto Says, Harry Turtledove’s Something Going Around, and Kai Ashante Wilson’s The Devil in America.
• Excerpts include those from novels by Neal Asher, Paul Cornell, Jo Walton, and many others.
(Fri 25 Apr 2014)