New SF, Fantasy, and Horror magazines seen, October

• Fiction in this issue includes a rare story from the 1975 winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, P.J. Plauger (long excerpt), as well as the conclusion of a serial by Edward M. Lerner, and short stories by Charles L. Harness, Bruce Holland Rogers, and Kyle Kirkland.
• Science fact by Catherine H. Shaffer is a "secret history of global environmental catastrophe".
• John G. Cramer's "The Alternate View" column is A Mission to the Earth's Core. Other features include an essay by Geoffrey A. Landis, "The Reason We're Here"; Tom Easton's book reviews; and Stanley Schmidt's editorial.
• The next issue is a double January/February issue, implementing Analog's new schedule of eight single issues, and two doubles, each year.
• (Wed 15 Oct 2003)

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• This "jam-packed" has fiction by Stephen Dedman, Greg Beatty, Lawrence Schoen, Dave Luckett, Sandra McDonald, and many others, plus poetry by Lida Broadhurst and John Grey (or Gray).
• Features include a short interview with Richard Harland, reviews, and letters.
• The magazines website has, as it did for the previous issue, a poll for readers to select their favorite stories from the issue.
• (Wed 1 Oct 2003)

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• This Holiday issue has a new Christmas novella, the first in several years, by Connie Willis, "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" [excerpt]. There's also a novella by Charles Stross, "Curator", the third to last story in his "Accelerando" sequence; see Jonathan Strahan's comments on this series here (scroll down), and the online excerpt here.
• Other fiction includes a novelette by Stephen Baxter, short stories by John Alfred Taylor, Michael Bateman, and Liz Williams, and poetry by Bruce Boston and Amy Miller.
• Departments include Robert Silverberg's Reflections column, about a fossilized dinosaur heart; and James Patrick Kelly's On the Net column, this time about Slipstream.
• (Wed 15 Oct 2003)

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• Fiction is by F. Paul Wilson, P.C. Cacek, Harry Shannon, Tony Richards, Elizabeth Engstrom, Jack Slay Jr, and Jeffrey Thomas.
• There are interviews with F. Paul Wilson and Richard Christian Matheson, plus an article by Michael Marano about the films of Peter Watkins.
• Regular features include columns by Bev Vincent (news, mostly about Stephen King), Paula Guran (book reviews), Michael Marano (MediaDrome), Thomas F. Monteleone (writing), and Ed Gorman, plus additional reviews by various hands.
• (Wed 15 Oct 2003)

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• In addition to news and publishing items, John R. Douglas's editorial discusses formatting book titles and author names, Jeff Rovin provides a Cinema column, and Alan Dean Foster reviews Whale Rider.
• Also, a UK Report from Tanya Brown, book reviews by Don D'Ammassa, and short fiction reviews by Steve Sawicki.
• (Mon 29 Sep 2003)

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• News includes the Hugo Awards winners, and the usual extensive Newsnotes covering publishers, magazines, websites, author signing schedules, bestseller rankings, sales, etc.
• John R. Douglas's editorial discusses Torcon 3, Don D'Ammassa reviews books, Jeff Rovin reports on SF Cinema, and Kathryn M. Rospond contributes an article about the state of media tie-in publishing.
• (Tue 14 Oct 2003)

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• The cover story, by Michael Reaves, is "The Legend of the Midnight Cruiser".
• Other short stories in this issue are by M. Rickert, Daniel Abraham, Rand B. Lee, Vered Tochterman, and Albert E. Cowdrey. And there's a novella by R. Garcia y Robertson, "Killer of Children".
• Departments include book reviews by Charles de Lint and James Sallis, film reviews by Lucius Shepard ("Hulk"), a new "Plumage From Pegasus" story by Paul Di Filippo, and a Curiosities page by J.M. Graetz about a book by Robert Graves.
• (Fri 3 Oct 2003)

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• Special "Classical Modes Issue", with an autobiographical essay by Terence M. Green and an annotated story by Henry Wessells filling half the pages.
• Book reviews, by Graham Sleight, Greg L. Johnson, Matthew Appleton, Richard Parent, Joseph Milicia, Walter Minkel, and Russell Blackford, cover works by A.E. van Vogt, David Herter, Max Barry, William Rotsler, A. Merritt, Allen Steele, and Jasper Fforde.
• There's also a page of capsule reviews by Rich Horton, and an editorial conference/convention report by David G. Hartwell.
• (Mon 29 Sep 2003)

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• This issue has new fiction from Liz Williams, Gene Wolfe, William Shunn, Tim Pratt, and Richard Parks.
• Features include Resa Nelson on fall season movies, Terri Windling's Folkroots column about Hans Christian Andersen, book reviews by Gahan Wilson and Paul Witcover, the conclusion of an Emma Bull Past Lives column about time-traveling on a budget, a gallery of art by Brian Froud presented by Ari Berk, and games reviews by Eric T. Baker.
• (Wed 15 Oct 2003)

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• Fiona Kelleghan interviews James Morrow. Articles, review-essays, and reviews are by David Seed, Graham Murphy, Joe Sanders, Gary Westfahl, Carl Freedman, and others.
• Several pages of Notes and Correspondence includes an item by Brian W. Aldiss.
• (Tue 23 Sep 2003)

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• A special issue on Social Science Fiction has contributions from Neil Gerlach & Sheryl N. Hamilton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr, Diane Nelson, and others.
• Review-essays are by Veronica Hollinger, about Larbalestier's The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr, about Marxism and Fantasy.
• Book reviews are by Brian W. Aldiss, Christopher Bolton, Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, and others.
• (Tue 23 Sep 2003)

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