Electronic Periodicals, late December
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/
December 2013—
Issue 136-137
• Issue 137, posted Dec. 26, has stories by Beth Cato and A.E. Decker, and a podcast by C.T. Hutt of his story from the previous issue.
• Issue 136, posted Dec. 12, has stories by Christian K. Martinez and C.T. Hutt.
Daily Science Fiction
• Original science fiction & fantasy emailed to you every weekday; debuted September 1, 2010; editors Jonathan Laden and Michele Barasso
• Format: Online; email
• Frequency: daily
• http://dailysciencefiction.com/
December 2013—
• Stories posted in December include titles by Sam J. Miller, Heather Morris, Bud Sparhawk, Mari Ness, and many others.
(Sat 28 Dec 2013)
Perihelion Science Fiction
• E’zine of hard SF fiction, nonfiction, and art, since 2012; edited by Sam Bellotto Jr.
• Format: Monthly
• Frequency: Online
• http://www.perihelionsf.com/
December 2013—
• Stories in this issue are by Ken Liu, Aliya Whiteley, Joe Occhipinti, Nathaniel Williams, Eric Del Carlo, Sean Eret, Peter Wood, Erin Lale, Brian Biswas, and Simon Kewin.
• Articles are by Eric M. Jones and John McCormick.
• There’s also a comic strip, an editorial, a page of shorter stories, and a page of reviews.
(Sat 28 Dec 2013)
SF Site
• Reviews, interviews, feature, links; published by Rodger Turner since 1997
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Semi-monthly
• http://www.sfsite.com/
mid-December 2013—
• This site is suspending twice-monthly issues (and the current posts are not actually labeled “mid-December”), though new content will be posted on an irregular basis.
• Reviews since earlier in the month include Mario Guslandi on Reggie Oliver, Steven H Silver on Rachel Swirsky, Sherwood Smith on Francesca Forest, and Nathan Brazil on Daniel Suarez.
(Sat 28 Dec 2013)
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/
December 2013—
• Stories posted this month are Why Don’t You Ask the Doomsday Machine? by Elliott Essex, The Mother of All Squid Builds a Library by Ada Hoffmann, and Significant Figures by Rachel Acks. Each story is also podcast by Anaea Lay.
• Nonfiction includes a column by Eleanor Arnason about Marvel superhero movies and John Clute’s Scores, reviewing books by Wolfgang Jeschke and Lavie Tidhar.
• There’s also poetry by Selkie D’Isa, Liuz Bourke, and Jenny Blackford, and reviews.
(Sat 28 Dec 2013)
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/
December 2013—
• Original stories posted in recent weeks include In the Greenwood by Mari Ness, Friedrich the Snow Man by Lewis Shiner, The Christmas Show by Pat Cadigan, and The Writ of Years by Brit Mandelo.
• There are also excerpts from novels by Ian Tregillis, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Joe Haldeman, Alex Bledsoe, and others.
(Sat 28 Dec 2013)