Periodicals, late August
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/
August 2014—
Issue 153-154, cover art by Tomas Honz
• Issue 154, posted August 21st, has stories by Peter Darbyshire and Stephen V. Ramey, an audio podcast by Michael Haynes, an audio vault podcast by Catherine S. Perdue, and an archive story by Nancy Fulda.
• Issue 153 had stories by Michael Haynes and Rachel Halpern, an audio fiction podcast by Fran Wilde, an audio vault podcast by Kenneth Mark Hoover, and an archive story by Camille Alexa.
(Sat 30 Aug 2014)
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/
August 2014—
• Stories posted this past month are by Tim Pratt, James Van Pelt, Jonathan L. Miller, Caroline M. Yoachim, and others.
(Sat 30 Aug 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/
September/October 2014—
Vol. 127 No. 3&4 (whole #715), $7.99, 258pp, cover art by Bryn Barnard
• Novelets in this issue are by Jérôme Cigut, Phyllis Eisenstein, Albert E. Cowdrey, Matthew Hughes, and David Gerrold, with short stories by Oliver Buckram, Tom Underberg, Jay O’Connell, Dale Bailey, Brenda Carre, Robert Reed, and Ray Vukcevich.
• Departments include Charles de Lint’s “Books to Look For”, covering comic books; a “Books” column by Elizabeth Hand, covering Rene Denfeld, Matthew Olshan, and Finnish Weird; a “Science” column by Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty; a “Film” column by David J. Skal; and a “Curiosities” page by Graham Andrews about a 1964 novel by John Lymington.
(Thu 28 Aug 2014)
The New York Review of Science Fiction
• Essays and reviews, published since 1988; edited by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, et al.; PDF and other electronic formats since Sept. 2012
• Format: Electronic
• Frequency: Monthly
• http://www.nyrsf.com/
August 2014—
Issue 312, Vol. 26 No. 12, 32pp
• This special “The Past Is Present” issue features a review by Maureen Speller Kincaid of Alan Garner and an essay by Michael Bishop about Philip K. Dick.
• Reviews include David Mead on James L. Cambias, Jenny Blackford on Leigh Kennedy, Eugene Reynolds on Steampunk III, John Crowley on Calvino’s Complete Cosmicomics, and Greg L. Johnson on Max Gladstone.
• There are also essays by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay on Ian Watson and Darrell Schweitzer on Thrilling Wonder Stories, plus an editorial on the to replace the bust of H.P. Lovecraft as the design of the World Fantasy Awards.
(Sat 30 Aug 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/
August 2014—
• Fiction posted this month includes Resurrection Points by Usman T. Malik, The Air We Breathe is Stormy, Stormy, and Cold as the Moon by Sunny Moraine.
• Poetry this month is by Lisa Bellamy, Jessy Randall, Chalres Bane, Jr., and Cory O’Brien.
• Nonfiction includes John Clute’s Scores column, covering Paul Park, and an article by Stephe Harrop about A Song of Ice and Fire.
(Sat 30 Aug 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/
August 2014—
• Original stories posted this past month include In the Sight of Akresa by Ray Wood, Sleeper by Jo Walton, La Signora by Bruce McAllister, Hero of the Five Points by Alan Gratz, Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land by Ruthanna Emrys, Strongest Conjuration by Skyler White, and A Cup of Salt Tears by Isabel Yap.
• Excerpts include those from novels by Robert Jackson Bennett, Steven Gould, John Scalzi, Nancy Kress, and many others.
(Sat 30 Aug 2014)