Periodicals, mid-August 2016
Aphelion
• Webzine of SF and fantasy; nonpaying; since 2001
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Monthly
• http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/
August 2016—
Issue 208
• This issue has a serial by David Ulnar-Slew, and short stories by Allison Wall, Ryan Daff, Konstantine Paradias, J. Cameron Kuban, Rodica Bretin, Daniel C. Smith, and Ray Prew.
• There’s also flash fiction, poetry, and an editorial.
(Sat 13 Aug 2016)
Liminal Stories
• Semi-annual online magazine of fantasy, horror, and literary fiction, since 2016; senior editors/publishers Shannon Peavey and Kelly Sandoval
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Semi-annual
• http://liminalstoriesmag.com/
Spring/Summer 2016—
Issue 1
• Debut issue of a new semi-annual online ‘zine.
• This issue has stories by A.C. Wise, David Tallerman, Trevor Shikaze, Joseph Allen Hill, Nazifa Islam, and Octavia Cade.
(Wed 10 Aug 2016)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• Fiction, reviews, and features; published since 1949; edited by C.C. Finlay
• Format: Print
• Frequency: Bimonthly
• http://www.fandsf.com/
Sept/Oct 2016—
Vol. 131 No. 3&4 (whole #727), $7.99, 258pp, cover art by David A. Hardy
• This special David Gerrold issue features two novellas and an autobiographical essay by Gerrold, plus a tribute essay by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• Other fiction is a novelet by Geoff Ryman and short stories by Sarah Pinsker, Peter S. Beagle, Desirina Boskovich, Ian Creasey, Lisa Mason, Leah Cypess, and Steven Popkes. There’s also a poem by Aimee Ogden.
• Departments include Charles de Lint’s “Books to Look For”, covering titles by Seanan McGuire and others; Michelle West’s “Musing on Books”, covering Leonard M. Schoen and others; a “Films” column by Kathi Maio, discussing The Lobster; and a “Curiosities” page by Robert Eldridge.
(Tue 9 Aug 2016)
Mothership Zeta
• Quarterly digital magazine, since October 2015; editor Mur Lafferty
• Format: Digital
• Frequency: Quarterly
• http://mothershipzeta.org/
July 2016—
Issue 4, cover art by Wendy Xu
• Fiction in this issue is by M. Darusha Wehm, Russell Reed, Jamie Wahls, S.B. Divya, Amy Griswold, Barry Charman, and Beth Goder.
• Nonfiction is by Pamela L. Gay, James Patrick Kelly, Sean R. Robinson, Karen Bovenmyer, and Rachael Acks, plus an interview with Carla Speed McNeil.
(Sat 13 Aug 2016)
Mythic Delirium
• Quarterly fiction and poetry journal published and edited by Mike Allen; debuted 1998 as a biannual poetry journal, became quarterly in 2013
• http://www.mythicdelirium.com/
August 2016—
Cover art by Lissanne Lake
• August content includes a story by Benjanun Sriduangkaew and poems by Lyndsey Silveira and Ada Hoffmann.
(Sat 13 Aug 2016)
The New York Review of Science Fiction
• Essays and reviews, published since 1988; edited by Kevin J. Maroney, David G. Hartwell, et al.; PDF and other electronic formats since Sept. 2012
• Format: Electronic
• Frequency: Monthly
• http://www.nyrsf.com/
June 2016—
Issue 334, Vol. 28 No. 10, 32pp
• This special “For a Better Future” issue features an essay by Victor Grech and Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley about diplomacy in Star Trek, and an essay on French Utopian fiction by Brian Stableford.
• Reviews are by Russell Blackford on Ian McDonald, Eugene Reynolds on Jo Walton, A.P. Canavan on Steven Erikson, and Martin Morse Wooster on a John Joseph Adams anthology.
(Sat 9 Jul 2016)
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/
August 2016—
Cover art by Gart Paese
• Stories in this issue are by Sean Monaghan, Jude-Marie Green, Matt Thompson, Tim McDaniel, Peter J Larrivee, Marc Rokoff, KJ Hannah Greenberg, and Brandon Ketchum, with shorter stories by Robin Wyatt Dunn, Jeffrey Abrams, and Michael N. Farney.
• Articles are by Carol Kean and Sam Bellotto Jr.
• There’s also a comic strip by Winston Blakely, an editorial, and a page of reviews.
(Wed 10 Aug 2016)
The Dark
• Monthly online horror ‘zine, edited by Sean Wallace; since October 2013
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Monthly
• http://www.thedarkmagazine.com/
August 2016—
Issue 15, cover art by Tomislav Tikulin
• This issue has original stories by Kristi DeMeester and Rhonda Eikamp, and reprinted stories by Steve Rasnic Tem and Gemma Files.
(Thu 11 Aug 2016)