Omni returns to print, after over 20 years, with Ellen Datlow returning as fiction editor, and with stories in this quarterly issue by Nancy Kress, Maureen McHugh, and Rich Larson; plus, November/December issues of Analog, Asimov’s, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, with fiction by Connie Willis, Scott Edelman, James Sallis, Sean McMullen, Greg Egan, James Patrick Kelly, Kate Wilhelm, Larry Niven, and many others.

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact

• Science fiction and nonfiction; published since 1930 (originally Astounding); edited, since April 2013, by Trevor Quachri
• Format: Print
• Frequency: Since 2017 Bi-monthly
• http://www.analogsf.com/

November/December 2017—
Vol. 137 No. 11&12, $7.99, 208pp, cover art by Marianne Plumridge Eggleton
• This issue has a novella by Catherine Wells, novelettes by Bill Johnson, Kenneth Schneyer, and Scott Edelman, and short stories by Dennis M. Flynn & Michael F. Flynn, Bud Sparhawk, James Sallis, Robert Reed, Tom Jolly, Marie Vibbert, S.L. Huang, Richard A. Lovett, Igor Teper, Stephen R. Loftus-Mercer, Sean McMullen, Brendan DuBois, Jay O’Connell, Brenta Blevins, and Ian Creasey.
• There’s also a “Probability Zero” vignette by Edward M. Lerner, and poetry by Ken Poyner and Fred D. White.
• The science article, by Paul Fisher, is about supernovae.
• Departments include an editorial by Trevor Quachri, an “Alternate View” column by John G. Cramer, and a “Reference Library” book review column by Don Sakers, covering Stephen Webb, Carrie Vaughn, and others.

(Tue 24 Oct 2017)

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Asimov’s Science Fiction

• Science Fiction magazine; published since 1977; edited by Sheila Williams
• Format: Print
• Frequency: Since 2017 Bi-monthly
• http://www.asimovs.com/

November/December 2017—
Vol. 41 No. 11&12 (whole #502&503), $7.99, 208pp, cover art by Eldar Zakirov
• This issue has a novella by Connie Willis, novelettes by Greg Egan, Rick Wilber, and Jason Sanford, and short stories by Nick Wolven, Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly, Michael Cassutt, Emily Taylor, Tom Purdom, James Gunn, Joel Richards, and Norman Spinrad.
• Poetry is by Jennifer Crow, Robert Frazier, Ken Poyner, G.O. Clark, Jane Yolen, and H. Mellas.
• Departments include an editorial by Sheila Williams; a “Reflections” column by Robert Silverberg, “Gog and Magog”; an “On the Net” column by James Patrick Kelly, about time travel (he has posted the column on his site, here); and an “On Books” column by Peter Heck, covering titles by Norman Spinrad, Peter S. Beagle, and others.

(Tue 24 Oct 2017)

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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/

Nov/Dec 2017—
Vol. 133 No. 5&6 (whole #734), $8.99, 258pp, cover art by Kent Bash
• This issue has a novella by Marc Laidlaw, novelets by Kate Wilhelm, Nick Wolven, R.S. Benedict, Ingrid Garcia, and David Erik Nelson, and short stories by Meg Elison, Larry Niven, and J.R. Dawson, and a poem by John W. Sexton.
• Departments include Charles de Lint’s “Books to Look For”, covering David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli and others; Michelle West’s “Musing on Books,” covering Elizabeth Bear and others; a science column about invisibility by Pat Murphy and (the late) Paul Doherty; a “Films” column by David J. Skal; and a “Curiosities” page by David Langford, discussing a 1912 book by Max Beerbohm.

(Wed 18 Oct 2017)

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Omni

Winter 2017—
$10.99, 120pp
• First issue of a revived print edition of Omni Magazine, now published by PGMI in Los Angeles, with editor-in-chief Pamela Weintraub and fiction editor Ellen Datlow. (Other familiar names on the masthead include executive editor Robert K.J. Killheffer, contributing editors Keith Ferrell, Elizabeth Hand, Simon Ings, and Michael Shermer, and fiction copy editor Paul Witcover.)
• The magazine first ran from October 1978 through the end of 1995, with an Online version running from 1996 to 1998 (SFE) with fiction editors Ben Bova, Robert Sheckley, and Ellen Datlow.
• This issue has three stories, by Nancy Kress, Maureen McHugh, and Rich Larson. There’s also an interview with William Gibson, an essay on time travel by Michael Shermer, and columns by Paul Levinson, David Marlett, and others.
• The magazine’s cover displays URL omnimagazine.com but this site is an archive of past material, with no information about the new magazine. There is a Facebook presence at https://www.facebook.com/realOMNI/. This issue was released on newsstands on October 24th.

(Tue 24 Oct 2017)

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