Magazines Received, August 2021

Bourbon Penn

• Erik Secker, ed.
• Issue No. 24, August 2021
• $12.95 print/$2.99 digital/free online, three times a year, 138pp, 12½ x 20 cm.
• Literary speculative fiction magazine with stories by A.C. Wise, Sam Rebelein, Michael Gardner, Emma Culla, Charles Wilkinson, and Chelsea Sutton. Cover by Afarin Sajedi. Subscription: Digital subscriptions available through Patreon <www.patreon.com/bourbonpenn>. Print copies can be purchased from Amazon.com; website: <bourbonpenn.com>.

Extrapolation

• Gerry Canavan, et. al., eds.
• Vol. 62 No. 1, Spring 2021
• Three times a year, 116pp, 171⁄2 x 241⁄2 cm
• Scholarly peer-reviewed international journal with articles and reviews. This issue features Suzanne F. Boswell’s analysis of over 14,000 stories, which asserts that magazines during the pulp period (defined as 1926-1946) utilized practices which ‘‘excluded female authors from the burgeoning genre’’; Katarina O’Dette’s article exploring worldbuilding in television, with a focus on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Once Upon a Time, and Dead Like Me; and Dustin Crowley’s analysis of colonialism as depicted in Tade Thompson’s Wormwood series; plus book reviews. Subscription: Individual subscription rates: three issues print plus online UK £35.00/US $50.00. Order online.

Fusion Fragment

• Cavan Terrill, ed.
• Issue #7, July 2021
• Online pay-what-you-want or purchase a print copy through Blurb <www.blurb.ca/user/cavanterrill>, this issue $26.99 CAD (prices vary by issue)
• Irregular, 108 pp, 211⁄2 x 28 cm.
• Online speculative fiction magazine. This issue includes work by C.J. Lavigne, Maria Haskins, Brandon Crilly, Ranylt Richildis, Heather Clitheroe, and others; each story includes a short Q&A with the author. Cover by Carly Allen-Fletcher. Subscription: Not available.

Planet Scumm: Supergiantx

• Sean Clancy, ed.
• No. 10, $12.00, Spring 2021
• Tri-annual, 154pp, 15 x 21 cm
• Perfect-bound, small-press fiction magazine specializing in ‘‘weirdo science fiction, speculative fiction, and paranormal horror.’’ This issue has stories by Lauren O’Donoghue, Joachim Heijndermans, Ashley Naftule, and others. Cover by Sam Rheaume. Subscription: three print issues for $25.00, three digital issues for $18.00; email: <crew@planetscumm.space>.

Science Fiction Studies 

• Arthur B. Evans, et al., eds.
• Vol. 48, Part 2, No. 144, July 2021
• Three times a year, 211pp, 15 x 23 cm
• Academic journal. This issue includes Dorothy Scarborough’s 1917 essay ‘‘Supernatural Science’’; articles by Aren Roukema, Tiziano De Marino, Alexander Kingsbury Smith, Joshua DiCaglio, Stephen Dougherty, and Miguel Sebastián-Martín; an essay-length book review; and reviews. Subscription: $32.00 per year digital/$40.00 for print/$42.00 print plus digital for individuals, plus $15.00 for print subscriptions outside the US, or free with a membership in the Science Fiction Research Association, to Arthur B. Evans, Science Fiction Studies, EC 203, 400 S. Locust St., Greencastle, Greencastle IN 46135; or the SFS website at <www.depauw. edu/site/sfs/store/>. All institutional subscriptions are handled through JSTOR <www.jstor.org>.

Online Magazines

Aurealis

• Michael Pryor, ed.
• No. 143, August 2021
• $2.99, 10 times a year (every month except January and December)
• This issue includes fiction from Ron Schroer, Jenna Cosgrove, and Hristo Plamenov Goshev; articles by Amy Laurens, Gillian Polack, and Claire Fitzpatrick; and reviews. Subscriptions $19.99/year for 10 issues from their website.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

• Scott H. Andrews, ed.
• Issue #335, July 29, 2021
• Free online, biweekly
• Online fantasy/adventure magazine. This issue includes original fiction by Stephen Case and Brent Lambert, and a reprint from Izzy Wasserstein. Cover by Avant Choi. Subscription: $19.99/year from Weightless Books <www.weightlessbooks.com>.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

• Scott H. Andrews, ed.
• Issue #336, August 12, 2021
• Free online, biweekly.Online fantasy/adventure magazine. This issue includes original fiction by Evey Brett and Thomas M. Waldroon, and a reprint from David D. Levine. Cover by Jérôme Comentale. Subscription: $19.99/year from Weightless Books.

Clarkesworld

• Neil Clarke, ed.
• Issue #179, August 2021
• Free online or $2.99 ebook, monthly.
• Online SF/fantasy magazine. This issue includes original fiction by Beth Goder (with accompanying podcast), Nadia Afifi, Adam Stemple, Andrea M. Pawley, and Andrea Kriz; reprints by Congyun ‘Mu Ming’ Gu (Tian Huang, trans.) and Mlok 5 (Julie Nováková, trans.); an article by Carrie Sessarego; and interviews with Adrian Tchaikovsky and S. Qiouyi Lu. Cover by Alejandro Burdisio. Subscription: Digital subscription $35.88 for 12 issues at <clarkesworldcitizens.com/directsupport> or issues may be purchased monthly: $2.99 digital/$10.00 print ($14.00 Canada & Europe)/$12.99 print + digital ($16.99 Canada & Europe).

The Dark

• Sean Wallace, ed.
• Issue #75, August 2021
• Free online or digital available for $1.99-$2.99, monthly
• Dark fantasy and horror magazine. This issue includes original fiction by Y.M. Pang, Clara Madrigano, Ernest O. Ògúnyęmí, and Nelson Stanley. Cover by Zhirui Wang (Insist). Subscription: digital subscriptions available for $23.88 for 12 issues from Weightless Books.

The Deadlands

• E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
• Issue #3, July 2021
• Digital/free online, monthly
• “The Deadlands exists in liminal spaces between life, death and elsewhere” with “speculative fiction that concerns itself with death – but also everything death may involve.” This issue includes original fiction by Premee Mohamed and J.D. Harlock; a non-fiction article by Caitlyn Paxson; and poetry. Cover by David Seidman. Subscription: not currently available.

Escape Artist

• Four weekly podcasts: Escape Pod <escapepod.org/> S.B. Divya & Mur Laffery, eds. (SF), PodCastle <podcastle.org/> Shingai Njeri Kagunda & Eleanor R. Wood, eds. (fantasy), PseudoPod <pseudopod.org/> Shawn Garrett & Alex Hofelich, eds. (horror), and Cast of Wonders <www.castofwonders. org/> Katherine Inskip, ed (YA).
• Free online. Genre podcasts of both original and previously published stories with accompanying text.
• For July/August 2021 Escape Pod aired ‘‘Flashback-Flash from the Vault’’ stories by Heather Shaw, Pete M. Butler, Ben Hallert, and Greg van Eekhout, as well as stories from Lauren Ring, Sarah Gailey, and Premee Mohamed; PodCastle aired stories from KT Bryski, C.A. Barrett, Frances Rowat, and Rebecca Fraimow; PseudoPod aired stories from Clark Ashton Smith, Mjke Wood, Eugie Foster, and Greye La Spina; and Cast of Wonders aired stories by Leah Cypess, Sid Jain, and Eliza Chan. Subscriptions: Free.

Fantasy Magazine

• Christie Yant & Arley Sorg, eds.
• Issue #70, August 2021
• Free online or $3.99 ebook, monthly
• Online fantasy magazine. This issue includes original flash fiction by Vanessa McKinney and Sarina Dorie; short fiction by Eugen Bacon & Seb Doubinsky and Inez Schaechterle; poetry by Yilin Wang and Shaoni C. White; and an essay by Vida Cruz. On the website, each month’s contents are serialized throughout the month with new features published on the first four Tuesdays. The ebook edition is available on the first of the month. Cover by Rosario Rizzo/Adobe Stock Image. Subscription: $2.99/month via Amazon.com or $23.88 for 12 issues from Fantasy <www.fantasy-magazine.com/subscriptions/> or Weightless Books <www.weightlessbooks.com>.

Fireside

• Yanni Kuznia, guest ed.
• Issue #94, August 2021
• $5.00 digital only, monthly.
• In the August issue, the site posted short fiction by Audrey R. Hollis, John Wiswell, Sam F. Weiss, and others. Subscriptions: digital subscriptions available for $60.00 for 12 issues at <firesidefiction.com/#subscribe>.

Flash Point SF

• Thomas J. Griffin & M.A. Dosser eds.
• July/August 2021, free online, bi-weekly
• Flash fiction SF and fantasy site posting a new story every other Friday. In July/August, the site posted short fiction by Kristin Osani, David Far, Karl El-Koura, and others. Subscriptions: digital subscriptions available for $5.00 for one year at <flashpointsf.com/subscribe/>.

Lightspeed Magazine

• John Joseph Adams, ed.
• Issue #135, August 2021
• Free online or $3.99 ebook, monthly
• Online SF/fantasy magazine. This issue includes original science fiction by Andrea Chapela (Emma Törzs, trans.) and David Anaxagoras; original SF flash fiction by Nelly Geraldine García Rosas; reprinted SF by Maurice Broaddus; original fantasy from Justin C. Key and Tobi Ogundiran; original fantasy flash by Isabel Cañas; reprinted fantasy by Sheree Renée Thomas; and book reviews. On the website, each month’s contents are serialized throughout the month with new features published on the first four Tuesdays. The ebook edition is available on the first of the month with exclusive content not available on the website. This month’s exclusive content is an excerpt from a novel by Cassandra Khaw. Cover by Grandfailure/Adobe Stock. Subscription: $2.99/month via Amazon.com or $35.88/year from Lightspeed <www.lightspeedmagazine.com/subscribe/> or Weightless Books <www. weightlessbooks.com>.

Metaphorosis

• B. Morris Allen, ed.
• September 2021, $7.00 print/$4.00 digital/free online, monthl
• Online and print speculative fiction magazine. This issue includes original stories by B. Morris Allen, J.A. Legg, Eleanor R. Wood, and Mariah Montoya. New stories are posted online every Friday. Cover by VQGAN+CLIP – ‘‘an AI, using some terms from Wood’s story ‘A Seedling in the Dark’.’’ Subscription: Digital subscriptions available at $3.00/month through Patreon <www. patreon.com/metaphorosis>. Single issues available from Amazon.com and IngramSpark.

Nightmare Magazine 

• Wendy N. Wagner, ed.
• Issue #107, August 2021
• Free online or $2.99 ebook, monthly.
• Online horror/dark fantasy magazine publishing both original and reprinted fiction as well as poetry. This issue includes fiction by Ally Wilkes, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, and B. Narr; creative nonfiction by P.L. Watts; an essay by Christa Carmen; an interview with Zin E. Rocklyn; and book reviews. On the website, each month’s contents are serialized throughout the month with new features published on the first four Wednesdays. Cover by Grandfailure/Adobe Stock. Subscription: $1.99/monthly from Amazon or $23.88/year from Nightmare or Weightless Books <www.weightlessbooks.com>.

Strange Horizons

• Gautam Bhatia, et al., eds.
• July/August 2021, free, weekly
• Online speculative fiction magazine publishing fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews. New issues are posted each Monday. In July/August, the site posted short fiction (with accompanying podcasts) by P.H. Low, H. Pueyo, and Ian Rosales Casocot; a conversation between Gautam Bhatia and art editors Dante Luiz & Heather McDougal; a column by Kuzhali Manickavel; poetry (with accompanying podcasts); reviews, etc. Covers by Tahlia Day and Gianne Encarnacion. Subscription: unavailable.

Tor.com 

• Tom Doherty, Irene Gallo, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, et al., eds.
• July/August, free online
• Macmillan publishing house site specializing in genre fiction. Each month Tor.com publishes free fiction and articles including original works, reprints, novel excerpts, and comics; re-reads/re-watches of novels and television shows; an artist gallery; original reviews; articles and commentary; and interviews; as well as providing a forum for the genre community. New material is posted throughout the month. July and August’s posts include novel excerpts from books by C.B. Lee, Alex Pheby, Jordan Ifueko, Cadwell Turnbull, Peter F. Hamilton, Stephanie Garber, TJ Klune, Sasha Peyton Smith, Elayne Audrey Becker, Nafiza Azad, Victoria Lee, Brom, and Brian Staveley; and original fiction by Peng Shepherd, Cooper Shrivastava, and Alan Brennert.

Welkin

• J. McKenzie Nalley, ed.
• Vol 1, Issue #2, Summer 2021, $3/digital issue, quarterly
• Devoted to ‘‘narrowing the gap between realist literary fiction and more traditional and fantastic modes of narrative.’’ This issue features work by Chloe Smith, Sergey Gerasimov, and Jan Weiss (Julie Nováková, trans.). Cover by Sophie Derevianchuk. Subscription: Not available.

The Outer Limits

The New York Times Magazine: The Climate Issue (6/27/21) features ‘‘A round table on whether American democracy is capable of addressing the climate crisis by traditional means…’’ with Kim Stanley Robinson as one of the participants.

See this listing and more like it in the September 2021 issue of Locus.

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