Magazines Received, November 2021

Analog Science Fiction and Fact

• Vol. 91 Nos. 11 & 12, November/December 2021
• $7.99, bi­monthly, 208pp, 15 x 21½ cm
• This issue includes the conclusion of a serial by Jay Werkheiser; novelettes by Shane Tourtel­lotte and Matt McHugh; short stories by Brenda Kalt, Jo Miles, Dan Reade, Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg, Robert Reed, Monica Joyce Evans, Alice Towey, William Paul Jones, Mjke Wood, and Bill Frank; flash fiction byAnatoly Belilovsky, Timons Esaias, and Howard V. Hendrix; a science article by Christina De La Rocha; poetry; reviews, etc. Cover by Shutterstock.

Asimov’s Science Fiction

• Sheila Wil­liams, ed.
• Vol. 45 Nos. 11 & 12, , Whole Numbers 550 & 551, November/De­cember 2021
• $7.99, bimonthly, 208pp, 15 x 21½ cm
• This issue includes a novella by John Richard Trtek; novel­ettes by Gregory Norman Bossert, Jack Skillingstead, Sandra McDonalds, Sheila Finch, Leah Cypess, and R. Garcia Y Robertson; short stories by Ray Nayler, Sam Schreiber, Gregory Feeley, Misha Lenau, David Gerrold, and Jack McDevitt; columns by Robert Silverberg and James Patrick Kelly; poetry; reviews, etc. Cover by Maurizio Manzieri.

Boundary Shock Quarterly: Solarpunk

• Blaze Ward, ed.
• #13, Winter 2021, $12.99 print/$4.99 digital, quarterly, 179pp, 15 x 21½ cm.
• Boundary Shock Quarterly is a fiction magazine focusing on a different theme each issue, with stories from a syn­dicate of over a dozen speculative fiction authors and special guests. This issue’s theme is ‘‘solarpunk’’ and includes stories by M.E. Owen, M.L. Buchman, Voss Fos­ter, and others. Cover by ID 164673625 © 3000ad_info / Dreamstime.com. Sub­scriptions: not available. Individual issues can be ordered from their website at <www.boundaryshockquarterly.com/>.

Boundary Shock Quarterly: Cargo Wars

• Blaze Ward, ed.
• #15, Summer 2021, $13.99 print/$4.99 digital, quarterly, 293pp, 15 x 21½ cm
• Boundary Shock Quarterly is a fiction magazine focusing on a different theme each issue, with stories from a syndicate of over a dozen speculative fiction authors and special guests. This issue’s theme is ‘‘cargo wars’’ and includes stories by M.E. Owen, Ron Collins, Tami Veldura, and others; and an essay by Blaze Ward. Cover by ID 164062785 © Marciomauro / Dream­stime.com; Subscriptions: not available. Individual issues can be ordered from their website at <www.boundaryshock­quarterly.com/>.

Boundary Shock Quarterly: Wandering Monsters

• Blaze Ward, ed.
• #16, Fall 2021, $14.99 print/$4.99 digital, quarterly, 390pp, 15 x 21½ cm
• Boundary Shock Quarterly is a fiction magazine focusing on a different theme each issue, with stories from a syndicate of over a dozen speculative fiction authors and special guests. This issue’s theme is ‘‘wander­ing monsters’’ and includes stories by Charles Eugene Anderson & Jim LeMay, Ron Collins, Leah R. Cutter, and others; and an essay by M.E. Owen. Cover by ID 163778072 © Grandfailure / Dream­stime.com; Subscriptions: not available. Individual issues can be ordered from their website at <www.boundaryshock­quarterly.com/>.

Dreams & Nightmares

• David C. Kopas­ka-Merkel, ed.
• No. 119, September 2021, $5.00, irregular, 24pp, 14 x 21 cm
• Magazine of fantastic and specula­tive poetry, with work by Anna Cates, Jennifer Crow, Deborah Davitt, Jane Yolen, and others. Cover by Morgan Kopaska-Merkel. Subscription: $25.00 US/$30 outside North America for six is­sues, to David C. Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa AL 35404. Make checks out to David C. Kopaska-Merkel. E-mail: jopnquog@gmail.com; web­site: <dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/>.

Pulphouse

• Dean Wesley Smith, ed.
• Issue No. 14, November 2021, $12.99 print/$6.99 digital, quarterly, 184pp, 17½ x 25½ cm
• This issue includes 20 pieces of short fiction, including stories from Jerry & Kathy Oltion, J. Steven York, Rick Wilber, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and oth­ers; and a one page graphic story from J. Steven York. Subscription: six issues for $69.99 print/$34.99 digital, available at <www.wmgpublishinginc.com/project/pulphouse-subscriptions/>; website: <pulphousemagazine.com>.

Star*Line

• Jean-Paul L. Garnier, ed.
• Issue No. 44.4, Fall 2021, $5.00 + $2.00 s&h print/$2.50 digital, quarterly, 44pp, 14 x 21½ cm
• Speculative poetry magazine from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. This issue includes poems from Alan Ira Gordon, Sarah Cannavo, Gary W. Davis, Lauren McBride, and others; non-fiction articles; small press coverage, etc. Cover by Zara Kand. Subscription: $24.00 for four print issues/$10.00 digital or included with a SFPA membership via mail to SFPA Treasurer, PO Box 1563, Alameda CA 94501, or paypal to <SFPATreasurer@gmail.com>; website: <sfpoetry.com/starline.html>.

Underland Arcana

• Mark Teppo, ed.
• Is­sue No. 4, Fall 2021, free online/$12.99 print/$2.99 digital, quarterly, 127pp, 12½ x 18 cm
• This issue includes short fiction from Brandon Crilly, Manfred Gabriel, Christi Nogle, and others. Cover by grandfailure. Subscription: $3.00 per digital issue/$10.00 per print + digital issue via Patreon at <www.patreon.com/UnderlandPress>; website: <www.under­landarcana.com/>.

Weird Horror

• Michael Kelly, ed.
• No. 3, Fall (October) 2021, $16.00 print/$6.00 digital, twice a year, 84pp, 17½ x 25 cm
• Dedicated to ‘‘pulpy dark fiction in the weird fiction and horror genres’’. This is­sue includes fiction from Donyae Coles, Saswati Chatterjee, Theresa DeLucci, Jack Lothian, and others; articles by Orrin Grey and Simon Strantzas; and reviews. Cover by Fernando JFL. Subscription: $29.50 for two print issues from Undertow Publications; website: <undertowpublica­tions.com/shop/whsubs>.

Online Magazines

Apex Magazine

• Jason Sizemore, ed.
• Issue #127, November 2021, digital free online or $4.99 per issue; bi-monthly. Online SF/fantasy/horror magazine publishing both new and reprinted fiction. Guest edited issue by Lesley Conner, with original short fiction by Marie Croke, Izzy Was­serstein, Carson Winter, Erin K. Wagner, Stephanie Kraner, and Zahra Mukhi; reprinted fiction from Nicole Givens Kurtz and Michael Boatman; nonfiction by Carlos Hernandez and Gerald L. Cole­man; interviews with Marie Croke, Erin K. Wagner, and Magdalena Pagowska; and reviews. Cover by Magdalena Pagowska. Subscription: $24.00 digital for a six issue recurring subscription from Apex <apex-magazine.com/product/apex-magazine-subscription-one-year/>. Also available from third-party sellers.

Aurealis

• Dirk Strasser, ed.
• No. 146, November 2021, $2.99, 10 times a year (every month except January and December). This is­sue incudes fiction from Verity Borthwick, Maria Lewis, and Caitlin Rozakis; articles by Amy Laurens, Lachlan Walter, and Gillian Polack; and reviews. Cover by grandfailure. Subscriptions $19.99/year for 10 issues from their website.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

• Scott H. Andrews, ed.
• Issue #341, October 21, 2021, free online, biweekly. Online fantasy/adventure magazine.
• This issue includes original fiction by Chris Willrich and Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko (with accompanying podcast); a reprint from Marissa Lingen; and a podcast of a differ­ent story, also by Marissa Lingen. Cover by Godwin Akpan. Subscription: $19.99/year from Weightless Books <www.weightlessbooks.com>.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

• Scott H. Andrews, ed.
• Issue #342, November 4, 2021, free online, biweekly. Online fantasy/adventure magazine.
• This issue includes original fiction by Jonathan Louis Duckworth (with accompanying podcast) and Denzel Xavier Scott; a reprint from A Merc Rustad; and a podcast replay of a story by Charles Payseur. Cover by Godwin Akpan. Subscription: $19.99/year from Weightless Books <www.weightless­books.com>.

Black Cat Weekly

• John Betancourt, ed.
• Issue #8, $3.99, weekly. Weekly reprinted SF and mystery magazine.
• This issue includes science fiction or fantasy stories by Vernon Lee, John Gregory Betancourt, Stephen Gallagher, and Gordon R. Dickson; and a fantasy novel by Darrell Schweitzer; as well as six mystery stories and a mystery novel. Subscriptions: $3.99/month or $19.99/year (subscriptions include electronic copies of their other magazines also).

Black Cat Weekly

• John Betancourt, ed.
• Issue #9, $3.99, weekly. Weekly reprinted SF and mystery magazine.
• This issue includes science fiction or fantasy stories by H. Bedford-Jones, Amelia B. Edwards, John Gregory Betancourt, and Stephen Marlowe; and novels from Kris Neville and A.R. Morlan; as well as three mystery stories and two mystery novels. Subscriptions: $3.99/month or $19.99/year (subscriptions include electronic copies of their other magazines also).

Black Cat Weekly

• John Betancourt, ed.
• Issue #10, $3.99, weekly. Weekly reprinted SF and mystery magazine.
• This issue includes science fiction or fantasy stories by John Gregory Betancourt and Carl Jacobi; and novels from Stephen Marlowe and Eando Binder; as well as five mystery stories and one mystery novels. Subscriptions: $3.99/month or $19.99/year (subscriptions include electronic copies of their other magazines also).

Black Cat Weekly

• John Betancourt, ed.
• Issue #11, $3.99, weekly. Weekly reprinted SF and mystery magazine.
• This issue includes science fic­tion or fantasy stories by Lester del Rey, Robert Silverberg & Randall Garrett, John Gregory Betancourt, and Jerome Bixby; and a novel from Eando Binder; as well as five mystery stories and a mystery novel. Subscriptions: $3.99/month or $19.99/year (subscriptions include electronic copies of their other magazines also).

Clarkesworld

• Neil Clarke, ed.
• Issue #182, November 2021, free online or $2.99 ebook, monthly. Online SF/fantasy magazine.
• This issue includes original fiction by Will McIntosh (with accompa­nying podcast), Anna Martino, Rebecca Campbell, L Chan, Alice Towey, and Shari Paul; a reprint by Pan Haitian (Carmen Yiling Yan, trans.); an article by Douglas F. Dluzen; and interviews with Charlie Jane Anders and Xueting Christine Ni. Cover by Pascal Blanché. Subscription: Digital subscription $35.88 for 12 issue at clarkesworldcitizens.com/direct-support/ or issues may be purchased monthly: $2.99 digital/$10.00 print ($14.00 Canada & Europe)/$12.99 print + digital ($16.99 Canada & Europe). Also available from third-party sellers.

Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores

• Fran Eisemann, ed.
• October/November 2021, free online.
• Online genre fiction magazine; content (generally one illustrated story per month, plus occasional interviews and articles) is posted throughout the month. For October and November the site posted stories by Terri Karsten, Steve Oden, and poetry. Subscriptions $12.00/year.

The Dark

• Sean Wallace, ed.
• Issue #78, November 2021, free online or digital available for $1.99-$2.99, monthly. Dark fantasy and horror magazine.
• This issue includes original fiction by H. Pueyo, Rob Costello, Ai Jiang, and Phoenix Alexander. Cover by Stefan Koidl. Subscription: digital subscriptions available for $23.88 for 12 issues from Weightless Books <www.weightlessbooks.com>. Issues can be purchased at a monthly subscription rate from Amazon.com at $1.99/month or £1.99/month via Amazon.co.uk; or as single copies at $2.99 from Apple, B&N, Kobo, and Weightless.

The Deadlands

• E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
• Issue #7, November 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 Alexandra Seidel, Patrick Lofgren, and Freydis Moon; non-fiction articles by Anita Brienza and Amanda Downum; and poetry. Cover by Nikolina Petolas. Subscription: $36.00 for 12 digital issues at <thedeadlands.com/membership-account/membership-levels/>.

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 Oc­tober/November 2021, Escape Pod aired stories from Anjali Patel, Alex Jennings, Lina Munroe, Iona Datt Sharma, and DaVaun Sanders (part 1 of 3); PodCastle aired flash fiction by Sylvia Heike, Ally Chua, Aleks Wittkamp & Drew Czernik; and stories from Tashan Mehta, Eisuke Aikawa & Toshiya Kamei, Tina Connolly, Saladin Ahmed, Kenneth Schneyer, and Krystal Claxton; PseudoPod aired stories from Audrey R. Hollis, Luciano Marano, Orrin Grey, Alasdair Stuart, Gemma Files, and Laird Barron; and Cast of Wonders aired stories by Sydney Paige Guerrero, Eugie Foster, and Isabel J. Kim. In addi­tion to their usual offering, on October 30, 2021 all four podcasts presented a Halloween special ‘‘Witching Hour’’ by Ash Beker, Summer Fletcher & Alasdair Stuart. Subscriptions: Free.

Fantasy Magazine

• Christie Yant & Arley Sorg, eds.
• Issue #73, November 2021, free online or $3.99 ebook, monthly. Online Fantasy magazine. This issue includes original flash fiction by Charles EP Murphy and Billie Cohen; short fiction by Kehkashan Khalid and Genevieve Mills; an interview with Charlie Jane Anders; and poetry. 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 Dominick / 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 #97, No­vember 2021, $5.00 digital only, monthly
• In the November issue, the site posted short fiction by Frances Rowat, John Wiswell, T. Kingfisher, 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.
• October/November 2021, free online, bi-weekly. Flash fiction SF and fantasy site posting a new story every other Friday.
• In October/November, the site posted short fiction by Katherine Sankey and Shawn Kobb. Subscriptions: digital subscriptions available for $5.00 for one year at <flash­pointsf.com/subscribe/>.

Lightspeed Magazine

• John Joseph Adams, ed.
• Issue #138, November 2021, free online or $3.99 ebook, monthly. Online SF/fantasy magazine.
• This issue includes original science fiction by Elly Bangs and Timi Odueso; original SF flash fiction by Andrew Dana Hudson; reprinted SF by Charlie Jane Anders; original fantasy from Stephen Graham Jones and Adam-Troy Castro; original fantasy flash by Izzy Wasserstein; reprinted fantasy by Lisa M. Bradley; 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 paid content is an excerpt from a novel by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson. 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.
• December 2021, $7.00 print/$4.00 digital/free online, monthly. Online and print speculative fic­tion magazine.
• This issue includes origi­nal stories by Thomas Ha, Caite Sajwaj, and others. New stories are posted online every Friday. Cover by Carol Wellart. Digital subscriptions available at $3.00/month through Patreon <www.patreon.com/metaphorosis>. Single issues avail­able from Amazon.com and IngramSpark.

Mysterion

• Donald S. Crankshaw & Kristin Janz, eds.
• November/December 2021, free online or via Patreon.
• Online magazine presenting stories that engage ‘‘meaningfully with Christianity… although not exclusively from a Christian perspective.’’ The site posts one or two stories per month, with occasional interviews and reviews. For November and December the site will post stories by Katherine Briggs and K.J. Khan. Cover by Darío Mekler. Subscrip­tion: Limited-edition digital version (pdf, epub and mobi) available prior to web publication via Patreon.

Nightmare Magazine

• Wendy N. Wagner, ed.
• Issue #110, November 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 Adam-Troy Castro, Julianna Baggott, and Jayaprakash Satyamurthy; an essay by Jason Marc Harris; an interview with Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson; and poetry. On the website, each month’s contents are serialized throughout the month with new features published on the first four Wednesdays. 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.
• Octo­ber/November 2021, free, weekly. Online speculative fiction magazine publishing fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews. New issues are posted each Monday.
• In October/November, the site posted short fiction (with accompanying podcasts) by Carolina Valentine, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, Rachael Cupp, and Teresa Mil­brodt; an issue devoted to ‘‘Strange Lusts’’ with interactive fiction by Anna Anthropy and Natalia Theodoridou; and weekly poetry (with accompanying podcasts); reviews, etc. Covers by Tahlia Day and Nina Satie, plus art by Jabari Weathers. Subscription: unavailable.

Tor.com

• Tom Doherty, Irene Gallo, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, et al., eds.
• October/November, 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; interviews; as well as providing a forum for the genre commu­nity. New material is posted throughout the month. October’s and November’s posts include novel excerpts from books by Genzaburo Yoshino (Bruno Navasky, trans), Lindsay Ellis, Kim Fu, Rosanne A. Brown, Natashia Deón, Natasha Bowen, James Rollins, Nicole Glover, and Brendan P. Bellecourt; and original fiction by E. Lily Yu, Daniel Polansky, and Sarah Pinsker.

Uncanny Magazine

• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Chimedum Ohaegbu & Elsa Sjunneson, eds.
• Issue #43, November/December 2021, $3.99 digital only, bi-monthly. Science fiction and fantasy magazine with original and reprint fiction, non-fiction essays, inter­views, and poetry.
• This issue includes fiction by John Wiswell, Grace P. Fong, A.T. Greenblatt (with accompanying podcast), Mary Robinette Kowal, Del Sandeen (with accompanying podcast), Rachel Swirsky (with accompanying podcast), and Mari Ness (with accompa­nying podcast); non-fiction from Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Dawn Xiana Moon, Velda Scott, Arley Sorg and Marissa Lingen; interviews with Greer Gilman and John Wiswell; and poetry. The site also includes podcast interviews with A.T. Greenblatt and Del Sandeen, and additional stories by Abu Bakr Sadiq and Mary Soon Lee. Cover art by Grace P. Fong. E-book subscribers receive the complete ebook on the first Tuesday of the month. Online readers will receive the first half of the magazine on the first Tuesday of the month. The second half will be available the first Tuesday of the following month. Also available free on the Uncanny website is the Uncanny Magazine podcast with some of the stories, interviews, and other content available for listening. Subscriptions: $23.88 for one year at Weightless Books <www.weightlessbooks.com>.

Welkin

• J. McKenzie Nalley, ed.
• Vol 1, Issue #3, Autumnal 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 David Gallay, Zena Shapter, Subodhana Wijeyeratne, and Marcelo Sáez Worsley. Cover by Zuzanna Kwiecien. Subscription: Not available.

The Outer Limits

The Week (10/8/21) includes a profile of Ruth Ozeki as ‘‘Author of the week’’ and a list of Susanna Clarke’s favorite books that pair well with Piranesi.

The Week (10/29/21) has Michael Koryta, who writes horror fiction under the name Scott Carson, list his favorite seasonal (Halloween) books.

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

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