Magazines Received – January

Analog Science Fiction and Fact

• Trevor Quachri, ed.
• Vol. 92 Nos. 1 & 2, January/February 2022
• $7.99, bimonthly, 208pp, 15 x 21½ cm
• This issue includes a novella by Jay Werkheiser & Frank Wu; novelettes by Tony Ballantyne, Joe M. McDer­mott, and Tom Jolly; short stories by Meghan Hyland, Ted Rabinowitz, Adam-Troy Castro, Paul Starkey, M. Bennardo, Jen Downes, Liz A. Vogel, Louis Evans, Stephen L. Burns, Ben­jamin C. Kinney, David Cederstrom, Rachel S. Bernstein, and Raymund Eich; flash fiction by David Whitaker and Ian Randal Strock; a science fact by Jay Werkheiser; a special feature by Brishti Guha; poetry; reviews, etc. Cover by Eldar Zakirov

Asimov’s Science Fiction

• Sheila Wil­liams, ed.
• Vol. 46 Nos. 1 & 12, Whole Numbers 540 & 541, January/February 2022
• $7.99, bimonthly, 208pp, 15 x 21½ cm
• This issue in­cludes novellas by Nick Wolven and Sean Monaghan; novelettes by A.A. Attanasio, Michèle Laframboise, and Ian Creasy; short stories by Jandayi Brooks-Flemister, Joel Armstrong, Joel Richards, Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, and Stephanie Feld­man; columns by Robert Silverberg and James Patrick Kelly; poetry; reviews, etc. Cover by Dominic Harman

Black Static

• Andy Cox, ed.
• Issue No. 80/81, 2021
• £11.99, tri-annually, 192pp, 17 x 24 cm
• British dark SF/F and horror magazine with stories by Rhonda Pressley Veit, Steve Ras­nick Tem, Claire Rudy Foster, Sarah Lamparelli, Françoise Harvey, Jolie Toomajan, and Mike O’Driscoll; and reviews. Cover by Richard Wagner. Subscription: Not available. Single issues can be purchased from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB, UK; website: <www.ttapress.com>; email: <black­static@ttapress.com>.

Bourbon Penn

• Erik Secker, ed.
• Is­sue No. 25, December 2021
• $12.95 print/$1.99 digital/free online, three times a year, 152pp, 12½ x 20 cm
• Literary speculative fiction magazine with stories by Anthony Panegyres, Gregory Norman Bossert, E. Cath­erine Tobler, and others. Cover by Dan Quintana. Subscription: avail­able through Patreon <www.patreon.com/bourbonpenn>. Copies can be purchased from Amazon.com; web­site: <bourbonpenn.com>.

Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction

• Paul March-Russell, ed.
• Vol. 50, Issue No. 3, #140, 2021
• £8.00/$15.00, three times yearly, 136pp, 14½ x 21 cm
• Peer-reviewed journal published by the Science Fiction Foundation. This issue includes a section looking at 50 year of the Science Fiction Founda­tion with a roundtable discussion about the SFF at 50, a conversation with John Clute, and an essay about the creation of the SFF logo; a num­ber of articles including Gabriel Bur­row’s humanization of the resident of Harmont in Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky’s; Anne-Marie Callus & Victor Grech’s examination of ability and disability through the characters of Clane Linn by A.E. Van Vogt and Miles Vorkosigan by Lois McMaster Bujold; Milan M. Ćirković’s consider­ation of the intersection of thought between Karl Popper and Stanisław Lem regarding the problem of predic­tion; Aidan Power’s analysis of the movie Aniara to track the European response to the climate crisis; Tara B.M. Smith’s examination of Frank Herbert’s Dune Trilogy as an argu­ment for ecological conservation; and Elizabeth Stanway’s examination of how the concept of the habitability of the solar system changed in the Dan Dare comic strip between 1950s and 2010s; conference reports; Larissa Lai’s feature on Octavia E. Bulter’s Xenogenesis and Lilith’s Brood; and book reviews. Subscription: UK £25.00/Rest of Europe £28.00/Elsewhere £32.00/USD$48.00/Students £15.00/USD$25.00 (proof required) for three issues, specify year of commencement. Inquire for cost to institutions. Send checks made out to ‘‘The Science Fiction Foundation’’ to The Science Fiction Foundation,75 Rosslyn Avenue, Har­old Wood, Essex RM3 0RG; email: Roger Robinson (‘‘SFF’’ in subject line) <sff@beccon.org>; website: <www.sf-foundation.org/>.

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fic­tion

• Sheree Renée Thomas, ed.
• Vol. 142 No. 1 & 2, Whole No. 759, January/February 2022
• $9.99, bi­monthly, 260pp, 13 x 19½ cm
• This issue includes a novella by Eugie Foster; novelettes by Nick DiChario, Karen Heuler, Auston Habershaw, and J.A. Pak; short stories by Chris­topher Mark Rose, Paul Lorello, ML Clark, Maiga Doocy, Cara Mast, In­nocent Chizaram Ilo, Joe Baumann, and Paul Di Filippo; poetry; reviews, and etc. Cover by Kent Bash.

Planet Scumm: Skeletaxonomy

• Sean Clancy, ed.
• No. 12, Autumn 2021
• $14.00, tri-annual, 103pp, 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 Dan Stintzi, Lucy Zhang, Christina Delia, and others. Cover by Kels Hyde. Subscription: three print issues for $30.00, four dig­ital issues (‘‘buy 1, gift 1’’) for $20.00; website: <www.planetscumm.space/shop/subscription>; email: <crew@planetscumm.space>.

Pulphouse

• Dean Wesley Smith, ed.
• Issue No. 15, December 2021
• $12.99 print/$6.99 digital, bi-monthly, 192pp, 17½ x 25½ cm
• This issue includes 20 pieces of short fiction, including stories from Robert Jeschonek, Louisa Swann, Ray Vukcevich, 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>.

Smith’s Monthly

• Dean Wesley Smith
• Issue #55, November 2021
• $6.99 digital/$12.99 print, monthly, 172pp, 17½ x 25½ cm
• A magazine written entirely by Dean Wesley Smith with four short stories; a full Thunder Mountain novel; and a full holiday short story collection. Subscription: Digital: $29.99 (six issues)/$49.99 (12 issues)/US print plus digital: $59.99 (six issues)/$99.99 (12 is­sues)/Outside the US print plus digital: $99.99 (six issues)/$199.99 (12 issues) at <www.smithsmonthly.com/subscribe/>; website: <www.smithsmonthly.com >.

Online Magazines

Abyss & Apex Magazine 

• Wendy S. Delmater, ed.
• Issue #81, 1st Quarter 2022, free online; quarterly
• Online speculative fiction magazine. This issue includes stories by Ray Daley, Fiona Moore, Gordon Linzner, and others; flash fiction, poetry, and small press reviews. Subscription: Unavailable.

Andromeda Spaceways Magazine

• Tom Dullemond, ed.
• Vol 17 No. 4, #85, December 2021
• $9.95, quarterly, 130pp
• Australian SF and fantasy small-press magazine. This issue in­cludes short fiction by Max Lavergne, Lucinda Taylor, Matthew Castleman, and others; an interview with Claire Fitzpatrick; poetry, and reviews. Cover by Julie Dillon. Subscrip­tion: A$29.95 for four digital issues to <andromedaspaceways.com/membership-account/membership-levels/>.

Apex Magazine

• Jason Sizemore, ed
• Issue #129, January 2022, digital free online or $4.99 per issue; bi-monthly
• Online SF/fantasy/horror magazine publishing both new and reprinted fiction. This issue includes original short fiction by Lavie Tidhar, Yilun Fan (S. Qiouyi Lu, trans.), Bi­anca Sayan, Rich Larson, Cristina Jurado (Monica Louzon, trans.), and M. Shaw; reprinted fiction from Oghenchovwe Donald Ekpeki and Benjanun Sriduangkaew; nonfiction by C.S.E. Cooney and Mercedes M. Yardley; interviews with M. Shaw, Bianca Sayan and artist Luka Brico; and reviews. Cover by Luka Brico. 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.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

• Scott H. Andrews, ed.
• Issue #346, Janu­ary 1, 2022, free online, biweekly
• Online fantasy/adventure magazine
• This issue includes original fiction by Jonathan Olfert (with accompanying podcast) and Iona Datt Sharma; and a reprint from Josh Rountree. Coverby Viktor Mukhin. Subscription: $19.99/year from Weightless Books <www.weightlessbooks.com>.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

• Scott H. Andrews, ed.
• Issue #347, January 13, 2022, free online, bi­weekly
• Online fantasy/adventure magazine. This issue includes origi­nal fiction by Marie Brennan and Spencer Ellsworth; a reprint from Grace Seybold; and a podcast replay of a story by Christie Yant. Cover by Viktor Mukhin. Subscription: $19.99/year from Weightless Books <www.weightlessbooks.com

Black Cat Weekly

• John Betancourt, ed
• Issue #16, $3.99, weekly
• Weekly reprinted SF and mystery magazine. This is­sue includes science fiction or fan­tasy stories by Nisi Shawl, Michael Swanwick, and Larry Tritten; and a novel by Malcolm Jameson; 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).

Black Cat Weekly

• John Betancourt, ed.
• Issue #17, $3.99, weekly
• Weekly reprinted SF and mystery magazine. This issue includes science fiction or fantasy stories by Amy Wolf, Esther Friesner, Malcolm Jameson, and Larry Tritten; and a novel by Paul W. Fairman; as well as four 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 #18, $3.99, weekly
• Weekly reprinted SF and mystery magazine. This issue includes science fiction or fantasy stories by Elizabeth Bear, E. Hoffmann Price, and Larry Tritten; and a novel by Malcolm Jameson; 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).

Black Cat Weekly

• John Betancourt, ed.
• Issue #19, $3.99, weekly
• Weekly reprinted SF and mystery magazine. This issue includes science fiction or fantasy stories by Everil Worrell, Larry Trit­ten, and others; a novelette by L. Timmel Duchamp; and a fantasy and mystery collection by Richard Marsh; as well as four 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 #20, $3.99, weekly
• Weekly reprinted SF and mystery magazine. This issue includes science fiction or fantasy stories by Elizabeth Ann Scarbor­ough, Malcolm Jameson, and others; as well as four 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 #184, January 2022, free on­line or $2.99 ebook, monthly
• Online SF/fantasy magazine. This issue includes original fiction by Koji A. Dae (with accompanying podcast), Geof­frey W. Cole, Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, Megan J. Kerr (with accompa­nying podcast), R.S.A. Garcia, and Andrea Kriz; a reprint by Gu Shi (S. Qiouyi Lu, trans.); an article by Julie Nováková; and interviews with Ann & Jeff VanderMeer and James S.A. Corey. Cover by Zezhou Chen. 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.
• Decem­ber 2021/January 2022, free online
• Online genre fiction magazine; content (generally one illustrated story per month, plus occasional interviews and articles) is posted throughout the month. For Decem­ber and January the site posted a story by Malda Marlys. Subscriptions $12.00/year.

The Dark

• Sean Wallace, ed.
• Issue #80, January 2022, free online or digital available for $1.99-$2.99, monthly
• Dark fantasy and horror magazine. This issue includes origi­nal fiction by Jack Klausner, Margo McGovern, Seán Padraic Birnie, and Octavia Cade.Cover by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl. 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 #9, January 2022, 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 Michael Baez Arroyo, Alix E. Harrow, and Cara Masten DiGi­rolamo; non-fiction by Katie Gill and Amanda Downum; and poetry. Cover by Skulltura. 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 December 2021/January 2022, Escape Pod aired stories from Helen De Cruz, Erik Grove, Kiya Nicoll, and Sam Sch­reiber (part 1 & 2); PodCastle aired stories by Martha Wells, Gary McKay, Claire Humphrey, Nathaniel Lee, Avi Burton, and Nicole D. Sconiers; PseudoPod aired stories from Jamie Grimes, Orrin Grey, D.H. Lawrence, and E.F. Benson; plus flash fiction by Eric J. Guignard, Can Wiggins, Hailey Piper, and Anthony Oliveira; and Cast of Wonders aired stories by Ivy Grimes, Marie Vibbert, Johnny Caputo, Sid Jain, and Avra Margariti. Subscriptions: Free

Fantasy Magazine

• Christie Yant & Arley Sorg, eds.
• Issue #75, January 2022, free online or $3.99 ebook, monthly. Online Fantasy magazine
• This issue includes original flash fic­tion by Moses Ose Utomi and Saswa­ti Chatterjee; short fiction by Shalini Srinivasan and Corey Flintoff; an interview with Tochi Onyebuchi; 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 warmtail / 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

• Aigner Loren Wilson, guest ed.
• Issue #99, January 2022, $5.00 digital only, monthly
• In the January issue, the site posted short fiction by Katherine Quevedo, Hester J. Rook, and others. Subscriptions: digital subscriptions available for $60.00 for 12 issues at <firesidefiction.com/#subscribe>.

Fiyah: Magazine of Black Specu­lative Fiction

• DaVaun Sanders, ed.
• Issue #21, Winter 2022, $3.99 digital only, quarterly.
• Literary Black Specula­tive Fiction magazine that ‘‘features stories by and about people of the African Diaspora.’’ This issue in­cludes stories from Adelehin Ijasan, Wendy Shaia, Danny Cherry, Jr., and Jendayi Brooks-Flemister; non-fiction by LaDarrion Williams; and poetry. Cover by Terri Ogwulumba. Subscription: digital subscriptions available for $15.99 for four issues at <www.fiyahlitmag.com/product-category/subscription/>.

Flash Point SF

• Thomas J. Griffin & M.A. Dosser eds.
• December 2021/January 2022, free online, bi-weekly
• Flash fiction SF and fantasy site posting a new story every other Friday. In Decem­ber/January, the site posted short fiction by Jamie Lackey, Cameron Hunter, S.J.C. Schreiber, and others. Subscriptions: digital subscriptions available for $5.00 for one year at <flashpointsf.com/subscribe/>

Kaleidotrope

• Fred Coppersmith, ed.
• Winter 2022, free online, quarterly
• Online speculative fiction magazine with science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This issue has ten original stories by Scott Edelman, A.C. Wise, Cyn­thia Zhang, and others; and poetry. Cover by Cindy Fan. Subscription: Unavailable.

Lightspeed Magazine

• John Joseph Adams, ed.
• Issue #140, January 2022, free online or $3.99 ebook, monthly
• Online SF/fantasy maga­zine. This issue includes original science fiction by Lincoln Michel; original SF flash fiction by Aimee Ogden and Jendayi Brooks-Flemis­ter; reprinted SF by Leah Cypess; original fantasy from Maria Dong and Vanessa Fogg; original fantasy flash by Jenny Rae Rappapoprt; reprinted fantasy by N.K. Jemisin; 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 Tochi Onye­buchi. Cover by Grandeduc / Adobe Stock Image. 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.
• Febru­ary 2022, $7.00 print/$4.00 digital/free online, monthly
• Online and print speculative fiction magazine. This issue includes original stories by Devin Miller, Brian Hugenbruch, 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.

Nightmare Magazine

• Wendy N. Wagner, ed.
• Issue #112, January 2022, 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 Ian Muneshwar, Kiyomi Appleton Gaines, and Jordan Shiveley; an essay by Dante Luiz; an interview with Eric LaRocca; 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>.

Solarpunk Magazine

• Brianna Castagnozzi & Justine Norton-Kertson, eds.
• Issue #1, January/February 2022, $6.00 digital only, bi-monthly
• Premiere issue of a new bimonthly online magazine of ‘‘radically hopeful and optimistic science fiction and fantasy.’’ This is­sue includes stories from Starhawk, Coral Alejandra Moore, Francis Bass, Oyedotun Damilola, and others; non-fiction by Jay Springett, Nina Muntea­nu, and others; an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson; and poetry. Cover by Brianna Castagnozzi. Subscrip­tion: digital subscriptions available for $30.00 for six issues at <solarpunk­magazine.com/product/solarpunk-magazine-one-year-subscription/>.

Strange Horizons

• Gautam Bhatia, et al., eds
• December 2021/January 2022, free, weekly
• Online speculative fiction magazine publishing fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews. New issues are posted each Monday. In De­cember/January, the site posted short fiction (with accompanying podcasts) by Karina Ko, E.M. Faulds, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, and T.K. Rex; weekly poetry (with accompanying podcasts); reviews, etc. Covers by Tahlia Day. Subscription: unavailable.

Tor.com

• Tom Doherty, Irene Gallo, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, et al., eds
• December 2021/January 2022, 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. December and January’s posts include novel excerpts from books by Cassandra Rose Clarke, Akshaya Raman, Laura Sebastian, J. Elle, Meg Long, A.K. Larkwood, and Joanna Ruth Meyer; and original fiction by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Uncanny Magazine

• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, and Chimedum Ohaegbu, eds
• Issue #44, January/February 2022, $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 Leah Cypess (with accompanying podcast), Christopher Caldwell, Natalia Theodoridou, Sarah Monette, Kylie Lee Baker, Wen-yi Lee (with accompanying podcast), and Tina Connolly; a reprint by Caroline M. Yoachim; non-fiction from Alex Jennings, Lincoln Michel, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, and Louis Evans; interviews with Christopher Caldwell and Sarah Monette; and poetry. The site also includes podcast interviews with Leah Cypess and Kylie Lee Baker, and ad­ditional stories by Sonya Taaffe and Lisabelle Tay. Cover art by Galen Dara. 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>.

The Outer Limits

The New Yorker (January 17, 2022) has Caleb Crain’s article on Stanisław Lem, and how Lem’s experience in wartime Poland affected his life and stories.

Wired (December 2021) includes a short SF story by Paul Ford and an essay by Madeline Ashby on her views of cyberpunk.

See this listing and more like it in the February 2022 issue of Locus.

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