Magazines Received – January
This list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on those that publish fiction or reviews and criticism. To submit titles for listing on these pages, please send to Locus Publications, 655 13th St. #100, Oakland CA 94612 or email locus@locusmag.com.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
- Trevor Quachri, ed.
- Vol. 144 Nos. 3 & 4, March/April 2024, $8.99, bimonthly, 208pp, 15 x 21½ cm.
- Hard SF magazine with fiction by David Gerrold, William Ledbetter, Auston Habershaw, Sean Monaghan, and others; non-fiction; poetry; reviews; etc. Cover by Eli Bischof.
- Vol. 145 Nos. 1 & 2, January/February 2025 includes stories by Vera Brook, Tom R. Pike, John Shirley, Sean McMullen, Robert E. Hampson, and others. Cover by Tomislav Tikulin
- Sheila Williams, ed.
- Vol. 49 Nos. 1 & 2, January/February 2025, $8.99, bimonthly, 208pp, 15 x 21½ cm.
- SF magazine with fiction by James Patrick Kelly, Siobhan Carroll, Frank Ward, Robert Reed, Faith Merino, Jendayi Brooks-Flemister, Rick Wilber, and others; non-fiction; poetry; reviews; etc. Cover by Shutterstock.
- Scot Noel ed.
- Issue No. 15 December 2024, $16.25 print, biannually, 60pp, 21½ x 28 cm. Positive SF and fantasy fiction and all-color art magazine
- This issue includes the stories and poetry by Scott Edelman, Bruce McAllister, Matt McHugh, and others from DreamForge Anvil 17 & 18, the online version of the magazine.
- Andrew M. Butler, et al., eds.
- Vol 65, No. 3, Winter 2024, Available by subscriptions, three times year, 114pp, 17½ x 24½ cm.
- Scholarly journal from the Liverpool University Press with articles from D. Burcu Eğilmez & A. Özgür Gürsoy, Mike Ryder, Lyu Guangzhao, and Sar ah Annes Brown.
- Oliver Brackenbury, ed.
- Vol. 1, Issue 3, Summer 2024, $27.50 hardcover/$18.00 softcover/ $8.00 digital, quarterly, 80pp, 21½ x 28 cm.
- Sword and sorcery magazine with fiction, articles, interview and reviews. This issue has fiction by Premee Mohamed, Thomas Ha, Molly Tanzer, and others. Cover by Saša Đurđević. Vol 1, Issue 4, Fall 2024, $8.00 digital, includes stories by Michael Moorcock, Harry Turtledove, and others. Cover by Bebeto Daroz.
- Michael Kelly, ed.
- Issue #9, Fall 2024, $16.00 print/$7.00 digital, biannually, 138pp, 15 x 23 cm.
- Weird horror magazine with fiction by Seán Padraic Birnie, Corey Farrenkopf, Jason Fernandes, and others; opinion; commentary; and reviews. Cover by Odilon Redon.
Online Magazines
- Lesley Conner, ed.
- Issue #148, January 2025, free online or $4.99 per issue; bimonthly. SF/fantasy/horror magazine.
- Original fiction by Lindz McLeod, Wil Magness, Allison Thai, Monte Lin. and others; reprinted fiction; interviews; articles, and reviews. Cover by Vibhan Singh.
- Scott H. Andrews, ed.
- Issue #422, December 26, 2024, free online, biweekly. Literary fantasy/adventure magazine. This issue includes stories by R.K. Duncan, Shoshana Groom, and Myna Chang. Cover by Nele Diel.
- Issue #423, January 9, 2025 has stories by Marie Croke, S.L. Harris, and R.K. Duncan. Cover by Erin Costello.
- John Betancourt, ed.
- Issue #172, $2.99 digital, weekly. Reprint SF and mystery digital magazine. This issue has SFF stories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Tom Easton & Frank Wu, and others. Cover by Stephen Hickman.
- Issue #173 includes fiction by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, and others. Cover by Ron Miller.
- Issue #174 features stories by Nelson S. Bond, E.C. Tubb, and others. Cover by Stephen Hickman.
- Issue #175 has fiction by Jenna Austin, John S. Glasby, and others. Cover by Ron Miller.
- Neil Clarke, ed.
- Issue #220, January 2025, free online or $3.99 digital/$13.99 print + digital, monthly.
- SF/fantasy magazine with fiction from Zun Yu Tan, Gunnar de Winter, H.H Pak, Tia Tashiro, Wang Yanzhong (Stella Jiayue Zhu, trans.), and Meg Elison; essays; and interviews. Cover by Alex Rommel.
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
- Fran Eisemann, ed.
- December 2024/January 2025, free online. Genre fiction magazine with stories, podcast and reviews.
- In December and January, the site posted stories by Ian Li, Michael H. Payne, and more.
- Sean Wallace, eds.
- Issue #116, January 2025, free online or digital available for $1.99-$2.99, monthly. Dark fantasy and horror magazine.
- This issue includes original fiction by Carlie St. George and Ian Rogers, and reprints by Orrin Grey and Chris Kuriata. Cover by Tomislav Tikulin.
- E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
- Issue No. 37, Winter 2025, $6.99 digital, quarterly, 77pp, 12½ x 20½ cm. The Deadlands explores “all aspects of Death and the borders it shares with the living.”
- This issue includes stories by Kate Lechler, Robert Nazar Arjoyan,Vanessa Fogg, and others; non-fiction; and poetry. Cover by Erinthul.
- Five weekly podcasts: Escape Pod <escapepod.org/> Valerie Valdes & Mur Lafferty, eds. (SF), PodCastle <podcastle.org/> Shingai Njeri Kagunda & Eleanor R. Wood, eds. (fantasy), PseudoPod <pseudopod. org/> Shawn Garrett & Alex Hofelich, eds. (horror), Cast of Wonders <www.castofwonders.org> Katherine Inskip, ed. (YA) and CatsCast <escapeartists.net/catscast/> Laura Pearlman, ed. (speculative fiction cat stories).
- Free online. Genre podcasts of both original and previously published stories with accompanying text.
- Josh Wilson, ed.
- December 2024/January 2025, free online, weekly. This site posts one piece of flash fiction every Friday.
- In December and January, the site posted fiction by J.M. Eno, Kyle Miller, Christina Ladd, and others.
- Thomas J. Griffin & M.A. Dosser eds.
- December 2024/January 2025, free online, biweekly. Flash fiction SF and fantasy site.
- In December and January, the site posted short fiction by Emmie Christie, Karl El-Koura, Shawn Kobb, and others.
- John Joseph Adams, ed.
- Issue #176, Janaury 2025, free online or $4.99 ebook, monthly.
- Online SF/fantasy magazine with fiction from B. Pladek, Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, Neon Yang, Marika Bailey, and others; author spotlights; and reviews. Cover by Tithi Luadthong (aka Grandfailure)/Shutterstock.
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
- Jude Wright, Cat Ashton, Novella Brooks de Vita, el al., eds.
- Vol 35, No. 2, Whole Number 120, 2024, $13.00 -$14.00 print/$5.00 digital, three times year, 228pp, 17½ x 24½ cm. Scholarly, interdisciplinary, peer reviewed journal with articles from Jordan Alves-Foss, Micheal Unger, Patrícia Sá, and others; interviews; and reviews. Cover by Jean Lorrah.
- Vol 35, No. 3, Whole Number 121 Winter 2024, 102 pp. includes articles from Nancy Hightower, Jennifer Rhee, and Alec Nevala-Lee; interviews and reviews. Cover by Nancy Hightower.
- Fred Coppersmith, ed.
- Winter 2025, free online, quarterly. Speculative fiction magazine with science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
- This issue has 12 original stories by Helen De Cruz, Lindsey Duncan, Kemi Ashing-Giwa, and others; and poetry. Cover by Brad Fraunfelter.
- Susan Shell Winston, ed.
- Vol. 18, Issue 69, Winter 2024, free online, quarterly.
- This issue has fiction from J. Anthony Hartley, Rita Oakes, Humphrey Price, and others; poetry, and non-fiction. Cover by Rita Oakes.
- Donald S. Crankshaw & Kristin Janz, eds.
- January/February 2025, free online or via Patreon, bimonthly.
- Online magazine presenting stories that engage ‘‘meaningfully with Christianity…although not exclusively from a Christian perspective’’ January and February features stories by Marshall J. Moore, Frederick Gero Heimbach, and Derek Kho. Cover by Val Babayants.
- Wendy N. Wagner, ed.
- Issue #148, January 2025, free online or $3.99 ebook, monthly.
- Horror/dark fantasy magazine with fiction by Katharine Tyndall, Leyla Hamedi, and Osahon Ize-Iyamu; an essay; author spotlights; poetry; and an interview. Cover by Larissa Kulik / Shutterstock.
- Jennifer Landels, et al. eds.
- No. 44, Autumn 2024, C$14.99, quarterly, 196 pp, 13½ x 20½ cm. Canadian magazine dedicated to pulp literature.
- This issue includes fiction from Kate Hartfield, Tom Jolly, Jonathan Sean Lyster, and others; interviews; a graphic story; poetry; etc. Cover by Bronwyn Schuster.
- Tom Doherty, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, et al., eds.
- December/January 2024, free online.
- Rebranded Tor.com website. Macmillan house site publishing fiction and articles including original fiction from K.A. Teryna (Alex Shvartsman, trans.), A.C. Wise, and others; novel excerpts; rereads/rewatches of novels and television shows; news, reviews; articles, commentary; and interviews.
- Megan J. Kerr, ed.
- Issue #1, January 2025, online pay-what-you-want or purchase a hardcover through Blurb (CAD $8.99), 82pp.
- Sister magazine to Fusion Fragment, Saros Speculative Fiction is an online speculative fiction magazine with a different editor each issue. This issue includes fiction from Lu Xu, Lia Lao, Tim Major, and A.D. Sui. Cover by Barbara Candiotti
- Alexandra Pierce, ed.
- January 2025, free/paid, monthly.
- New online literary journal that publishes two nonfiction essays a month (one free and one only available to subscribers) that ‘‘explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy.’’ This month’s issue includes essays by S.L. Dove Cooper and Nina Niskanen.
- Gautam Bhatia, et al., eds.
- December/January 2024, free, weekly.
- Speculative fiction magazine with fiction by K.W. Onley, Max Franciscovich, Samir Sirk Morató, and others; poetry; articles; columns; and reviews. New issues are posted each Monday. Covers by Tahlia Day.
- Fran Wilde & Julian Yap, eds.
- January 2025. Speculative fiction magazine publishing one story per week at the paid level, and one story per month at the free level.
- In January, the site published stories by E. Catherine Tobler, Margaret Ronald, Marissa Lingen, and David Bowles.
- Dave Truesdale, ed.
- January 2025, free online.
- Short fiction SF and fantasy review magazine including reviews of genre magazines, online and electronic publications, and selected collections and anthologies; as well as articles and essays.
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, and Monte Lin, eds.
- Issue #62, January/February 2025, $3.99 digital only, bimonthly. Science fiction and fantasy magazine with fiction, non-fiction, interviews, and poetry.
- This issue includes fiction by Scott Lynch, J.R. Dawson, Tia Tashiro, Tade Thompson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Rati Mehrotra, and AnaMaria Curtis. Cover art by Maxine Vee.
- Julia Rios, ed.
- December 2024, free online, bimonthly. Speculative fiction magazine.
- This issue includes stories by E.M. Linden, Avra Margariti, R.P. Sand, and others; poetry; and illustrations. Cover by Julia Rios.
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