Magazines Received – March
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. 145 Nos. 3 & 4, March/April 2025, $9.99, bimonthly, 208pp, 15 x 21½ cm.
- Hard SF magazine with fiction by Beth Goder, Harry Lang, Owen Leddy, Kate MacLeod, and others; non-fiction; poetry; reviews; etc. Cover by Matt Kopec.
- Sheila Williams, ed.
- Vol. 49 Nos. 3 & 4, March/April 2025, $9.99, bimonthly, 208pp, 15 x 21½ cm.
- SF magazine with fiction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Nancy Kress, Ray Nayler, T.R. Napper, Rob Chilson, Samantha Murray, and others; non-fiction; poetry; reviews; etc. Cover by Shutterstock.com.
- Winston Blake Wheeler Ward, ed.
- Issue #13, Summer 2024 $20.00, biannually, 64pp, 17 x 26 cm. Full-color science fiction magazine with stories by Rebecca Zahabi, Shane Joaquin Jimenez and others; interviews; a comic; and an art gallery. Cover by beachghost.
- Issue #14, Winter 2024, 52pp. This issue includes fiction by Kathleen Schaefer, Sarina Dorie, and others; interviews, and a comic. Cover by Ninja Jo.
Online Magazines
- Dirk Strasser, ed.
- No. 178, March 2025, $3.99 digital, 10 times a year (every month except January and December). Australian SF/F magazine.
- This issue incudes fiction from Anya Ow, Miriam Fietz, and Jake Stein; non-fiction; and reviews. Cover by Misha.
- Scott H. Andrews, ed.
- Issue #426, February 20, 2025, free online, biweekly. Literary fantasy/adventure magazine. This issue includes stories by Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Blue Guldal, and Jonathan Olfert. Cover by Erin Costello.
- Issue #427, March 6, 2025 has stories by R.Z. Held, Nicole L. Soper Gorden, and Leah Ning. Cover by Tyler Edlin.
- John Betancourt, ed.
- Issue #182, $2.99 digital, weekly. Reprint SF and mystery digital magazine. This issue has SFF fiction by Damir Salkovic, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and others. Cover by Stephen Hickman.
- Issue #183 includes fiction by Alex Marchenko, Subodhana Wijeyeratne, and others. Cover by Ron Miller.
- Issue #184 features stories by Tom Easton, E.C. Tubb, and others. Cover by Steve Hickman.
- Neil Clarke, ed.
- Issue #222, March 2025, free online or $3.99 digital/$13.99 print + digital, monthly.
- SF/fantasy magazine with fiction from Ryan Cole, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Koji A. Dae, and others; essays; and interviews. Cover by Pascal Blanché.
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
- Fran Eisemann, ed.
- February/March 2025, free online. Genre fiction magazine with stories, podcast and reviews.
- In February and March, the site posted a story by Kim Zarins and more.
- Sean Wallace, eds.
- Issue #118, March 2025, free online or digital available for $1.99-$2.99, monthly. Dark fantasy and horror magazine.
- This issue includes original fiction by Louis Inglis Hall and Gio Clairval, and reprints by Ray Cluley, and Angela Liu. Cover by Tomislav Tikulin.
- Scot Noel ed.
- Issue No. 19 March 2025, $3.25 digital or free online, quarterly.
- This issue includes stories and poetry by Beth Goder, Miranda Jubb, Bruce McAllister, and others.
- 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.
- Thomas J. Griffin & M.A. Dosser, eds.
- February/March 2025, free online, biweekly. Flash fiction SF and fantasy site.
- In February and March, the site posted short fiction by Camden Rose and others.
- Sarah Jackson, ed.
- Issue #6, March 2025, free online, quarterly. Inner Worlds publishes ‘‘speculative stories about our inner lives’’.
- This issue includes work by Joelle Killian, Ian Creasey, Risa Wolf and other. Cover by Dagny.
- John Joseph Adams, ed.
- Issue #178, March 2025, free online or $4.99 ebook, monthly.
- Online SF/fantasy magazine with fiction from Cadwell Turnbull, Adam-Troy Castro, Anya Ow, Sunwoo Jeong, and others; author spotlights; and reviews. Cover by Tithi Luadthong (AKA Grandfailure) / Shutterstock.
- Donald S. Crankshaw & Kristin Janz, eds.
- March – April 2025, free online or via Patreon, bimonthly. Online magazine presenting stories that engage ‘‘meaningfully with Christianity… although not exclusively from a Christian perspective’’
- March and April features stories by Charlie Kondek and D.G.P. Rector. Cover by Val Babayants.
- Wendy N. Wagner, ed.
- Issue #150, March 2025, free online or $3.99 ebook, monthly.
- Horror/dark fantasy magazine with stories by Lincoln Michel, Ana Hurtado, and Samir Sirk Morató; an essay; a film review, author spotlights; and poetry. Cover by Warm Tail / Shutterstock.
- Tom Doherty, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, et al., eds.
- February/March 2025, free online.
- Macmillan house site publishing fiction and articles including original fiction from S.E Porter, Laird Barron, Elizabeth Bear, Kelly Robson, and others; novel excerpts; rereads/rewatches of novels and television shows; news, reviews; articles, commentary; and interviews.
- Laura Friis, Greg West, and Sarah Dodd, eds.
- February 2025, free, quarterly.
- Special quarterly issue of Strange Horizons with translated speculative fiction in both English and its original language. This issue has poetry and fiction by Mu Cao (Hongwei Bao, trans.), Hsin-Hui Lin (Ye Odelia Lu, trans.), and Mayumi Inaba (Yui Kajita, trans.).
- C.A. Kane, ed.
- Issue #2, March 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 L.Chan, Ian Li, Bree Wernicke, and others.
- Alexandra Pierce, ed.
- March 2025, free/paid, monthly. Online literary journal that publishes two nonfiction essays a month (one free and one subscriber-only) that ‘‘…explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy.’’
- This month’s issue includes essays by Tansy Rayner Roberts and V.J. Knipe.
- Gautam Bhatia, et al., eds.
- February/March 2025, free, weekly.
- Speculative fiction magazine with fiction by Laura Cranehill, Jon Poley, and others; poetry; articles; columns; and reviews. New issues are posted each Monday. Covers by Tahlia Day.
- Julian Yap & Fran Wilde
- March 2025. Speculative fiction magazine publishing one story per week at the paid level, and one story per month at the free level
- In March, the site published stories by Stephanie Burgis, Eric Smith, Sarena Ulibarri, and Leah Cypess.
- Dave Truesdale, ed.
- March 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 #63, March/April 2025, $3.99 digital only, bimonthly. Science fiction and fantasy magazine with fiction, non-fiction, interviews, and poetry.
- This issue includes fiction by Samantha Mills, G. Willow Wilson, Wen-yi Lee, Charlie Jane Anders, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Stephanie Malia Morris, Kirsty Logan and J.L. Akagi. Cover art by Galen Dara.
- Michael Kelly, ed.
- Issue #10, Spring 2025, $16.00 print/$7.00 digital, biannually, 130pp, 15 x 23 cm.
- Weird horror magazine with fiction by Martin Cahill, Meg Elison, Françoise Harvey, and others; opinion; commentary; and reviews. Cover by M.K. Cooper.
- Justin T. O’ Conor Sloane & Jean-Paul L. Garnier, eds.
- Vol 1, No. 2, Issue No. 178, March 2025, $14.99, 179pp.
- Relaunch of a historic hard SF magazine with original and reprinted stories by David Garrold, Robert Silverberg, Charlie Jane Anders, Eugen Bacon, and others; poetry; non-fiction; articles; and art. Cover by Rodney Matthews.
- Julia Rios, ed.
- February 2025, free online, bimonthly. Speculative fiction magazine.
- This issue includes stories by Jennifer Hudak, Annika Barranti Klein, Ian Li, and others; poetry; and illustrations. Cover by Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel.
The Outer Limits
Rainy Weather Days (January 2025) transitions from a cozy literary magazine to a resistance/defiant magazine with genre works by Eóin Dooley and others.
See this listing and more like it in the March 2025 issue of Locus.
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