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Apex Magazine Issue 56

10 best books like Apex Magazine Issue 56 (Sigrid Ellis): Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, Red as Blood and White as Bone, That Game We Played During the War, Cold Wind, The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, The City Born Great, As Good as New, Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch, Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue

Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The May/June 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Seanan McGuire, Kat Howard, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, and Haralambi Markov, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Foz Meadows, Tanya DePass, Sarah Monette, and Stephanie Zvan, poetry by Beth Cato, M. Sereno, and...
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
AuthorAlyssa Wong
The day my sister ended the world, the sky opened up in rain for the first time in years, flooding the desert wash behind our house. The snakes drowned in their holes and the javelinas stampeded downstream, but the water overtook them, and the air filled with their screaming as they were swept away.

this...
Red as Blood and White as Bone
AuthorTheodora Goss
ISBN0765389428
I am a daughter of these mountains, and of the tales. Once, I wanted to be in the tales themselves. When I was young, I had my part in one—a small part, but important. When I grew older, I had my part in another kind of story. But now I want to become a teller of tales.

this story is everything that's...
That Game We Played During the War
AuthorCarrie Vaughn
ISBN0765389355
The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war for decades, but now peace has fallen, and Calla of Enith seeks to renew an unlikely friendship with Gaantish officer Valk over an even more unlikely game of chess, in Carrie Vaughn's novella That Game We Played...
Cold Wind
AuthorNicola Griffith
AND NOW IS THE TIME OF YEAR I FLOAT OLD CHRISTMAS REVIEWS TO COUNTDOWN TO BING BONG BING BONG!!

It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.

i...
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
AuthorJohn Chu
ISBN1466838116
In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional Chinese parents.

This...
The City Born Great
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.

Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient...
As Good as New
AuthorCharlie Jane Anders
ISBN1466881038
Marisol was an award-winning playwright, but that hadn’t saved her from the end of the world.

it wasn't until today, when i (finally) sat down to reread this story for review, that i realized this was written by the author of All the Birds in the Sky, a book i bought in hardcover because it was...
Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch
AuthorKelly Barnhill
ISBN1466869062
When Mr. Sorensen - a drab, cipher of a man - passes away, his lovely widow falls in love with a most unsuitable mate. Enraged and scandalized (and armed with hot-dish and gossip and seven-layer bars), the Parish Council turns to the old priest to fix the situation - to convince Mrs. Sorensen to reject the...
Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue
AuthorWendy N. Wagner
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.

Funded as a stretch goal of our sister-magazine LIGHTSPEED's Queers Destroy Science...
Apex Magazine Issue 99
AuthorJason Sizemore
Note: This review is just for the award-winning story “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience.” The ever-vigilant GR librarians merged its review space into this anthology.

All the stars! Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature. This story is free online here at Apex...
Digger, Volume Five
AuthorUrsula Vernon
In this fifth volume of Digger, covering chapters nine and ten of Ursula Vernon's webcomic, our wombat heroine embarks on the journey into which she had been cajoled by the statue of Ganesh in the previous volume, accompanying Murai and her destiny towards a monastery in the Morrakgon Mountains that...
Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2011
AuthorSheila Williams
CONTENTS

Novellas
"Stealth" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" by Kij Johnson

Novelettes
"The Outside Event" by Kit Reed
"My Husband Steinn" by Eleanor Arnason

Short Stories
"The Cult of Whale Worship" by Dominica Phetteplace
"This...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 71 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #71)
AuthorNeil Clarke
FICTION
“Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson
“Honey Bear” by Sofia Samatar
“Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente

NON-FICTION
“The Spell of History: Magic Systems and Real-World Zeitgeists” by Jeff Seymour
“In a Carapace of Light: A Conversation with...
Summer in Orcus
AuthorT. Kingfisher
When the witch Baba Yaga walks her house into the backyard, eleven-year-old Summer enters into a bargain for her heart’s desire. Her search will take her to the strange, surreal world of Orcus, where birds talk, women change their shape, and frogs sometimes grow on trees. But underneath the whimsy...
Apex Magazine Issue 80
AuthorJason Sizemore
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

Extra large Customer Appreciation issue!

TABLE OF CONTENTS...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 124
AuthorNeil Clarke
FICTION
"The Ghost Ship Anastasia" by Rich Larson
"A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
"Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities" by Lettie Prell
"Interchange" by Gary Kloster
"Milla" by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini, translated by Rich Larson
"Events...
The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan
AuthorMasumi Washington
ISBN1421542234
A web browser that threatens to conquer the world. The longest, loneliest railroad on Earth. A North Korean nuke hitting Tokyo, a hollow asteroid full of automated rice paddies, and a specialist in breaking up “virtual” marriages. And yes, giant robots. These thirteen stories from and about the...
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