Apex Magazine Issue 99

10 best books like Apex Magazine Issue 99 (Jason Sizemore): Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 124, Uncanny Magazine Issue 18: September/October 2017, Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #225, Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers, The New Order, Lightspeed Magazine, September 2017, Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball, Yiwu, Asymmetry, Morning Child and Other Stories

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 124

Author

Neil 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...

Uncanny Magazine Issue 18: September/October 2017

Author

Lynne M. Thomas

The September/October 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by N.K. Jemisin, Fran Wilde, C. S. E. Cooney, Catherynne M. Valente, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Delia Sherman, reprinted fiction by Malinda Lo, essays by Sophie Aldred, Cecilia Tan, Sarah Kuhn,...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #225

Author

Scott H. Andrews

A Nebula and Hugo award nomined short story from the 2017/18 crop, free to read online here at Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Zee lives in a world inhabited entirely by doll-like wind-up people and animals. They have a mysterious, unseen maker...

Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers

Author	Sarena Ulibarri
ISBN	0998702277

Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the...

The New Order

Author	Karen E. Bender
ISBN	1640090991

The New Order shows a singular writer at the top of her form dealing with contemporary themes and ideas, shining a spotlight on the dark corners of our nature, our instincts, and our country.

The critically acclaimed author of Refund returns with a new collection of stories that boldly examines...

Lightspeed Magazine, September 2017

Author

John Joseph Adams

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball

Author

N.K. Jemisin

“What are you saying? That Timmy’s not dead?”

“I’m saying Timmy Johnson may very well live forever.” Mrs. Hanson gave Grace another of those strange, bleak smiles. “You still want to arrest my son for murder?”

this is a free tor short on a technicality - it's a reprint...

Yiwu

Author	Lavie Tidhar
ISBN	1250198828

Can dreams come true? They can if you win the lottery, which promises to provide what your heart desires. For a humble shopkeeper in Yiwu, it’s a living, selling lottery tickets. Until a winning ticket opens up mysteries he’d never imagined.

Lavie Tidha's Yiwu is a Tor.com Original short...

Asymmetry

Author

Kendra Fortmeyer

4.0⭐ "I’m just saying,” The Other said, “it’s not so bad now.”
**spoilers**

If you’re following my reviews, thanks for rolling with me. ♡

We’re on the Season 3 LIVE episodes of Stitcher’s LeVar Burton Reads, and we’re gifted with "Asymmetry" by Kendra...

Morning Child and Other Stories

Author	Gardner Dozois
ISBN	0743493184

An alternative cover for this edition is here

A collection of over a half-dozen classic science fiction stories by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and editor Gardner Dozois.

Contents
vii • Introduction (Morning Child and Other Stories) • essay by Gardner Dozois
1...

For a Little While: New and Selected Stories

Author	Rick Bass
ISBN	0316381152

Long considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have the definitive collection of stories, new and old, from the writer Newsweek has called "an American classic."

To...

Crossed Genres Quarterly 4

Author	Bart R. Leib
ISBN	0615578632

Each month of Crossed Genres Magazine combines Science Fiction & Fantasy with a new theme. Quarterly 4 contains Issues 34 (Monsters), 35 (Dark Comedy) and 36 (Different), plus exclusive new content!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Issue 34: Monsters
“The Fire” by Timothy T. Murphy
“Inhuman...

Tin House 72: Summer Reading 2017

Author	Rob Spillman
ISBN	1942855117

Full disclosure, this is a short story I listened to on the podcast "Levar Burton reads". I normally wouldn't include it in my challenge, however it is listed as a stand-alone short story and not part of a collection so here it is.

This story is the emotional retelling of a young woman's experience...

The Martian Obelisk

Author	Linda Nagata
ISBN	1250162408

This is a 2017 Hugo nominated SF short story, free to read online here at Tor.com. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

In another tale that explores human choices in the face of apocalyptic events, Susannah Li-Langford is an eighty year old architect who has spent the last seventeen...