Uncanny Magazine Issue 13: November/December 2016
10 best books like Uncanny Magazine Issue 13: November/December 2016 (Lynne M. Thomas): The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, A Taste of Honey, That Game We Played During the War, The City Born Great, Apex Magazine Issue 99, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018, Fireside Magazine Issue 52, February 2018, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, The Art of Space Travel
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
| Author | Kij Johnson |
| ISBN | 0765386518 |
When a student from the Ulthar Women's College goes missing with her dreaming lover, Vellitt Boe journeys across the dreamlands to find a way to the waking world to bring her back. With a cat in tow, will Vellitt be able to find Clarie Jurat?
Ghouls, ghasts, and gugs, oh my! The Dream-Quest of Vellitt...
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...
Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods.
Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin...
| Author | Carrie Vaughn |
| ISBN | 0765389355 |
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...
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...
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...
Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
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.
EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore
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Fireside Magazine Issue 52, February 2018
https://firesidefiction.com/the-secre...
Nebula 2018, Short story
This one did not work as well for me, consisting as it did of nine little short-short stories about each of George Washington's teeth originating from various Negro people who were slaves. The slaves aren't necessarily...
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
An all-new anthology of cross-genre fairy tale retellings, featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.
Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start.
Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries....
| Author | Nina Allan |
| ISBN | 0765390655 |
The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan is a science fiction novelette. In 2047, a first manned mission to Mars ended in tragedy. Thirty years later, a second expedition is preparing to launch. As housekeeper of the hotel where two of the astronauts will give their final press statements, Emily finds the...
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...
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,...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 115 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #115)
FICTION
“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
“Balin” by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu
“The Bridge of Dreams” by Gregory Feeley
“The Cedar Grid” by Sara Saab
“Old Friends” by Garth Nix
“Winter's Wife” by Elizabeth Hand
NON-FICTION
“Silver...
The Jewel and Her Lapidary
| Author | Fran Wilde |
| ISBN | 0765389835 |
From Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft.
The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power...
Okay, so apparently this story was a Rabid Puppy Hugo finalist, which I didn’t know before picking it up, though I did start guessing pretty early on [if you don’t know who the Rabid Puppies are and how they’re related to the Hugo Awards, feel free to Google it – lots of smart and well-informed people...
Lightspeed Magazine, February 2015
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,...
The Last of the Minotaur Wives
This Tor short story (free online here) is part of the "Nevertheless, She Persisted" set of flash fiction published March 8, 2017 on Tor.com.* Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:
4.5 stars for this short fantasy, based on the Greek legend of the Minotaur. Blue is alone in the...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #225
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...
