Albedo One

• Issue 38, 2010, E5.95/£3.95, 64pp, cover art by Jake Probelski
• Irish magazine of SF, fantasy, and horror, published since 1993
• Website: http://www.albedo1.com/

• This issue of the Irish SF magazine has fiction by Bruce McAllister, Aaron Polson, Priya Sharma, Matthew F. Perry, and Martin Belderson. There's also a story by Allison Francisco, third-place winner in the Aeon Award 2008 contest.
• Features include an interview with James Gunn, and book reviews by Juliet E. McKenna, David Conyers, and others.
• The magazine's site has new URL www.albedo1.com.

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact

• Vol. 130 No. 6, June 2010, $4.99, 112pp, cover art by Vincent Di Fate
• Near-monthly (10 times/year) magazine of science fiction and nonfiction; published since 1930 (originally Astounding); edited by Stanley Schmidt
• Website: http://www.analogsf.com/
• Message Board: Forum

• Fiction in this issue includes novelettes by Bond Elam, Jerry Oltion & Eltion Elliott, and Kyle Kirkland, and short stories by Tracy Canfield, Richard Foss, Edward M. Lerner, and Michael F. Flynn. There's also a "Probability Zero" vignette by Alastair Mayer.
• The science fact article, "Der Mann, Die Frau, Das Kind" (about gender linguistics) is by Henry Honken.
• Departments include Stanley Schmidt's editorial, "Primer"; Richard A. Lovett's "Biolog", about Henry Honken; Jeffery D. Kooistra's "The Alternate View" column, "Two Birds with One Stone" (about Bester's The Stars My Destination); and "The Reference Library" by Don Sakers, covering titles by Suzanne Collins, Robert J. Sawyer, and Eoin Colfer.
• Lois Tilton reviewed stories from this issue in her Locus Online column.

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Asimov's Science Fiction

• Vol. 34 No. 6 (whole #413), June 2010, $4.99, 112pp, cover art by Michael Carroll
• Near-monthly (10 times/year) SF magazine; published since 1977; edited by Sheila Williams
• Website: http://www.asimovs.com/
• Message Board: Forum

• This issue has a novella by Stephen Baxter, a novelette by Allen M. Steele, and short stories by Benjamin Crowell, Kit Reed, Chris Beckett, Peter Friend, and Anna Tambour. Poetry is by Geoffrey A. Landis, Susan Abel Sullivan, and Sandra Lindow.
• Departments include Sheila Williams' editorial, Do Androids Dream of Electric Zhu Zhu Pets?; Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" column, Satan, get Thee Hence!; an "On the Net" column by James Patrick Kelly, The Price of Free II; and book reviews by Peter Heck, covering Paul Melko, China Mieville, and others.
• The magazine's website has the table of contents, with links to excerpts of the Baxter and Steele stories.
• Lois Tilton reviewed stories from this issue in her Locus Online column.

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The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

• Issue 188, Vol. 44 No. 1, April-May 2010, $6.95, 68pp, cover art by Marianne Plumridge
• Website: http://www.sfwa.org/

• This "2009 Nebula Awards Issue" includes features on this year's Nebula nominees and recipients, with essays about Joe Haldeman and Neal Barrett, Jr., and by nominees Paolo Bacigalupi, Michael Bishop, Michael A. Burstein, James Morrow, and others.
• There's also a feature article by Jake West and pitching to Hollywood.
• Columns include Cynthia Ward's Market Report, an "Agent Anonymous" column by "Sue Dee Nym", Steve Carper's "Writers' Bloc" column, Mike Resnick & Barry Malzberg's latest Dialogue, "The Prozines (Part 3)", William C. Dietz' "Words for Hire" column, about packagers, and Nancy Holder's column about urban fantasy.
• Regular departments include Mark Kreigbaum's editorial, a list of new SFWA members, and business announcements.

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Dreams and Nightmares

• Issue 86, May 2010, $5, 20pp, cover art by Randy Moore
• Magazine of fantastic poetry, published approximately quarterly since 1986, by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
• Website: http://dreamsandnightmares.interstellardustmites.com/

• This issue has poetry by Sheila Kopaska-Merkel, Ruth Berman, Marge Simon, Darrell Schweitzer, Roger Dutcher, Richard Fay, and others.
• The magazine's webpage http://dreamsandnightmares.interstellardustmites.com/ has a photo of editor David C. Kopaska-Merkel, plus a bibliography, gallery, and ordering information.

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Mythic Delirium

• Issue 22, Winter/Spring 2010, $5.00, 32pp, cover art by Tim Mullins
• Bi-annual poetry magazine since 1998; published and edited by Mike Allen
• Website: http://www.mythicdelirium.com/

• This issue has 20 poems by J.C. Runolfson, Wade German, Joshua Gage, Sonya Taaffe, Ann K. Schwader, Gemma Files, and others.
• The Mythic Delirium site has links to the wraparound cover and to the table of contents.

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The New York Review of Science Fiction

• Issue 261, Vol. 22 No. 9, May 2010, $4.00, 24pp
• Monthly review and criticism magazine, published since 1988; edited by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, et al.
• Website: http://www.nyrsf.com/

• This special "Childhood's End" issue features an essay by Barbara Bengels in which she talks with SF writers about their childhoods, along with letters on the subject by 16 writers, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Cory Doctorow, Joanna Russ, Jack Williamson, Anne McCaffrey, and Connie Willis.
• There's also an interview by Danel Olson with Terry Dowling, an essay by Brian Stableford on the speculative fiction of Louis Mullern, and two reviews: Joe Sanders on Tatsumi's Full Metal Apache, and D. Douglas Fratz on Robinson's Galileo's Dream.
• David G. Hartwell editorializes about forthing and backing.

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