 Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Literary adventure fantasy, since 2008; publisher and editor-in-chief Scott H. Andrews
• Format: Online; PDF and ebook formats
• Frequency: biweekly
• http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/
August 12 2010—
Issue 49
• Two stories: Eighth Eye by Erin Cashier, and The Book of Autumn by Rachael Acks.
(Fri 20 Aug 2010)
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 Black Static
• British fantasy and horror magazine, debuting 2007 (formerly The Third Alternative), edited by Andy Cox
• Format: Print
• Frequency: Bimonthly
• http://ttapress.com/blackstatic/
August-September 2010—
Issue 18, £3.95, 64pp, cover art by Ben Baldwin
• This issue has horror stories by Nina Allan, Carole Johnstone, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Nicholas Royle, and Mercurios D. Rivera. There are also 10 more winning stories in the magazine's "Campaign for Real Fear" contest for 500-word stories; the first 10 appeared last issue.
• Columns are by Stephen Volk, Christopher Fowler, Tony Lee (DVD reviews), and Peter Tennant (book reviews, including an interview with Adam Nevill).
• The magazine's website has this post with details about the table of contents.
(Wed 18 Aug 2010)
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 io9
• Science fiction, science, and pop culture blog; launched January 2008; editor in chief Annalee Newitz, managing editor Charlie Jane Anders
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Daily
• http://io9.com/
August 2010—
• The site's August book club selection is N.K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms; the discussion begins August 30th.
• John Marr explains How Edgar Rice Burroughs became one of the twentieth century's biggest scifi authors. There's a pointer to a collection of vintage XXX covers from science fiction. And a pointer to an excerpt from Mary Roach's Packing for Mars over at Jalopnik.com
• Annalee Newitz reviews Charles Yu's How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe.
(Fri 20 Aug 2010)
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 Lightspeed
• Science fiction stories, original and reprint, plus features; edited by John Joseph Adams; debuted June 2010
• Format: Online; ebook
• Frequency: Monthly issues in ebook formats for purchase; weekly online updates free
• http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/
August 2010—
• Latest posts from the August issue include stories Patient Zero by Tananarive Due and Arvies by Adam-Troy Castro.
• There's also an author spotlights on Due and Castro, nonfiction about doomsday scenarios by Carol Pinchefsky, and an interviews with Robert J. Sawyer.
(Fri 20 Aug 2010)
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 SF Signal
• Daily blog of SF reviews, links, video clips, and commentary; online since 2003; regular contributors JP Frantz and John DeNardo
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Daily
• http://www.sfsignal.com/
August 2010—
• A "Mind Meld" panel addresses the question Which fantasy book first published within in the last 10 years do you think will be considered a classic?, with answers from Lev Grossman, Jonathan Strahan, Richard Bowes, Hal Duncan, and others.
• The third SF Signal podcast is with Jon Sprunk, and there's an exclusive interview with Jeff VanderMeer.
(Fri 20 Aug 2010)
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 SF Site
• Reviews, interviews, feature, links; published by Rodger Turner since 1997
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Semi-monthly
• http://www.sfsite.com/
Mid-August 2010—
• Mid-August features reviews of Strahan & Anders' Swords and Dark Magic, Ted Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects, and nine other books, by reviewers Martin Lewis, Paul Kincaid, David Soyka, and others.
• There are also several audiobooks reviews, a graphic novels column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams, and TV reviews by Rick Norwood.
(Fri 20 Aug 2010)
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 Strange Horizons
• Fiction, art, articles, poetry, and reviews; founded September 2000; editor-in-chief Susan Marie Groppi
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Weekly; reviews posted three times a week
• http://www.strangehorizons.com/
16 August 2010—
• Nonfiction is an interview with Jonathan Maberry and an essay by Matt Cheney about Inception and Christopher Nolan's previous film The Dark Knight.
• Fiction is The Big Splash by George R. Galuschak; poetry is Of Ithaca & Ice by Ann K. Schwader.
• Reviews by Adam Roberts, Kelly Jennings, and Karen Burnham cover titles by Francis Spufford, Eleanor Arnason, and Jetse de Vries.
(Fri 20 Aug 2010)
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 Tor.com
• SF & fantasy fiction, reviews, commentary, founded 2008; staff includes fiction editors Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Liz Gorinsky
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Daily
• http://www.tor.com/
August 2010—
• The Robert A. Heinlein symposium continues, with a cumulative list of posts at the end of Patrick Nielsen Hayden's introduction to the thread; Jo Walton, John Scalzi, Sarah A. Hoyt, Mitch Wagner, and Charles Stross are the major contributors.
• Ryan Britt essays about The Future of Books According to Science Fiction, and Ethan Gilsdorf writes about When literary authors slum in genre. Jo Walton describes how she reads, and reviews Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo and Methuselah's Children.
• Brit Mandelo reviews J.A. Pitts' Black Blade Blues.
(Fri 20 Aug 2010)
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