Adventures in SciFi Publishing
Weekly podcast episodes, interviews, news, interviews, and reviews; since October 2006; editor-in-chief Shaun Farrell
Format: Online
Frequency: Weekly
http://www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com/
24 November 2010
Issue 105
This week's episode has interviews with Nancy Kress and Scott Sigler.
Recent episodes have interviews with Anne Sowards, Clay and Susan Griffith, Sam Sykes, Ann VanderMeer, and Matthew Sturges.
Recent reviews cover books by Ed Greenwood, J.R. Ward, and Matthew Hughes.
(Sun 28 Nov 2010)
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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/
November 18 2010
Issue 56
The two stories in this issue are Fleurs du Mal by J. Kathleen Cheney, and As Below, So Above by Ferrett Steinmetz.
(Sun 28 Nov 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/
November 2010
Highlights from the past week include the second of Jess Nevins' The Golden Age of Science Fiction: A Pulp Primer, and an interview with Diane Duane.
A piece by Cory Gross, reprinted from Voyages Extraordinares, explains that Before he wrote Candide, Voltaire helped pioneer science fiction. Charlie Jane Anders peeks at Greg Egan's description of his next novel.
The 'zine ran a number of features this week on the theme disaster zone.
(Sun 28 Nov 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/
November 2010
Cover art by Kai Lim
Fiction posted since earlier in the month includes Faces in Revolving Souls by Caitlin R. Kiernan and Hwang's Billion Brilliant Daughters by Alice Sola Kim (with a podcast). Reprint fiction is Nancy Kress' Ej-Es.
Nonfiction by Lori St. Leone is about body modification and, by Genevieve Valentine, Five Freaky Futures Your Kids Might Face. There are also spotlights on Kress, Kim, and Kiernan.
This issue opens with a story by Charles Yu, Standard Loneliness Package, a spotlight on Yu, and an interview by Matt London of game designer Chris Avellone. There's also a spotlight on the cover artist, Kai Lim.
(Sun 28 Nov 2010)
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The New York Review of Science Fiction
Essays and reviews, published since 1988; edited by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, et al.
Format: Print
Frequency: Monthly
http://www.nyrsf.com/
November 2010
Issue 267, Vol. 23 No. 3, $4.00, 24pp
This special "Conversations with the Dead" issue features a long "Annotated Bibliography on Vampire Media" by Samantha LaChey, Merrill Miller, Cailey Williams, and Druann Bauer, and a series of imaginary dialogues, by Paul Di Filippo, with correspondents of John W. Campbell (on the 100th anniversary of Campbell's birth).
There are also reviews by Michael Swanwick, Darrell Schweitzer, Ursula Pflug, and Alec Austin, of short fiction and books by Thomas M. Disch, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, and Jo Walton.
There are numerous photos, from ConCept, Albacon, the Philip Klass Memorial, a Lyndall Gordon book launch event, and a German conference on the fantastic.
David G. Hartwell's editorializes about Luis Ortiz' book on Jack Gaughan, conventions, and developments in publishing.
(Tue 23 Nov 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/
November 2010
Highlights on this site in the past week include a guest post by Mikal Trimm about the origins of slipstream,
This week's "Mind Meld" asks What gifts would you recommend for the speculative fiction fan or all-around geek?, with answers from Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mike Resnick, and many others. And this week's Podcast is an Interview with Graham Hancock + What Are We Thankful For.
Andrew Liptak reviews Joe Hill's Horns. John DeNardo reviews Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn's Benchwarmer. Clifton Hill reviews John Scalzi's Old Man's War.
(Sun 28 Nov 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/
November 2010
November 22nd: Nonfiction is an article on Mexican science fiction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Fiction is the second half of Blood, Blood by Abbey Mei Otis. Poetry is Jin-Roh: Wolves in Human Armor by Jeannine Hall Gailey. And reviews are by Paul Kincaid, Michael Froggatt, and Sara Polsky.
November 15th posts: Fiction is Blood, Blood part 1, by Abbey Mei Otis. Poetry, by Cassie Beasley, is Relativity. And reviews are by T.S. Miller, Nick Hubble, and Michael Levy.
November 8th posts: John Clute's column Scores addresses Connie Willis' Blackout and All Clear; fiction is Household Spirits by C.S.E. Cooney; poetry is A Day in the Life Of by Bruce Boston; and reviews are by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Matthew Cheney, and Abigail Nussbaum.
November 1st posts: fiction by Aidan Doyle, Hokkaido Green, poetry by Marina Lee Sable, an article on the Large Hadron Collider by Lori Ann White, and reviews by Anil Menon, William Mingin, and David Hebblethwaite. And there is a farewell column from departing editor-in-chief Susan Marie Groppi.
(Sun 28 Nov 2010)
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Tangent
Review magazine for short SF & Fantasy, since 1993; founder and managing editor Dave Truesdale
Format: Online
Frequency: daily
http://www.tangentonline.com/
November 2010
Posted this past week are reviews of Alt Hist #1, Clarkesworld #50, and anthology Triangulation: End of the Rainbow.
This week's "Old Time Radio" features is a a broadcast of Stephen Vincent Benet's "Elementals".
(Sun 28 Nov 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/
November 2010
Highlights on this site in the past week include a story by Kage Baker, The Green Bird, taken from the Jack Vance tribute anthology Songs of the Dying Earth, and an interview with Edward Einhorn, playwright/director of the stage adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
Jo Walton reviews covers the 1959 Hugo Nominees, Mitch Wagner reviews Poul Anderson's The Man Who Counts (aka War of the Wing-Men), and Brit Mandelo discusses Stephen King's On Writing.
(Sun 28 Nov 2010)
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