 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/
January 13 2011—
Issue 60
• The two stories in this issue are Marie Brennan's Two Pretenders and Camille Alexa's Over a Narrow Sea.
(Sun 16 Jan 2011)
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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/
January 2011—
• Literary-associated posts in the past week include Charlie Jane Anders and Michael Ann Dobbs' list of 10 speculative fiction books that got major rewrites after they were published. Current selections for the io9 book club are Connie Willis' Blackout and All Clear. And there are the winners of the site's environmental writing contest.
• Charlie Jane Anders points to Laura Miller's Salon essay We we love bad writing, and points to Frederik Pohl's blog about Samuel R. Delany's nove Dhalgren.
• Josh Wimmer's occasional "Blogging the Hugos" column covers C.J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station.
(Sun 16 Jan 2011)
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 Quantum Muse
• Science fiction, fantasy and alternative stories and artwork, based on writers' group submissions and critiques, since 1998; current lead editor Tim Goyette
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Monthly
• http://www.quantummuse.com/
January 2011—
• This month's SF stories are Two Days Lightspeed from Sol by Michele Dutcher, and Good Morning, Johnny by Catherine Lyon.
• Fantasy: The Escort by George Farris, and Samantha Berg and the Wealthy Wizard by James Turnbull.
• Alternative: The Homeless Ghosts of Calcutta by Steven Bell, and Metamorphosis and Magic by Gordon Rowlinson.
(Sun 16 Jan 2011)
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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/
January 2011—
• Highlights on this site in the first half of January include free fiction Eyes of Carven Emerald by Shweta Narayan, from Mike Allen's anthology Clockwork Phoenix 3, and a free PDF of Jeff VanderMeer's nonfiction collection Why Should I Cut Your Throat?. The latest Podcast is Interview with Gail Carriger + Is social media good for the book industry, publishing and authors.
• There are new author spotlights on Robert V.S. Redick and Ben Tripp. John H. Stevens has a commentary on The Resonance, Artifice and (Possible) Enervation of Epic Fantasy.
• Reviews: Lisa Paitz Spindler on Hiroshi Sakurazaka's All You Need Is Kill. Darren Cepulis on Nick Kyme's Firedrake. Clifton Hill on Andy Remic's Kell's Legend. Athena Andreadis on Dario Ciriello's anthology Eight Against Reality. Jessica Strider on Laura Bynum's Veracity.
(Sun 16 Jan 2011)
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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-January 2011—
• The site invites readers to vote in its annual readers' choice poll.
• Reviews cover books by Mark Twain & Don Borchert, Harrison Geillor, Anne R. Dick, Mike Shepherd, Frederik Pohl, Tanith Lee, and others.
• There are also reviews by audiobooks and magazines, and columns of news, graphic novels, films, and new arrivals.
(Sun 16 Jan 2011)
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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/
January 2011—
• The homepage notes that Steve Fahnestalk has temporarily taken over for Dave Truesdale as Managing Editor.
• Posts in January includes reviews of Subterranean, Fall 2010, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #56 and #57, Fantasy Magazine, November 2010, and the collection Animythical Tales by Sarah Totten.
(Sun 16 Jan 2011)
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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/
January 2011—
• Highlights on this site in the first half of January include ongoing updates in a poll of the best SF/F novels of the past decade (currently, John Scalzi's Old Man's War is leading), and a story by Ken Scholes, Making My Entrance Again with My Usual Flair.
• Jon Sprunk writes on worldbuilding. Nick Abadzis writes on the future of publishing. Blake Charlton interviews Peter Orullian.
• Reviewed by Jo Walton: Roger Zelazny's This Immortal, Frank Herbert's Dune, Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, Patrick O'Brian's The Nutmeg of Consolation, the Hugo Nominees: 1965, C.J. Cherryh's Serpent's Reach, Mary Renault's The Mask of Apollo, Patrick O'Brian's The Thirteen Gun Salute, and Hugo Nominees: 1964.
• Brit Mandelo's "Queering SFF" column reviews Amanda Downum's The Bone Palace, and her "Writers on Writing" column reviews Nancy Kress' Beginnings, Middles & Ends. Elizabeth Bear reviews Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three.
(Sun 16 Jan 2011)
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