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/

April 2012
Issue 92,93
• This issue has stories by Mike Allen and Christian K. Martinez, plus an audio podcast of a story by Tom Crosshill.
• Issue 92 had stories by Tom Crosshill and Cory Skerry, and an audio podcast story by Grace Seybold.

(Sat 28 Apr 2012)


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/

April-May 2012
Issue 28, £3.95, 64pp, cover art by Warwick Fraser-Coombe
• This issue has stories by Carole Johnstone, Jon Ingold, Priya Sharma, Joel Lane, and Daniel Kaysen.
• Columns are by Peter Tennant (news), Stephen Volk (Coffinmaker’s Blues), Christopher Fowler (“Interference”), Mike O’Driscoll (“Silver Bullets”); reviews are by Tony Lee (DVD/BD) and Peter Tennant (books).
• The magazine’s site has this post with an annotated table of contents.

(Thu 26 Apr 2012)


Bull Spec

• Quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, edited by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn; launched Spring 2010
http://www.bullspec.com/

Spring 2012
Issue 7, $8, 60pp, cover art by Angi Shearstone
• Fiction in this issue if by D.K. Thompson, Jason Erik Lundberg, Stephanie Ricker, Natania Barron, J.P. Trostle, and Jason K. Chapman.
• There’s also part 3 of a 4-part graphic story, by Jeremy Whitley and Jason Strutz.
• Features include interviews and reviews of Vernor Vinge, C.S. Friedman, Lauren Beukes, and several others, book reviews, poetry, and an editorial.
• The magazine has a new website and blog.

(Tue 24 Apr 2012)


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/

April 2012
Issue 284, Vol. 24 No. 8, $5, 24pp
• This special “On the Edges” issue features essays by Chris N. Brown, on “Science Fiction in the Edgelands”, and Mike Barrett, on the short stories of John Jakes.
• Most of the issue consists of essays, with others by Victor Grech, Darrell Schweitzer, James Morrow, and Robert Eldridge.
• Reviews are by D. Douglas Fratz on an anthology from Gordon Van Gelder, and Wendy Bousfield on Stephen King.
• The magazine’s website has the complete table of contents and David G. Hartwell’s editorial.

(Tue 24 Apr 2012)


SF Site

• Reviews, interviews, feature, links; published by Rodger Turner since 1997
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Semi-monthly
http://www.sfsite.com/

mid-April 2012
• The lead review in this issue is Christopher DeFilippis on Christopher Priest’s The Islanders.
• Other reviews include Sandra Scholes on Dawn Lairamore, Greg L. Johnson on Maureen F. McHugh, and Dave Truesdale on Larry Niven & Steve Barnes.
• There are also Neil Walsh and Rick Klaw & Mark London Williams.

(Sat 28 Apr 2012)