Posted by samuel on August 15, 2011 in
Speculative Fiction News
Welcome along all to this week’s Speculative Fiction News. Let’s crack straight into it. There should be enough spec-fic goodness in here to keep you going for the week. Fresh Fiction New at Fantasy mag this week: The Pragmatical Princess, by Nisi Shawl. At Strange Horizons: Part 2 of Liz Argall’s The Rugged Track. Up [...]
Tags: after ever after, apex magazine, Arcane, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, chizine, Digital Science Fiction, fantasy magazine, lightspeed, Linger Fiction, On Spec, Onirismes, Penumbra, Rainstorm Press, Schrodinger's Mouse, Strange Horizons, Sword and Sorceress, tor.com, Untied Shoelaces of the Mind
Posted by samuel on August 7, 2011 in
Speculative Fiction News
Welcome one and all to the greatest newscast on this blog! That’s right. The only newscast on this blog, the one, the only Speculative Fiction News! Let’s get right into it, shall we? Short Fiction Linger Fiction’s August issue (and their first flash-only issue) is now up. Four of the five stories it contains are [...]
Tags: 27th Dimension Publishing, abyss & apex, Apex, brain harvest, cabinet des fees, clarion, clarkesworld, comets and criminals, Crossed Genres, Deepwood Publishing, Digital Science Fiction, Electric Velocipede, escape pod, fantasy magazine, ideomancer, lightspeed, Linger Fiction, Lore, Mutation Press, Phoenix Pick, realms of fantasy, redstone SF, shock totem, Something Wicked, Strange Horizons, the red penny papers, tor.com, vestal review, warrior wisewoman
Posted by samuel on July 31, 2011 in
Speculative Fiction News
Welcome to the Speculative Fiction News bulletin for this week. Fresh Fiction Fiction Flashback at Electric Velocipede: The Chiaroscurist, by Hal Duncan. At Fantasy Mag: Swans, by Kelly Link. At Lightspeed: Face Value, by Karen Joy Fowler. TOC for issue #4 of Basement Stories. An excerpt from Arcane #1: Laundry Night, by Stephen Hill. Kaleidotrope [...]
Tags: angry robot books, Arcane, basement stories, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Electric Velocipede, fantasy magazine, ideomancer, Kaleidotrope, Kasma SF, lightspeed, Tales of Old, tor.com
Posted by samuel on July 3, 2011 in
Speculative Fiction News
Welcome along to Speculative Fiction News. What do we have this week? Lots of new fiction, for one. Short Fiction This week’s Fiction Flashback from Electric Velocipede: Enmity by K. Tempest Bradford. At Fantasy: You Have Been Turned into a Zombie by a Friend, by Jeremiah Tolbert. At PodCastle: The Landholders no Longer Carry Swords, [...]
Tags: abyss & apex, Bete Noire, clarkesworld, Crossed Genres, Electric Velocipede, fantasy magazine, Kaleidotrope, lightspeed, Phoenix Pick, PodCastle, redstone SF, SF Squeecast, Tales of the Unanticipated, tor.com
Posted by samuel on June 12, 2011 in
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It’s a bit of a slow news week this week, especially after last week’s chock-full-of-awesome bulletin, but welcome along anyhow. Fresh Fiction New at Fantasy Mag this week: A Prince of Thirteen Days, by Alaya Dawn Johnson. New at Lightspeed: Snapshots I Brought Back from the Black Hole, by K. C. Ball. The TOC for [...]
Tags: brain harvest, Crimson Pact, escape pod, fantasy magazine, lightspeed, PodCastle, Sense of Wonder, Strange Horizons, tor.com, Triangulation, Trust & Treachery
Posted by samuel on May 29, 2011 in
Speculative Fiction News
Welcome to your Speculative Fiction News for the week ending the 29/05/11. # Let’s open up with some comic news. Comics Here’s a sneak peek (courtesy of io9) at DC’s Strange Adventures Anthology. It’s a reboot (sorta) of a series that ran from 1950 to 1973. Good times. Awards I’ve decided that this will be [...]
Tags: Analog, Asimov's, BULL SPEC, clarkesworld, DC Comics, Downstate Story Inc., fantasy magazine, James White Award Short Story Competition, Journalstone, lightspeed, PodCastle, Tales of Old, tor.com
Posted by samuel on May 23, 2011 in
Speculative Fiction News
It’s interesting: I haven’t been as busy the last couple weeks as in the recent past, yet i’m finding myself with less time. Strange. Anyway, welcome to this week’s edition of Speculative Fiction News. After my waffle mid-week about perhaps removing the awards segment from the bulletin, here (with red face) is this week’s award [...]
Tags: AE The Canadian Science Fiction Review, Allegory, aurealis awards, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, brain harvest, China Mieville, Digital Science Fiction, fantasy magazine, golden duck awards, in the snake, lightspeed, Linger Fiction, locus, nebulas, niteblade, realms of fantasy, Strange Horizons, The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, tor.com
Posted by samuel on May 16, 2011 in
Speculative Fiction News
Welcome along, folks. What’s does Speculative Fiction News have in store today? Great stuff. As always. Read on to find out. Let’s start off with a most excellent blog post by Beth Bernobich on the ‘rules’ of writing. Read it. That’s an order Awards Here are this year’s Locus Award Finalists. The winners of the [...]
Tags: Analog, Beth Bernobich, Crossed Genres, Enchanted Conversation, fantasy magazine, Ion Hobana Awards, lightspeed, Liquid Imagination, locus awards, Nnedi Okorafor, Parsec Awards, PodCastle, Premio de las Editoriales Electronicas, Rajaniemi Hannu, redstone SF, Strange Horizons, Tales of Old, tor.com, Ursa Major Awards
Posted by samuel on May 1, 2011 in
Speculative Fiction News
Welcome to the Speculative Fiction News for the week ending the 1/05/11. I’ve moved the bulletin to a new timeslot (Monday my time) so i don’t keep missing stuff that happens on Sunday on the opposite side of the globe. Let’s start with Award news, as there were a few presented over the last week. [...]
Tags: abyss & apex, AE The Canadian Science Fiction Review, Allegory, Apex, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Campbell Award, China Mieville, Criminal Element, Crossed Genres, daily science fiction, Ditmar award, EDGE, Fantastique Unfettered, fantasy magazine, Future Lovecraft Anthology, Hugo Awards, ideomancer, lightspeed, Machine of Death 2, New Myths, Parsec Awards, PodCastle, redstone SF, Sean Wallace, Seuin Awards, Shroud Magazine, The Drabbler, Tin Duck Awards, tor.com
Posted by samuel on April 16, 2011 in
Speculative Fiction News
Welcome to the Speculative Fiction News Bulletin for the week ending the 17/04/11. Let’s break with tradition a bit and start with market news. There’s a goodly amount of it this week, and it’s mostly exciting, to boot. Markets We have a new pro-paying SF market: Digital Science Fiction are looking for stories between 3,500 [...]
Tags: Anne McCaffrey, anthologies, Black Static, BULL SPEC, chizine, contests, Crimson Pact, Darrell Awards, Digital Science Fiction, EDGE, Fantasy Book Review, fantasy magazine, Isaac Asimov, Kaleidotrope, lightspeed, Mutation Press, Paisley Stitchington's Speculative Bugle, pyr, Shirley Jackson Awards, Strange Horizons, Submishmash, Sword and Sorceress, tor.com, Woodland Press