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Wondrous Web Worlds Vol. 8 edited by J Alan Erwine {Sam's Dot Publishing}
stories
Tyree Campbell: The Quinx Solution
Marva Dasef: Final Exam
Mike Robinson: The Cyclops Conference
David Lee Summers: Through Fires and Snares
William Golynn: Poisoned Mouse
Sam Cash: Alienation
Sherry Peters: The Greatest Honor
L. Mad Hildebrandt: Emily's Arms
David Boop: The Devil You Haven't Met
Edward Cox: Siren of Rain
John Bushore: Portrait of a Weeping Soldier
Matthew Keville: Here Be Dragons
Tracie McBride: The Blue Screen of Death
Mark Allan Gunnells: Last Night
K. P. B. Stevens: The Needle of Despair
poems
Theodora Fair: Mayday 45659
Troy Umphlette: Freedom
Kristine Ong Muslim: The Most Secret Rooms
Susan Sailors: Wild Irish Rose
Robert E. Porter: Morituri
Jim Hart: The Tie That Binds
David C. Kopaska-Merkel: Strangers Bloom
Karen R. Porter: The Jersey Devil's Blues
Holly Day: Bad
Cathy Buburuz: Lahnee Chee's Orange Orchard on Mars
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff: Seasonal Color
Richard H. Fay: Explorers
C. A. Gardner: Holding Faerie
Theodora Fair: Sagan's Seed
Cathy Buburuz: A Matter of Respect in the Louisiana Bayou
Marge Simon: Patriots' Day
Bruce Boston: A Man Made of Dreams
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Beyond Centauri is a magazine of fantasy, science fiction, and ewww-gross for younger readers [for readers of all ages], published quarterly on the 1st day of January, April, July, and October. Beyond Centauri publishes short stories, poems, illustrations, puzzles, articles, and movie reviews. Treat the younger readers in your family to a subscription...they deserve it.
Issue 25
Stories
Lenora Rain-Lee Good: A House Dying
Jeffrey Crawford: Shadow Puppets
B. J. Blanks: A Bird Too Bizarre
Gilda A. Herrera: Building an Encounter
Rachel V. Olivier: The Spider and the Crow
Teresa S. Rich: Shaking Hands
Simon Fill: Sanctuary
Mark Lawrence: Athenae
Ann Wilkes: For Chance To Dream
Flash fiction
David C. Kopaska-Merkel: Better Ted Than Dead
K. C. Shaw: Shortcut, with Traps
Poems
Aurelio Rico Lopez III: Bad Mix
John Neumeister: The Lonely Robot
Marc Warren Brown: Sunbath
Debby Feo: Data Streams
Debby Feo: Heaven’s Library
G. O. Clark: White Shift
Brienne Adams: The Boy Who Plays The Wooden Flute
Jimi J. Jemel: Arcanum
Sara Bickley: Redder Soil, Greener Grass
Todd Hanks: Cyborg
Features
Visiting Earth with Sylvan Bree Baker
SpaceMonkey Adventure by MonkeyJohn: A Bumpy Ride
Sherry Decker & Michael McCarty: Rusty the Robot’s Holiday Adventures - Independence Day: Built on the Fourth of July
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Winter by Rick Novy {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Humans return to Earth after 20,000 years of time dilation. Cities are rubble. The Golden Gate Bridge is a pile of scrap metal. Hodges thinks he's going home. Yutiko, the winged alien, wishes he was going back home, for this is not the Earth he was promised. Earth has changed, yes, and the more things change . . .
Winter also includes the short story "The Adjoa Gambit," about the risks of gambling with the conquering aliens.
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My Adventures As Brother Rat By Lin Yao, Dowager Queen, Land of Five Dragons by Lenora Rain-Lee Good {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Yes, that's a long title. Just think of it as BROTHER RAT. Under any title, though, this is still a great novel. Think "Mulan," if you will. It takes place in ancient China, a tale about a girl who passes herself off as a boy. Sherry Decker, co-author of the Rusty the Robot stories, says, ". . . a mesmerizing tale of an orphaned Chinese girl who quickly learns she stands a better chance of survival disguised as a boy, and adopts the nickname Brother Rat. Over the years she excels in many incarnations, as soldier, horse trainer, healer, and as tactful ambassador. Dressed as a beautiful young woman she attracts and marries a prince. Her adventures as his queen are both noble and daring. Brother Rat risks all for the lives of the kingdom and becomes a living legend. This is an exciting, epic story . . . once begun, it cannot be put down."
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Drabbler 14 {Sam's Dot Publishing}
This is the 14th installment, the best of the 14th contest, the theme for which was "When Genetic Experiments Go Bad." As always, the interpretation of the theme was left to the writers. Come see what they did. And check out the cover by Scott Virtes.
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Veil of Whispers by Dana M. Baird {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Last year we published Baird's novel The Spell Keeper. Veil of Whispers is the second novel in The Spell Keeper Legends. In the city of Burken there are those still loyal to the former regime that terrorized the country for years. Now, with the city's two largest celebrations approaching, citizens are disappearing from the streets. There are rumors of a growing cult, intent on the destruction of the city and the Crown itself.
It all starts with a boat ablaze on a flooding river . . . and two apprentices who find a mysterious survivor.
But the cult hasn't reckoned on Cassie, the keeper of the spells. She's back: older, wiser, and hotter! And she has a sword that says so!
Remember the old saying about the manure and the wind farm? In Veil of Whispers, they're about to collide.
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Riders of the Mapinguari by Gaddy Bergmann {Flying Pen Press}
Riders of the Mapinguari by Gaddy Bergmann is the final novel in The Feral World trilogy, a post-apocalyptic odyssey set 3,000 years in the future. Humanity has barely survived a near-extinction-level event – the collision of a major asteroid with Earth in the middle of the Twenty-First Century.
Riders of the Mapinguari takes The Feral World in a radically new direction. Blake and his friends have traveled through the Great Plains and are living peacefully in the Warmland, when they are attacked by an enemy quite unlike any they have ever faced before: the Terran army. Poised to conquer the Warmland, the Terrans not only greatly outnumber the natives, but they also have hundreds of mapinguari – giant beasts that can overpower anyone who would oppose them. Blake and his people must face them, though, if they hope to save not only themselves, but the entire Warmland.
The Feral World trilogy is unique in offering an optimistic view of post-apocalyptic society, which has come to consist of local tribes that depend on hunting and gathering. Gaddy Bergmann lives in Denver. He is an ecologist and zoologist, and he carefully crafted a world where the biosphere develops naturally in the absence of humanity’s misguided management of the planet.
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Shimmer is a quarterly magazine providing speculative fiction for a miscreant world. Each issue presents unusual stories told with conventional storytelling techniques. The stories are dark, funny, strange, or all three.
Issue 10
Table of Contents:
Blue Joe, by Stephanie Burgis
The Carnivale of Abandoned Tales, by Caitlyn Paxson
One for Sorrow, by Shweta Narayan
A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor, by Nir Yaniv
The Bride Price, by Richard S. Crawford
Jaguar Woman, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Firefly Igloo, by Caroline M. Yoachim
The Fox and the King's Beard, by Jessica Paige Wick
River Water, by Becca De La Rosa
What to Do with the Dead, by Claude Lalumiere
The Spoils of Springfield, by Alex Wilson
Counting Down to the End of the Universe, by Sara Genge
Non-Fiction:
Interview with Cory Doctorow, by Jen West
Illustration by:
Carrie Anne Baade (cover)
Tom Marcello
Sean Stone
Chris Howard
Adam Doyle
John Bellotti Jr.
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Strange Vegetables by G. O. Clark {Dark Regions Press}
Harpo Marx's pockets. The truth about crop circles. Bizarre job opportunities. A robot poet. A flashback to the Sixties. Within the cornucopia that is Strange Vegetables you will find these and other speculations on things scientific and fantastical, real and surreal, complete with a special garnish here and there to illuminate a poem.
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Double Visions by Bruce Boston {Dark Regions Press}
In Double Visions, SFPA Grandmaster Poet Bruce Boston collaborates with ten other poets, including fellow Grandmaster Robert Frazier, Bram Stoker Award winner Marge Simon, and Asimov's Readers' Award winner G. O. Clark. Includes seven Rhysling nominees, the winner of the Odyssey Poetry Award, and the winner of the Locus Online Poetry Poll for Best All-Time SF, Fantasy, or Horror Poem.
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Ephemeris: A Science Fiction Role Playing Game created by J Alan Erwine & Joshua Kviz {Nomadic Delirium Press}
This title is due to be released in late July
The year is 2185. The human race has gone to the stars, and found that they’re not alone. Local space is teeming with civilizations, some hostile, some friendly, and some indifferent. This is the universe of Ephemeris.
Ephemeris is a game of galactic trade and galactic conquest; of inter-species conflict and cooperation. Ephemeris is a science fiction role playing game. Here you will be able to take on the role of your favorite alien species and your favorite class. You will be able to trade, fight, negotiate, conquer, whatever you’d like to do with your fellow players. You can play the role of an Althani Trader, or maybe an Arbonix Cyber Wizard, or maybe even a Human Nanist. You can create a party made up entirely of one species and set out to upset the trade routes of a rival species. Or maybe you want to create a party with a variety of races that preys upon the trading routes of the various civilizations. Or maybe you want to explore the ancient ruins on long dead planets, ruins that clearly show that there were other species roaming the spaceways in the past…but where are they now? You can fight in great wars, negotiate grand peace treaties, and explore sections of the galaxy that no sentient has ever explored. Or maybe your party has joined with one of the interplanetary corporations; corporations whose motives are never entirely clear. These are just some of the possibilities open to you. The universe of Ephemeris is yours to do with as you please. What you now hold in your hands are the basic guidelines for the games. Here you’ll find the races, classes, abilities, skills, weapons, and ships that allow you to create your own Ephemeris universe.
Now, step inside for the greatest science fiction adventure you’ve ever been on…
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Aoife's Kiss is a magazine of fantasy, science fiction, horror, sword & sorcery, and slipstream, published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. Aoife's Kiss publishes short stories, poems, illustrations, articles, and movie/book/chapbook reviews. Treat yourself to a subscription--you deserve it.
Issue 29
stories
Carol Hightshoe: The President's Meow
Luvia Swanson: Manito, the Mathematician's Son
Matthew Keville: Changeling
Michael John Grist: Killin Jack the Malakite
Selina Rosen: Better Fences
Matthew Johnson: The Ninth Part of Desire
Lawrence R. Dagstine: Before Measured Time
Melissa Mead: Changelings
Michael Swaim: Cosmosis
Mark Allan Gunnells: Dawn
Mercurio D. Rivera: Doubled
Jason Palmer: The Crisis Reversed
Lee Clark Zumpe: Three Coins and the Sword of Mingus
David C. Kopaska-Merkel: Captain Marshmallow
poems
Elissa Malcohn: Frightening the Horses
Jason D. Wittman: Horror Haiku Drabble
Bruce Boston: Endless Summer
Marge B. Simon: The Soul Snatchers
Marge B. Simon: Painting Tomorrow Man
Karen L. Newman: Skyscraper
Shelly Bryant: Under Pressure
Neal Wilgus: Lost Echoes
Sarah Wagner: Crow Queen
s.c. virtes: the4 endgame sky
Angel Favazza: Mirror
Shelly Bryant: Colonizers
Viridian Girl: Dark Father
Shelly Bryant: Fortunes Told
illustrations
Lubov: Daybreak
Marge B. Simon: Silent Conversation
Garret Dechellis: The Convector
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Scifaikuest is an illustrated quarterly magazine that publishes scifaiku, haibun, senryu, and tanka, and articles about these and other poetic art forms. It is published on the first day of February, May, August, and November. In this current issue, John Dunphy is the featured scifaijin, and Oino Sakai and Ushi have an article called "Comedy Without Getting Wet." And this issue is chock-a-block with ku, and a poignant haibun by L. A. Story Houry. So order a copy of this issue today...or better yet, order a subscription. Remember, Scifaikuest is the #1 poetry magazine, according to the latest P&E poll.
Issue 24
The featured poet this issue is David C. Kopaska-Merkel, and he has provided some truly off-the-wall poetic concepts. This issue also includes an article on Threesomes, by Shelly Bryant, plus work by Ann K. Schwader, Tom Conally, Thane Thompson, Sheryl Nantus, Greg Schwartz, Terrie Relf, and many more.
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Illumen is a print magazine of speculative poetry co-edited by Tyree Campbell and Erin Donahoe. It is published biannually by Sam's Dot Publishing, on 1 April and 1 October, in chapbook format. It contains speculative poetry, illustrations, articles, and reviews.
Issue 10
This is the Spring 2009 Illumen. No price changes. The featured poet is Terrie Leigh Relf. For articles, Virtes takes a look at Blake's Book of Thel, and Marcie Lynn Tentchoff treats of Speculative Elements in Traditional Child Ballads. The creme de absinthe of the issue is Cathy Buburuz's "The Wrath of Dignity." This issue also includes work by Stephanie Green, LB Sedlacek, Bruce Boston, Carol Dorf, the inimitable s.c. virtes, Lucille Gang Shulklapper, and Viridian Girl, and many others. Take a chance. Try some poetry. It might bite, but it won't hurt . . . much.
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Toward Absolute Zero by Karen Newman {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Karen Newman, editor of Illumen, has a degree in chemistry that has enabled her to concoct some explosive poetry. From one-night stands to breakfasts after Tiffany's, from little red churches to Titanic survivors, Newman lights the speculative fuse to our human and social foibles and rearranges our molecules.
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You Are Here by Gene Van Troyer {Sam's Dot Publishing}
It's Gene Van Troyer's opus magnus. Do they still say opus magnus? Anyway, it's Gene's biggie. It's poetry, and it's off-beat. Gene belongs in the same crowd as Kendall Evans, s.c. virtes, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, and the guy who came up with Bloom County. This collection of poetry comes with illustrations by Marge Simon and . . . collages, I suppose you'd call them, by Gene himself, one of which is on the cover.
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TALES OF THE TALISMAN (formerly HADROSAUR TALES) is a science fiction and fantasy magazine published quarterly by Hadrosaur Productions. A talisman is any object having apparently magical power. To us, stories and poems are among the most magical things there are. They have the power to transport the reader to other times and places. Join us and discover the magic made by the writers and artists who contribute to TALES OF THE TALISMAN.
Issue 4-4
Ah, springtime! It's the time when a young person's thoughts often turn to romance and we're no different here at Tales of the Talisman. It's just that our romantic musings take a somewhat fantastic turn. Join us as Michael D. Turner introduces us to two lonely space farers who rescue a pair of stranded lasses. The only question is, just how long ago were they stranded? Lee Clark Zumpe introduces us to a couple who must try to work things out in spite of the surprisingly strong pull from a mysterious house. Nebula nominee Mike Allen tells the tale of a couple who face a world that is changing in strange and gruesome ways. Even as the air warms this spring, we'll bring you a new tale of Jack Frost. Accompanying him will be dragons, unicorns and sinister aliens by such authors as Janni Lee Simner, J Alan Erwine, and Mark Anthony Brennan. Please join us for another exciting issue of Tales of the Talisman!
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Heroes Fall by Dylan Brody {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Kelsey Darson falls from world to world doing what is needed of him in each new place. He meets a woman who tells him she is his lover, but he doesn't know this yet because they don't fall from world to world in the same order. He wonders why another man who falls from world to world keeps trying to kill him. He will find out in time that the strange man seeks revenge for a wrong not yet done by Kelsey, a wrong that Kelsey has done in revenge for an act the man does not yet know he is to carry out. Good, evil, love and vengeance play out in a complex, non-linear experience that reveals itself by the end to be elegant in its Moebius simplicity.
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Sylvanian Vampire by Elizadeth Hetherington {Deth Publications}
Renata Savannah is back after two years of saturation in the fine art of
murder. Head cheerleader and social idol, she finds herself in a severe
depression due to the inability to be accepted for what she is. Incestuous
lust and homicidal day dreams accompany her desire for control in her new
routines and accomplishments. Inside is still the inexplicable desire to
destroy and devour. At times of great pain, the urges are more difficult
to control than a simple count through the eight basic rules of murder.
Vocalizing in her own death metal band, she accepts a coincidence from her
past and exposes her natural evil. A blatant disbelief of love and ghosts,
Scarycheerleader fights to prove that the things that can't be proven by
science and nature aren't real. Thirst for blood remains a symptom of
nature for the Sylvanian Vampire.
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Nature of the Daughters by Elizadeth Hetherington {Deth Publications}
Nature of the Daughters is a milestone journey into the rotten mind of a
female psychopath. Through the waves of change, Renata Savannah finds
balance in the natural desire to kill. Obsessed with nature and science,
young Renata displays a firsthand account of the the obstacles and
challenges to being the successor of natural evil. A sharp, brilliant glow
onto the possibilities of the irrational woman, Nature of the Daughters
leaves a permanent scar.
Sylvania, Ohio sets the gore-soaked scene of the fresh murderer in the
wraps of social development. In an unusual family, Renata learns the
secrets of her history and clenches to the adventure in discovering the
most scared of all lessons- love friendship, violence, lust, and the Nature
of the Daughters.
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