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October 2016 Lightspeed Magazine Now Available

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Jeremiah Tolbert has had a pretty impressive short fiction career — in the last few years he’s been published in Asimov’s SF, Giganotosaurus, Interzone, the sword & sorcery Cthulhu anthology Swords Vs Cthulhu, and other fine places. Some of you will also remember his very fine story in Black Gate 15, “Groob’s Stupid Grubs.” His latest tale for Lightspeed is “The Cavern of the Screaming Eye,” a futuristic role-playing tale which he describes thusly: The first in the Dungeonspace sequence of stories,…

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The Top 50 Black Gate Posts in August

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Following on our record 1.26 million page views in July, Black Gate had an even more incredible August. There were lots of small triumphs, but the big one was receiving an Alfie Award from George R.R. Martin at Worldcon (at right). In his blog post explaining this year’s awards, George wrote: One of my special ‘committee awards’ went to Black Gate, which had 461 nominations in the Fanzine category, second among all nominees and good for a place on the…

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July 2016 Lightspeed Magazine Now Available

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The complete July issue of Lightspeed is now yours to enjoy free online. This month brings new fantasy by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz and Kenneth Schneyer, and fantasy reprints by A. Merc Rustad and Spencer Ellsworth, plus original science fiction by Ted Kosmatka and Jilly Dreadful, along with SF reprints by Genevieve Valentine and Seth Fried. In his editorial, editor John Joseph Adams shares some award good news, plus intriguing news about his new book line with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: We’re thrilled to report that Alyssa…

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John DeNardo on The Must-Read Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror in June

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Kirkus Reviews has become a lively place for SF and fantasy discussion, thanks primarily to the efforts of Andrew Liptak and John DeNardo, who have been producing weekly articles that look at the best in the genre, old and new. John has taken to doing a monthly survey of the most intriguing new titles in SF, fantasy and horror, and I find it invaluable. This month he highlights new books by Stephen King, Malka Older, Naomi Novik, Brenda Cooper, Anthony O’Neill, Charles Stross,…

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The 2015 Nebula Award Winners

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Henry Lien and the Eunuchs of the Forbidden City perform the brilliant “Radio SFWA” at the 2016 Nebula Awards I attended the 2016 Nebula Awards banquet here in Chicago on Saturday night, and I thought that meant I’d be able to announce the winners in a timely fashion. Instead, I wasted my time hobnobbing with winners, nominees, and just all around cool people until very late in the evening, got home at 2:15 am, and fell asleep for roughly 24 hours. So…

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Clarkesworld 116 Now Available

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I love Peter Mohrbacher’s cover for the May issue of Clarkesworld, a gorgeously creepy piece titled “Ananiel, Angel of Storms” (click the image at right for a bigger version.) Mohrbacher has covered other Clarkesworlds — mostly recent issue 111 — but this is the first to really make me sit up and take notice. Robert L Turner III at Tangent Online raves about Rich Larson this issue, calling him “an excellent new talent.” “Jonas and the Fox” by Rich Larson is set in…

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April 2016 Lightspeed Magazine Now Available

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The fiction in every issue of Lightspeed is gradually made available on the website as the month progresses; the last story in the newest issue became available on April 28th, and the entire issue is now yours to enjoy free. The April issue includes tales of supervillain ex-boyfriends, queens rescued from dragons, quantum challenges, and the first mating between humans and aliens. Robert L Turner III reviewed the issue at Tangent Online: In “Origin Story” by Carrie Vaughn we are introduced…

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New Treasures: Mort(e) by Robert Repino

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Robert Repino’s Mort(e) is an unusual book. In his article “Five Books in Which Giant Insects Ruin Everyone’s Day” at Tor.com last year, Eric Smith described it thusly: An epic science-fiction thriller out on January 20th, Mort(e) introduces you to a world that’s been conquered by hyper-intelligent giant ants… Tired of mankind’s treatment of the world, the ants have risen to take the planet, and have made other animals self-aware. It’s an epic battle between humans, ants, dogs, ants, cats, ants,…

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Future Treasures: The Last Mortal Bond by Brian Staveley, Book 3 of The Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne

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I usually don’t bother to read the first volume of a new fantasy series. I’m not a patient guy… when I find something I love, I generally don’t like to have to wait around for the next volume. But that policy was severely tested with Brian Staveley’s debut fantasy novel The Emperor’s Blades, the opening volume in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne. The reviews were glowing, and the sequel, Providence of Fire, only upped the ante. Andrew Liptak, writing…

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Future Treasures: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

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Ken Liu has been one of the breakout fantasy stars this decade. His first novel, The Grace of Kings, was nominated for a Nebula Award last week, and Amal El-Mohtar called it “a magnificent fantasy epic.” As a translator he’s brought some of the most important Chinese-language SF to America, including last year’s Hugo winner, The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu. But much of Ken Liu’s reputation was built on a stellar series of short stories published in places like…

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