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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 2009 [MultiFormat]
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 Venture into the shadowy recesses of our August issue, to see what's hidden there.... A murder in 1950s Long Island leads a retired constable to someone's dark wartime secret in Lou Manfredo's whodunit "Central Islin, U.S.A."; two old schoolmates find their long forgotten high-school grudges are worse than ever when the stakes are raised--career, family, a man's life--in Art Taylor's "A Voice From the Past"; an office worker finds his inner killer instinct in Robert Lopresti's "The Shanty Drumme... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, September 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Is there anything more satisfying for serious readers than finding an exciting new writer? Bringing new authors to print is one of the thrills of editing AHMM. Nearly all of the writers featured this month got their start in these pages. John H. Dirckx published his first story, "A Bully's Downfall," in July 1978 and has been a regular contributor ever since. In October 1997, I. J. Parker's "Instruments of Murder" kicked off her long-running series (now at six novels) featuring her medieval Japa... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2009 [MultiFormat]
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People often wish they could keep their youth forever, but what if they really could, in an extreme way? And what if somebody else makes that decision for them, to keep the physical and mental advantages of a child while gaining some of the best features of adulthood? That's what happens in "Evergreen," Shane Tourtellotte's lead novelette in our September issue. And, as so often happens, the ramifications of a choice that sounds simple are far more complex and less clear-cut than those who make ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2009 [MultiFormat]
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World Fantasy- and Stoker-Award finalist Michael Blumlein makes his Asimov's debut in our August issue with the tender, witty, and beautifully written "California Burning." In it, a man, eager to bury his recently passed father, finds the task is much more difficult than he'd expected. Along the way, he also discovers that his father wasn't quite who he seemed, and that dealing with the aftermath of a parent's death is a much riskier and difficult affair when that parent may not have been from t... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July-August 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Mystery stories are about the pursuit of justice, but sometimes that pursuit takes a wrong turn. As several of this month's stories demonstrate, the disinterested pursuit of justice can be particularly difficult during times of crisis, as in Loren D. Estleman's WWII-era procedural, "Soft Lights and Sabotage"; when addressing emotionally-charged topics, as in D. A. McGuire's "The Disappearance of Billy Dawber"; or when mixed with the heady scent of celebrity, as in Brendan DuBois's "The High Hous... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Our July/August "double" issue features two big stories. The cover is for "Seed of Revolution," the latest and possibly the best of Daniel Hatch's series about Chamal, the world where evolution works very differently than it does on Earth. (No, it doesn't matter if you haven't read the earlier stories; in fact, you may get a clearer understanding of Chamal's bizarre biology from this story than from any of its predecessors.) The differences necessarily color the way its inhabitants look at every... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Those of us who somehow find ourselves straddling the generation gap, as described by James Patrick Kelly in this month's On the Net, are the lucky ones: we are able to enjoy stories by the science fiction luminaries of today and tomorrow, all presented in Asimov's.
Consider next month's novella feature by hard SF master Stephen Baxter. "Earth II" is a sprawling, exciting adventure across a massive world filled with mystery, beauty, and danger. Upon this grand landscape, the descendants of the ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 2009 [MultiFormat]
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R.T. Smith is making his first appearance in EQMM here, but his work has previously been included in Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, New Stories from the South, and many highly regarded literary journals. Last year, his story "Ina Grove" was one of three from the Virginia Quarterly Review to receive the National Magazine Award in Fiction.
Charles Ardai is an Edgar and Shamus Award winning author and the founder and editor of the acclaime... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Black Static Horror Magazine #9 [MultiFormat]
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Black Static is the new horror magazine from TTA Press, the publisher of Interzone, Crimewave and The Fix Online. It publishes groundbreaking dark fiction by some of the world's best writers and most talented newcomers, plus hard-hitting features and innovative artwork, combined in a package that one reader recently called "Mean, moody and magnificent." STORIES: THE LONELY HEART - Aliette De Bodard THE PLAIN - Tim Lees HAUNT-TYPE EXPERIENCE - Roz Clarke THE PAIN OF BLUE EYES - Daniel Kaysen CHA... more info>>
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Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine #221 [MultiFormat]
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Interzone magazine, which is now in its 26th year, has launched the careers of a great many SF and Fantasy writers. It is often shortlisted for awards and has won the Hugo and British Fantasy Awards. Interzone includes many features including interviews, news, and reviews. The magazine is currently published every other month and continues to publish some of the world's finest writers and most talented newcomers. Amongst those to have graced its pages are Brian Aldiss, Sarah Ash, Michael Moorcoc... more info>>
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Black Static Horror Magazine #8 [MultiFormat]
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Black Static is the new horror magazine from TTA Press, the publisher of Interzone, Crimewave and The Fix Online. It publishes groundbreaking dark fiction by some of the world's best writers and most talented newcomers, plus hard-hitting features and innovative artwork, combined in a package that one reader recently called "Mean, moody and magnificent." STORIES: AT THE GATES - Patrick Samphire THESE THINGS WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN - Lynda E. Rucker NOPPERO-BO - Steve Rasnic Tem THERE'S SOMETHING WR... more info>>
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Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine #220 [MultiFormat]
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Interzone magazine, which is now in its 26th year, has launched the careers of a great many SF and Fantasy writers. It is often shortlisted for awards and has won the Hugo and British Fantasy Awards. Interzone includes many features including interviews, news, and reviews. The magazine is currently published every other month and continues to publish some of the world's finest writers and most talented newcomers. Amongst those to have graced its pages are Brian Aldiss, Sarah Ash, Michael Moorcoc... more info>>
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June-July 2009 [MultiFormat]
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine and original publisher of SF classics such as Stephen King's "Dark Tower," Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," and Walter M. Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz." Each issue contains the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on literature, film, and science, along with compelling short stories and novellas by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mike Resnic... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Next month we celebrate an auspicious anniversary--that of the twenty-fifth anniversary of James Patrick Kelly's famed June stories. Not only have these June stories offered some of Kelly's most honored works over the years--the Hugo winning "Think Like a Dinosaur" and "10 to 16 to 1" and the Nebula nominated "Undone," "Itsy Bitsy Spider," and "Men Are Trouble" are some notable examples--they've also proven to be some of the most popular stories in our annual Readers' Award polling. You like him... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Our June issue has a couple of linked, unusual, and immediately obvious traits: the cover illustrates a piece of writing by the artist himself, and that piece is a fact article, not a story. Michael Carroll, well known and regarded as both artist and writer, recently got an inside look at NASA's plans for a project to build an actual settlement on the Moon in the relatively near future, and shares that vision with us here.
As usual, the fiction covers quite a bit of ground, including an alterna... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 2009 [MultiFormat]
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We're thrilled to have a new story by George C. Chesbro, "Home Inversion." His first published story, "Snake in the Tower," appeared in AHMM forty years ago. This new story features Garth Frederickson, the brother of Mr. Chesbro's best-known creation, criminologist and ex-circus performer Mongo the Magnificent. But as we were preparing the story for publication, we were saddened to learn of Mr. Chesbro's death on November 18. He was the author of twenty-eight books and numerous short stories.
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Our June issue is a festival of felonies, crooks, and sleuths! Marcia Muller kicks it off with PI Sharon McCone's latest case, "Telegraphing," tracing a missing woman via the old-fashioned social network of the "moccasin telegraph"; novelist Meg Chittenden pens a short about "The Trombone Player," a musician who's desperate to break into his local band; Dave Raines draws out 30 seconds of explosive action into four pages of nail-biting tension ("Suitcase and Slow Time"). Robert S. Levinson and J... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April-May 2009 [MultiFormat]
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine and original publisher of SF classics such as Stephen King's "Dark Tower," Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," and Walter M. Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz." Each issue contains the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on literature, film, and science, along with compelling short stories and novellas by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mike Resnic... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Next month we celebrate all that is fine and good about science fiction in our April/May double issue; a bargain at any price, for it has two excellent novellas on offer, as well as a piquant melange of shorter works, all by some of the best writers in the genre.
Our lead novella, with a striking cover image courtesy of SF artist Paul Youll, is Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "The Spires of Denon," a stand-alone addition to her popular "Diving into the Wreck" universe. This time we find a group of arc... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Adam-Troy Castro is back in our May issue with "Among the Tchi," a sneaky bit of satire that I suspect will ring a bell with lots of readers. It has a great variety of company, with stories by Tom Ligon, Alexis Glynn Latner, Robert R. Chase, Shane Tourtellotte, and Steven Gould featuring an invigorating mix of adventure, alien worlds, and a touch of romance, among other things--always including, above all, imagination and thought-provoking entertainment.
Richard A. Lovett's science fact article... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Wordplay and a macabre sensibility are the hallmarks of our annual humor issue, and this year's edition features eight delightfully dark tales. In Robert Lopresti's "Shanks Gets Killed," mystery writer/sleuth Leopold Longshanks has the dubious honor of playing the victim in a "mystery weekend" fundraiser--but things start looking up when a real crime comes along to compete with the staged one. In "Death of a Condo Commando," Elaine Viets--one of the wryest voices we know--explores the many poten... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Revealed in our May issue: The winners of the 2008 Readers Award! And the wide-ranging stories in this issue include a puzzling case of murder and "Identity Theft" for Jon Breen's detectives Berwanger and Foley; a tongue-in-cheek snapshot of a demonic bureaucrat's daily life in Hell, in Marilyn Todd's "667, Evil and Then Some;" a married couple falling apart after their move to France in Caroline Benton's "L'Etang du Diable;" a new case for Terence Faherty's 1950s Hollywood PI Scott Elliott, in ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Our April issue offers quite a variety of stories, of all shapes, sizes, and flavors. At one extreme is Adam-Troy Castro's "Gunfight On Farside," a striking case study in why "what everybody knows" isn't necessarily what is. At the other end are a trio of quite different short stories by Eric James Stone, Jerry Oltion, and H. G. Stratmann. In between we have a pair of contrastingly quirky novelettes by Mark Rich and Mary Turzillo, with the contrastingly quirky titles of "Foe" and "Steak Tartare ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Our March/April double issue is bigger than ever--and with the new, bigger size come bigger thrills and some of the biggest names in mystery! Award-winning novelists S. J. Rozan, Perri O'Shaughnessy, and Janwillem van de Wetering all contribute brand-new stories: respectively, a Black Mask tale about a savvy prostitute, a high-seas honeymoon scenario with deceptive twists, and a quirky yarn about criminal activity in a tiny town in coastal Maine. Edward D. Hoch's unbroken 36-year run of stories ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2009 [MultiFormat]
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Periodically, there's idle talk here and there about the apparent death of the short story; of how it seems to be of little relevance or interest to today's readership. We see no such weakening from our vantage point and we think, once you've read what we have to offer in our March issue, you too will agree that the rumors of the short story's demise have, as usual, been greatly exaggerated. As Steven Millhauser so admirably wrote in a recent essay for the New York Times, the short story's "met... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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