Congratulations again to all the SH authors whose 2013 work from SH has been recognised or reprinted so far; the Nebula ballot and Tiptree honour list also include a number of other SH alumni, which is always lovely to see. In other recognition news, James Dorr's The Tears of Isis is a nominee for the Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in a fiction collection; and Lawrence Schimel's collection Deleted Names is on the American Library Association's Over The Rainbow List of "books that exhibit commendable literary quality and significant authentic GLBT content".
New books: Steve Berman's latest anthology is Handsome Devil: Stories of Sin and Seduction, which includes Claire Humphrey's "Lilac Season", Orrin Grey's "The White Prince", Nicole Kornher-Stace's "This is Not a Love Story", and Theodora Goss's "Catherine and the Satyr", among others. Cecil Castellucci's first SF novel Tin Star is out -- the story of a human girl left for dead on a space station at the brink of a galactic war. You can read an excerpt at Tor.com. Wendy Rathbone's collection of erotic short fiction, My House is Full of Whispers, is out from Eye Scry. And Lawrence Schimel's children's book Let's Go See Papa! was released in its Japanese edition.
A couple of editorial projects that aren't books. The second issue of Mary Anne Mohanraj's South Asian literary magazine Jaggery, went live this week; includes stories by Hasanthika Sirisena and Oindrila Mukherjee, plus poems, essays and art. And Jessy Randall guest-edited an all-poetry-comics issue of Snakeskin Magazine. The Journal of Unlikely Cryptography, co-edited by AC Wise, includes "Ink" by Mari Ness and "How My Best Friend Rania Crashed a Party and Saved the World" by Ada Hoffmann, plus work by Barry King, Mary Alexandra Agner and Gregory Norman Bossert.
Not so much in poetry this month, but Sara Norja has two poems in the latest Chantarelle's Notebook: "Ninety-Eight" and "City of Stones"; and David C. Kopaska-Merkel has a poem in Spellbound, "The Changeling Remembers", while Andrew Kozma's "Rise up! Rise up!" is in the latest Passages North. David Lunde's collection of prose poems and flash fictions, The Grandson of Heinrich Schliemann & Other Truths and Fictions, is out from Mayapple Press. And Elizabeth Barrette's latest poetry fishbowl was on the theme of love.
On the other hand, lots of new stories. The Lakeside Circus continues, with Rachael Acks' "A World of Speculation", FJ Bergmann's "Glossolithia", and CSE Cooney's "Threnody", among others. This month's Clarkesworld includes Natalia Theodoridou's "The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul" and An Owomoyela's "And Wash Out by Tides of War" (and reprints Vandana Singh's terrific "Infinities," one of my favourite stories by her). Paul Jessup's "Summer Cannibals" is at The Big Click, while the May (!) issue of Analog includes Tom Greene's "Another Man's Treasure." Apex has Rich Larson's "Maria and the Pilgrim" and Lucy A. Snyder's "Antumbra." Lightspeed has Ken Liu's latest, "None Owns the Air", a fantasy set in the world of his forthcoming novel; plus Jessica Barber's "Coma Kings" and Sunny Moraine's "So Sharp that Blood Must Flow." Aliya Whiteley's "Endless Art" is in Bourbon Penn; Jenny Blackford's "Six Legs, Three Heads", an SF story for kids, appears in School Magazine; and Renee Carter Hall's "The Emerald Mage" appears in Hero's Best Friend ed. Scott M. Sandridge
Non-fiction: As you may have heard, recently women destroyed science fiction (and a bunch of other genres), and a number of SH contributors had essays published during the Kickstarter: including Liz Argall with "Reading the Library Alphabetically", Anaea Lay with "Stocking Stuffers", Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam with "Stepping Through a Portal", Brooke Bolander with "Breaching the Gap", and OJ Cade with "Stomp All Over That". In reviews, Abigail Nussbaum posted an excellent piece on Her, and Liz Bourke had a prolific month at Tor.com -- in particular check out her pieces on Rjurik Davidson's Unwrapped Sky and Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor. Also at Tor.com, Alex Dally MacFarlane's second post-binary gender column looked at Mission Child by Maureen F. McHugh. And last but not least, Carmen Maria Machado had a humour piece at The Toast: What the colour of your urine says about you.