Time to find out what SH contributors got up to elsewhere in April.
New books: Ken Liu's first novel, epic fantasy The Grace of Kings, is out from Saga; listen to him discuss the book on the Coode St podcast. Cat Rambo's fantasy novel, Beasts of Tabat, is out from Tabat Press. Mary Robinette Kowal's latest novel, the fifth and final volume in her Glamourist Histories, is Of Noble Family. Aliya Whiteley's new novel Skein Island (more here) is out from Dog Horn Publishing. And Joanne Merriam has two anthologies out through Upper Rubber Boot: Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good, and How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens (both of which feature a number of SH contributors).
New stories everywhere! Zen Cho's latest is "Monkey King, Faerie Queen", in Kaleidotrope. Sarah Pinsker's "Today's Smarthouse in Love" is in the May/June F&SF (which is on newsstands now). The latest Apex included A.C. Wise's "Silver Buttons All Down His Back", and Octavia Cade's "Crow", the latest in a series of stories about the future of New Zealand's fishing industry. Tor.com this month featured Vandana Singh's "Ambiguity Machines: An Examination", Sabrina Vourvoulias' "The Ways of Walls and Words", and Usman Malik's novella "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn." The latest Farrago's Wainscot features Paul Jessup's "The Days of Talking Mountains", Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam's "Dance Our Shoes to Pieces", and Romie Stott's "Every Hand a Winner." Karen Munro's "The Dead Must Make Way for the Living" appeared at Necessary Fiction. James S. Dorr's "Dead Lines" appeared at Daily Science Fiction. Orrin Grey has a story in Giallo Fantastique, edited by Ross E. Lockhart. L. S. Johnson has one story in the anthology Strange Tales V from Tartarus Press, and another picked as the winner of the 2015 OddContest. Alison Wilgus' "The Last Wild Place" appeared in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. Mat Joiner has a new tale, "Half The War is a Memory of Trees", in Not One of Us #53, just out. Andrew Kozma's "Coin in My Mouth, Coins on My Eyes" appeared in Juked. Virginia M. Mohlere's flash, "A Million Tiny Ropes", appeared in The Journal of Unlikely Coulrophobia, along with Carlie St. George's "Break the Face in the Jar by the Door." A podcast note: Kate Heartfield's "Traveller, Take Me" appeared at Podcastle. And a reprint note: Gwynne Garfinkle's SH story "In Lieu of a Thank You" has been reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk.
Just a few updates on the poetry front. Stone Telling released its joke issue, including work by Susannah Mandel, Mari Ness, Emily Jiang, Jaymee Goh, Alexander Seidel, and others. Margarita Tenser has a poem in the latest issue of Meniscus. Jeannine Hall Gailey's "Post-Apocalypse (With HGTV Magazine)" was featured on the Rumpus. Sara Norja's "The World in Springtime" appeared in The Stare's Nest. AJ Odasso's "Your last word on earth" is in Star*Line 38.2. Deborah P. Kolodji's haiku "eerie notes" is in the latest Eye to the Telescope, along with work by Mari Ness, Ruth Berman, Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo, and others. And Jessy Randall's "Are All of These Shovels Our Shovels? appeared at Eclectica.
And some non-fiction to finish. Sofia Samatar explains why everyone should be reading Carmen Maria Machado; and Carmen reviewed classic lesbian novel Rubyfruit Jungle for Uncovered Classics. Ada Hoffmann has reviewed Michelle Sagara's Silence and T. Michael Martin's End Games for Disability in Kidlit's Autism Month. Abigail Nussbaum has thoughts on Daredevil. The latest Mad Norwegian Press Doctor Who collections is Companion Piece, in which women celebrate the companions that have mattered to them; it includes essays by Gwynne Garfinkle, Foz Meadows, Nina Allan, Amal El-Mohtar, and others. Electra Pritchett has a retrospective review of Kate Elliott's Highroad Trilogy at SF Misstressworks. Matthew Cheney ponders The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction. Maureen Kincaid Speller writes about John Mullan's wrongness about fantasy. And Nina Allan has read the Clarke shortlist.