With all the recent excitement—that is, fund drive, and new website, and upcoming Spanish SF special (Monday!)—we managed to miss our usual round-up of news last month. As a result: here's a double-feature of where else you can find SH contributors recently.
Some new books to start: Nisi Shawl's utopian steampunk Everfair is out from Tor (and getting some excellent reviews). Ken Liu's Dandelion Dynasty series continues in The Wall of Storms, which sees Emperor Kuni Garu confronted with an invincible invading army. L. Timmel Duchamp's latest is The Waterdancer's World, a tale of art and oppression on a colonial world. Lisa Nohealani Morton's interactive novel Congresswolf (as by Ellen Cooper) is out from Choice of Games: when a werewolf murders your boss, you must step up to run a Congressional campaign all on your own. Marie Brennan's Cold-Forged Flame is her latest Varekai book: an epic tale of adventure and emotional upheaval on the way to face an ancient and enigmatic foe. Mary Turzillo's Bonsai Babies is a literary horror collection from Omnium Gatherum, including Nebula and BSFA Award finalists. A. C. Wise's new short story collection is The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories, which includes her SH story, "Sisters of the Blessed Diving Order of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew." Susan Jane Bigelow has not one but two new books out: YA LGBT epic fantasy The Demon Girl's Song, and the grand finale of her Extrahumans series. And Dominik Parisien is co-editor (with Navah Wolfe) of The Starlit Wood, an anthology of cross-genre fairytale retellings featuring stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Amal El-Mohtar, Theodora Goss, Sofia Samatar, Genevieve Valentine and others.
Some art and comics news: Marie Brennan is currently selling prints and digital licenses of Autumn and Halloween photography. And Cecil Castellucci's first ongoing comic, Shade, the Changing Girl is out from DC. And Rachel Kahn has released collections of her comics By Crom! and Orin and the Dead Man's Sword: see her store for details.
On the poetry front: Bryan Thao Worra's "This Island, New Laos" appeared in Lontar 7; Bryan was also elected president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Neile Graham had two poems out: "The God of This Wind" in the first issue of Remixt, and "Summering Spell" in Through the Gate. Also in that latter: Alice Fanchiang's "Susurrus". And also in Remixt: Sara Norja's "Bird People." Jessy Randall's recent poems have recently been in Story ("feminist family tree") and Menacing Hedge (two diagram poems). You can find Gwynne Garfinkle's work in Mythic Delirium ("Champagne Ivy") and in The Cascadia Subduction Zone (along with work by SH poetry editor Sonya Taaffe). And Jenny Blackford had two poems at Grievous Angel, plus "The smell of rotting seagrass" longlisted for the University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's International Poetry Prize, and published in their anthology "tremble. David C. Kopaska-Merkel had two poems in Outposts of Beyond, and released Dreams & Nightmares issue 104. A tanka by Peg Duthie appeared in tinywords. Margarita Tenser's "The Second Law of Thermodynamics" appeared in Ligature Works. Deborah P. Kolodji has had several haiku published recently: "in the fog" in Acorn 37, and "soft wind" and "make-up roses" in Hedgerow 93. Carrie Naughton's "Noxious Weeds" was in Foliate Oak.
And of course there's always room for some new stories. L. S. Johnson's "Wolves" was in Menacing Hedge. Naru Dames Sundar's "The Three Lives of Truck the Red" appeared in The Sockdolager. Andrew Kozma's flash piece "This Transmission is Coming to You" appeared in AntipodeanSF. Benjamin C. Kinney's latest is "Shiplight", from Metaphorosis. You can find Carmen Maria Machado at Uncanny, with "My Body, Herself" Genevieve Valentine's "Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home" appeared in Clarkesworld. Heather Morris's "Wayfarers" appeared in Luna Station Quarterly. Rose Lemberg's "The Book of How to Live" appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Bogi Takács' "Toward the Luminous Towers" appeared in Clarkesworld.
Still more stories! "The Flight of a Village in the Midst of War" is Daniel Ausema's new story, at Daily SF. Aidan Doyle had a Nature Future—"Galactic Empire Management Consulting: lessons learnt"—as did Rachael K. Jones, with "Houston, Houston, Do You Read James Tiptree?". Octavia Cade's "Eating Science with Ghosts" is in the latest Asimov's (and her new novella is just about to be out from the Book Smugglers). In the November Analog, meanwhile, you can find Genevieve Williams' "Love Pops!", and Jay Werkheiser's "The Desolate Void" (buy e-versions here). Hunter Liguore's "The Headstone of Hezikiah Bronson"—the headstone is the point-of-view character—can be found in Hofstra Windmill. Rachael Acks's "The Long Game" is in Kaleidotrope. And Charles Payseur's "What Dora Saw" can be found in the Another Dimension anthology.
Special double bill section because there are still more stories:
- Two from Natalia Theodoridou: "All Those Parties We Didn't Cry At" at Daily SF, and "The Solace of Counted Things" in Liminal.
- You can find Marissa Lingen at The Sockdolager with "The Dust Gate", and at Nature Futures with The Most Important Thing."
- Two more from Michelle Ann King: "Good, Fine, No" at Solarcide, and "We're All Friends Here" at (them again), The Sockdolager.
- Margaret Killjoy's two are "Everything that Isn't Winter" at Tor.com and "A Reasonable Place if You're Careful" at Grievous Angel
- Rich Larson was in Clarkesworld with "The Green Man Cometh", and in Asimov's with "Water Scorpions"
- If you fancy some of Mat Joiner's stories, you'll be wanting to pick up Not One of Us 58, and Something Remains
- Lisa M. Bradley's "The Flying Camel Goes to Tigerwood" appeared in Solarpunk, while "Bilingual, or Mouth to Mouth" was at Podcastle.
- James Dorr has a pair of spec fic/mystery reprints in Flame Tree Publishing's "Gothic Fantasy" anthology series with "Paperboxing Art" (a 1998 Anthony finalist originally) in Crime & Mystery Short Stories and "Mr. Happy Head" in Murder Mayhem Short Stories. Information on these (and more!) can be found at the Flame Tree publishing Gothic & Fantasy list.
Special Orrin Grey section, since he beat everyone else by having four stories out: "Mortensen's Muse" in Ellen Datlow's anthology Children of Lovecraft; "Baron von Werewolf Presents: Frankenstein Against the Phantom Planet" in Eternal Frankenstein; "Blackstone: A Hollywood Gothic" in The Madness of Dr. Caligari; and The Cult of Headless Men, a chapbook from Dunhams Manor Press.
A few translations by Lawrence Schimel: "Last Night I Didn't Dream at All" by Mexican writer Raquel Castro appeared in Litro; "Aerial Plants" by Spanish writer Pilar Adón was in the Stephen King tribute issue of Palabras Errante; and The Treasure of Barracuda by Llanos Campos, about a crew of illiterate pirates who discover that reading is the best treasure of all, is just out from Little Pickle Stories.
And we wrap up, as ever, with some non-fiction. Abigail Nussbaum's essay on the stealth futurism of Person of Interest appeared at Popmatters. At the LA Review of Books, Matthew Cheney took a look at Samuel R. Delany's Dark Reflections. Carrie Naughton wrote about sphinx moths for the Montana Natural History Center's Field Notes. And for Electric Lit, Carmen Maria Machado wrote on How to Suppress Women's Criticism.