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Abyss & Apex: Magazine of Speculative Fiction
The Man Behind The Curtain by Joseph Paul Haines Stories Of The Alien Invasion by Manek Mistry Metamorphoses In Amber by Tony Pi Selected as Honorable Mentions in the 2007 edition of Year's Best Science Fiction , edited by Gardner Dozois. New Spectacles by Will McIntosh All The Wonder ...
SHORT FICTION: Blakenjel
apexbookcompany.com — by Lavie Tidhar 1. A Stenchtown Tale Blakenjel bilong mi is black like unlit coal. His open... wings are like smokers’ lungs. His skin is taut and fine like expensive vellum that was blackened in flames. There are many blakenjels, but only one ... (more) SHORT FICTION: Blakenjel
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Wrapping Up And A Plateful of Links
Ecstatic Days — ... . I’ve got fiction appearing in the next year in: Paul Jessup’s anthology, Hatter Bones; Abyss & Apex; and an anthology of my stories coming mid-2009 from ...

Feature: Free Fiction and Writing Podcasts
Bibliophile Stalker — ... fiction pieces each month (one of which gets podcasted). Lone Star Stories - A bi-monthly speculative fiction webzine that features consistent fiction and poetry. Fantasy Magazine - An online magazine that features new fiction every Monday (plus the occasional podcast). Ideomancer - A quarterly downloadable magazine on speculative fiction which embraces science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, and flash. Abyss & Apex - A quarterly spec fic magazine that includes fiction and poetry. ...

Abyss and Apex, Tales of Tommorow, and Poe Audio
QuasarDragon — E-Fiction Abyss & Apex has a new issue out featuring an editorial, poetry, flash fiction, and full length fiction (listed below) " Troy And The Aliens" by Ruth Nestvold. "And smack dab in the middle, in front of the oompah band, four aliens were dancing on the table. Their arms were linked, and they swayed to the horns, much as their German compatriots on nearby tables. " "Angry Rose's Lament" by Cat Rambo. " She claimed that her friend had been one of the first explorers to make contact with the ...

SF Tidbits for 10/28/08
SF Signal — ... Christopher Paolini (Brisingr ). [via Suvudu] Bibliophile Stalker interviews Jay Lake (Escapement). Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon] @Fantasy Magazine: "The Plagiarist" by Alex Rose. @Strange Horizons: "Nine Sundays in a Row" by Kris Dikeman. @Hairy Green Eyeball: "The Shadow On the Sky" by August Derleth (1931) in scanned JPEGS. Abyss & Apex has new fiction by Ruth Nestvold, Cat Rambo, Patrick Thomas, and S.K. ...

Abyss & Apex #28 now available
SFScope — [image] Issue 28 of Abyss & Apex , which is the fourth quarterly issue of 2008, is now live. The fiction available on-line in this issue includes: "Troy and the Aliens" by Ruth Nestvold "Angry Rose's Lament" by Cat Rambo "Snips and Snails" by Patrick Thomas (a tale from the DMA Casefiles ) "Orange is Just Another Color" by S.K. Richards "Musings on Flesh and Other Prisons" by Jennifer Greylyn Poetry: "Clay Companion" by Kurt Kirchmeier "Dark Flow" by Francis W. Alexander "The Other Rooftops" by Randy Schroeder "The Ignorant Sand" by Lee Stern "Dog Star Man" by Howie Good ...

Original free fiction feed now tracks some more sources
Variety SF — ... Sherman": "A web comic strip, a boy, and some aliens". New strip most days. [via The Mighty Mighty MOC-BLOG] For more than 2 dozen magazines that I cannot currently handle because they don't have a feed or because the feed is not program friendly, I now watch for new issue announcements via SF Scope. Every now & then, good folks at SF Scope put out one of these announcements - so I won't be chasing them now. Not this will not catch Abyss & Apex new issue announcement that appeared a few days ago at SF Scope because of ...

Soulless Machine 2008 Best Reads
The Soulless Hermeneutics Machine — ... Raven The Deckled Edge The Diary of Samuel Pepys The Fantasy Review The Galaxy Express The Genre Files The Gravel Pit The Human Race The Skinner The Swivet The Toasted Scimitar The Wertzone The World in the Satin Bag The Writers' Block Valley of the Archetypes von Darkmoor's thoughts William Gibson Books [image] [image] [image] Short Fiction Online Abyss and Apex Apex Digest Clarke's World Magazine Heliotrope Magazine ...

Free Genre E-Fiction
QuasarDragon — ... Abyss & Apex has a new issue out with fiction by Pauline J. Alama, Marie Brennan, Fraser Sherman, Richard Foss, Karl Bunker, and Samantha Henderson. Online ...

SF Tidbits for 2/10/09
SF Signal — ... Abyss & Apex has a new issue out with fiction by Pauline J. Alama, Marie Brennan, Fraser Sherman, Richard Foss, Karl Bunker, and Samantha Henderson. ...

Friday Free Fiction for 13th February
Futurismic — ... The new issue of Abyss & Apex features fiction by Pauline J Alama, Marie Brennan, Fraser Sherman, Richard Foss, Karl Bunker, and Samantha Henderson ...

More SemiProzine Musings
The Crotchety Old Fan — OK.  Cheryl properly chastised me:  the (Enormous) list of magazines qualifying for this Hugo Award category can be found on the site by clicking the menu tab for ’semiprozine directory’ at the top of the page, which produces a list that looks like this: Abyss & Apex Ansible Albedo One Apex Magazine Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Baen’s Universe Clarkesworld Magazine Fantasy Magazine Futurismic Greatest ...

SOSpz
The Crotchety Old Fan — ... Horizons - http://www.strangehorizons.com/ · Subterranean Magazine - http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine · Writers of the Future Anthology and here’s the semi-prozine list Abyss & Apex Ansible Albedo One Apex Magazine Andromeda Spaceways Inflight ...

The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volume 1
Semiprozine.org — Congratulations to Abyss & Apex and Hadley Rille Books on the release of The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volume One, edited by Wendy S. Delmater. Table of Contents: “The Night the Stars Sang Out My Name” by Ken Scholes “Interfaith” by Lisa Mantchev “Lament for Titan” by Robin M. Mayhall “Godspeed, Inc.” by Vincent Miskell “Night is My House” by Christopher Vera “Metamorphoses in Amber” by Tony Pi “City of Beautiful ...

April 23, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Is Coming... to HBO. Shira Lipkin is having an auction. Free Black Static 10 with a subscription to Interzone. PS Publishing announces (scroll to the bottom) that the ten-novel Gift Boxes have been upgraded (for the month of April only) by one of the random ten books being exchanged for a trade edition of Secret Histories. Strange Horizons has staff openings. A new issue of Abyss & Apex just got released. New Imaginarium Geographica Art Prints! Here's your daily plug: ...

The Worm Ouroboros, Star Trek, E-Zines, and More
QuasarDragon — ... The latest issue of Abyss & Apex has new fiction - "The Midnight Girls" by Lisa A. Koosis "As artists, we do not just see and translate the world around us visually." He walked down one aisle and up the other, moving between desks. "We engage all of our senses. We feel the world around us. Taste becomes color. Sound becomes lines or angles, maybe curves. Touch, emotion becomes the play of dark and light on the page." "No Cord Or Cable" by Bud Sparhawk Mother shrugged, momentarily distracted by the question. "Doctor Zg's a Capellan who was abandoned by explorers. Your father ...

SF Tidbits for 5/1/09
SF Signal — ... The latest issue of Abyss & Apex is online with fiction by Lisa A. Koosis, Bud Sparhawk, Aliette de Bodard, Ruth Nestvold, and William Highsmith. ...

Friday Free Fiction for 1st May
Futurismic — ... The latest issue of Abyss & Apex includes fiction by Lisa A Koosis, Bud Sparhawk, Aliette de Bodard, Ruth Nestvold, and William Highsmith ...

Abyss & Apex #30 now available
SFScope — [image] Issue 30 of Abyss & Apex , which is the second quarterly issue of 2009, is now live. The fiction available on-line in this issue includes: "The Midnight Girls" by Lisa A. Koosis "No Cord or Cable" by Bud Sparhawk "Dancing for the Monsoon" by Aliette de Bodard "In the Middle of Nowhere with Company" by Ruth Nestvold "Deep Moves" by William Highsmith (flash fiction) Poetry: "Bumbershoot" by Howard V. Hendrix "Across the Grimpen Sedge" by Paul Christian "Music Smooth as Fog" by Marge Simon The editorial, "Fix, Do Not Eliminate, the Semiprozine Hugo", is by Editor-In-Chief ...

[fiction] "Clown Eggs" now available in audio at DrabbleCast
Lakeshore — My Abyss & Apex short story "Clown Eggs" is now available in audio form at DrabbleCast. I've always loved the opening of that piece. ...

Jusith Tarr, PodCastle, and More
QuasarDragon — ... Abyss & Apex has a new issue out with "Section III" by Caren Gussoff. "Some lives are like antiques, solidly constructed but obscured by dust, discovered as treasures generations later. Others are like postmodern architecture, the structure emphasizing all the empty space." "Carpe Mañana" by Richard A. Lovett. "... while Caddy was still reeling from the sentence, he found he had twenty-four hours either to win his appeal or die. Subjective hours, that is. On the outside, it would take however long it took." "Starlings" by Michael J. DeLuca. "Within the confines of this fence, ...

Free Fiction and Stuff for 7/30/09
SF Signal — ... Abyss & Apex has a new issue out with fiction by Caren Gussoff, Richard A. Lovett, Michael J. DeLuca, Christopher Green, and Patricia Russo, as well as poetry and more ...

Abyss & Apex #31 now available
SFScope — [image] Issue 31 of Abyss & Apex , which is the third quarterly issue of 2009, is now live. The fiction available on-line in this issue includes: "Section III" by Caren Gussoff "Carpe Ma ana" by Richard A. Lovett "Starlings" by Michael J. DeLuca "A Hundredth Time" by Christopher Green "Rainbows and Other Shapes" by Patricia Russo Poetry: "Harmony in Motion" by Zo Gabriel "Emperor Fish" by Daniel A. Rabuzzi "my computer crashed" by Emmanuel Jakpa "Man in a Foam Rubber Suit" by T.R. Click "Green Water" by Anna Sykora The editorial, "Forty Years", by Associate Editor Jude-Marie ...

Abyss & Apex 3rd Quarter 2009
Semiprozine.org — The 3rd Quarter edition of Abyss & Apex is now live! Enjoy short stories by: Caren Gussoff Richard A. Lovett Michael J. DeLuca Christopher Green Patricia Russo Musings on the 40th anniversary of men walking on the moon and speculative poetry round out the issue.

The Speculative Poetry Scene
Nebula Awards Blog — ... Dreams & Nightmares http://dreamsandnightmares.interstellardustmites.com/ The Magazine of Speculative Poetry http://www.sff.net/people/roger-dutcher/#mspgdln Star*Line http://www.sfpoetry.com/current.html Mythic Delirium http://www.mythicdelirium.com/index.htm Astropoetica http://www.astropoetica.com/ Abyss & Apex http://www.abyssandapex.com/ Ideomancer http://ideomancer.com/ ...

Abyss & Apex: 4th Quarter 2009
Semiprozine.org — ... The 4th Quarter 2009 issue of Abyss & Apex is now live, featuring a look at this year’s Campbell Conference by Chris McKitterick, McKitterick, Short Fiction by Paul Carlson, Christopher Lockhart, Craig Watson, Lavie Tidhar, David J. Sakmyster, K. Bird Lincoln and Max Salnikov. Also poetry by Rachel Manija Brown. ...

October 30, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Stupid Even When Amazon Does Them. Nathan Bransford on The Reverse Snobbery of Low Literary Aspirations. Pat's Fantasy Hotlist on Why no love among the SFF fandom??? News Paul Di Filippo interviews The Year of the Flood. Macmillan US opens up new front in battle over e-book royalty rates. (via Eric Rosenfield) Here, There Be Dragons is free until 11/9. New issue of Abyss & Apex Magazine. TTA Press has a preview of Interzone #225. ...

SF Tidbits for 10/30/09
SF Signal — ... Di Filippo reviews Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood: "Mundane SF often comes within kissing distance of cyberpunk..." Macmillan US opens up new front in battle over e-book royalty rates. (via Eric Rosenfield) James A. Owen's Here, There Be Dragons is free until 11/9. Read the first chapter of Plague Zone, Jeff Carlson's sequel to Plague Year and Plague War. New issue of Abyss & Apex Magazine. TTA Press has a preview of Interzone #225 ...

Abyss & Apex #32 now available
SFScope — [image] Issue 32 of Abyss & Apex , which is the fourth quarterly issue of 2009, is now live. The fiction available on-line in this issue includes: "Mirror Girl" by Paul Carlson "Lake of Dreams" by Christopher Lockhart "Epitaph in Oak" by Craig Watson "Out of the Blue" by Lavie Tidhar "The Wrong Basement" by David J. Sakmyster Separately, the list flash fiction: "A Recipe for Broke-Heart Bread" by K. Bird Lincoln "The Chinese Chef was a Hologram" by Max Salnikov Poetry: "Nine Views of the Oracle" by Rachel Manija Brown The editorial, "The Joy of Small Cons: Campbell Conference ...

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