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Otherside Magazine
14 September
OTHERSIDE is a quarterly queer-led literary magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
Inspired by José Esteban Muñoz’s definition of queerness as “an insistence on …
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Swords Against!
8 September
Swords Against! Magazine is a new sword & sorcery fiction periodical packed with heart-pounding stories accented by great art.
The magazine explores the boundaries between the old and new, challenges …
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Hugh Howey
7 September
Hugh C. Howey is an American writer, and the author of the books Wool, Shift, and Dust, which the science fiction series Silo from Apple TV is based …
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Alan Baxter
2 September
Alan Baxter is a multi-award-winning British-Australian author of more than twenty novels and novellas and over one hundred short stories, encompassing horror, weird fiction, dark fantasy, crime and more.
This Is …
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Sheer Spite Press
1 September
Sheer Spite Press was founded by Lee Arden in 2024 in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal to publish and distribute useful, generous, personal, political, funny, heart-filled works.
Lee has been making zines …
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Word Horde
11 August
Word Horde was founded by Ross E. Lockhart on the the idea that great stories should be given every opportunity to find the right audience.
When you work with the most talented …
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InverteFest
5 August
InverteFest is a periodic online event to celebrate overlooked invertebrate fauna and shre the joys of discovery.
Artists can submit their invertebrate art to be included in the regularly released …
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Tomkin Press
17 July
The home of Shawn Tomkin, the creator and publisher of the ENNIE-winning Ironsworn tabletop roleplaying game.
Now also the home of Ironsworn: Delve, and Ironsworn: Starforged, and Sundered Isles. …
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M. Darusha Wehm
9 July
M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning author.
Darusha is the author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, as well as over …
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Speculative Insight Collections
9 July
Speculative Insight is a feminist journal, although not every essay will be explicitly feminist in analysis.
They are anti racism, transphobia, queerphobia, and ableism. Speculative Insight welcomes essays that present …
Favourite Books
The Year We Lived
Flora & Jim
Manhunt
Ruinous Attraction
Origin Complex
An Unexpected Attachment
Gideon the Ninth
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, Book 2)
True Nature
Daughter of the Sun
Non-Player Character
Airedale
What are readers recommending?
Dweller on the Threshold
Recommended by
kevin
Another stunning thriller from Skyla Dawn Cameron.
Personal, gritty, heart-wrenching. Everything you'd expect from the author.
Cameron wraps her stories in a familiar, 'cosy' skin that she peels away page by page to reveal the monster beneath. Her biographical approach
What's in the house? Only what you take with you.
Oh, and Fuck Greg!
FIYAH - Issue One
Recommended by
kevin
I was expecting to be impressed. But instead I was STUNNED!
FIYAH Literary Magazine is an essential work. While the included stories can all be considered speculative fiction, the breadth of ideas is astounding.
It's all finished off with a nice sample of a self-published work. A great idea.
If the subsequent issues are half as good as this first one, you should definitely subscribe.
Ruinous Attraction
Recommended by
zicon
Perfectly paced smut with people who feel real enough to touch.
The Town
Recommended by
sakina
Ever wanted to just walk on out of your life? Ever been walked out on?
This one's for you.
It's batshit brilliant. Just get it read!
The Year We Lived
Recommended by
kevin
Virginia teases the twist right from the off. But The Year We Lived is so finely written and enchanting that you lose yourself in the world and simply enjoy it, forgetting about this possible twist.
You'll quickly relax and let the sun-dappled fens, the reeds, woods, the description of the Hall and its inhabitants wash over you and pull you like a slow current into its 11th Century setting.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2022
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An average issue with interesting stories by C. B. Blanchard, Karim Kattan, Lucas X. Wiseman, Remi Martin, with an interesting story by Douglas Schwarz involving the paintings in the Lascaux caves.
Full review at [ https://bookwyrm.social/user/sohkamyung/review/351566/s/an-average-issue-with-an-especially-interesting-story-by-douglas-schwarz-involving-the-paintings-in-the-lascaux-caves ]
The Outskirter's Secret
Recommended by
kevin
The amazing second book in what is, so far, an outstanding fantasy series.
The Outskirter's Secret expands on the concepts in the first book, but takes us out of the relative safety of the Inner Lands and into the wilderness of the Outskirts.
I can't believe I've only just started reading this series and am already on the third book.
Still a MUST READ.
Blackbirds
Recommended by
sakina
Brilliant introduction into the fucked up mind of Chuck Wendig.
Glitch Rain
Recommended by
aa5an
Really enjoyed this novella, like early Gibson but with contemporary themes as source material. Drones, social media, self driving cars, AI, etc,....
Hopefully there's more to come.
The Lost Steersman
Recommended by
kevin
A very different book to the previous two in the series.
The Lost Steersman takes a different turn about half-way through, where the scope and scale of the world and its inhabitants undergoes another astonishing twist.
I got a definite Jane Goodall vibe from this book. Our understanding of the steerswomen grows in this wonderful instalment in a fantastic and surprising series. Loved it!
Sunshine
Recommended by
aa5an
Well that took a long time! It is wordy book, and I do not normally enjoy wordy books, but I did enjoy this one. I tried recently to re-read King's "It" but god is it wordy. This is wordy in a different way, you're in the head of the strong female lead, who has her flaws and anxieties and her inner monologue reflects this. It's about vampires and I'm sad that it's a standalone effort.
INTERZONE #285 (JAN-FEB 2020)
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An average issue, with interesting stories by Gregor Hartmann, Andy Dudak and John Possidente.
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