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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
27 February
Launched in 2013, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is an international art magazine based in Australia.
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is packed full of insightful and inspiring articles and interviews with the best …
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Crow & Crown
27 February
Crow & Crown's main driving focus is to take real-life history and folklore and turn it into something fun and accessible for gamers.
Each of their 'big books', such as …
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Glacier Bay Books
19 February
Glacier Bay Books is a small independent manga publisher founded in 2019 in Oregon, USA.
They focus on indie & alternative manga, works in translation, contemporary literature and art, and …
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Aneido Comics
19 February
Comics by Aneido.
Titles include the English issue of Now No One Lurks Beneath the Snow, and both the English and Japanese issue of The Murderer and Her Runaway …
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Haven Spec Magazine
19 February
Haven Spec Magazine features stories and poems for a 21st century audience.
Haven Spec love stories with a sense of adventure, stories that teach us, that touch us, that leave …
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Gadda
19 February
Gadda is a TTRPG Designer, Vtuber, Cake Decorator, Chicken Tender, and Wife Guy.
They tend to make games that emulate stuff they like, in the vein of Funkopunk, because sharing what …
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Lillie J. Harris
19 February
Lillie J. Harris is a cartoonist, illustrator & writer creating stories full of tension and empathy.
Creator of IF I HAD KNOWN..., The Broken Heart at the Center of Comics …
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Shiraki Press
19 February
Shiraki Press is a new independent publisher of short-form adult fiction with a hopepunk vibe.
Stories of hope, in spite of everything
These are difficult times, but we don’t have …
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Books for Keeps
19 February
Taking children’s books seriously for over 40 years.
Books for Keeps celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2020. The magazine was first published in March 1980 and since then has reviewed …
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Underbelly Press
19 February
Underbelly Press is an online literary magazine that covets pieces oozing the raw, unfiltered heart of dirty realism.
Their lens is not only focused on one genre: they're on the …
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The Lampmaker of Low Street
Recommended by
kevin
What a great short read!
Can't wait to get started on Simon's other novellas.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/Jun 2022
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An average issue, with lots of shorter pieces of fiction and only a few longer ones. The stories that I found more interesting are those by Fawaz Al-Matrouk, Ai Jiang, Julie Le Blanc, Taemumu Richardson, Shreya Ila Anasuya and John Wiswell.
Full review on BookWyrm [ https://bookwyrm.social/user/sohkamyung/review/180959/s/average-issue-of-fsf-with-more-shorter-pieces-of-fiction ]
Perihelion Summer
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An interesting tale of immediate survival in the face of catastrophic climate change. Compared to his previous stories, there isn't as much 'hard science' involved here, but surviving the changes would involve making tough decisions about how they can prepare and save themselves from the oncoming global crises.
Memory
Recommended by
kevin
An amazing story that more than fulfils my need for great world-building. Such a creative mix of the unrecognisable, beautiful prose, and an uncanny skill for weaving technology into mythology.
Memory is slow to build, but when it does, it does so steadily. As our characters explore the 'Ring of the World' we learn with them, understand with them and fight back with them.
A wonderful read.
The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper
Recommended by
kevin
A. J. Fitzwater has written a beautiful, hopeful, light-filled and joyous book!
This mosaic title filled with anthropomorphic rodents, sea creatures, mer folk and... cats, will more than make you smile. With a swashbuckling capybara pirate captain and chinchilla kraken-communicating ship's mate adventuring with their pure hearts to... bearded islands...? You'll never want this adventure to end!
All Is Bright
Recommended by
kevin
Another beautiful romance novella from Llinos Cathryn Thomas.
The North Wales setting. Bethan's return to her childhood village. Revisiting her feelings about growing up, differences, acceptance are all treated with care and love.
Mali's approach and experiences reflecting back on Bethan's - gently holding up a mirror to her life and what she really wants.
A lovely Christmas read.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2023
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An average issue with interesting stories by Tade Thompson, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Nuzo Onoh, Eleanor Arnason, Mathew Lebowitz, Kathleen Jennings and an unusual urban fantasy piece by Peter S. Beagle.
Full review at [ https://sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/magazines/FantasyAndScienceFiction/20230317-FSF202303.html ]
Even When the World Has Told Us We Have Ended
Recommended by
kevin
If you haven't read any of Cat Hellisen's books before, read this first.
A beautifully crafted tale. Otherwordly, sinister, near-horror, it has sides and edges I couldn't grasp, as my eyes slid off them, unable to focus while it slowly insinuated its pages, paragraphs, sentences, words, and letters into my brain.
A MUST READ, and it will only be the beginning of your journey!
Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2019
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An above average issue, containing a tale connecting past and present by G.V. Anderson and light fantasy tales by Andrej Kokoulin (translated by Alex Shvartsman) and Molly Gloss. Cassandra Khaw and Alex Irvine start and end the issue, respectively, with tales related to the cover.
The Thief's Gamble
Recommended by
kevin
I was intrigued by the promise of a living fantasy world, instead of the usual "I was there three thousand years ago, Gandalf. And look, we're still using swords!"
A world where characters have lives, likes and concerns. Where technologies and discoveries change over time. This is epic fantasy that covers the passage of time in a meaningful way.
A fantastic series.
The Fury of Blacky Jaguar
Recommended by
sakina
Noir-with-a-vengeance, this story drags you round downtown NYC, giving you tonnes of action, gratuitous violence and guns, in return for a 2-hour read. Tightly written, well described, and leaves you breathless.
The Inconvenient God
Recommended by
sakina
Fabulous and imaginative story in an unusual setting, with themes of oppression, lost language and spirituality. Reminded me of Terry Pratchett, though very different from his work.
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