Black Static is the new horror magazine from TTA Press, the publisher of Interzone, Crimewave and The Fix Online. It publishes groundbreaking dark fiction by some of the world's best writers and most talented newcomers, plus hard-hitting features and innovative artwork, combined in a package that one reader recently called "Mean, moody and magnificent." STORIES: DE PROFUNDIS--Al Robertson NONE HAD SHARP TEETH--Will Mcintosh THE LIKENESS--Lawrence Conquest SERVED COLD--Gary Couzens OFF WITH THE F... more info>>
Words: 57033 - Reading Time: 162-228 min. Category: Horror
Black Static is the new horror magazine from TTA Press, the publisher of Interzone, Crimewave and The Fix Online. It publishes groundbreaking dark fiction by some of the world's best writers and most talented newcomers, plus hard-hitting features and innovative artwork, combined in a package that one reader recently called "Mean, moody and magnificent." STORIES: PIANO MAN--Christopher Fowler THE CHAIR--Gary McMahon WASHER WOMAN--Scott Lambridis VIC--Maura McHugh BECAUSE YOUR BLOOD IS DARKER THAN... more info>>
Words: 61062 - Reading Time: 174-244 min. Category: Horror
Interzone magazine, which is now in its 27th year, has launched the careers of a great many SF and Fantasy writers. It is often shortlisted for awards and has won the Hugo and British Fantasy Awards. Interzone includes many features including interviews, news, and reviews. The magazine is currently published every other month and continues to publish some of the world's finest writers and most talented newcomers. Amongst those to have graced its pages are Brian Aldiss, Sarah Ash, Michael Moorcoc... more info>>
Words: 58030 - Reading Time: 165-232 min. Category: Science Fiction
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine and original publisher of SF classics such as Stephen King's "Dark Tower," Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," and Walter M. Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz." Each issue contains the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on literature, film, and science, along with compelling short stories and novellas by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mike Resnic... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 93142 - Reading Time: 266-372 min. Category: Fantasy
Mexico, India, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, are just a few of the places where the December issue finds charming thieves, wily con artists, and murderous moneymen. The Chevalier Remy descends into the depths of the seventeenth century Parisian underworld in R. T. Lawton's "Boudin Noir." A slave called Colm in ancient Iceland proves to be calm and quick thinking in the midst of murderous passions in Mike Culpepper's "The Trollfarm Killing." In Iain Rowain's eerie story "Nowhere To Go," a homebound ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 46834 - Reading Time: 133-187 min. Category: Mystery/Crime
Our December issue is here, and it's our favorite time of year: Time for you to send us your 2009 Readers Award ballots, and tell us which of the year's stories you liked best! Before making your choices, be sure to read this last issue of 2009. See mysteries unfold by paper trail, first in a series of letters to an old school chum, in Richard A. Lupoff's "Patterns," then in a teenager's journal washed up on the Jersey shore, in David Dean, "Erin's Journal." Catch a glimpse of a criminal: a neig... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 61401 - Reading Time: 175-245 min. Category: Mystery/Crime
Stories both sweet and savory await you in our piquant December issue--and something for almost every taste. The more sophisticated palates among us often prefer both flavors intertwined, and Brian Stableford posits, in his newest novelette for us, that "Some Like It Hot." Don't fear--there will be no sign of either Tony Curtis or Jack Lemmon dressed as not-so-lovely ladies (and sadly no sign of Marilyn, either), but, instead, we offer a sophisticated fictional treatise on the future of commerci... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 65834 - Reading Time: 188-263 min. Category: Science Fiction
David A. Hardy's spectacular December cover illustrates a story as hard to capture in a single image as it was to imagine in the first place: "Formidable Caress," the latest of Stephen Baxter's "Tales of Old Earth." Old Earth, you may remember (though you don't have to) is a most peculiar place where time is layered, running at different rates at different altitudes. That's what makes it possible to experience a drama on such a colossal scale that it would at first seem intrinsically beyond the ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 73708 - Reading Time: 210-294 min. Category: Science Fiction
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine and original publisher of SF classics such as Stephen King's "Dark Tower," Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," and Walter M. Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz." Each issue contains the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on literature, film, and science, along with compelling short stories and novellas by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mike Resnic... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 122162 - Reading Time: 349-488 min. Category: Fantasy
Interzone magazine, which is now in its 27th year, has launched the careers of a great many SF and Fantasy writers. It is often shortlisted for awards and has won the Hugo and British Fantasy Awards. Interzone includes many features including interviews, news, and reviews. The magazine is currently published every other month and continues to publish some of the world's finest writers and most talented newcomers. Amongst those to have graced its pages are Brian Aldiss, Sarah Ash, Michael Moorcoc... more info>>
Words: 56932 - Reading Time: 162-227 min. Category: Science Fiction
Interzone magazine, which is now in its 27th year, has launched the careers of a great many SF and Fantasy writers. It is often shortlisted for awards and has won the Hugo and British Fantasy Awards. Interzone includes many features including interviews, news, and reviews. The magazine is currently published every other month and continues to publish some of the world's finest writers and most talented newcomers. Amongst those to have graced its pages are Brian Aldiss, Sarah Ash, Michael Moorcoc... more info>>
Words: 55956 - Reading Time: 159-223 min. Category: Science Fiction
It's awards season in mysterydom, and we have several authors to congratulate. Jane K. Cleland's "Killing Time" (November 2008), featuring antiques dealer Josie Prescott, was a finalist for the Best Short Story Agatha Award at the Malice Domestic convention in May, and is currently a finalist for the Anthony Award for best story; the Anthonys will be presented at the 40th Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Indianapolis in October.
Several other awards are also announced during Bouchercon: t... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 47998 - Reading Time: 137-191 min. Category: Mystery/Crime
Our November issue features a dramatic cover by an old Analog favorite, Vincent Di Fate, for a two-part serial by G. David Nordley, To Climb a Flat Mountain. If you're marooned in an unfamiliar environment, obviously the first order of business is survival, which is even more of a challenge if, the more you learn about where you are, the less sense your surroundings make. The world Nordley has created here is one that shouldn't even exist, but he's done his usual admirable job of making it belie... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 71420 - Reading Time: 204-285 min. Category: Science Fiction
Stories from Clark Howard, Doug Allyn, Lee Goldberg, Marjorie Eccles, and more....
CONTENTS
Fiction: WHITE by Clark Howard
Reviews: THE JURY BOX by Jon L. Breen
Reviews: BLOG BYTES by Bill Crider
Novelette: THE CANDY-FACTORY GIRLS by Tessa de Loo
Novelette: FAMOUS LAST WORDS by Doug Allyn
Department of First Stories: A FELLOW OF INFINITE JEST by Nina Mansfield
Novelette: THE CASE OF THE PISS-POOR GOLD by Lee Goldberg
Novelette: HOMEWORK by Phil Lovesey
Black Mask: WHAMMER JAMMER by Mar... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 59973 - Reading Time: 171-239 min. Category: Mystery/Crime
No room here to be clever about our fabulous October/November double issue, so let�s begin: Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore contribute a literary tale of loss and personal redemption amidst the curious life cycle of an insect known as the "Blood Dauber"; Heather Lindsley, making her Asimov�s debut, tells of the troubles experienced by time-traveling wage-slaves who answer the eternal question of just "Where the Time Goes"; R. Garcia y Robertson returns to his Burroughs-inspired milieu for a j... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 110326 - Reading Time: 315-441 min. Category: Science Fiction
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine and original publisher of SF classics such as Stephen King's "Dark Tower," Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," and Walter M. Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz." Each issue contains the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on literature, film, and science, along with compelling short stories and novellas by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mike Resnic... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 90322 - Reading Time: 258-361 min. Category: Fantasy
Our September/October double issue brings you twice the stories and twice the thrills! Veteran storytellers Clark Howard and Peter Turnbull offer two different approaches to organized crime: A crime boss must decide whom he can trust when the feds start closing in, in the Howard thriller "The Way They Limp," and detectives Hennessy and Yellich investigate the contract-killing of an apparently ordinary man in the Turnbull procedural "Mob Violence." Dale C. Andrews brings us an old-fashioned whodu... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 104082 - Reading Time: 297-416 min. Category: Mystery/Crime
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, one of this year's Readers' Award winners, returns with another big novella, this time set in a wholly new universe from her "Diving into the Wreck" series. In "Broken Windchimes," a talented human vocalist, culturally sequestered by his alien patrons, finds both hope and transcendence through the unknown pleasures of his own race's music. Lisa Goldstein, Nebula-nominee at time of writing, returns with a tale of a circus you can't quite run away to join in "Away from Her... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 64398 - Reading Time: 183-257 min. Category: Science Fiction
Our October issue starts with a bang, with a Bob Eggleton cover for Michael F. Flynn's novella, "Where the Winds Are All Asleep," a unique and literally deep adventure story. You may think our world has been thoroughly explored, and indeed our knowledge of it has been growing by leaps and bounds. Can it still hold surprises? The answer may be right under your feet, and far bigger (and scarier) than you'd guess.
The rest of our diverse grab bag of fiction comes from both old favorites (like Jerr... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 71762 - Reading Time: 205-287 min. Category: Science Fiction
The stories in AHMM are often bought months before they are published, and of course are written even earlier than that. When we bought Mike Wiecek's satiric "Colorblind" earlier this year, we enjoyed its social commentary, but as we prepared it for publication in this issue, we realized that it has become unexpectedly topical. Though the bug Mr. Wiecek created for his story is very different from the pandemic known colloquially as "Swine Flu," his vision of the public, governmental, and media r... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 45020 - Reading Time: 128-180 min. Category: Mystery/Crime
Venture into the shadowy recesses of our August issue, to see what's hidden there.... A murder in 1950s Long Island leads a retired constable to someone's dark wartime secret in Lou Manfredo's whodunit "Central Islin, U.S.A."; two old schoolmates find their long forgotten high-school grudges are worse than ever when the stakes are raised--career, family, a man's life--in Art Taylor's "A Voice From the Past"; an office worker finds his inner killer instinct in Robert Lopresti's "The Shanty Drumme... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 59859 - Reading Time: 171-239 min. Category: Mystery/Crime
Is there anything more satisfying for serious readers than finding an exciting new writer? Bringing new authors to print is one of the thrills of editing AHMM. Nearly all of the writers featured this month got their start in these pages. John H. Dirckx published his first story, "A Bully's Downfall," in July 1978 and has been a regular contributor ever since. In October 1997, I. J. Parker's "Instruments of Murder" kicked off her long-running series (now at six novels) featuring her medieval Japa... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 43984 - Reading Time: 125-175 min. Category: Mystery/Crime
People often wish they could keep their youth forever, but what if they really could, in an extreme way? And what if somebody else makes that decision for them, to keep the physical and mental advantages of a child while gaining some of the best features of adulthood? That's what happens in "Evergreen," Shane Tourtellotte's lead novelette in our September issue. And, as so often happens, the ramifications of a choice that sounds simple are far more complex and less clear-cut than those who make ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 72751 - Reading Time: 207-291 min. Category: Science Fiction
World Fantasy- and Stoker-Award finalist Michael Blumlein makes his Asimov's debut in our August issue with the tender, witty, and beautifully written "California Burning." In it, a man, eager to bury his recently passed father, finds the task is much more difficult than he'd expected. Along the way, he also discovers that his father wasn't quite who he seemed, and that dealing with the aftermath of a parent's death is a much riskier and difficult affair when that parent may not have been from t... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 61798 - Reading Time: 176-247 min. Category: Science Fiction
Mystery stories are about the pursuit of justice, but sometimes that pursuit takes a wrong turn. As several of this month's stories demonstrate, the disinterested pursuit of justice can be particularly difficult during times of crisis, as in Loren D. Estleman's WWII-era procedural, "Soft Lights and Sabotage"; when addressing emotionally-charged topics, as in D. A. McGuire's "The Disappearance of Billy Dawber"; or when mixed with the heady scent of celebrity, as in Brendan DuBois's "The High Hous... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 81272 - Reading Time: 232-325 min. Category: Mystery/Crime
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Black Static is the new horror magazine from TTA Press, the publisher of Interzone, Crimewave and The Fix Online. It publishes groundbreaking dark fiction by some of the world's best writers and most talented newcomers, plus hard-hitting features and innovative artwork, combined in a package that one reader recently called "Mean, moody and magnificent." STORIES: DE PROFUNDIS--Al Robertson NONE HAD SHARP TEETH--Will Mcintosh THE LIKENESS--Lawrence Conquest SERVED COLD--Gary Couzens OFF WITH THE F... 
