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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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INTERZONE #285 (JAN-FEB 2020)
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An average issue, with interesting stories by Gregor Hartmann, Andy Dudak and John Possidente.
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!
FIYAH - Issue One [EPUB]
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.
Commodore Vic 20 A Visual History
Recommended by
sohkamyung
A fantastic book about the VIC20, one of the early home computers that helped to launch the home computer revolution. The book covers the various versions of the computer created for different markets and includes notes and anecdotes from some of the creators of the computer, who had to overcome obstacles in their path in creating the computer.
The Fisherman
Recommended by
kevin
Yes, The Fisherman is a little Lovecraftian, with its ancient gods, cultists, and watery... things. But it has much more going for it. The Fisherman is a work of beauty that Lovecraft never came close to.
You grieve with Abe as he tries to pick up the pieces. You worry about what Dan will do... and when he'll break. You wonder which story you are actually reading and who is telling it.
Phoresis
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An interesting story of discovery and survival set in a system where two small worlds circle each other and they orbit a sun together. The worlds are cold and covered by ice but the tidal forces between the worlds ensure their interiors are heated and some heat breaks through the ice in the form of geysers, bringing with it life giving chemicals and material.
The Last Words of Madeleine Anderson
Recommended by
kevin
The Last Words of Madeleine Anderson by Helen Kitson is a post-modern tale of friendship and fate, where the truth is only a simulacrum of itself. It's probably literary, but it's far more accessible than that suggests.
This is a truly accessible modern classic that should be winning all the awards.
It's tense while cozy. It's suspenseful while relaxed.
And it's very, very good.
INTERZONE #282 (JUL-AUG 2019)
Recommended by
sohkamyung
A better than average issue filled with fascinating stories. The best of the good stories are by Storm Humbert, Erica L. Satifka and Gregor Hartmann.
Arachne
Recommended by
kevin
Arachne is an unique entry in the cyberpunk genre. It steps between the dystopia of William Gibson and the otherworldliness of Phillip K. Dick.
Full of 'almost' body-horror, corporations so mega that they transact court cases in nanoseconds, and AI characters with more spiritualism in their circuits than the humans that inhabit this post Big-One San Francisco.
A must-read for cyberpunk fans!
Under the Skin
Recommended by
sakina
A light, fun read with a barrel full of creep
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 193
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An average issue of Clarkesworld, with interesting stories by M. L. Clark, Alan Kubatiev and Gregory Feeley, and a disturbing story involving family abuse by Thomas Ha.
Full review at [ https://bookwyrm.social/user/sohkamyung/review/392987/s/an-average-issue-of-clarkesworld ]
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2023
Recommended by
sohkamyung
A better than average issue, with interesting stories by Kristina Ten, DaVaun Sanders, Nick Thomas, Jennifer Hudak, and two standout stories by Peter S. Beagle and Aimee Ogden.
Full review at my website [ https://sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/magazines/FantasyAndScienceFiction/20230718-FSF202307.html ]
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ShortBox Comics Fair 2025 is open!
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Amazon is removing another way to download your Kindle ebooks
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Update on the new Collections feature
Collections are coming soon! A neat new way to organise all your digital reading and display your library just the way you want.