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The End is Nigh

edited by John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories.

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse.

Publisher: John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey

Publication Date: March 1, 2014

Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy

Best-of-the-Year reprint anthology, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Series Editor: John Joseph Adams. 2015 Guest Editor: Joe Hill.

Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy

I’m delighted to announce that I have agreed to serve as the series editor of Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, a new entry in the prestigious Best American Series® published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Our inaugural guest editor will be bestselling author and all-around swell guy Joe Hill. The first volume will be published in October 2015, collecting the best of 2014. [press release]

To help ensure that I don’t miss anything great, I am currently, and will be for the foreseeable future, accepting reader recommendations. I am also open to writers submitting their stories directly, and, in fact, would encourage writers to do so to help ensure I see everything.

To learn more about the series, including how to submit a story or recommendation, and what is eligible, please visit , visit johnjosephadams.com/best-american.

 

THE END IS NIGH is Now Available for Pre-Order!

THE END IS NIGH, volume one of THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH series I’m co-editing (and publishing) with Hugh Howey, is now available for pre-order. It goes on sale March 1. (We were originally going to publish it in June, but we finished it early, so…MARCH IT IS!)

Pop on over to THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH website to check out the (TOTALLY AWESOME) table of contents.

 

 

Cover & TOC Reveal: WASTELANDS 2

Here’s the cover, a description (not final cover copy), and table of contents for WASTELANDS 2. You may recall that it was originally going to come out from Night Shade in 2013, but that deal fell through, and so now it’s forthcoming in February 2015, from Titan Books. It should be available for pre-order soon.

(If you see the old Night Shade listing online, don’t try to pre-order that edition; no harm done if you do, but it’s wasted effort as that should be removed from all databases soon and all those orders will be cancelled.)

In any case, without further adieu…

DESCRIPTION (NOT FINAL COVER COPY):

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams, WASTELANDS 2: MORE STORIES OF THE APOCALYPSE is the star-studded follow-up to the 2008 bestselling anthology Wastelands. The first book traced the 21st century resurgence of post-apocalyptic fiction, and while it is considered the definitive collection of its kind, dozens of new stories have been written since it was released. Five of the stories are from the 20th Century, but the remaining twenty-six were all published from the year 2000 onward, and nineteen of those originally appeared in the years since volume one came out. Like its predecessor, WASTELANDS 2 will feature a who’s who of modern authors including George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones), Hugh Howey (Wool), Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), Ann Aguirre (Enclave), Cory Doctorow (Little Brother), Nancy Kress (After the Fall), and more. The thirty-one stories include the seminal tale “The Postman” by David Brin, and “The Happiest Place,” a new work by John W. Campbell Award winner Mira Grant.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction—John Joseph Adams
The Tamarisk Hunter—Paolo Bacigalupi
Deep Blood Kettle—Hugh Howey
“. . . for a single yesterday”—George R. R. Martin
Animal Husbandry—Seanan McGuire
Chiswick Messiah—Lauren Beukes
Colliding Branes—Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling
Ellie—Jack McDevitt
Foundation—Ann Aguirre
Beat Me Daddy—Cory Doctorow
A Beginner’s Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse—Christopher Barzak
Wondrous Days—Genevieve Valentine
Dreams in Dust—D. Thomas Minton
By Fools Like Me—Nancy Kress
Jimmy’s Roadside Cafe—Ramsey Shehadeh
The Elephants of Poznan—Orson Scott Card
The Postman—David Brin
When We Went To See the End of the World—Robert Silverberg
The Revelation of Morgan Stern—Christie Yant
Final Exam—Megan Arkenberg
A Flock of Birds—James Van Pelt
Patient Zero—Tananarive Due
Soulless in His Sight—Milo James Fowler
Outer Rims—Toiya Kristen Finley
The Happiest Place…—Mira Grant
Advertising at the End of the World—Keffy R. M. Kehrli
How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth—Rachel Swirsky
Tight Little Stiches in a Dead Man’s Back—Joe R. Lansdale
After the Apocalypse—Maureen F. McHugh
The Traditional—Maria Dahvana Headley
Monstro—Junot Diaz
Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince—Jake Kerr

Titan will also be releasing a mass market paperback edition of the original Wastelands in January 2015.

World Fantasy Awards Nomination Period Now Open + Free Stuff for World Fantasy Members

This year’s World Fantasy Awards nomination period is now open.

The World Fantasy Awards will be presented in Washington, D.C. during the World Fantasy Convention (Nov. 6-9). Deadline for nominating is and ballots must be received by May 31, 2014.

All registered members of the 2012 World Fantasy Convention in California, the 2013 World Fantasy Convention in Canada, and the 2014 event in Washington, D.C. will be eligible to vote before the deadline. If you didn’t attend one of the previously mentioned World Fantasy conventions, and you don’t plan to attend this year, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership.

Already registered? Go and nominate your favorite works! Voting information is available on the World Fantasy Convention 2013 website.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2013.

All of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2013 is available online (and also much of the 2013 original fiction is available as a podcast).
All of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2013 is available online (and also much of the 2013 original fiction is available as a podcast).
Selected stories from Oz Reimagined are available online.
Selected stories from The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination are available online.

If you are planning and eligible to vote for the World Fantasy Awards this year, if you email me proof of your World Fantasy membership (i.e., your name is listed on the World Fantasy website as an attending member, or the email confirmation or receipt you received when you purchased your membership, etc.) I would be happy to make all of my 2013 content available to you in digital format.

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2013 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with.

Long Fiction (10,000 – 40,000 words)

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

The Space Between — Diana Gabaldon — 36700

Oz Reimagined

The Boy Detective of Oz — Tad Williams — 11000
The Cobbler of Oz — Jonathan Maberry — 10500

Short Fiction (under 10,000 words)

Lightspeed

Bellweather — Marc Laidlaw — 9600
The Litigation Master and the Monkey King — Ken Liu — 7900
Paranormal Romance — Christopher Barzak — 7600
Leaving the Dead — Dennis Danvers — 7500
Miss Nobody Never Was — James Patrick Kelly — 6900
The Correspondence Between the Governess and the Attic — Siobhan Carroll — 6750
Purity Test — Kristine Kathryn Rusch — 6400
The Insect and the Astronomer — Kelly Barnhill — 6400
The Dream Detective — Lisa Tuttle — 6000
The Herons of Mer de l’Ouest — M. Bennardo — 5600
The Master Conjurer — Charlie Jane Anders — 5500
The Boy and the Box — Adam-Troy Castro — 5200
With Tales in Their Teeth, From the Mountain They Came — A. C. Wise — 4800
Breathless in the Deep — Cory Skerry — 4600
Sleeper — Matthew Hughes — 4600
Homecoming — Seanan McGuire — 4400
Ushakiran — Laura Friis — 4200
Always, They Whisper — Damien Walters Grintalis — 3800
A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain — Karin Tidbeck — 3300
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat — Genevieve Valentine — 3100
The Visited — Anaea Lay — 2700
The Bolt Tightener — Sarena Ulibarri — 2600
The Huntsman — Megan Arkenberg — 2000
The Five Deaths of Marvin Dimitri — Dylan Otto Krider — 1500

Nightmare

1031: Bloody Mary — Norman Partridge — 8200
On Murder Island — Matt Williamson — 4000
Chew — Tamsyn Muir — 3550
Sacred Cows — Sarah Langan — 6666
Cry Room — Ted Kosmatka — 2050
The Sign in the Moonlight — David Tallerman — 5555
No Breather in the World But Thee — Jeff VanderMeer — 3816
Bonfires — Marc Laidlaw — 1500
Gravitas — Weston — Ochse 6000
Centipede Heartbeat — Caspian Gray — 4500
Doll Re Me — Tanith Lee — 6700
The House on Cobb Street — Lynda E. Rucker — 5900
Fishwife — Carrie Vaughn — 3500
And Yet, Her Eyes — Brit Mandelo — 4700
They Called Him Monster — Anaea Lay — 3600
How Far to Englishman’s Bay — Matthew Cheney — 6800
All My Princes Are Gone — Jennifer Giesbrecht — 1500
Halfway Home — Linda Nagata — 4500
The Nest — C.S. McMullen — 6200
The Crowgirl — Megan Arkenberg — 4400
The Beasts of the Earth, the Madness of Men — Brooke Bolander — 1700
Waiting for the Light — Alison Littlewood — 4500
57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides — Sam J. Miller — 3400
A Home in the Dark — David J. Schow — 6400

Oz Reimagined

The Veiled Shanghai — Ken Liu — 8800
Off to See the Emperor — Orson Scott Card — 8400
Lost Girls of Oz — Theodora Goss — 8100
Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust — Seanan McGuire — 7062
Beyond the Naked Eye — Rachel Swirsky — 7000
The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz — Rae Carson & C.C. Finlay — 5700
Blown Away — Jane Yolen — 5613
One Flew Over the Rainbow — Robin Wasserman — 5487
City So Bright — Dale Bailey — 4400
A Meeting in Oz — Jeffrey Ford — 3600
A Tornado of Dorothys — Kat Howard — 3370
Dorothy Dreams — Simon R. Green — 3033
Dead Blue — David Farland — 2200

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

The Last Dignity of Man — Marjorie M. Liu — 8700
Mofongo Knows — Grady Hendrix — 6241
Ancient Equations — L. A. Banks — 6200
Blood and Stardust — Laird Barron — 6200
The Executor — Daniel H. Wilson — 6000
Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution — Carrie Vaughn — 5900
A More Perfect Union — L. E. Modesitt, Jr. — 5032
Laughter at the Academy — Seanan McGuire — 4850
The Angel of Death Has a Business Plan — Heather Lindsley — 4700
Professor Incognito Apologizes: an Itemized List — Austin Grossman — 4600
Homo Perfectus — David Farland — 4500
Father of the Groom — Harry Turtledove — 4000
Pittsburg Technology — Jeffrey Ford — 4000
Rural Singularity — Alan Dean Foster — 3585
The Food Taster’s Boy — Ben Winters — 3000
Rocks Fall — Naomi Novik — 2900
Captain Justice Saves the Day — Genevieve Valentine — 2550
Letter to the Editor — David D. Levine — 2400
We Interrupt This Broadcast — Mary Robinette Kowal — 2400

Anthology

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination edited by John Joseph Adams (Tor)
Oz Reimagined edited by John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen (47North)

Special Award, Professional

John Joseph Adams (publishing and editing Lightspeed Magazine & Nightmare Magazine ; editing anthologies)
Stefan Rudnicki (for audiobook production/narration & producing the Lightspeed and Nightmare podcasts)
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Some of the stories in Oz Reimagined and The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination are SF rather than Fantasy, and thus may not be eligible; though given the themes of each, it’s kind of debatable whether the stories are SF or Fantasy, so I leave it up to the voters to decide.

Hugo Awards Nomination Period Now Open + Free Stuff for Worldcon Members

This year’s Hugo Awards nomination period is now open. The 2013 Hugo Awards will be presented in London, England during LonCon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention (Aug. 14-18). Nominations close on March 31, 2013. Anyone who has a supporting or full membership of LonCon 3 as of January 31, 2014 and all members of Lone Star Con 3 (last year’s Worldcon) may nominate works. If you didn’t attend Lone Star Con 3, and you don’t plan to attend LonCon 3, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership. Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot, available here. To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2013.

All of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2013 is available online (and also much of the 2013 original fiction is available as a podcast).
All of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2013 is available online (and also much of the 2013 original fiction is available as a podcast).
Selected stories from Oz Reimagined are available online.
Selected stories from The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination are available online.

If you are planning and eligible to vote for the Hugos this year, if you email me proof of your Worldcon membership (i.e., your name is listed on the Worldcon website as an attending member, or the email confirmation or receipt you received when you purchased your membership, etc.) I would be happy to make all of my 2013 content available to you in digital format. After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2013 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with.  

Novellas

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

The Space Between — Diana Gabaldon — 36700

Novelettes

Lightspeed

Harry and Marlowe Escape the Mechanical Siege of Paris  — Carrie Vaughn — 9500
Ghost Days — Ken Liu — 8000
Bellweather — Marc Laidlaw — 9600
The Litigation Master and the Monkey King — Ken Liu — 7900
Paranormal Romance — Christopher Barzak — 7600

Nightmare

1031: Bloody Mary — Norman Partridge — 8200

Oz Reimagined

The Boy Detective of Oz — Tad Williams — 11000
The Cobbler of Oz — Jonathan Maberry — 10500
The Veiled Shanghai — Ken Liu — 8800
Off to See the Emperor — Orson Scott Card — 8400
Lost Girls of Oz — Theodora Goss — 8100

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

The Last Dignity of Man — Marjorie M. Liu — 8700

Short Stories

Lightspeed

Dry Bite — Will McIntosh — 6400
Invisible Planets  — Hao Jingfang — 6000
Deus Ex Arca  — Desirina Boskovich — 5720
The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars  — Yoon Ha Lee — 5500
The Sounds of Old Earth — Matthew Kressel — 5400
The Infill Trait  — C.C. Finlay — 5000
This Villain You Must Create — Carlie St. George — 4800
The Schrödinger  War  — D. Thomas Minton — 4600
Water Finds Its Level — M. Bennardo — 4400
Face Value — Sean Williams — 4400
Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince  — Jake Kerr — 4000
Let’s Take This Viral — Rich Larson — 4000
Leaving Night — Gregory Benford — 4000
Lifeline — Jonathan Olfert — 3900
Division of Labor  — Benjamin R. Lambert — 3800
The Traditional  — Maria Dahvana Headley — 3600
Death and the Hobbyist  — Sean Williams — 3500
The Turing Test — Beth Revis — 3400
Alive, Alive Oh — Sylvia Spruck Wrigley — 3200
The Ballad of Marisol Brook  — Sarah Grey — 3000
Deep Blood Kettle — Hugh Howey — 2900
Help Fund My Robot Army!!! — Keffy R. M. Kehrli — 1500
Leaving the Dead — Dennis Danvers — 7500
Miss Nobody Never Was — James Patrick Kelly — 6900
The Correspondence Between the Governess and the Attic — Siobhan Carroll — 6750
Purity Test — Kristine Kathryn Rusch — 6400
The Insect and the Astronomer — Kelly Barnhill — 6400
The Dream Detective — Lisa Tuttle — 6000
The Herons of Mer de l’Ouest — M. Bennardo — 5600
The Master Conjurer — Charlie Jane Anders — 5500
The Boy and the Box — Adam-Troy Castro — 5200
With Tales in Their Teeth, From the Mountain They Came — A. C. Wise — 4800
Breathless in the Deep — Cory Skerry — 4600
Sleeper — Matthew Hughes — 4600
Homecoming — Seanan McGuire — 4400
Ushakiran — Laura Friis — 4200
Always, They Whisper — Damien Walters Grintalis — 3800
A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain — Karin Tidbeck — 3300
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat — Genevieve Valentine — 3100
The Visited — Anaea Lay — 2700
The Bolt Tightener — Sarena Ulibarri — 2600
The Huntsman — Megan Arkenberg — 2000
The Five Deaths of Marvin Dimitri — Dylan Otto Krider — 1500

Nightmare

On Murder Island — Matt Williamson — 4000
Chew — Tamsyn Muir — 3550
Sacred Cows — Sarah Langan — 6666
Cry Room — Ted Kosmatka — 2050
The Sign in the Moonlight — David Tallerman — 5555
No Breather in the World But Thee — Jeff VanderMeer — 3816
Bonfires — Marc Laidlaw — 1500
Gravitas — Weston — Ochse 6000
Centipede Heartbeat — Caspian Gray — 4500
Doll Re Me — Tanith Lee — 6700
The House on Cobb Street — Lynda E. Rucker — 5900
Fishwife — Carrie Vaughn — 3500
And Yet, Her Eyes — Brit Mandelo — 4700
They Called Him Monster — Anaea Lay — 3600
How Far to Englishman’s Bay — Matthew Cheney — 6800
All My Princes Are Gone — Jennifer Giesbrecht — 1500
Halfway Home — Linda Nagata — 4500
The Nest — C.S. McMullen — 6200
The Crowgirl — Megan Arkenberg — 4400
The Beasts of the Earth, the Madness of Men — Brooke Bolander — 1700
Waiting for the Light — Alison Littlewood — 4500
57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides — Sam J. Miller — 3400
A Home in the Dark — David J. Schow — 6400

Oz Reimagined

Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust — Seanan McGuire — 7062
Beyond the Naked Eye — Rachel Swirsky — 7000
The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz — Rae Carson & C.C. Finlay — 5700
Blown Away — Jane Yolen — 5613
One Flew Over the Rainbow — Robin Wasserman — 5487
City So Bright — Dale Bailey — 4400
A Meeting in Oz — Jeffrey Ford — 3600
A Tornado of Dorothys — Kat Howard — 3370
Dorothy Dreams — Simon R. Green — 3033
Dead Blue — David Farland — 2200

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

Mofongo Knows — Grady Hendrix — 6241
Ancient Equations — L. A. Banks — 6200
Blood and Stardust — Laird Barron — 6200
The Executor — Daniel H. Wilson — 6000
Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution — Carrie Vaughn — 5900
A More Perfect Union — L. E. Modesitt, Jr. — 5032
Laughter at the Academy — Seanan McGuire — 4850
The Angel of Death Has a Business Plan — Heather Lindsley — 4700
Professor Incognito Apologizes: an Itemized List — Austin Grossman — 4600
Homo Perfectus — David Farland — 4500
Father of the Groom — Harry Turtledove — 4000
Pittsburg Technology — Jeffrey Ford — 4000
Rural Singularity — Alan Dean Foster — 3585
The Food Taster’s Boy — Ben Winters — 3000
Rocks Fall — Naomi Novik — 2900
Captain Justice Saves the Day — Genevieve Valentine — 2550
Letter to the Editor — David D. Levine — 2400
We Interrupt This Broadcast — Mary Robinette Kowal — 2400

Editor, Short-Form

John Joseph Adams (Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, Oz Reimagined)

Professional Artist

Galen Dara (cover for Oz Reimagined, plus an illustration for each story [gallery])
Ben Templesmith (cover for The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination)

Semiprozine

Lightspeed Magazine
Nightmare Magazine

Fan Artist

Galen Dara [gallery of Lightspeed illustrations]

Best Related Work

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, hosted by John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley (Episodes 77-100 released in 2013) [Episode List] [iTunes]

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (1st Year Eligibility)

Sam J. Miller*
Jennifer Giesbrecht*
Sarah Grey
Carlie St. George*
Hao Jingfang*
Laura Friis*
Benjamin Roy Lambert*
Sarena Ulibarri*
Jonathan Olfert*

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2nd Year Eligibility)

L.B. Gale
Brooke Bolander
Peter Sursi
Kelsey Ann Barrett
J.B. Park
Rich Larson*

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* Authors with asterisks have not yet been verified as eligible on the Campbell Award website.

Nebula Awards Nomination Period Now Open + Free Stuff for SFWA Members

This year’s Nebula Awards nomination period is now open.

From November 15 to February 15, Active and Associate SFWA members may submit nominations for the Nebula Awards. Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot, available here. For more information, visit SFWA’s How to Vote page.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2013.

All of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2013 is available online (and also much of the 2013 original fiction is available as a podcast). If you are a SFWA member, you can also grab each of the stories in various formats from the SFWA Forums, or else download an ebook (epub/mobi/pdf/doc) compilation of all 2013′s original material.
All of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2013 is available online (and also much of the 2013 original fiction is available as a podcast). If you are a SFWA member, you can also grab each of the stories in various formats from the SFWA Forums, or else download an ebook (epub/mobi/pdf/doc) compilation of all 2013′s original material.
Selected stories from Oz Reimagined are available online. If you are a SFWA member, you can also grab each of the stories in various formats from the SFWA Forums, or else download a DOC of the whole anthology.
Selected stories from The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination are available online. If you are a SFWA member, you can also download a PDF of the whole anthology.

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2013 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with.

Novellas

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

The Space Between — Diana Gabaldon — 36700

Novelettes

Lightspeed

Harry and Marlowe Escape the Mechanical Siege of Paris  — Carrie Vaughn — 9500
Ghost Days — Ken Liu — 8000
Bellweather — Marc Laidlaw — 9600
The Litigation Master and the Monkey King — Ken Liu — 7900
Paranormal Romance — Christopher Barzak — 7600

Nightmare

1031: Bloody Mary — Norman Partridge — 8200

Oz Reimagined

The Boy Detective of Oz — Tad Williams — 11000
The Cobbler of Oz — Jonathan Maberry — 10500
The Veiled Shanghai — Ken Liu — 8800
Off to See the Emperor — Orson Scott Card — 8400
Lost Girls of Oz — Theodora Goss — 8100

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

The Last Dignity of Man — Marjorie M. Liu — 8700

Short Stories

Lightspeed

Dry Bite — Will McIntosh — 6400
Invisible Planets  — Hao Jingfang — 6000
Deus Ex Arca  — Desirina Boskovich — 5720
The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars  — Yoon Ha Lee — 5500
The Sounds of Old Earth — Matthew Kressel — 5400
The Infill Trait  — C.C. Finlay — 5000
This Villain You Must Create — Carlie St. George — 4800
The Schrödinger  War  — D. Thomas Minton — 4600
Water Finds Its Level — M. Bennardo — 4400
Face Value — Sean Williams — 4400
Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince  — Jake Kerr — 4000
Let’s Take This Viral — Rich Larson — 4000
Leaving Night — Gregory Benford — 4000
Lifeline — Jonathan Olfert — 3900
Division of Labor  — Benjamin R. Lambert — 3800
The Traditional  — Maria Dahvana Headley — 3600
Death and the Hobbyist  — Sean Williams — 3500
The Turing Test — Beth Revis — 3400
Alive, Alive Oh — Sylvia Spruck Wrigley — 3200
The Ballad of Marisol Brook  — Sarah Grey — 3000
Deep Blood Kettle — Hugh Howey — 2900
Help Fund My Robot Army!!! — Keffy R. M. Kehrli — 1500
Leaving the Dead — Dennis Danvers — 7500
Miss Nobody Never Was — James Patrick Kelly — 6900
The Correspondence Between the Governess and the Attic — Siobhan Carroll — 6750
Purity Test — Kristine Kathryn Rusch — 6400
The Insect and the Astronomer — Kelly Barnhill — 6400
The Dream Detective — Lisa Tuttle — 6000
The Herons of Mer de l’Ouest — M. Bennardo — 5600
The Master Conjurer — Charlie Jane Anders — 5500
The Boy and the Box — Adam-Troy Castro — 5200
With Tales in Their Teeth, From the Mountain They Came — A. C. Wise — 4800
Breathless in the Deep — Cory Skerry — 4600
Sleeper — Matthew Hughes — 4600
Homecoming — Seanan McGuire — 4400
Ushakiran — Laura Friis — 4200
Always, They Whisper — Damien Walters Grintalis — 3800
A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain — Karin Tidbeck — 3300
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat — Genevieve Valentine — 3100
The Visited — Anaea Lay — 2700
The Bolt Tightener — Sarena Ulibarri — 2600
The Huntsman — Megan Arkenberg — 2000
The Five Deaths of Marvin Dimitri — Dylan Otto Krider — 1500

Nightmare

On Murder Island — Matt Williamson — 4000
Chew — Tamsyn Muir — 3550
Sacred Cows — Sarah Langan — 6666
Cry Room — Ted Kosmatka — 2050
The Sign in the Moonlight — David Tallerman — 5555
No Breather in the World But Thee — Jeff VanderMeer — 3816
Bonfires — Marc Laidlaw — 1500
Gravitas — Weston — Ochse 6000
Centipede Heartbeat — Caspian Gray — 4500
Doll Re Me — Tanith Lee — 6700
The House on Cobb Street — Lynda E. Rucker — 5900
Fishwife — Carrie Vaughn — 3500
And Yet, Her Eyes — Brit Mandelo — 4700
They Called Him Monster — Anaea Lay — 3600
How Far to Englishman’s Bay — Matthew Cheney — 6800
All My Princes Are Gone — Jennifer Giesbrecht — 1500
Halfway Home — Linda Nagata — 4500
The Nest — C.S. McMullen — 6200
The Crowgirl — Megan Arkenberg — 4400
The Beasts of the Earth, the Madness of Men — Brooke Bolander — 1700
Waiting for the Light — Alison Littlewood — 4500
57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides — Sam J. Miller — 3400
A Home in the Dark — David J. Schow — 6400

Oz Reimagined

Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust — Seanan McGuire — 7062
Beyond the Naked Eye — Rachel Swirsky — 7000
The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz — Rae Carson & C.C. Finlay — 5700
Blown Away — Jane Yolen — 5613
One Flew Over the Rainbow — Robin Wasserman — 5487
City So Bright — Dale Bailey — 4400
A Meeting in Oz — Jeffrey Ford — 3600
A Tornado of Dorothys — Kat Howard — 3370
Dorothy Dreams — Simon R. Green — 3033
Dead Blue — David Farland — 2200

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

Mofongo Knows — Grady Hendrix — 6241
Ancient Equations — L. A. Banks — 6200
Blood and Stardust — Laird Barron — 6200
The Executor — Daniel H. Wilson — 6000
Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution — Carrie Vaughn — 5900
A More Perfect Union — L. E. Modesitt, Jr. — 5032
Laughter at the Academy — Seanan McGuire — 4850
The Angel of Death Has a Business Plan — Heather Lindsley — 4700
Professor Incognito Apologizes: an Itemized List — Austin Grossman — 4600
Homo Perfectus — David Farland — 4500
Father of the Groom — Harry Turtledove — 4000
Pittsburg Technology — Jeffrey Ford — 4000
Rural Singularity — Alan Dean Foster — 3585
The Food Taster’s Boy — Ben Winters — 3000
Rocks Fall — Naomi Novik — 2900
Captain Justice Saves the Day — Genevieve Valentine — 2550
Letter to the Editor — David D. Levine — 2400
We Interrupt This Broadcast — Mary Robinette Kowal — 2400

LIGHTSPEED is looking for a few good slush readers

LIGHTSPEED is currently looking for a few volunteer first readers (a/k/a “slush” readers). We’re using a Google Docs form to solicit our applicants, so if you’re interested, please submit your application there. The form is embeded below, but if you can’t see it for some reason, you should be able to access it via http://tinyurl.com/lightspeed-slush.

Title Contest: Military Fantasy Anthology

Back in June, I sold an untitled anthology to Baen on the subject of “military fantasy.” And what is that, you might ask? Military SF, of course, is a long-time staple of science fiction, but fantasy fiction often has just as many battles and military engagements and yet we rarely hear the term “military fantasy.” So I proposed an anthology that would focus on those fantastical battles and the soldiers that fight them.

In any case, the contracts were signed, the contributors started writing their stories, and all was well. The problem was: I couldn’t think of a title for the damn thing. I found that particularly troubling as I pride myself on being able to come up with good titles, and, indeed, I frequently suggest alternate titles to authors who sell me stories. Thus this failing on my part to come up with an adequate title for this book has plagued me lo these many months. Well, I guess that’s not quite true. I’ve come up with plenty of adequate titles. I just haven’t come up with anything that feels perfect.

Which brings us to this blog post. I need your help, dear readers: What the heck should I call this thing? Rather than just ask and solicit suggestions, I thought I’d make a contest out of it, so the person who makes the best suggestion would win a cool prize.

Before we get to the nitty-gritty, here’s a bit more info about the book. There are still a couple of stories forthcoming, but I’ve already accepted stories from the following authors: Myke Cole, Glen Cook, Simon R. Green, Tanya Huff, Yoon Ha Lee, Ari Marmell, T.C. McCarthy, Seanan McGuire, Elizabeth Moon, Linda Nagata, Weston Ochse, Carrie Vaughn, and Django Wexler. Otherwise, all you really need to know is that its focus is military fantasy. Think The Battle of Helm’s Deep from Lord of the Rings; The battles in Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon; The Battle of the Blackwater from GRRM’s A Song of Ice and Fire. And naturally several of the anthology’s contributors have written military fantasy novels and other stories as well.

So let’s do this, people! Help me title this anthology.

Prizes for the Winner: (1) A copy of the anthology (hardcopy, when it comes out); (2) A one-year ebook subscription to Lightspeed Magazine; (3) An ebook of my anthology Seeds of Change; (4) Acknowledgement of your contribution in the book itself.

Disclaimer: If I don’t get any entries that I think are good enough to use as the title, I reserve the right to not title the book with the winning entry. However, I will definitely choose a winner, and whoever has the best entry will receive the prizes even if I end up not using their title on the book.

Rules: Just fill out the form below with your title suggestions, your name, and your email address. That’s it! I’ll decide which title I like best and I will declare that title the winner.

What I’m Looking For: The ideal title would be short and to the point, and say both “military” and “fantasy” equally. I’ve been thinking something that takes a well known military phrase or title and gives it a fantasy twist could work.

Best (?) Things We’ve Come Up With So Far: Blood & Magic; Tactical Magic; Military Magic. (FWIW, it’s totally fine for it to not have “magic” in the title!)

Deadline for Submissions: Jan. 31, 2014

Note: I’m going to disable comments on this post lest anyone get confused and leave their entry as a comment instead of entering it into the form below. (Use the form, Luke!) Also, apparently the form below doesn’t show up on some mobile browsers. Trust me, though, it’s there!