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October 23, 2014
Threads of Pearl, Writhing by Gwendolyn Clare
Buzzy Mag http://buzzymag.com/threads-of-pearl-... Author Website: http://www.gwendolynclare.com/ Elizabeth Felsen is one of just a few uninfected humans left aboard a station at the edge of human space. She sneaks about in the air vents, trying to do any little thing she can to sabotage the tiny, tentacled aliens that have taken the station’s inhabitants as […]
October 21, 2014
Red Dust and Dancing Horses by Beth Cato
Escape Pod http://escapepod.org/2014/10/10/ep464... Author Website: http://www.bethcato.com/ Eleven-year-old Martian colonist Nara wants nothing more than to see a horse gallop across the red dust of her planet. It’s a tall order, considering that even horses on Earth are a rarity these days. Still, Nara is obsessed, watching old horse movies until she gets the idea […]
October 20, 2014
Primrose or Return to Il’maril by Mary McMyne
Apex Magazine http://www.apex-magazine.com/primrose... Author Website: marymcmyne.com Virginia Booth is a noted xenoanthropologist well past the end of her career, during which she held a deep connection with the people of Il’maril, a planet in the Andromeda galaxy. She is called there out of retirement by Vierro Casstratil, a powerful Il’marilian shaman, who she must […]
October 19, 2014
The Speaking Ground by Erica Satifka
AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/3... Author Website: http://www.ericasatifka.com/ The doctor of a colony several years removed from any possibility of outside help, is desperate to keep the colonists from destroying themselves. They seem to be answering some siren call of the land–one patient has ruined her gut from ingesting rocks and dirt, […]
October 18, 2014
The Symphony of Ice and Dust by Julie Novakova
Clarkesworld http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/novak... Author Website: https://sites.google.com/site/julieno... Some eleven thousand years from now, Chiara and her fellow Jovian composers are looking to create the greatest symphony of all time, and they think they will find the material they need to do so on the dwarf planet Sedna. What they discover is not one, but two time […]
October 17, 2014
Deep End by Nisi Shawl
Lightspeed http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fic... Author Website: http://www.nisishawl.com/ Psyche Moth is a prison ship, on a slow, long interstellar journey to the planet Amends, some eight light years form Earth. The prisoners, who are on the ship “voluntarily,” have spent most of the voyage in freespace–a virtual world where they frolic weightlessly, in contrast to the new […]
October 16, 2014
The Hymn of Ordeal, No. 23 by Rhiannon Rasmussen
Lightspeed http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fic... Author Website: rhiannonrs.tumblr.com. I’ll let the strength of this opening stand on it’s own: Your brother’s bones, suspended in mineral fluids, turn as smoothly and shine as brightly as the oil-coated joints of the mechanism they guide. When you touch the heavy plastic that separates you from his body, it is cold. The […]
October 15, 2014
“The Gaps in Translation” by Andrea Corbin
Crossed Genres http://crossedgenres.com/magazine/013... Author Website: http://www.sharedepic.com/ In this story of a second contact, three humans visit a world inhabited by lizard-like people, some hundred years after the first contact. They are greeted by immediate differences based on what they’ve learned from the recordings of the first contact, specifically the flying “gliders” the lizzies now ride […]
October 14, 2014
What Purpose a Heart by Rachael Acks
Scigentasy http://www.scigentasy.com/what-purpos... Author Website: http://www.rachaelacks.com Sergeant Maly is a deck rat aboard an interstellar ship, crewed by rotten, yet respectable misfits. When a thin, mysterious Mahadi comes aboard with even more mysterious carry-ons, Maly’s life gets a lot more complicated. Does the stranger somehow sense Maly’s deepest secrets? In her worst nightmares she saw […]
October 13, 2014
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Monkey by Ruth Nestvold
Daily Science Fiction http://dailysciencefiction.com/scienc... Author Website: http://www.ruthnestvold.com/ A monkey is dead on the surface of Caipora–a lush, Earth-like planet that was assumed to be habitable by humans. On the exploration ship above the atmosphere, the champagne has already been uncorked, though after the second rhesus monkey is sent down and suffers the same fate as […]
