Black Cat Mystery Magazine [v3 #1, whole #9, July 2021] ex. ed. John Gregory Betancourt, ed. Michael Bracken (Wildside Press, $13.00, 129pp, tp) 1 • Contents Page 2 • From the Cat’s Perch • Michael Bracken • ed 3 • Last Rites • Stacy Woodson • ss 11 • The Jericho Train • John M. Floyd • ss 22 • Coral Cove • B.A. Paul • ss 31 • The Alley • Ann Aptaker • ss 35 • Sonny’s Encore • Michael Bracken • ss 48 Switch and Bait • Cynthia Ward • ss 51 • Becoming Zero • James A. Hearn • ss 64 • The Murder of Jonathan Greystone • Barry Fulton • ss 77 • You Gotta Be In It! • Elliott Capon • ss 84 • The You-Don’t-Know-the-Half-of-It-Dearie-Blues • Michael Kurland • ss 110 • A Fighter By His Trade • Graham Powell • ss 123 • Smelling Like a Rose * Gil Brewer • ss Mr. Magazine July 1957
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The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine [Vol. 6 No. 4 July 2021] ed. Steve Oliver (Dark City Books, $6.99 POD, $2.99 Kindle, 132p, digest) 1 • Out on Bail • Darin Krogh • ss 27 • Daddy Ryder • Natalie Harris-Spencer • ss 57 • Car Trouble • Paul Vivari • ss 81 • What Goes Around • Brandon Barrows • ss 97 • In the Details • Felix Imonti • ss
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Asimov’s Science Fiction [v45 #7 & 8, #546 & 547 Jul/Aug 2021] ed. Sheila Williams, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest) Cover by Shutterstock.com 2 • Contents Pages 4 • Editorial: The 2021 Dell Magazine Awards • Shelia Williams • ed 6 • Reflections: Memories of the Space Age • Robert Silverberg • cl 10 • On the Net: The Tech that SF Made • James Patrick Kelly • cl 14 • The Prisoner’s Cinema • Gregory Norman Bossert • nv 37 • Alien Ball • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • ss 47 • Recipe for Time Travel in Case We Lose Each Other • Kristian Macaron • pm 48 Philly Killed His Car • Will McIntosh • nv 63 • Failed Space Colonists • Herb Kauderer • pm 64 • Seed Star • Fran Wilde • ss 74 • The Hazmat Sisters • L.X. Beckett • nv 91 • Giving Up the Ghost • Megan Lindholm • nv 103 • Holding Destiny • Jane Yolen • pm 104 • The Children of the Wind • Gregory Feeley • nv 120 • Huginn and Muninn—And What Came After • Michael Swanwick • ss 130 • Fibonacci’s Humors • Rudy Rucker & Brace Sterling • nv 151 • Ansibles • Ursula Whitcher • pm 152 • Tweak • Taimur Ahmad • ss 160 • Out of the Box • Jay O’Connell • na 199 • Next Issue • Anon • pv 200 • On Books • Peter Heck • rc _200 • Dead Lies Dreaming, Charles Stross, Tordotcom, $29.99, hc • br _201 • A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik, Del Rey, 28.00, hc • br _201 • City Under the Stars, Gardner Dozois & Michael Swanwick, Todotcom, $14.99, tpb • br _202 • Persephone Station, Stina Leicht, Saga, $27.00, hc • br _202 • Damned Pretty Things, Holly Matter, Aqueduct Press, $19.00, tpb • br _203 • The Hierarchies, Ros Anderson, Dutton, $26.00, hc • br _204 • The Collapsium, Wil McCarthy, Baen, $16.00, tpb • br _205 • The Shaman of Karres, Eric Flint & Dave Freer, Baen, $25.00, hc • br _206 • Raven Nothing, Som Paris, Aqueduct Press, $20.00, tpb • br _206 • Genesys X, B.J. Graf, Fairwood, $17.99, tpb • br _207 • Nice Bar Blues, Sheree Renée Thomas, Third Man Books, $16.95, tpb • br 208 • SF Conventional Calendar • Erwin S. Strauss • cl
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v66 #7/8 July/August 2021] ed. Linda Landrigan, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Shutterstock.com) 2 • Contents Page 3 • Triggers/The Lineup • Linda Landrigan • ed 4 • The Rabbi • Albert Tucher • ss 14 • The Waiting Game • Dana Haynes • ss; illustration by Tim Foley 29 • Mysterious Photograph: Sold Out! • Anon • cn; $25 given to best short-short to explain the photograph • cn 30 • The Regular Nobody Knew • Bob Tippee • ss 35 • Scrambled Francis II • Mark Lagasse • pz 36 • The Paris Manuscript • Joseph Goodrich • ss 50 • How I Solved a Blind Pig Murder • Mike Culpepper • ss 66 • Death Makes a Dinner Date • Joslyn Chase • ss; illustration by Kelly Denato 73 • The Sweet Life • Eve Fisher • ss 84 • Choas Theory • Mary Taugher • ss 92 • The Candidate • Tom Ziegler • ss 108 • Until You’ve Seen Their Shadows • Emily Devenport • ss; illustration by Kimberly Cho 120 • Dying Words Acrostic Puzzle • Arlene Fisher • pz 122 • The Jericho Incantation • Brian Cox • ss 138 • Stingers • LaToya Jovena • ss 144 • Nicky and the Darkness • Jason Half • ss 152 • El Cuerpo en el Barril [Black Orchid Novella Award] • Tom Larsen • na 189 • The Story That Won: Briefcasde Closed • John Wallace Teahan • ff; winner of the March/April 2021 “Mysterious Photograph” contest. 190 • Comming in Sep/Oct 2021
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Mystery Weekly Magazine [July 2021] ed. Kerry Carter (AM Marketing Strategies, Print $7.99, Kindle $3.99, 84pp, digest, cover by Robin Grenville Evans) Note: contents taken from Kindle edition Night Without End • Veronica Leigh • ss Down the Well • Martin Hill Ortiz • ss Beer the Roses • Bob Tippee • ss Tom Terrific • Sharyn Kolberg • ss A Meeting at the Dew Drop Inn • J.B. Stevens • ss Some Days You Beat the Dead Horse • Adam Breckenridge • ss A Bedtime Detective Story • John H. Dromey • vi; a “You-Solve-It Mystery”
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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v158 #1/2, #958/959 July/August 2021] ed. Janet Hutchings, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Bradley Clark) 2 • The Locked Room Library • Gig Pandian • ss; illustration by Laurie Harden 18 • The Jury Box • Steve Steinbock • rc _18 • Love & Other Crimes, Sara Paretsky, Morrow, $17.99, tpb • br _18 • Funeral in the Fog: The Strange Mysteries of Simon Ark, Edward D. Hoch, Crippen & Landru, $22, tpb * br _18 • The Island of Coffins and Other Mysteries From the Casebook of Cabin B-13, Tony Medawar & Douglas G. Greene (eds), Crippen & Landru, 22, tpb • br _51 • Hot Cash, Cold Clews: The Adventures of Lester Leith, Erle Stanley Gardner, Crippen & Landru, $22, tpb • br _51 • Inspector Ghote: His Life and Times, H.R.F. Keating, Severn House, $10.99, ebook • br _51 • The Dead of Winter: The THree Giodano Bruno Novellas, S.J. Parris, Pegasus, $25.95 • br _128 • Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Hard Case Crime, $39.99 • br _128 • Prefecture D: Four Novellas, Hideo Yokoyama translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $17 • br 19 • Bone Marrow Donor • Joyca Carol Oates • ss 22 • Fox’s Wedding • Awasaka Tsumao; translated by Steve Steinbock • ss; EQMM’s “Passport to Crime” translated from the Janpanese 38 • Stranger Than Fiction: Detective-Fever • Dean Jobb • tc 39 • Bad Chemistry • John G. Wimer • ss 53 • Not So Fast, Dr. Quick • Elvie Simons • ss 68 • The Concert • Ragnar Jónasson & Vikingur Ólafsson • ss 70 • Family Love • Brendan DuBois • ss; EQMM’s “Black Mask” 79 • The White Star • G.M. Malliet • ss 92 • A Trunk Full of Illegal Fireworks • Michael Grimala • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories” 97 • Julius Katz and the Two Cousins [Julius Katz & Archie] • Dave Zeltserman • ss 113 • The Fraud of Dionysus • Smita Harish Jain • ss 122 • When the Dust Settles • Tehra Peace • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories” 129 • What’s Wrong With Harley Quinn? • Barbara Allan • ss 138 • Sweeps Week • Richard Helms • ss; illustration by Eli Bischof 151 • The Last Man in Lafarge • Joseph S. Walker • ss 158 • Blog Bytes • Kristopher Zgorski • cl 159 • Next Door • Kate Ellis • ss 166 • Homecoming • Janice Law • ss 171 • Sycamore Acres • Richard Dooling • ss 184 • The Body in the Bee Library • Jon L. Breen • ss
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Analog Science Fiction & Fact [v141 #7 & 8, July/August 2021] ed. Trevor Quachi, mng ed. Emily Hockaday (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 208pp, digest, cover by Tomislav Tikulin) 2 • Contents pages 4 • The Analytical Laboratory: 2020 Results • Anon • ms 6 • Guest Editorial: Hello to Maturity • John J. Vester • ed 9 • The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station • Marie Vibbert • na 58 • Science Fact: Return to the Golden Age: Why Venus Might Actually Once Have Been Habitable • Richard A. Lovett • cl 64 • The Next Frontier • Rosemary Claire Smith • nv; illustrated by Eldar Zakirov 80 • The Heroes of the Nation • Brenda Kalt • ss 87 • A Daguerreotype of the Moon • Jennifer Crow • pm 88 • Mandatory Arbitration • Leonard Richardson • ss; illustred by Soo Lee 94 • Siliconisis • Tom Jolly • ss 98 • Seed Bombs • Juliet Kemp • ff (Flash Fiction) 100 • The Alternate View: Pulsars, Super-Massive Black Holes, and the Gravitational Wave Background • John G. Cramer • cl 103 • Special Feature: Taming the Serpent • Edward M. Wysocki, Jr. • es 110 • Tin Man • Edd Vick & Manny Frishberg • ss 116 • Humility • James C. Glass • ss 126 • Sample Return • C. Stuart Hardwick • nv 138 • Special Feature: Like School, But There’s No Recess: An Interview with Katie Mack • Alvaro Zinos-Amaro • iv 144 • The First Martian World War • Herb Kauderer • ff (Flash Fiction) 146 • The Last Farewell • Alan K. Baker • ss 149 • When I Think of My Father • Bruce McAllister • pm 150 • Rocket • Frank Wu • ss 154 • Reassembly • Audrey Ference • ss 162 • In Times to Come • Anon • ms 163 • Minnie and the Trekker • Raymund Eich • ss 174 • Long Day Lake • Joe McDermott • nv; illustrated by Tomislav Tikulin 198 • The Reference Library • Don Sakers • rc _199 • The Godel Operation, James L. Cambias, Baen, 288pp, $16.00, tpb • br _200 • Speculative Los Angeles, Denize Hamilton (ed), Akhasic, 272pp, $25.95, hc • br _200 • Screams From the Void, Anne Tibbets, Flame Tree Press, 231pp, $24.95, hc • br _202 • Creatures of Passage, Morowa Yejidé, Akhasic, 304pp, $25.00, hc • br _202 • A River Called Time, Courttia Newland, Akhasic, 464pp, $28.95, hc • br _203 • Arachne’s Exile, Christopher L. Bennett, eSpec, 238pp, $14.95 tpb • br _203 • Dragons, Ty Drago, eSpec, 386pp, $18.95, tpb • br _204 • The 18th Race Omnibus, David Sherman & Keith R.A. DeCandido, eSpec, 554pp, $34.95, tpb • br 206 • Brass Tacks • [The Readers] • lc _206 • [letter] • Richard M. Boothe • lt _206 • [letter] • Ken Gilbert • lt _207 • [letter] • Ken Winkes • lt _207 • [letter] • Daniel Pitterman • lt 208 • Upcoming Events • Anthony Lewis • cl
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