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From the Pulp Lit Pulpit: A Score for Cross-Genre Fiction
Kristene Perron “Flavour of the Forsaken”
Feature Interview: Kristene Perron
The Magpie Award for Poetry
Kelli Allen “Leather Wraps Both Our Shoulders, and I Will Call You My Lungs, My Falconer, Guidepost” (verse)
Christine Leviczky Riek “All I Need is a Chair, My Red Piano, and” (verse)
Angela Caravan “My Desk” (verse)
Mitchell Towes “Away Game”
Sara Mang “Gross Motor”
Dave Beynon “Small Town Superhero”
Epiphany Ferrell “Every Town Has One”
Susan Pieters “Waking Up Black”
Summer Jewel Keown “Indebted”
Alex Reece Abbott “Alphabet Soup”
Erin Evans “The Hub”
Mel Anastasiou “Meat” (comic)
JM Landels “Allaigna’s Song: Aria”
The Artists (bios)
Hall of Fame (Patreon supporters)
Marketplace
Contests
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The fanzine of vintage men’s adventure paperbacks.
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Richard Toogood: Guest Editorial
Forgotten Artists One: Jack Hayes
Song of the South: Stuart Cloete
The Swordsman: Martin Holmes studies the historical novels of Gardner F. Fox
Forgotten Artists Two: Bill Francis Phillips
Paul Bishop “Talbot Mundy the Mystic Adventurer”
The Eternal Champion: A review of the first Casca book
“Casca the Immortal” interview with Tony Roberts
The Curse of Casca
Richard Toogood “Family of Fighting Eagles” The Aquila stories of Rosemary Sutcliff
Forgotten Artists Three: Richard Clifton-Dey
Jim O’Brien “The Viking Paperback Bloke” Henry Treece
Love Like Blood: Rafael Sabatini
Men of Violence No. 11 November 2018
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Copy Editor: Jim O’Brien
Cover: Rik Rawling
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Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 135 No. 5 and 6, #740, Nov/Dec 2018
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Jeffrey Ford “Thanksgiving”
Y.M. Pang “The Lady of Butterflies”
Sean McMullen “Extreme”
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
James Sallis: Books
Hanuš Seiner “The Iconoclasma” translated by Julie Novakova
Abra Staffin-Wiebe “Overwintering Habits of the North American River Mermaid”
Robert Reed “Every Color of Invisible”
Ruth Berman “Escaping the Ogre” (verse)
Geoff Ryman “This Constant Narrowing”
Nina Kiriki Hoffman “Other People’s Dreams”
Jerry Oltion’s Science: Space Drives Real and Imaginary
David J. Skal’s Films: Strange Invaders
Gordon Van Gelder: Publisher’s Note
F&SF Competition #96 “Crime Blotter”
F&SF Competition #97 “Watered Down”
Nick DiChario “The Baron and His Floating Daughter”
J.R. Dawson “When We Flew Together Through the Ice”
Bo Balder “The Island and Its Boy”
Coming Attractions
Market Place
Index to Volumes 134 & 135, January–December 2018
David Langford’s Curiosities: The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough (1917)
Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: Alan M. Clark “The Iconoclasma”
Cartoons: Nick Downes, Danny Shanahan
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until Dec. 31, 2018
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Shelia Williams & Michael Swanwick’s Editorial: Never Say “Rather Unlikely” Again
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cats?
Robert Frazier “Your Clone Hones Telepathy” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: We Are the Cat People
Allen M. Steele’s Thought Experiment: The History of Science Fiction, and Why it Matters
Derek Künsken “Water and Diamond”
Jane Yolen “The Language of Water” (verse)
Nick Wolven “Stormdiver”
Julie Novakova “The Gift”
Next Issue
Ray Nayler “Incident at San Juan Bautista”
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Joyride”
David Ebenbach “Pregnancy as a Location in Space-Time”
Linda Nagata “Theories of Flight”
In Memoriam: Harlan Ellison (1934–2018)
Tom Purdom “Parallel Military Cultural Evolution in a Non-Human Society”
Suzanne Palmer “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” (verse)
William Ledbetter “What I Am”
R. Garcia y Robertson “Girl With a Curl”
Megan Engelhardt “Echoes of Light from Orbit” (verse)
Peter Heck: On Books
Classified Marketplace
Erwin S. Strauss: The SF Conventional Calendar
Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 42 #11 & 12, whole #514 & 515, Nov/Dec 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Donato Giancola
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until December 18, 2018
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Linda Landrigan: Meditations on Murder (introduction)
The Lineup
Max Gersh “The Week Before November”
Mark Lagasse: Scrambled Grafton (puzzle—solution on page 62))
Susan Thibadeau “The Furious Cat”
Sharon Hunt “The Keepers of All Sins”
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “An Apple a Day”
Elaine Viets “Mistress of the Mickey Finn” art by Ron Chironna
Michael Bracken “Going-Away Money”
Robert C. Hahn: Booked & Printed
S.L. Franklin “Manitoba Postmortem”
Julie Tollefson “Leah”
Robert Lopresti “A Bad Day for Algebra Tests” art by Kelly Denato
Martin Limón “Bite of the Dragon”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle)
Mitch Alderman “Fear of the Secular”
Albert Ashforth “Death of an Oligarch”
R.T. Lawton “Vet’s Day”
Joseph Goodrich’s The Case File: Killer Tunes (Music for Mystery Writers)
The Story That Won (Jul/Aug) “Branchin’ Out” by Clare Lamparter
Index: Volume 63
Coming in AHMM Jan/Feb 2019
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 63 No. 11 & 12 Nov/Dec 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Maggie Ivy
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until December 18, 2018
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 138 #11 & 12 Nov/Dec 2018
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Edward M. Lerner’s Guest Editorial: Dystopic? Or Myopic?
G. David Nordley “Empress of Starlight”
Marianne Dyson: In Defense of the Planet (Science Fact)
Stephen L. Burns “Pandora’s Pantry” art by Joel Iskowitz
Sarina Dorie “The Gleaners”
Rich Larson “Smear Job”
C. Stuart Hardwick “A Measure of Love”
Tom Jolly “Learning the Ropes” art by Vincent DiFate
Eric Pinder “Past Pluto” (verse)
Christopher L. Bennett “Hubstitute Creatures”
J.T. Sharrah “The Light Fantastic”
Kathryn Fritz “Collisions” (verse)
John G. Cramer’s The Alternate View: Icecube and the Source of Cosmic Rays
Marissa Lingen “The Jagged Bones of Sea-Saw Town”
Bruce McAllister “Sandy”
In Times to Come (Jan/Feb preview)
Biolog: Bruce McAllister by Richard A. Lovett
Filip Wiltgren “Dad’s War” art by Kevin Speidell
Christopher McKitterick “Ashes of Exploding Suns, Monuments to Dust”
Richard A. Lovett’s Guest Alternate View: Air on the Moon (Really)
Eric James Stone “The 7 Most Massive Historic Mistakes in Gunmaster of the Carloards”
Jerry Oltion “The Ascension”
Jay Parks “Left Turn”
Cynthia Ward “Body Drift”
Joyce and Stanley Schmidt “Mixipoxi Learns to Drive” art by Eldar Zakirov
Don Sakers: The Reference Library
Brass Tacks (Letters)
Classified Marketplace
Anthony Lewis: Upcoming Events
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Trevor Quachri
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Eldar Zakirov
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until December 18, 2018
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SF Value Pack-8 $7.95
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Nov/Dec 2018 Vol. 152 #5 & 6, whole #926 & 927
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Michael Sears “The Honest End of Sybil Cooper” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
Bill Pronzini “Smoke Screen”
Barb Goffman “Bug Appétit”
Dennis McFadden “Lake Desolation”
O.A. Tynan “Jenny’s Necklace”
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction (preview)
John H. Dirckx “Where the Red Lines Meet”
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
Peter Lovesey “Agony Column”
Reed Johnson “Open House”
Josh Pachter “50”
Jean-Claude Mourlevat “Take Care, Love” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the French by Samuel Ashworth
Stacy Woodson “Duty, Honor, Hammett” (Dept. of First Stories)
David Dean “Human Resources”
Susan Dunlap “A House in the Country”
Marilyn Todd “Downton Shabby” (verse)
Craig Faustus Buck “Race to Judgement”
Marilyn Todd “Long Slow Dance Through the Passage of Time”
Jehane Sharah “The Screening” (Dept. of First Stories)
Dave Zeltserman “Archie for Hire” (Julius Katz) art by Ron Bucalo
Marketplace
Anna Scotti “Krikon the Ghoul Hunter”
Index to Volumes 151 & 152—2018
2018 EQMM Readers Award Ballot
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Debut Art
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until December 18, 2018
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction
EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95
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Gary Lovisi: Paperback Talk
Jim Fitzpatrick “The Canadian Crows”
Gary Lovisi “Hot Rods, Cool Chicks & Fast Racing Cars in Vintage Paperbacks”
Jack Seabrook “Fredric Brown in the Golden Age of Paperbacks (1948–1960)”
Graham Andrews “First-Class Mailer: The Deer Park”
Richard Greene “Deathwish & Vigilante Porn”
Linda Pendleton “Stewart Edward White”
Editor: Gary Lovisi
Designer: Richard Greene
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Stories from Pulp Modern Vol. 2 No. 3
Chris McGinley has published crime stories in Switchblade, Tough, the I.D. Press crime anthology (forthcoming), Story and Grit (forthcoming), and on a host of internet crime writing sites like Shotgun Honey, Out of the Gutter, Near to the Knuckle, and Yellow Mama. He also writes reviews and “re-considerations” for Unlawful Acts, the Flash Fiction Offensive, and SleuthSayers.