Summary: Tor.com, 2011

Tor.com continued much as they have established. In the fiction area, in 2011, as I noted last year, there were some stories posted that seemed explicitly to promote Tor's books -- which is fine by me, mind you, particularly as they still post plenty of unrelated stories. In 2011 they published 31 stories, 2 novellas, 11 ( Read more... )

Summary: On Spec, 2011

On Spec is a quarterly magazine based in Canada that has now been running for a very impressive 86 issues (over 23 years -- I suppose a couple of years had less than four issues.) This year they published 32 pieces of fiction: 2 novelettes and 30 short stories (three of them short-shorts), for about 140,000 words total. There ( Read more... )

Summary: Apex, 2011

Apex publishes a mix of SF and Fantasy, plus some poetry and non-fiction. Historically they had a distinct tropism towards horror, and while I think that's diminished they do still feature some horror. They usually publish two original stories per month plus a reprint. This year in 12 issues I saw 24 new stories, all short ( ( Read more... )

Summary: Abyss & Apex, 2011

Abyss & Apex is a long running e-zine, publishing a consistent mix of fantasy and SF and poetry (and some non-fiction) for nearly 10 years now. This year they underwent a change in format, but really no change in content. Wendy S. Delmater is the Editor-in-Chief.

They published a total of 26 stories this year. one a ( Read more... )

Summary: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2011

Beneath Ceaseless Skies debuted in late 2008, a webzine devoted to "literary adventure fantasy". The editor and publisher is Scott H. Andrews. It publishes two stories every other week, usually -- every so often a story is serialized over two issues, and the third anniversary issue this year had two extra ( Read more... )

Summary: Fantasy, 2011

Fantasy is an online magazine, a companion to the SF-oriented Lightspeed, and publishes in the same format: 2 stories a month, plus typically a couple of reprints and some nonfiction. John Joseph Adams is the editor, as of March 2011. Fantasy published four stories each of the first two months under the previous administration ( Read more... )

Summary: Lightspeed, 2011

Lightspeed is a newish webzine (it began in 2010) focused on Science Fiction, edited by John Joseph Adams. It is a companion of Fantasy. It publishes two original short stories and some reprints each month, as well as some nonfiction and some art.

I counted just about 110,000 words of original fiction this year. This was 24 ( Read more... )

Summary: Clarkesworld, 2011

Clarkesworld is a monthly online publication. The editors are Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace. (Sean stepped down at the end of 2010, but never quite really left, and he's back as of the beginning of 2012.) Two stories are published each month, or most months, anyway. So, 24 this year, four short novelettes, for a total of ( Read more... )

Summary: Strange Horizons, 2011

Strange Horizons is one of the longest-running and one of the best webzines going. They made some changes in 2011, including publishing somewhat less new fiction (offset to some extent by featuring a number of reprints, enhanced by essays about the stories.) The fiction editors are Jed Hartman, Susan Marie Groppi, and ( Read more... )

Summary: Interzone, 2011

There were a total of 28 new stories: 16 novelettes, and 12 short stories this year at Interzone, for a total of about 227,000 words of  fiction. (I caution as ever that Interzone is not easy to do word counts on, and that quite a few stories were in the 7000-8000 word range, thus I may have the various counts slightly off. ( Read more... )