Summary: F&SF, 2012

F&SF published 62 stories in 2012, with as usual a story reprinted from a near-simultaneous collection. 3 stories were novellas, 28 were novelets, and 31 were short-stories (three short-shorts). The fiction total was just under 500,000 words, in line with F&SF's usual numbers ( Read more... )

Summary: Analog, 2012

Analog published 68 pieces of short fiction in 2012, plus one four-part serial. There were 7 novellas, 23  novelettes, and 38 short-stories, 5 of the latter being short-shorts (four of those Probability Zero pieces). This was about 657,000 words of fiction, rather more last year and not untypical for Analog. About 557,000 ( Read more... )

Summary: Asimov's, 2012

I'm getting a late start on these this year, after not finishing last year's. So they'll be somewhat abbreviated -- apologies! But I figure something is better than nothing.

Asimov's published 73 stories in 2012. 9 were novellas, 21 novelettes, 43 short stories. About 688,000 words of fiction, more or less the same as last ( 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: 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... )

Summary: F&SF, 2011

F&SF published 62 stories in 2011, two of which were reprints (one of the longest, and the shortest). (Another was technically a reprint but from a 2011 story collection, so I list it as new. Indeed, that story and one other were actually written long ago, by since-deceased writers.) 5 stories were novellas, 19 were novelets, and ( Read more... )

Summary: Asimov's, 2011

Asimov's published 78 stories in 2011, a bit more than last year. 6 were novellas, 24 novelettes, 48 short stories (1 short-short). About 693,000 words of fiction, rather more than in 2010 (by my estimate -- always prone to error).

Novellas

Two novellas really stood out for me: "The Man Who Bridged the Mist", by Kij Johnson ( ( Read more... )

This is the first of my summaries this year, and it's at least a month later than usual. The reason is simple -- I've been extremely busy at my day job. So these summaries this year will be later than usual, and a bit more cursory.

Summary: Analog, 2011

Analog published 70 pieces of short fiction in 2010, plus one four-part serial. There were 5 ( Read more... )

Infinity, January 1958

The last magazine I reviewed came from October 1957, the month Sputnik was launched. This one is dated January 1958, and presumably appeared on stands a month or so after Sputnik, but was editorially complete just prior to the launch. And I've got another October 1957 issue coming. So -- these are, I would argue, three ( Read more... )

If, October 1957

Back to the '50s for this one. If is a magazine I remember with affection, even though I never saw a precisely new copy -- the last issue, except for the abortive one issue 1986 revival, appeared in December 1974, just a couple of months after I started buying magazines, but my source (Alton Drugs in Naperville, IL) didn't carry it ( Read more... )