Summary: Abyss & Apex, 2012

Abyss & Apex is a long running e-zine, publishing a consistent mix of fantasy and SF and poetry (and some non-fiction) for 10 years now. Wendy S. Delmater is the Editor-in-Chief, and Carmelo Rafala is now Managing Editor ( Read more... )

Summary: Lightspeed, 2012

Lightspeed is a newish webzine (it began in 2010) focused on Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by John Joseph Adams. In 2012 it officially merged with its former companion, Fantasy Magazine. Also, late in 2012, a horror companion was added, Nightmare. Finally, I should mention that beginning in January 2013, I will be ( Read more... )

Summary: Ideomancer, 2012

Ideomancer is a quarterly online magazine. It has been around for an impressive 11 years. This year's four issues featured 12 new stories, all short, 1 short-shorts, about 43,000 words total. Leah Bobet is the editor ( Read more... )

Summary: Clarkesworld Magazine, 2012

Clarkesworld Magazine is a monthly online publication. The editors are Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace. Beginning this year, they have published three stories each month. So, 36 this year, three novelettes, for a total of some 172,000 words, as one might expect almost 50% more than last year, as they moved from 2 ( Read more... )

Summary: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2012

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 both the fourth anniversary issue and the 100th issue ( Read more... )

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: Strange Horizons, 2012

Strange Horizons is one of the longest-running and one of the best webzines going. They made additional changes in 2012, after many changes in 2011 -- this year, there are three new fiction editors: Brit Mandelo, Julia Rios, and An Owomoyela. Niall Harrison is Chief Editor ( 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: 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... )