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Matt Cheney on "Lonesome Road"
Matthew Cheney shares the inspiration for his story "Lonesome Road" that appears in winter issue of Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction :
It all came from Sam Collins's song "Lonesome Road Blues", which is one of my all-time favorite recordings, a song I could listen to every day for the rest of my life without getting tired of it. There ( Read more... ) -
Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction is open for submissions!
Icarus publishes speculative fiction stories up to 9000 words that feature gay male protagonists. We publish all stories that feature the fantastic: from magical realism to hard SF to horror. (Query for longer). We have published work by Tanith Lee, Lee Thomas, Sandra McDonald, and Tom Cardamone. We also feature interviews with authors who ( Read more... ) -
Icarus Summer Issue releases
The summer of 2010 welcomes another issue of Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction. Issue 5 features: an alluring mariachi haunting a young man; a boy learning to deal with being a fairy; and an ouroborus of a story by Hal Duncan. Not to mention an interview tih Lynn Flewelling, bits about lost cinematic werewolves, poetry starring ( Read more... ) -
Icarus: Spring 2010 issue is now out!
Issue 4: Spring 2010
Our fourth issue features an amazing story by Sandra McDonald - "Diana Comet and the Lonesome Cowboy" - as well as a romantic yet hairy tale by Warren Rochelle, melancholy in print from J ( Read more... ) -
Icarus: Issue 2
Our Halloween 2009 issue of Icarus offers a science-fiction tale set in a futuristic San Francisco by Alex Jeffers, a vampire paying a late visit to a conservative Republican senator in Jeff Mann's tale, and Stoker-Award winner Lee Thomas has an excerpt from his forthcoming short story collection; there's poetry about the perfect undead husband by ( Read more... )
