Despite leaving my magazine reviews until late this month, I still dipped into multiple sci-fi/fantasy stories from four different magazines, so I have a pretty substantial Magazine Minis. Let’s take a look at tales from Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Kaleidotrope, and Uncanny.  Apex Despite not having much of a taste for the shockingly grotesque or… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Kaleidotrope, and Uncanny

I’m leaving this month’s Magazine Minis until late on, mostly because the degree to which blogging is a reasonable activity while sick in bed depends very much on the sickness in question (get your flu shots, kids). But I dipped into several intriguing magazine issues this month, and I’ve got some sci-fi/fantasy short fiction to… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: Adventitious, Lightspeed, Otherside, and Strange Horizons

A new issue of Asimov’s, the full unlocking of the most recent Uncanny, and an impressive run of intriguing tales in Future Tense Fiction have given me plenty of excellent reading for this month and a strong three-zine set for my August Magazine Minis.  Asimov’s Perusing the table of contents of the September/October 2026 issue… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: Asimov’s, Future Tense, and Uncanny

Two Magazine Minis in a month? In this economy?  Earlier this month, I took a look at some stories from OnSpec and The Deadlands that were included in the Hugo packet. But publishers didn’t stop releasing new things just because I was reading stories from last year. And guess what? There are some new releases… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis (Again!): Adventitious, Kaleidotrope, and Reckoning

This month, I’m pivoting a bit away from my usual Magazine Minis habit, which typically involves sampling some sci-fi/fantasy new releases and dedicating small review sections to publications with multiple stories that catch my eye. The process this month is the same, the difference is that the focus has not been on new releases. Instead,… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: On Spec and The Deadlands

A new issue of Asimov’s, a review copy of Otherside, and several eye-catching pieces from Uncanny have given me a nice three-zine spread for this month’s Magazine Minis. As always, I have plenty of short fiction to recommend, so let’s get to it.  Asimov’s A quick scan through the new fiction in the July/August 2026… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: Asimov’s, Otherside, and Uncanny

The last two months of Magazine Minis were enormous, but as the TBR churns along, the May entry will be much shorter, dipping into just a pair of magazines: Adventitious and Lightspeed.  Adventitious I received an Advance Review Copy of Issue Three of Adventitious, and as usual, I scanned through to see which stories immediately… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: Adventitious and Lightspeed

For the second month in a row, my Magazine Minis post will be a five-zine blitz. Well, I suppose not technically the second month in a row, since I didn’t get this one up before the calendar flipped to May, but they were read two months in a row. Point is, I found five magazines… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: Five-Zine Blitz, Again (April 2026)

For the last year or so, my habit has been to supplement my monthly Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus review with a second feature where I highlight a couple different publications with multiple stories that caught my eye. This month it’s a bit longer than usual, as I’ve rolled up stories from two magazines that do smaller,… Continue reading Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: Five-Zine Blitz (March 2026)