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Preface

Welcome to issue fifty-eight of FANTASY MAGAZINE! Over at LIGHTSPEED we were excited to publish our special issue, Women Destroy Science Fiction!, in June, but when our Kickstarter’s tremendous success unlocked all of our stretch goals—thus offering us the chance to expand the destruction into fantasy and horror—we knew that the Women Destroy Fantasy! special issue had to be a FANTASY MAGAZINE special issue.

In Oct. 2014 (Issue 58)

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Editorial, October 2014

by Women Destroy Fantasy! Editors

Here’s the thing. All humans live inside a vast structure made of the flow of power and resources. All around us are the things that have grown to shape and express those flows: conventions and laws and manners and pop culture and highbrow art, architecture, religion, literature . . . even genre fiction.

In Oct. 2014 (Issue 58)

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Artist Spotlight: Women in Fantasy Illustration Roundtable

by Galen Dara

A roundtable interview with women artists (and one art director) Julie Bell, Irene Gallo, Rebecca Guay, Lauren Panepinto, Julie Dillon, Elizabeth Leggett, and Zoë Robinson.

Artist Spotlight: Women in Fantasy Illustration Roundtable

In Oct. 2014 (Issue 58)

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Women Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue

by John Joseph Adams

As part of Lightspeed’s Kickstarter for their Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue, one of the stretch goals that was unlocked due to the campaign’s tremendous success was the publication of a Women Destroy Fantasy! special issue, which will be guest-edited by former Fantasy Magazine editor Cat Rambo. The issue is in the works now and will be published in October 2014. If you’d like to write something for that issue, the writing guidelines are available on our submissions page. If you’d like to read the issue, four of the eight stories included in the issue will be available here on fantasy-magazine.com, and the rest will be available in the ebook edition, which will be available in October, and will be available for pre-order soon.

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Author Spotlight: Naomi Novik

by T.J. McIntyre

“Vici” shows the seeds of various aspects of the relationship between dragons and humans that we see initially in Britain and other European nations in His Majesty’s Dragon.

In Dec. 2011 (Issue 57)

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Three Dragons

by Genevieve Valentine

The dragon is a myth that has grown and molded itself to whatever contradictions the current age requires. It’s a world-carrier or a treasure-hoarder, celestial or flawed.

In Dec. 2011 (Issue 57)

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Falling With Style, Travelling Through Portals

by Alasdair Stuart

Portal travel has a lot to recommend it. It’s fast, exciting, no one has to sing any songs and you can often go directly to your destination.

In Dec. 2011 (Issue 57)

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Author Spotlight: Seanan McGuire

by Wendy N. Wagner

So the “kids + magical world = adventure” equation was very, very heavily used during the 1980s. Almost every cartoon had it, because it was a way to get the kids into the story.

In Dec. 2011 (Issue 57)

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The Deathly Shadows in Our Lives

by Veronica Schanoes

European folk tradition has placed quite a strong emphasis on the connection between the shadow and the soul; this connection can be found in German and Portuguese folklore, and in non-European folk belief as well.