Fusion Fragment Monthly - February 2023
The Latest from Fusion Fragment HQ
Fusion Fragment #15 Released! Our very first all-novelette issue was released on January 27th. As always, you can download it for free electronically from the FF website.
There were FFers aplenty on the BSFA Longlist and the Stoker Preliminary Ballot! Vanessa Fogg, Thomas Ha, Jordan Kurella, and Uchechukwu Nwaka each appeared in the Best Short Fiction category of the BSFA Longlist. Christi Nogle appeared in the Superior Achievement in a First Novel category on the Stoker Preliminary Ballot, and again for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Avra Margariti appeared for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection.
I put out a couple of threads looking back at the January reading period. The first thread looked at some reading period stats and the second did a deep dive on reasons for rejection. If you want some insight into what the reading team and I look for in stories that come our way, this is a great place to start!
In the December issue of Locus magazine, Charles Payseur made FF#13 novelette "We'll Always Have Enceladus" by Amy Nagopaleen a recommended story in his monthly review column. The review was posted online last month, and you can read it here.
January Published Works by FFers
Maria Dong's debut novel Liar, Dreamer, Thief was released on January 10th by Grand Central Publishing.
FF Reprint alert! Avra Margariti's "Side Effects May Vary", which originally appeared in FF#8, was reprinted in The Future Fire
"As the Witch Burns" by Marisca Pichette in Fantasy Magazine
"Braid Me a Howling Tongue" by Maria Dong in Lightspeed
"Carnival Ever After" by Mari Ness in Apex Magazine
"Hallowed Halls" by Adriana C. Grigore in Martian Magazine
"How a Xenomorph Knows" by Annika Barranti Klein in Kaleidotrope
"Life Insurance" by Shih-Li Kow in Factor Four Magazine
"Night, When Windows Turn To Mirror" by Christi Nogle in Mooncalves
"Nosa" by Uchechukwu Nwaka in Uncharted
"Notes on the Seventh Battle of the Queen of the Ruby Mists" by Mari Ness in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
"Old Seeds" by Owen Leddy in GigaNotoSaurus
"Purity" by Jennifer R. Donohue in The Future Fire
"Spidersilk, Spidersong" by Avra Margariti in The Dread Machine
"Still Life With Vivisected Dream" by Tiffany Morris in Dark Matter Magazine
"The Immortal Game" by Lindz McLeod in Apex Magazine
"The Maiden in Robes" by Christi Nogle in Dark Recesses Press
"The Princess of Solomon Pond Mall" by Timothy Mudie in Etherea Magazine
"Wapnintu'tijig: They Sang Until Dawn" by Tiffany Morris in PodCastle
"What Do You See in This Picture?" by Michelle Ann King in The Dark City
"What Is Owed and What Can Never Be" by Ariel Marken Jack in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Giveaway Time
The first person to email me at editor@fusionfragment.com and tell me the name of the tour company in Vanessa Fogg's "How to Travel Safely in Faerieland" from FF#15 will win their choice of any of the 6 books recommended in that issue!
Recommendations from FF HQ
It's FF playlist time! Putting out an issue of Fusion Fragment involves a lot of late nights spent staring at a computer screen making sure all the apostrophes are stylized correctly and other such fun things. Here are 5 songs that were on repeat throughout the process of putting FF#15 together:
"Boys Life" by Small Black
"Fleez" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"We Killed the Moonlight" by Still Corners
"5th World" by The Last Internationale
"Bloodhands (Oh My Fever)" by In The Valley Below
Obligatory Photo of Associate Editor Henry
The look I get when I'm sitting downstairs wasting the day away when I should be upstairs in my office fulfilling my editorial duties.
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