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Mothership Zeta is the new digital magazine from Escape Artists Inc, covering the best from our podcasts as well as exciting new stuff.

Edited by Mur Lafferty with assistance from Sunil Patel and Karen Bovenmyer , Mothership Zeta is a quarterly website/ezine that will feature fiction and nonfiction of interest to the speculative fiction-loving world. We’ll be featuring reprints from our sister podcasts, new fiction, and some really interesting stuff we’re keeping under our hats for now!

You can subscribe to the magazine at Weightless Books, or buy individual issues for a mere $2.99 at the following locations:

Issue 1 - Table of Contents:

  • Editorial
  • Fiction: “The Customer Is Always Right” by Anna Salonen
  • Fiction: “Q&A: An AI Love Story” by Fade Manley
  • Nonfiction: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dwarf Planets” by Pamela L. Gay
  • Fiction: “Panic Twice, Spin” by Malon Edwards
  • Nonfiction: “Video Game Review: Why We Love Playing Flight Rising” by Karen Bovenmyer, Kri Dontje, and Mur Lafferty
  • Reprint: “Imma Gonna Finish You Off” by Marina J. Lostetter
  • Fiction: “Sleeping with Spirits” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
  • Nonfiction: “The Story Doctor Is (In)” by James Patrick Kelly
  • Nonfiction: “Series Review: Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody, Egyptologist” by Karen Bovenmyer
  • Fiction: “Bargain” by Sarah Gailey
  • Fiction: “Places” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
  • Nonfiction: “Favorite 2014-2015 Graphic Novels: NimonaFinder: Third WorldMs. Marvel, Volume 1: No NormalTrees and the upcoming Star Wars, Volume 1: Skywalker Strikes and Lady Killer” by Adam Gallardo
  • Fiction: “Tales of a Fourth Grade Shoggoth” by Kevin Wetmore
  • Nonfiction: “Movie Review: Turbo Kid: Why this BMX Blood Sparkle Unicorn Apocalypse will Blow your Mind” by Rachael Acks
  • Nonfiction: “Book Review: Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl” by Karen Bovenmyer
  • Nonfiction: “Book Review: M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts” by Karen Bovenmyer
  • Fiction: “The Insect Forest” by Paul DesCombaz