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but there was also good work by A. M. Dellamonica, Bill Kte’pi, Deborah Coates, and others. The best stories this year in Abyss and Apex: A Magazine of Speculative Fiction (abyssanda-pex.com), edited by Wendy S. Delmater in conjunction with fiction editors Rob Campbell and Ilona Gordon, were by Cat Rambo, Mecurio D. Rivera, and Ruth Nestvold, but Abyss and Apex also featured good stuff by Alan Smale, Marissa Lingen, Vylar Kaftan, and others. Clarkesworld Magazine (clarkesworldmagazine.com), which features elegantly perverse fantasy, slipstream, and even the occasional SF story, was co-edited by Nick Mamatas until July, when Sean Wallace took over as co-editor. My favourite stories here this year were by Jay Lake and Jeff Ford; there were also good stories here by Tim Pratt, Mary Robinette Kowal, Catherynne M. Valente, Stephen Dedmen, Eric M. Witchey, Don Webb, and others. Ironically, for an online magazine that has no real physical existence, the covers are quite striking, some of the best I’ve seen in a while. I particularly like the cover for Issue 19.
    The Australian science magazine Cosmos publishes an SF story monthly, but they also frequently feature stories available as unique content on the Cosmos website (cosmosmagazine.com), all selected by fiction editor Damien Broderick; good stuff appeared in Cosmos this year, both online and in print, by Brendan DuBois, Steven Utley, Vylar Kaftan, Christopher East, and others. A similar mix of science fact articles and fiction is available from the ezine Futurismic (futurismic.com) and from new publication Escape Velocity (escapevelocitymagazine.com), issues of which can be downloaded to your computer.
    Apex Digest is another former print magazine that has shifted completely to electronic online-only format and can now be found as Apex Online (apexbook-company.com/apex-online), still being edited by Jason Sizemore; good SF work by Steven Francis Murphy, Mary Robinette Kowal, Lavie Tidhar, and others appeared there, and they publish fantasy and critical articles as well.
    Beneath Ceaseless Skies (beneath-ceaseless-skies) is a new ezine devoted to “literary adventure fantasy” that to date has published good work by David D. Levine, Charles Coleman Finlay and Rae Carson Finlay, and others.
    Shadow Unit (shadowunit.org) is a website devoted to publishing stories drawn from an imaginary TV show, which in spite of the unlikeliness of the premise has attracted some top talent such as Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, and others.
    Book View Café (bookviewcafe.com) is a “consortium of over twenty professional authors”, including Vonda N. McIntyre, Laura Ann Gilman, Sarah Zittel, Brenda Clough, and others, who have created a new website where work by them is made available for free – mostly reprints for the moment, although new work is promised, and the site also contains novel excerpts.
    Flurb (flurb.net), edited by Rudy Rucker, publishes as much strange Really Weird stuff as it does SF, but there were good stories there this year by Bruce Sterling, Michael Blumlein, Lavie Tidhar, Terry Bisson, and others.
    Below Flurb , science fiction and even genre fantasy become harder to find, although there are a number of ezines that publish slipstream/postmodern stories, often ones of good literary quality (and even the occasional SF story). They include: Revolution SF (revolutionsf.com), which also features book and media reviews; Coyote Wild (coyotewildmag.com); Ideomancer Speculative Fiction (ideomancer.com); Lone Star Stories (literary.erictmarin.com); Heliotrope (heliotropemag.com); Farrago’s Wainscot (farragoswainscot.com); and Sybil’s Garage (www.sensefive.com); and the somewhat less slipstreamish Bewildering Stories (bewilderingstories.com).
    Chiaroscura and New Ceres seem to have died; at least, I’m no longer able to get to them. Last year I reported that quirky little ezine Spacesuits and Six Guns (spacesuitsandsixguns.com) was dead, but