Recommendations from the latest batch of magazines.

From Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007: "Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear and "Scrawl Daddy" by Jack Skillingstead.

From The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 2007: "If We Can Save Just One Child" by Robert Reed, "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang and Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers" by John Lanagan.

From Interzone, Jul-Aug 2007: Exvisible by Carlos Hernandez.

From Fantasy Magazine, Spring 2007: "Seven Crooked Tinies" by Marly Youmans, "The Impossibilities of Crows" by Catherine M. Morrison, "His Wife" by Bruce McAllister, and The Girl With Blueberry Eyes" by Lisa Mantchev.

From Apex, Volume 1:Issue 9: "The End of Crazy" by Katherine Sparrow.

From Shimmer, Winter 2007: "Tom Cofferwillow Comes Undone" by Stephen L. Moss.

From Say...what's the combination?: Known Forms or How the Aliens Stole My Clone Babies for Jesus" by Melissa Moorer, "Into the Woods" by Marguerite Croft.

Sure, I've been reading. The ones I loved:

From Saffron and Brimstone Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand, The Lost Domain: Four Stories "Kronia," "Calypso in Berlin," "Echo," and "The Saffron Gatherers."

From Asimov's Science Fiction July 2007: "Fountain of Age" by Nancy Kress, "Bullet Dance" by John Schoffstall and "Roxie" by Robert Reed.

From Asimov's Science Fiction August 2007: "The Bridge" by Kathleen Anne Goonan (reprint), "Dead House Point" by Daryl Gregory.

From Asimov's Science Fiction: "My Heart As Dry As Dust" by Kim Zimring, "How Music Begins" by James Van Pelt, "What Wolves Know" by Kit Reed. (Note: I haven't finished reading the R. Garcia Y Robertson novelette.)

From The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: May 2007, "The Master Miller's Tale" by Ian R. MacLeod and "The Tamarisk Hunter" by Paolo Bacigalupi.

From The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 2007: "The Tomb Wife" by Gwyneth Jones.

From Electric Velocipede Issue No. 12, "Reduction Descending" by Luke Jackson, "A Miracle in Shreveport" by Michael Jasper, "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Jay Caselberg and "Dr. Black and the Village of Stones" by Brendan Connell.

From Lady Churchill's Robot Wristlet Issue No. 20: "The Third Kind of Darkness" by M. Brock Moorer, "Workshop" by Laura Evans, "I'll Give In" by Meghan McCarron, "In the Lobby of the Mission Palms" by Jon Hanson, "The Last Worders" by Karen Joy Fowler, "Prolegomenon to the Adventures of Chílde Phoenix" by Marly Youmans.

From Reflection's Edge, "Dead Lovers" by A. M. Muffaz.

From Realms of Fantasy, August 2007: "Little Miss Apocalypse" by Christopher Barzak, "Metaphysics" by Elizabeth Glover and "A Trade in Serpents" by Alan Smale.

From Interzone Issue 210: "Toke" by Tim Akers.

From Weird Tales, April-May 2007: "The Man Who Carved Skulls" by Richard Parks, "Six Scents" by Lisa Mantchev and "Spider Comes Home" by Gerald Houarner.

From Strange Horizons (remember their fund drive, please), "29 Union Leaders Can't Be Wrong" by Genevieve Valentine.

From Chizine, "The Vine That Ate the South" by Bill Kte'pi.