Webzine: Ideomancer Speculative Fiction
Bibliographic comments: Monthly/quarterly US webzine publishing fantasy, science fiction, slipstream, horror, poetry, reviews,
essays and interviews. PDF editions appeared January 2002–September 2007, subsequent issues were webzine only.
• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white and linked in blue where available.
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #5
Chris Clarke, Amber van Dyk, eds.
< May 2002
Decadent Moon
Notes:
• Vol. 1, No. 5.
Fiction: Jamie Rosen, Way Down Here in Catbelly Station and Fingalman's Organ Is Playing Too Loud // Joseph
Green, Single Combat // S. K. S. Perry, Sweet Dreams // Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Essay: Ahmed A. Khan, How to Write a Fantasy Short-Short
Editors (alphabetically listed): Leah Bobet | Chris Clarke | John Oz | Marsha Sisolak | Amber van Dyk
Language: English
ISSN:
Active: 2001 – 2015
Issues: 73
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Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #25
Chris Clarke, Amber van Dyk, eds.
< January 2004
Decadent Moon
Notes:
• Vol. 3, No. 1.
Fiction: Jay Lake, January // Greg van Eekhout, Wolves Till the World Goes Down // Rob Hunter, The Nine-Patch
Variation // Samantha Henderson, The Legend of Saint Ignatz the Provider
Essay: Mikal Trimm, Grand Illusions
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #26
Chris Clarke, Amber van Dyk, eds.
< February 2004
Decadent Moon
Notes:
• Vol. 3, No. 2.
Fiction: Jay Lake, February // Charles Tuomi, The Leap from the Bridge Is Ungainly // Greg van Eekhout, Clean
City // Jeremiah Tolbert, Storm Comes A'Callin'
Essay: Marsha Sisolak, The Bartimaeus Trilogy: A Review of Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #27
Chris Clarke, Amber van Dyk, eds.
< March 2004
Decadent Moon
Notes:
• Vol. 3, No. 3.
Fiction: Jay Lake, March // Greg van Eekhout, When the Black Bird Circles Back // David Hoffman-Dachelet,
Vacuum Monkeys // Patricia Russo, The Next
Interview: Tim Pratt, Greg van Eekhout: Featured Author
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #30
Chris Clarke, Amber van Dyk, eds.
< June 2004
Decadent Moon
Notes:
• Vol. 3, No. 6.
Fiction: Jay Lake, June // M. Rickert, More Beautiful Than You // Dru Pagliassotti, Joseph's Plaint // E. L. Chen,
The Senses Pentaptych
Interview: Charles Coleman Finlay, Interview: M. Rickert
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #35
Marsha Sisolak, ed.
< September 2005
Publisher unknown
Notes:
• Vol. 4, No. 3.
• Editor's Note by Marsha Sisolak.
• Only fiction, poetry and the interview are listed.
Fiction: Samuel Minier, 7th Period Bayonet Class // Tade Thompson, The McMahon Institute for Unquiet Minds //
Yoon Ha Lee, The Sun's Kiss // David Schwartz, Virginie and the Fool
Poetry: Lon Prater, God Explains Her Wayward Child
Interview: Lisa Negus, Robert D. Rowntree, Interview: Stephen Baxter
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #38
Marsha Sisolak, ed.
< June 2006
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 5, No. 2.
• Editor's Note by Marsha Sisolak.
• Only fiction, poetry and the interview are listed.
Fiction: Keri Bass, Leftovers // Ruth Nestvold, Triple Helix // Yoon Ha Lee, Unstringing the Bow
Poetry: Tina Connolly, Hold Fast // Lane Anderson, The Transcendental Turnpike // Mikal Trimm, Galahad, on the
Eve of the Quest
Interview: Sean Melican, Interview: Alan DeNiro
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #41
Marsha Sisolak, ed.
< March 2007
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 6, No. 1.
• This issue titled "Twenty-Three Small Disasters", a collection of loosely linked (and hyperlinked) short stories.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed.
Fiction: Benjamin Rosenbaum, Halloween // Benjamin Rosenbaum, Nothing // Elad Haber, Benjamin
Rosenbaum, Confusion // Benjamin Rosenbaum, Pale // Benjamin Rosenbaum, Newsboy // Benjamin
Rosenbaum, Down // Christopher Barzak, Children // Christopher Barzak, Safe // Elad Haber, Accident // Elad
Haber, Cold // Elad Haber, Walk // Greg van Eekhout, Dud // Greg van Eekhout, Change // Kiini Ibura Salaam,
Waterlogged // Kiini Ibura Salaam, Peat // Kiini Ibura Salaam, Gesundheit // Kiini Ibura Salaam, Desultory //
Kiini Ibura Salaam, Debris // Meghan McCarron, Boyfriend // Meghan McCarron, Jawbreakers // Meghan
McCarron, Dangerous // Tim Pratt, Gingerbread // Tim Pratt, Headache
Poetry: Sonya Taaffe, Green and Dying // Karen A. Romanko, Scrapbook // Marcie Tentchoff, Snow Melt
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #42
Marsha Sisolak, ed.
< June 2007
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 6, No. 2.
• Only fiction, poetry and the interview are listed.
Fiction: Astrid Atkinson, Things with Sharp Teeth // Ruth Nestvold, Far Side of the Moon // Yoon Ha Lee,
Screamers
Poetry: Mikal Trimm, Acteon, Before the Kill // Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Five Wisdoms of the Snow Queen // David
Kopaska-Merkel, Medical Reanimation
Interview: Sean Melican, Interview of L. Timmel Duchamp
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #44
Marsha Sisolak, ed.
December 2007
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 6, No. 4.
• Editor's Note by Marsha Sisolak.
• Only fiction, poetry and the interview are listed.
Fiction: Jon Hansen, How to Draw the Dark Lord // Samuel Minier, Behind the Walls // John Parke Davis, Elohim
Poetry: Sonya Taaffe, If Fallen Angels Dream of Flight // Liz Bourke, He always knew he'd drown // Marcie Lynn
Tentchoff, The Dance of the Seven Veils
Interview: Sean Melican, Interview of Vandana Singh
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #49
Leah Bobet, ed.
March 2009
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 8, No. 1.
• Editor's Note by Leah Bobet.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed.
Fiction: J. D. Brames, Borborygmi // Michaela Kahn, Blight, Under the Microscope // Steven Mohan, Jr., The
Promise of Touch
Poetry: J. C. Runolfson, Lifestory // Mike Allen, Cosmic Secrets // Amal El-Mohtar, The Night Sisters
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #54
Leah Bobet, ed.
June 2010
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 9, No. 2.
• Editor's Note by Leah Bobet.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed.
Fiction: Lon Prater, The Atrocities of King George // Ilan Lerman, Saint Stephen Street // Megan Arkenberg, The
Copperroof War
Poetry: Larry Hammer, Kassandra // Jennifer Crow, Tasting Books on Her Lover's Hands // Stephen M. Wilson,
Imagined World // Amal El-Mohtar, Jessica P. Wick, Courting Song for Selkies
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #57
Leah Bobet, ed.
March 2011
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 10, No. 1.
• Editor's Note by Leah Bobet.
• Only fiction, poetry and the interview are listed.
Fiction: Sandra M. Odell, Just Be // Emily C. Skaftun, Apology for Fish-Dude // Su-Yee Lin, Ascension
Poetry: Mari Ness, Grandma and the Puka // Mari Ness, Nile Song // Mari Ness, Soul Streets
Interview: David Rees-Thomas, Mari Ness, Featured Poet
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #58
Leah Bobet, ed.
June 2011
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 10, No. 2.
• Editor's Note by Leah Bobet.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed.
Fiction: Cory Skerry, Rendered Down // Alter S. Reiss, A Letter from Northern Niaro // Anatoly Belilovsky,
Poetry: WC Roberts, Redcap Repast // Megan Arkenberg, The Conqueror of Mars, to His Beloved // Mike Allen,
Splendours to Devour // Shannon Connor Winward, Beansidhe
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #69
Leah Bobet, ed.
March 2014
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 13, No. 1.
• Editor's Note by Leah Bobet.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed.
Fiction: Maya Surya Pillay, Alpines // Yukimi Ogawa, The Colorless Thief // Tochi Onyebuchi, Zen and the Art of
an Android Beatdown, or Cecile Meets a Boxer: A Love Story
Poetry: Shannon Quinn, Clockmaker // Sara Cleto, The Cultivation of Beauty // Michael Matheson, The Weight of
Winter // Sonya Taaffe, In Conclusion
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #70
Leah Bobet, ed.
June 2014
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 13, No. 2.
• Editor's Note by Leah Bobet.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed.
Fiction: Michael J. DeLuca, Virtual Goods // Drew Rhys White, Always Forever Now
Poetry: Virginia M. Mohlere, Cardyssey // Sara Saab, Inheritance, Far from the Center of the World // Adrienne J.
Odasso, Dominik Parisien, The Memory-Thief // Lynette Mejía, Princess
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #71
Leah Bobet, ed.
September 2014
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 13, No. 3.
• Editor's Note by Leah Bobet.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed.
Fiction: Arkady Martine, Nothing Must Be Wasted // N. M. Whitley, Chatarra // Chinelo Onwualu, Tasting Gomoa
Poetry: Claudia Serea, Rooms filled with hanged people // Claudia Serea, Everyone was stealing everyone else's
hat // Claudia Serea, The strong wind blew off // Mary Soon Lee, The Horse Lord // Alexandra Seidel, The Glass
Men // Alexandra de Romen, Unknown Soldier
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #72
Leah Bobet, ed.
December 2014
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 13, No. 4.
• Editor's Note by Leah Bobet.
• Special poetry issue; poetry editor Beth Langford.
Poetry: Alexandra Seidel, The Star Reader's Almanac // Bogi Takács, Six Hundred and Thirteen Commandments //
Marian Rosarum, Demeter Sails the Stars // C. E. Hyun, Dragon Girl // Mary Soon Lee, The Matter of the Horses
// Lynette Mejía, Visiting Hours // James J. Stevenson, A Kindness of Ravens
Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, #73
Leah Bobet, ed.
March 2015
Publisher unknown
Webzine
Notes:
• Vol. 14, No. 1.
• Editor's Note by Leah Bobet.
• Only fiction and poetry are listed.
Fiction: Sonya Taaffe, ζῆ καὶ βασιλεύει // Brittany Pladek, Andromache and the Dragon // Lee S. Hawke, The
Changeling and the Sun
Poetry: Alicia Cole, Twinned at Pasture // Steve Klepetar, Cyber Saloon // Yunsheng Jiang, under a flowering
cherry tree // Sarah Ann Winn, For a Lighter Spring Carryon