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Magazine: Realms of Fantasy

Editors (alphabetically listed): Douglas Cohen  |  Shawna McCarthy

Language: English

ISSN: 1078-1951

Print issues: 102, 1994 – 2011

Websites:  Galactic Central  |  ISFDB  |  SFE4  |  Wikipedia

Bibliographic comments: US high-quality magazine publishing fantasy.

• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white.

Realms of Fantasy, #7

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

October 1995

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 88 pages

$3.50

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'A first birthday is a proud one that holds out promise for the future' by Shawna McCarthy.

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: William F. Wu, Tuli, Prince of the Mongols  //  Chris Bunch, A Matter of Honor  //  Leslie What, Magic Carpets  

//  L. Timmel Duchamp, Promises to Keep  //  Geoffrey A. Landis, The Tale of the Fish Who Loved a Bird

Realms of Fantasy, #13

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

October 1996

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 80 pages

$3.50

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'Critical Success: Just Another Fantasy?' by Shawna McCarthy.

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Susan J. Kroupa, Scapegoat  //  Charles de Lint, Shining Nowhere But in the Dark  //  William F. Wu, Nairich  

//  Don Webb, The Beautiful Wassilissa  //  Geoffrey A. Landis, Hot Death on Wheels

Realms of Fantasy, #24

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

August 1998

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 104 pages

$3.99

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'And the Survey Says: Part II' by Shawna McCarthy.

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Constance Ash, Flower Kiss  //  Sherwood Smith, And Now Abideth These Three  //  S. P. Somtow, Dr.

Rumpole  //  James Van Pelt, Happy Ending  //  J. Michael Matuszewicz, Greed

Realms of Fantasy, #43

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

October 2001

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 100 pages

$3.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Charles de Lint, Big City Littles  //  Terry McGarry, Limnery in Cursive  //  Liz Williams, The Sea of Time and

Space  //  Jacob Slay, Jr., Once  //  Mary Soon Lee, Patterns  //  Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, A Hole in Her Head

Realms of Fantasy, #56

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

December 2003

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 100 pages

$3.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  *  'Yamabushi' is set in Japan.

Fiction: Liz Williams, Dancing Day  //  Gene Wolfe, Of Soil & Climate  //  William Shunn, Divided by Time  //  Tim

Pratt, Romanticore  //  Richard Parks, Yamabushi

Realms of Fantasy, #63

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

February 2005

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 92 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Eugie Foster, Returning My Sister's Face  //  Liz Williams, All Fish and Dracula  //  Sandra McDonald, Fir Na

Tine  //  Patrick Samphire, Crab Apple  //  Melissa Lee Shaw, The Good Doctor  //  Michael Canfield, Peas and

Carrots

Realms of Fantasy, #65

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

June 2005

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 92 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  *  'Foxtails' is set in Japan.

Fiction: Eugie Foster, The Storyteller's Wife  //  Jim C. Hines, Deliverance  //  Richard Parks, Foxtails  //  Susan Yi,

Midnight Hunt  // Aaron Schutz, Moments of Grace  //  Karen D. Fishler, Stones in Winter

Realms of Fantasy, #67

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

October 2005

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 92 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Greg van Eekhout, Tim Pratt, Robots and Falling Hearts  //  Kate Reidel, At the Queen's Hotel  //  Darrell

Schweitzer, At the Top of the Black Stairs  //  Graham Edwards, Dead Wolf in a Hat  //  David Levine, The Ecology of

Fairie  //  Way Jeng, The Rain God

Realms of Fantasy, #70

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

April 2006

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 88 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  *  'Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge' is set in Japan.

Fiction: Karen L. Abrahamson, Lady of Ashuelot  //  Richard Parks, Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge  //  Greg van

Eekhout, Anywhere There's a Game  //  Devon Monk, Ducks in a Row  //  Sarah Prineas, Jane: A Story of Manners,

Magic, and Romance  //  Jena Snyder, Heart of Ice

Realms of Fantasy, #75

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

February 2007

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 104 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Bruce Holland Rogers, Three Wishes  //  Carrie Vaughn, Looking After Family  //  Chuck Rothman, Spare

Change  //  Graham Edwards, Syren  //  Eugie Foster, The Devil and Mrs. Comstock’s Snickerdoodles  //  Jay Lake,

Number of the Bus  //  Eric M. Witchey, Circus Circus  //  Josh Rountree, In the Thicket, with Wolves

Realms of Fantasy, #76

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

February 2007

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 92 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  *  'A Touch of Hell' is set in Japan.

Fiction: Richard Parks, A Touch of Hell  //  Noreen Doyle, The Rope: A New Tale of the Antique Lands  //  Josh

Rountree,  Stephanie Shrugs  //  Trent Hergenrader, Black Jack Davy  //  Jackie Kessler, Red  //  Samantha

Henderson, Bottles  //  Euan Harvey, The Tao of Crocodiles

Realms of Fantasy, #78

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

August 2007

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 100 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Cherith Baldry, Waiting at the Door  //  Christopher Barzak, Little Miss Apocalypse  //  Alan Smale, A Trade in

Serpents  //  Elizabeth M. Glover, MetaPhysics  //  Tim Pratt, Restless in My Hand  //  Way Jeng, Time Tells All

Realms of Fantasy, #80

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

December 2007

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 108 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  *  'Hot Water' is set in Japan.

Fiction: Graham Edwards, Still Point  //  Richard Parks, Hot Water  //  Sandra McDonald, The Fireman's Fairy  //  

David Barr Kirtley, Transformations  //  Joe Murphy, On Tuesday It Rained Horned Toads  //  Von Carr, The White Isle

Realms of Fantasy, #83

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

June 2008

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 96 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Tanith Lee, The Snake: A Story of the Flat Earth  //  Bradley P. Beaulieu, Lest Our Passage Be Forgotten  //  

Way Jeng, The Self-Fulfilling Prophet  //  Betsy James, The Good Neighbor  //  Kate Riedel, The Summer of Lucy  //  

Dennis Danvers, Here's What I Know

Realms of Fantasy, #84

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

August 2008

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 92 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Carrie Vaughn, A Letter to Nancy  //  Liz Williams, Spiderhorse  //  Peni R. Griffin, The Restroom Murders  //  

Eugie Foster, Daughter of Bótù  //  James Van Pelt, The Light of a Thousand Suns  //  Way Jeng, Somebody

Desperately Needed to Be Neil Gaiman  //  Jim C. Hines, Ours to Fight For

Realms of Fantasy, #87

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

February 2009

Sovereign Media Co.

Quarto, 92 pages

$3.99 / C$5.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  *  'The River of Three Crossings' is set in Japan.

Fiction: James Van Pelt, The Radio Magician  //  Carrie Vaughn, The Happiest Place  //  David D. Levine, Joy Is the

Serious Business of Heaven  //  Richard Parks, The River of Three Crossings  //  Alan Smale, Fossil Fuels

Realms of Fantasy, #92

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

February 2010

Tir Na Nog Press

Quarto, 76 pages

$6.99 / C$7.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Harlan Ellison, How Interesting: A Tiny Man  //  Leah Bobet, Mister Oak  //  Euan Harvey, The Demon of

Hochgarten  //  Aliette de Bodard, Mélanie  //  Ann Leckie, The Unknown God

Realms of Fantasy, #94

Shawna McCarthy, ed.

June 2010

Tir Na Nog Press

Quarto, 76 pages

$6.99 / C$7.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction: Aliette de Bodard, Desaparecidos  //  Shweta Narayan, Sultana Lena's Gift  //  Meredith Simmons, The Well

of Forgetting  //  T. L. Morganfield, The Hearts of Men  //  Bruce Holland Rogers, Fallen

Realms of Fantasy, #98

Shawna McCarthy, Douglas Cohen, eds.

February 2011

Damnation Books

Quarto, 76 pages

$6.99 / C$7.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

  *  'The Swan Troika' is set in Russia.

Fiction: Richard Parks, The Swan Troika  //  Desirina Boskovich, Thirteen Incantations  //  Mark Rigney, Magpie  //  

Pauline J. Alama, No Tale for Troubadours  //  Scott William Carter, The Time of His Life

Realms of Fantasy, #102

Douglas Cohen, ed.

October 2011

Damnation Books

Quarto, 76 pages

$6.99 / C$7.99

Notes:

  •  Only fiction is listed.

Fiction:  Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Return to Paraiso  //  Scott William Carter, The Man Who Made No Mistakes  //  Jerry

Oltion, Second Childhood  //  Betsy James, Sweeping the Hearthstone  //  Nick DiChario, Barbie Marries the Jolly Fat

Baker