Summer 2009
Summer 2009 Icarus is the first magazine devoted to gay-themed speculative fiction and writing - from fantasy to horror to science fiction, and all the weird tales that fall between the cracks. Our...
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Autumn 2009 Our Halloween 2009 issue of Icarus offers a science-fiction tale set in a futuristic San Francisco by Alex Jeffers, a vampire paying a late visit to a conservative Republican senator in...
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Winter 2009/2010 Winter blows in with a chilling story aboard a Russian train by Tanith Lee. Loves lost and found (and sometimes lost again) are told in the evocative words of authors Chaz Brenchley,...
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Spring 2010 Our fourth issue features an amazing story by Sandra McDonald - "Diana Comet and the Lonesome Cowboy" - as well as a romantic yet hairy tale by Warren Rochelle, melancholy in print from...
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Summer 2010 The summer of 2010 welcomes another issue of Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction. Issue 5 features: an alluring mariachi haunting a young man; a boy learning to deal with being...
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Fall 2010 Halloween is coming. Store shelves are filled with objets d'autumn and jack o'lanterns. The air is cooling and mornings are darker. Trees are stripping bare. There's the rushing sound of...
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Winter 2010 Winter, like all seasons, is a time of transformation. Glittering frost appears on windows overnight. Can you feel the chill in the air? This issue has several stories that will contribute...
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Spring 2011 Spring warmth invites us outdoors. But beware The Beast author Ed Madden will introduce you to! Issue 8 of Icarus brings you stories designed to spark your fancy and make you afraid—very...
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Summer 2011 This issue features a voice well familiar to devoted readers: the always impressive and versatile (or so we hear) Hal Duncan pays gay homage to one of the most well-known films ever,...
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Icarus Fall 2011 Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction presents stories and features for Fall 2011. A fairy boy confronts a human crush in Alex Jeffers's "Liam and the Ordinary Boy." James...
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Icarus Winter 2011/2012 Our Winter 2011 issue features a chilling Victorian tale of revenge from Scot D. Ryersson, a weird tale of transformation by Rodello Santos & Damon Shaw, and a dystopian...
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Icarus Spring 2012 In this issue, the finale of Scot D. Ryersson’s Victorian-era dark fantasy novella, “The Arsenic Flower,” will not disappoint; our handsome friend across the pond, James Bennett,...
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Summer 2012 The Summer of 2012 burns with new fiction by award-winning authors exploring the passion of the Fey: "The Cairn" by Jeff Mann and Ginn Hale's "Blood Beneath the King." But that's not all,...
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Fall 2012 Icarus 14, like the season of autumn features new work by authors Alex Jeffers, Hal Duncan, David Pratt, and Guy Mark Foster. This issue also features an interview and sample images by...
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Winter 2012-13 Winter has arrived with Icarus 15 and with it ghosts and doppelgangers. The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction welcomes stories by our old friends Peter Dube and Lambda Literary Award...
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Spring 2013 A fine collection of authors, all new to the pages of Icarus: Sam J. Miller, one of the fresh new voices in gay speculative fiction, offers a phone call one cannot refuse in “The Country...
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Summer 2013 What we do have for your viewing in Icarus 17 are several new stories: Christine Morgan's “Masque of the Rue Paule,” is a clever pastiche of drag culture with a touch of the macabre;...
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Fall/Winter 2013 Icarus 18 - Fall/Winter 2013 Fall and winter, when the world begins to sleep. Featuring stories by Molly Tanzer, James K. Moran, J. Daniel Stone, Ray Cluley, with a farewell letter...
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