I had gone to bed by the time the new issue went online yesterday, but it is up now and as usual it is full of wonderful things.

The lead fiction this month is “Futures in the Memory Market” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. That’s also available as a podcast, read as usual by Kate Baker.

Supporting that is “My Father’s Singularity” by Brenda Cooper. The podcast for that will go up in a couple of weeks’ time. (Also I note that this month we have two science fiction stories, both by women. Cool.)

This month’s interview is with the very wonderful Caitlín R. Kiernan, who as ever is upfront and honest about the writing process.

Our cover art is “perseus faces the kraken” by John Barry Ballaran.

And that leaves the non-fiction piece, which I am very pleased with for a number of reasons. “Moonage Daydream: The Rock Album as Science Fiction” by Jason Heller was once of those proposals that had me leaping up and down with glee immediately. Part of that, of course, if because I am a sad, old David Bowie fan who still remembers Ziggy Stardust with a great deal of fondness, but also the article was a great excuse for us to go wild with the YouTube links. Jason managed to pick many pieces of music that are very dear to me, and to introduce me to some I had never heard of but may grow to love. And I’m sure that other people will soon be adding lists of their favorite SF-themed rock albums. If you want to do so, please add them over at Clarkesworld, not here.

I should also thank Jason for working with me to get the article finished in a hurry because the piece I did have scheduled for June got withdrawn at the last minute. This does mean that I have a gaping hole in August where Jason’s article should have been. Those of you who have been promising me a submission please note.

One final note on Jason’s article. We were unable to find any videos from Donald Fagen’s Kamakiriad on YouTube. However, there is a wonderful video of “Tomorrow’s Girls” available (sadly unembeddable) here.

While the whole of Clarkesworld is available for free online, the magazine is now also available in the Kindle store. I have been able to buy it using the Kindle for iPhone app. Neil may have it in iBooks as well by now. Obviously you don’t need to buy it to read it, but if you do so then we have more money available to pay writers, which is what we like to do. #45 isn’t live yet, but doubtless will be soon. In the meantime there are plenty of back issues available.