Bull Spec #7 launched as part of both the NC Speculative Fiction Night series and the NC Science Fair on 15 April, 2012, at Sci-Fi Genre in Durham, NC.

SAMPLE: As usual, over at Issuu for online viewing and download. (30 page subset.)

PDF: Weightless Books

REVIEWS:

Locus Online, by Lois Tilton — Of Jason K. Chapman’s “When Dreams Wake” she writes, “A fine story, with well-done imagery: RECOMMENDED.”

SFRevu, by Sam Tomaino — “ Bull Spec is back after a long absence with issue #7, some nice stories and some more great stuff. … Bull Spec is definitely worth subscribing to! “

… “ Tangent, by Kevin R. Tipple — “a very well-done magazine containing numerous interviews with various authors, various features, and plenty of book reviews.”

64 pages.

Contents: Final, but page numbers may still change:

Cover Art

Gearaffes Angi Shearstone

Additional Cover Design Jeremy Zerfoss

Fiction

4 The Gearaffe Who Didn’t Tick D. K. Thompson

Illustrated by Angi Shearstone

8 Complications of the Flesh Jason Erik Lundberg

Illustrated by Jason Strutz

12 Inseparables’ War Stephanie Ricker

Illustrated by Jason Strutz

14 Fish Eyes Natania Barron

Illustrated by Brigid Ashwood

16 Friday Nite at the A&W J. P. Trostle

Illustrated by Gabriel Dunston

18 When Dreams Wake Jason K. Chapman

Illustrated by Indrapramit Das

Poetry

22 The Fall Queen Alexandra Seidel; One Hundred Years in the

Wood Daniel A. Rabuzzi; Increments Lemuel Harik; A Fembot’s

Quantum Love Deborah Walker; Night Patrol Athena

Andreadis; Laurels Mari Ness

24 Letting Go Damon Shaw

26 The Year of Disasters Sofia Samatar

Graphic Short

28 The Long Lives of Heroes (part 3 of 4)

Jeremy Whitley and Jason Strutz

Interviews and Features

32 Into the Hinterlands David Drake and John

Lambshead = Interview by Jeremy L. C. Jones; Essays by Toni

Weisskopf, Mark L. Van Name, and John Lambshead

38 In Deep Vernor Vinge = Review and Interview by

Paul Kincaid

42 The Magister Trilogy C. S. Friedman = Review and

Interview by Dan Campbell

44 Circle Tide Rebecca K. Rowe = Review and

Interview by C. D. Covington

46 Panverse Three Dario Ciriello = Review

and Interview by Rich Horton

48 The Urban Uncanny Lauren Beukes =

Interview by Preston Grassmann

50 Experience is the Only Kind of

Story J. M. McDermott = Essay by John H. Stevens

54 X-Minus One = Article by Peter Wood

Illustrated by Gabriel Dunston

56 Happenings

58 Reviews

The Clockwork Rocket Greg Egan by Paul Kincaid; The

Goblin Corps Ari Marmell by Joseph Giddings; The Postmortal

Drew Magary by J. P. Wickwire; The Rift Walker Clay and

Susan Griffith by Natania Barron; Briarpatch Tim Pratt by

Dustin Monk; Mr. Fox Helen Oyeyemi by Larry Nolen; Osama

Lavie Tidhar by Paul Kincaid; The Great Big Beautiful

Tomorrow and Context Cory Doctorow by Nick Mamatas

64 Editorial = Are you listening?

Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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FIC Pyr

7 Action Lab Comics

17 Stellarnet Rebel

21 Night Shade Books

25 EVXP.com

27 Apex Publications

45 Discover Lit

BIC Brilliance Audio

BC Candlemark & Gleam