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If you really want to keep up with what's happening in the world of science fiction writing and publishing, you need to read Locus Magazine — it's an essential resource for anyone who cares about the state of the field. So it's great news that Locus has signed up with Weightless Books, a venture of Small Beer Press, to offer DRM-free electronic subscriptions for just $48 a year. Back issues, going back as far as January 2011, are also available for $5.50 each. Check it out! [Weightless Books, via SF Scope] More »
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The story of an author meeting his own fictional characters is a common one — and usually it becomes some kind of metafictional meditation on the nature of authorship and what it means to be a fictional character. But what if that fictional character comes from a weird post-apocalyptic world, and it was kind of a shitty story? More »
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It's hard to perform a Michael Jackson routine night after night, lipsynching to the king of pop. But it gets a lot more complicated when you're being stalked by a psychotic robot — and it can only get worse when the robot decides that it's a Michael Jackson fan. More »
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You may have read Arthur C. Clarke's 1993 space-disaster novel Hammer of God — but have you read the original 1992 short story it was based on? Originally published in Time Magazine, that story is now available for free over at Lightspeed Magazine, and it's a potent dose of cosmic wonder. More »
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Several years ago, I was getting burned out in my high-stress newspaper job, and I came across a fancy hardcover book listing science fiction publishers, agents and editors. I paged through it on my lunchbreak, until I found a part of the introduction which proclaimed: "Many writers now make a decent living just from writing science fiction short stories." More »
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James Gunn's Center for the Study of Science Fiction at Kansas University has always been a locus of awesomeness in the consideration of the genre we all love. Among other things, the Center hosts the John W. Campbell Memorial Award every year, celebrating "the best science-fiction novel of the year." More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5868681&view=rss&microfeed=true The New York Review of Science Fiction has been a major source of insights into science fiction writing and criticism since 1988, with Hugo nominations every year since 1989. (Among many other fine essays, they published Samuel Delany's essay on racism and science fiction.) Now the Review may be converting to an electronic-only publication, for involuntary reasons. According to an announcement from the editors a couple days ago, the Review's printers, Odyssey Press, were sold, and the printer subsequently "ran out of paper." More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5865729&view=rss&microfeed=true Another sign that electronic publishing is providing a huge boost to short fiction: Orbit Books announced it's expanding its Orbit Short Fiction program, releasing stories simultaneously in the U.S. and the U.K. Says Orbit Vice President and Publisher Tim Holman: More »
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You can't really be a fully fledged sexist prat without also being kind of a bad scientist. The science supporting the idea that women are less rational than men is looking flimsier all the time. So it's probably not a surprise that the outrageously sexist science fiction story that blew up the Internet, "Womanspace", is bad science as well as bad gender politics. More »
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If you love both literary fiction and "genre" fiction, and want to be able to read inventive new takes on both things, then you'll welcome a new literary annual called Unstuck that aims to blur the lines. More »
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John Joseph Adams launched Lightspeed Magazine just a couple years ago, and so far it's gotten some great buzz as well as plenty of award nominations. More »
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Ann VanderMeer's award-winning tenure at Weird Tales was cut short when the magazine was bought by a new crew — but the print world's loss is the internet's gain. VanderMeer and her husband, Jeff VanderMeer, have started a new online magazine, the Weird Fiction Review, which just launched today. More »
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In the last decade or so, researchers investigating human preferences for male and female body shapes have turned to a previously under-explored academic resource – in the form of double-page gatefolded magazine spreads. Specifically, the centerfolds of so-called ‘top-shelf' publications. More »
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For the entire 21st century so far, Strange Horizons has been publishing amazing science fiction short stories, essays, reviews, art, poetry and more — they are the longest-running science fiction magazine online, and they make all of their content available to you for free. This all-volunteer organization has given us many afternoons of delightful reading, and now it's time to give back. That's right — it's the annual Strange Horizons fund drive. More »
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You probably already think you know why immortality is a bad idea — after all, Torchwood just got done showing us, and there's a whole complicated computer model of why immortality would suck. But trust Ursula K. Le Guin to make immortality seem terrifying all over again. More »
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Glossy magazines often contain a substance that has elevated levels of uranium and thorium. This means that reading one for various lengths of time slightly heightens your level of radiation exposure. Find out how much magazines like Playboy are poisoning your body, even if they're not corrupting your mind and polluting your soul. More »
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Last week, we talked about how science fiction cover art evolved into the colorful, pulpy art we love today. Now, here's our look at the evolution of cover art from 1930 to 1955, as pulp styles exploded into awesomeness. More »
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Weird Tales Magazine has been many different things, under many different sets of eyes, over the decades. And now, the magazine is starting yet another new chapter, as a new owner and editor takes over. More »
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Technology is changing how you read and write everything — but short fiction is at the center of the technological vortex of change. At Worldcon, we attended a panel about the future of short fiction, and learned just how the world of short stories is changing. More »
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We all love the colorful richness of science fiction pulp cover art. But pulp art didn't spring into the world fully formed, full of beautiful women adventurers and marauding robots. More »
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Readers of Penthouse magazine were treated to a special "Science and the Future" issue in October of 1978, which acted as a sort of coming out party for OMNI magazine. OMNI, "a magazine of science, science fiction and the future," was launched in October, 1978 by Kathy Keeton, the future wife of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione. More »
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction leapt into the e-book age with both feet — and came out with a deal that could win the beloved print digest a whole new generation of fans. More »
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Kelly Link's latest short story sneaks up on you — at first you think it's just a concentrated dose of weirdness, a jarring head-trip like being suspended by your ankles over the ocean. But then her strange world-building starts to make sense, and you think the whole thing is becoming a demented thought experiment. More »
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The task of defining "steampunk" has become surprisingly difficult. Wildly differing definitions are currently in use, from the strictly traditional (late 19th century London-based alternate history science fiction) to the Lewis Carrollian (steampunk means whatever a person wants it to mean). More »
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Coilhouse Magazine covers a madly eclectic range of creative work being done across the planet. It looks at some of the most innovative art and artists you've never heard of, as well as plenty that you'll probably recognize, especially if you've got a penchant for the fantastical, underground, geeky, or wildly odd phenomena. The Coilhouse mission statement puts it this way: More »
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Paleofuture is one of the coolest blogs out there, focusing on retrofuturism in all its glorious strangeness. (We've featured some Paleofuture articles at io9 in the past.) And now, it's becoming a print magazine! More »
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Time Magazine is putting all of its old content online — including an article from 1939 about fans of science fiction, or "pseudo-scientifics," as Time insists on calling it. (At one point, they even refer to an SF writer as a "pseudo-fictioneer." If you want to see why so many science fiction writers and readers have an inferiority complex, look no further than this hilariously sneering article. [Time via SFScope] More »
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Fantasy magazine has always been in the vanguard when it comes to publishing new and intriguing forays into magical worlds, and now it's gotten a reboot from incoming editor John Joseph Adams. The magazine just relaunched this week with much fanfare, and it will be serving up new, free stories online every week to come. Here's what's in store. More »
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Famous Monsters is more than just an iconic magazine founded by Forrest J. Ackerman — it's a lifestyle. Long before Lady Gaga was a fame monster, there were Frankenstein, Dracula and other classics, basking in their celebrity status. More »
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What would People Magazine look like in the world of Soylent Green? Check out this amazing, hilarious mockup. And just imagine, next time you're snacking on a protein cracker, that your cannibalizing a bit of Justin Beiber. More »
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Great news! Analog is joining the vast majority of science fiction magazines, and starting to look at electronic fiction submissions. According to the announcement over at SFScope: More »
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A new science fiction magazine called Sci Fi Short Story caught our eye recently. It looks good online, and it's even hiring editors. Sounds great - a professional market in the making, right? Sure, until you read the fine print. More »
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We've been having withdrawal symptoms from Adam-Troy Castro's addictive Andrea Cort novels, so we're thrilled to discover there's a new Andrea Cort story in the April issue of Analog. This time, Andrea faces a murder suspect who has three bodies. More »
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Famed comic magazine and price guide Wizard is being shuttered by parent company Wizard World Inc. — in its place will sprout up the pop culture site Wizard World. Wizard's sister publication Toyfare is also ceasing publication. [Bleeding Cool] More »
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Terra was the most important postwar science fiction magazine in West Germany — and its covers were bursting with strange monsters and weird struggles in outer space. The Monster Brains blog has gathered some of the greatest monster-focused covers. More »
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Most long-time science fiction fans consider the Golden Age to have started with the July 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. That issue contained Isaac Asimov's first Astounding story ("Trends") as well as A.E. Van Vogt's first story, "Black Destroyer." More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5726868&view=rss&microfeed=true Up-and-coming short-story writer Rachel Swirsky talks the joy of short fiction at Amazon's Omnivoracious blog. More »
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Two anthologies of the year's best science fiction and fantasy released their tables of contents — and a large number of the stories came from online magazines, plus anthologies of original fiction. Bad news for the print magazines? More »
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Black Hole creator Charles Burns crafted this bizarre/amazing cover for The Believer's new "art issue." The more we stare at it, the more it speaks to us. More »
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Sometimes the best short stories are the ones which hint at a much larger picture, almost as if they're a window onto one person's experience of a grand saga. That's what Sigrid Ellis' "No Return Address" is like. More »
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