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more about #shortfiction more comments → Belabras: Sounds like a cool lady. I know she's done great work on the 'Years Best...' for a long time now. more » twophrasebark: Or alternatively... The stories behind the objects are true, but for some mythological reason, the buyers must be told the story is false in order for... more » twophrasebark: In the story... of the stories... it would of course turn out that one of the objects was really magical. I would guess the blue bottle. more » BullfightsOnAcid: "This Kevin Costner Waterworld action figure has a very interesting story behind it. An amber alert had notified the police to a description of my car... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: FINALLY, porcelain dogs with clocks in their stomachs and sad faced hobos with nuclear waste bindles will have their stories revealed to the world. more » gorehound: and i am still buying books.i just got off amazon ordering more books. i also still order vinyl, cd's, and DVD's. i enjoy owning physical things not d... more » kelz: I wonder how much effect podcasts and other audio media are having on the science fiction market? Right now, that's where I'm getting most of my new s... more » Greasy Breakfast: Interesting format! If you teamed up with an illustrator, you could add that much more depth to your content. I must say, however, your story needs an... more » jamesryan: That's exactly what I'm doing! I use a webcomic model for my novel, and have regular subscribers twice a week getting up to date through an RSS feed. ... more » Torley: "The Father Thing" is one of my faves - but having read it, that 2nd paragraph is a tepid spoiler! Ah well, still a worth while read. PKD humor: All I... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: That's probably why the best way to do it is to use a model akin to what webcomics do. A kind of a blog that can be supported via merchandise (collec... more » Purple Dave: About a year ago, I picked up around a dozen different short story anthologies that were published by the same company. I can't say I'd ever reread al... more » Ed Grabianowski: I think an io9 interview with Gardner Dozois would be pretty excellent. more » rroonnbb: So how is a new author going to 'break in' when all of these anthologies are presumably filled with stories that were contracted for them? Will there... more » Grey_Area: Astonished that "Turing's Apples" is the only piece from Eclipse 2 to make Dozois' list. I mean it was good but there are much stronger stories from t... more » -
#publishing
Hugo-Winner Ellen Datlow on the Art of Editing Short Fiction
An award-winning editor of genre anthologies, Ellen Datlow started her career at Omni magazine and now edits several books a year, including Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. She told us what short story editors want. More » -
#strangeexperiments
Alternate Histories Of Objects For Sale On eBay
Would you pay more money for items on eBay if they had interesting stories behind them? A group of writers has determined to find out, by selling objects on eBay that come with fictional alternate histories. More » -
#sundayreading
Embrace Philip K. Dick's Family Values
I've always loved Philip K. Dick's short fiction for the jolt of concentrated weirdness it provides. One of his best stories is online for free, plus there are three Kelley Eskridge tales for your perusal. More » -
#shortfiction
SF Must Write Its Own Future
You've heard about the death of print sf, but could online outlets for stories of the imagination be just as doomed? Fantasy Magazine has a reality check on the future of speculative fiction. More » -
#shortfiction
Is Short Science Fiction Moving To Original Anthologies?
Are magazines no longer going to be the source of the best short science fiction? Maybe. Two pieces of news make me wonder. More » -
