Fiction magazines
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4 Must-Read Black Fiction Magazines For Your New TBR
Literary magazines also need love. That’s why we love to celebrate them here on Book Riot! We had a Literary Magazines 101 to get you started, ... -
Selling Afghan authenticity with Jamil Jan Kochai’s ’99 Nights in Logar’
This is not a review of the first novel by an Afghan-American writer. To call it a Jamil Jan Kochai review 99 nights in Logar would ... -
Remembering Arthur C Clarke, Visionary Space Age Author
Arthur charles clarke was author and inventor, most famous for his science fiction novel ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ His work ranged from scientific discovery to science ... -
How sci-fi magazines (and their payout rates) shaped the genre
The latest book by writer and biographer Alec Nevala-Lee, “Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov,… [+] Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard and the Golden Age ... -
New Kickstarter Project Will Release Undiscovered Novel That Inspired The Thing
John carpenter The thing is a classic sci-fi horror film that has scared audiences for decades. But the film was inspired by an earlier story published ... -
Computer stories: AI begins to help novelists
Mr. Sloan wanted to see for himself. He acquired a database of texts from the Internet Archive: the issues of Galaxy and If, two popular science ... -
How Tor.com went from being a website to the publisher of the most innovative sci-fi stories
In July 2008, sci-fi publisher Tor launched a new website called Tor.com to promote its upcoming releases. But the site was designed to go beyond Tor ... -
Google Doodle pays homage to legendary sci-fi author Octavia Butler
Today’s Google Doodle pays homage to Octavia Butler, the visionary science fiction author whose work, including novels like Kinship and Parable of the sower, has profoundly ... -
Listen to one of the best short sci-fi podcasts right now
There are a ton of podcasts out there, but finding the right one can be difficult. In our new section Pod hunters, we cover what we’ve ... -
How difficult could it be to repopulate the planet?
In the 1950s, many science fiction writers explored the idea of a global disaster that would leave behind only one man and one woman, who would ... -
Curious Fictions helps readers find (and pay for) short stories – TechCrunch
Most of you, I guess, haven’t read a news for a long time. Well, there’s a Y Combinator-backed startup called Curious Fictions that is looking to ... -
One of the biggest science fiction magazines is now available for free online
If you love classic science fiction, one of the best magazines in the genre is now available online for free. Archive.org now houses a collection of ... -
Unpublished short stories by Ruth Rendell will be published | Ruth Rendel
A collection of short stories by Ruth Rendell, unearthed from the archives of a US detective magazine, is due to be published for the first time ... -
In addition! In addition! Read all about it in these fictional magazines
This week’s entry: Fiction magazines What is it about : The real-world magazine industry has seen better days, but in the world of fiction, magazines are ... -
Fanfic as an Academic Discipline – JSTOR Daily
When fifty shades darker debuts in February, audiences will once again enter the world of an innocent young woman and the charismatic, sexually dominant billionaire who ... -
If Isaac Asimov had named the smartphone, he might have called it the “Pocket Computer Mark II” | Smart News
Isaac Asimov at 70. Arnold A Newman, in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery From a certain point of view, Isaac Asimov was not really ... -
Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of science fiction
In the early 1950s, a teenager, Robert Silverberg, began submitting stories to science fiction magazines. Around the same time, the Paris Review inaugurated its famous “Writers ... -
Science fiction publishing has a major racial problem, according to a new report
Speculative Fiction Magazine Fireside Fiction commissioned and published a report detailing an unwelcome revelation: speculative fiction online fiction magazines and sites fail publish stories of black ... -
This Time A Fake Sci-Fi Author Won A Grand Prize For Writing Novels
In 1953, Science Fiction Galaxy and Simon & Schuster have launched a huge competition to find a great new sci-fi novel. The price was $6,500 (a ... -
Getting into the skin of speculative fiction, science fiction and science romance
Science fiction has always been a defined genre ad hoc. The term first appeared in interwar American “pulp fiction” magazines (supposedly for the quality of their ... -
Read the sinister history of pulp magazines
This week’s entry: Pulp stores What is it about : In the first half of the 20th century, fiction magazines were popular and were usually printed ... -
A digital renaissance for science fiction novella | science fiction books
A man wakes up after a car accident to find he is an “electric ant”: an android programmed to believe he is human. At home, he ... -
Frederik Pohl, master of science fiction who vaporized utopias, dies at 93
Along with a handful of like-minded young men, including Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Damon Knight and Mr. Kornbluth, Mr. Pohl embarked on the burgeoning phenomenon of ... -
Predictions from the Father of Science Fiction | Story
Men watch baseball on a color television from the future (July 1922 Science and Invention magazine) Hugo “Awards” Gernsback was a lot of different things to ... -
Students use 20th century science fiction magazines for English class
10:16 a.m., March 26, 2012–Before the term “science fiction” described a class of literature, futuristic stories emerged in popular magazines and helped shape the culture of ...