Back on a Tangent Soon
After a long quiescence and a near-fatal loss of a Web host, Tangent Online is set to return soon. While The Fix has done a fine job of helping to pick up the slack in the area of short fiction SF reviews, TO has a fourteen-year history in the game and there's plenty of room for more.
New Myths
I just heard from Scott Barnes, the editor of New Myths. He's buying my short story "The Magic of Science" for the March issue.
F&SF Is Going Bi-Monthly
Ansible #258 has a report regarding The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction switching to bi-monthly publication. According to the report, Gordon Van Gelder points the finger at the increase in costs--particularly postal costs. I can certainly see why. The last few US postal increases, in my opinion, unfairly targeted smaller publications by concentrating sorting-based price reductions in the segment of publications with massive subscriber lists. Oh, goody.
Poets & Writers Magazine Publishes "Inspiration" Issue
From the P&W Newsletter:
The January/February 2009 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine focuses on what inspires us in our writing lives. In "Why We Write Now," authors Chris Adrian, T.C. Boyle, Matthea Harvey, Yiyun Li, and Patricia Smith offer their insights on what drives them to write, where they find inspiration, and how they stay focused during these unpredictable times.
Preditors & Editors Readers Poll
It's that time of year again. Preditors & Editors is running their annual Reader's Poll. Both "Johnny" and "Quantiversal" are on the short story ballot, so be sure to go by and vote.
Sites, Sights, & Cites
The Fix
Locus Magazine Online - Blinks
- Green Man Review collects Best of 2009 lists from Charles...
- Spring-Summer Flurb has fiction by Paul Di Filippo, Rudy...
- Amelia Beamer has begun online serialization of forthcoming...
- The Agony Column has recent interviews with Dan Simmons,...
- Daily Kos looks at Science Fiction You Should Be Reading
- SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Dan Simmons, Joe Hill,...
- Amazon's Omnivoracious talks with Maurice Broaddus about...
- March Clarkesworld Magazine has fiction by Gord Sellar and...
Planetary Society News
- Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Perseveres Struggles, Opportunity Digs Marquette Island and We Look Back
- Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Parks for Winter, Opportunity Tastes' Chocolate Hills
- Hubble Photos Reveal "Dramatic" Surface Changes on Pluto
- Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Robots Pass 6-Year Milestone as Spirit Halts Extrication, Opportunity Cruises to New Crater
- BLOG: Your Chance to Shoot Your Own Image of Mars
- Results from the Rosetta Encounter with Asteroid 2867 Steins
- BLOG: 400 Years of the Galilean Satellites
- What's Up in the Solar System in January 2010