I just sold a novelette to THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. Next year this classic mag is going to have its 75th Anniversary issue. I wonder how many readers of science fiction and fantasy still read the great sf magazines printed on paper...? I'm thinking of "F&SF", linked below, Analog, Asimov's, and Interzone. My story, The Corporate Soul, will be out sometime next year. I had a story in the December '22 issue too. #sff#scifi#fantasy
Check out F&SF: https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/
[Another reason books are going to increasingly suck--publishers are getting rid of most editors and copyeditors...and by the way I just saw "how to use chatgpt to copyedit your book" Oh...god...]
Several top editors at Penguin Random House accept buyout offers, layoffs also underway
Some of publishing’s most celebrated and enduring editors are leaving their posts at Penguin Random House after accepting buyout packages
smooths lost-cause morning hair, sets third cup of tea for the morning down and moves purring cat off the keyboard.
Helloo! Calling all lovely people who like #sff#books with lashings of mystery and detection. We've just been given some reviewer #audiobook codes for our novel, OverLondon and would love to share them with anyone with a hankering to listen, (hopefully) snort-laugh and leave a review.
OverLondon has pirate detectives. It's got rogue artificers! It's got a big explosive crime. It's got an angry badger! It's got an alternate version of London formed by the Vengeful Queen Anne Boleyn! It's got a world so vivid we regularly run #ttrpg#dnd and pathfinder campaigns based on it. It radiates awesomeness like the power of a supernova that's showing off for its grandparents!
It's narrated by Brendan McDonald who did C.K. McDonnell's amazing Stranger Times audiobooks, which roosted like Smaug on his gold pile at no 1 in the Audible charts for 3 entire days last month. (A near impossible feat!)
It's been likened to what would happen if Spike Milligan and Terry Pratchett ever wrote a book!
If the thought of listening to an amazing voice actor at the height of his game sounds like your cup of tea, just message me or reply, and we'll get you sorted with a code.
Finally #reading Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. Consistently startled that it was published in 1976. Feels extremely relevant. So many things things touted as new ideas in contemporary #SFF--queer communities, #LandBack ideals, and centering marginalized perspectives--are all here and have existed woven into story form for nearly 50 years.
We are open for submissions! We're looking for short fiction, poetry, well-written nonfiction science essays - & art! We are a paying market & publish every 2 months.
Doubly so that it is the Birdverse short story collection from Fairwood, I feel like this book has gone a bit underappreciated with RB's other books being out this year, BUT IT IS SO GOOD and I am so happy.
Finished The Daughter of Doctor Moreau last night. Didn't hit quite as hard for me as Mexican Gothic did, but still enjoyable. 3.75/5 ⭐ #books#bookstodon#reading@bookstodon
I need some really great #ebook recommendations to keep me company while I isolate with #COVID for the next five days. I like literary fiction, thoughtful #scifi#sff, inventive takes on genre fiction like detective novels, historical novels, etc. and also anything funny. Hit me. @bookstodon#bookstodon#books#amreading