Red Peacock Press

[beckyh2112]

I continue my experiment with editing an anthology by actually providing submission guidelines!

So what am I looking for? Speculative fiction about exploration. Going places where no one has gone before, going places where everyone has gone before but you never have, doing things no one has ever done, doing things your people have never done

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Some more resources

[sharkflip]

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed -- contains some overt messages about modern climate change, but expresses it through historic and prehistoric case studies of exploration and colonization

Last Around Cape Horn -- explores and inverts the idea of exploration, both personally and globally

Guns, Germs, & Steel -- a classic for examining the differences between cultures

Re: Some more resources

[sharkflip]

Furthermore, I am curious as to how you are defining "Western" here. Would you elaborate?

Re: Some more resources

[beckyh2112]

The answer I gave gamiel still seems to mostly hold up: Not Europe, and outside the various European colonies. A story set in British-occupied Shanghai with the main characters as Chinese, I would consider non-Western as well as the more obvious settings.

Re: Some more resources

[sharkflip]

Excellent. Thank you!

[floranna]

Uhmm. Just asking, is it possible for me to write it in Finnish setting? You know, characters Finnish, happens in Finland etc etc... Because I have started to get this idea...

[beckyh2112]

You can write such a thing, but it would have to be very good.

[floranna]

Just question, if it happens deeply in Finnish mythology and before the time Christianity arrived?

[beckyh2112]

Edit after someone made some points to me: Yes, you could reasonably do that for this anthology.

[keppiehed]

I have a story that is set in 19th century Canada, 900 words. I do believe it is a high quality, as it won a writing contest, but I don't want to waste your time because I know that you are not interested in that region. Should I bother to submit it?

[beckyh2112]

Is it focused on the settlers or the First Nations people of 19th-century Canada?

[keppiehed]

It talks about the settlers of the Puget Sound region.

[beckyh2112]

To be honest, such a submission would be stacked against you. You're welcome to submit anyway; it may appeal enough to me to beat the odds.

[melengro]

I would imagine that pre-Columbian America would be more than acceptable, but are modern American Indians/First Nations people (in relatively undeveloped areas) okay?

[beckyh2112]

Yes, they're more than okay. ^_^

[melengro]

What about reservation settings? Would that still fall under non-Western?

[beckyh2112]

I would have to see how it's implemented in the story.

[dunmurderin]

Towards a Steampunk Without Steam by Amal El-Mohtar about wanting to see Steampunk divorced of Victorian English settings and tropes.

[sharkflip]

This is a steampunk I could almost support.

Hm....