I woke to the news this morning that the April issue of Realms of Fantasy will be the final one for this magazine. In a time of constant bad news in short story SF/F publishing, I feel quite shellshocked about it. I mean, I had a lot of problems with subscribing to this magazine, including actual harassment, and well, I didn't much like most of ( Read more... )

Thoraiya Dyer is a writer whose work I am going to be watching with keen interest. She writes heartbreakingly beautifully. She crafts her words so artistically with such subtlety that all you can do is sit back and admire.


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How reading all that short fiction over the last couple of years has made me hate horror is perfectly captured by this post by nihilistic_kid here


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I'm doing research on female authors currently being published in short story outlets.

I'm going to stop for a while. It's really bumming me out.


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After we posted the LSS lists for 2007 I made a post with the writers I was going to look out for, I spose in 2008? I made it here - that's for accuracy because I listed ( Read more... )

I believe today is the last day of the joint TiconderogaOnline and ASif! Donatino Drive for 2006.

Many many thanks to all of you for so generously donating and supporting our two projects. If you haven't and would like to, today is the last day and there are some excellent prizes and giveaways. Go to the ASif! website for all the details ( Read more... )

Check out this month's carnival hosted at austspecficASif! indeed lives ( Read more... )

What is it about Australian Speculative fiction that makes it Australian? I mean, other than being written by an Australian, what is really unique about the Australian Spec Fic scene?

And why would it, or would it not, appeal to an international audience?