Print venues for OSS stories

by John Michael Greer
(Cumberland MD USA)

Zendexor, your comment on the diary about whether there are any paying magazines that will take NOSS stories was timely. I know of one, and it's just now in the process of gearing up for its first issue: MYTHIC (http://www.mythicmag.com), which is open to every kind of off-the-mainstream science fiction and fantasy. (Full disclosure: the publisher is a friend of mine and one of my inverse-Lovecraft short stories will be appearing in the first issue.)

There may be other small magazines that are open to NOSS stories and pay the traditional chicken-feed payments for stories -- I simply don't happen to know about them. I hope any reader who does will post info in the comments here -- it would be good to have a convenient list of print venues for NOSS fiction.

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Oct 08, 2016
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Re: Widening Ripples
by: John Michael Greer

Zendexor, I've been reflecting on the history of science fiction, and it seems to me that there's been a curious rhythm -- the genre widens to embrace a flurry of new possibilities, and then contracts and settles into a rut -- and the thing that seems to drive the rhythm is the appearance of new venues for stories. The pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s drove one boom, and the paperback explosion that kicked off in the 1960s drove another. I'm beginning to think that print-on-demand publishing may be in the process of kickstarting another, by making new venues available for stories that don't fit the handful of standard SF futures that dominate the mainstream these days. With any luck (and a great deal of hard work on the part of NOSS authors), the Old Solar System could very well become part of the new cutting edge -- certainly I hope so!

{Z: Yes, it seems to be a case, not of static supply and demand, but of supply/demand/opportunity, the pulps and now POD providing the new opportunities. Let's hope it works out like you say! It could be the start of something big. Big for our niche anyway. And what we may lack in numbers we make up for in durable cosmic significance.}

Oct 08, 2016
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So the ripple widens
by: Zendexor

Important news, this. Thanks John for the info. "Mythic" sounds like a powerful title, apt for the entire sf/fantasy continuum, but especially encouraging for what we're interested in here, namely the personalities of worlds of the Old Solar System.

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