The 2009 Nebula Awards ballot is now available and includes the following works originally appearing in semiprozines:
Short Story
“Non-Zero Probabilities” by N. K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld, November 09)
“Spar” by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, October 2009)
Novelette
“Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” by Eugie Foster (Interzone, February 2009 and later reprinted by Apex Magazine)
Novella
“Sublimation Angels” by [...]
Established: 2009
Editors: Caren Gussoff, Shane Hoversten, Eden Robins
Overview:
Brain Harvest: An Almanac of Bad-Ass Speculative Fiction is the creation of a brooding Minnesotan neuroscientist, a zombie-obsessed sexpert, and the ex-burlesque dancing Jewish mother you never knew you wanted. We all write and read speculative fiction, and we share a dream: to deliver whiz-bang spec [...]
Established: 2006
Editors: Neil Clarke (fiction), Sean Wallace (fiction), Cheryl Morgan (non-fiction)
Overview:
Clarkesworld Magazine is a free online magazine that publishes a healthy balance of fiction from both up-and-coming and established authors like Jeff VanderMeer, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin Kiernan, Jay Lake, Catherynne M. Valente, Ken Scholes, and Mary Robinette Kowal. Each month, we also produce audio fiction [...]
Established: 2006
Editor: Jennifer Brozek
Overview:
The Edge of Propinquity is a series of short stories from four different authors in four different universes exploring the world that lurks just beneath the surface of everyday life. It is the world of the unexplained, supernatural, magic, horror, duty, responsibility, black humor, conspiracy, unknown heritage and power. Each month, a [...]
Established: 2005
Publisher: Orson Scott Card
Editor: Edmund R. Schubert
Overview:
A blend of science fiction and fantasy, emphasizing good old fashioned storytelling; fully illustrated, and published online, bimonthly. Stories range from short-shorts to 20,000 word novelettes, and include hard and soft science fiction, as well as high, urban, and contemporary fantasy. Also publish interviews with established and up-and-coming [...]
Established: 2005
Editors: K. Tempest Bradford, Cat Rambo, and Sean Wallace
Overview:
Fantasy Magazine is a free online professional magazine, devoted to providing readers with a mix of features and fiction on a daily basis, all drawing on the broad wealth of sexualities, politics, and cultures in our world. The magazine has published stories by both established and [...]
Established: October 2008
Editor-In-Chief: Scott H. Andrews
Overview:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies publishes “literary adventure fantasy”–short fiction with traditional fantasy elements, such as secondary-world settings, but written with modern literary flair. We pay SFWA pro rate for short stories and novelettes of all lengths. We publish two stories online every two weeks.
Our authors include established writers such [...]
Established:1979, taking over from the former British SF newsletter Checkpoint.
Editor: David Langford
Overview:
Ansible began as a subscription-based newsletter whose issues became fatter and increasingly irregular as circulation grew past 600. After a period of suspended animation from 1987 to 1991, it reappeared as a free one-page news sheet handed out at London’s monthly SF pub meetings [...]
Established: January 2003
Editor-In-Chief: Wendy S. Delmater
Associate Editor: Jude-Marie Greene
Overview:
Our mission is to publish the finest in speculative and imaginative fiction and poetry, with special attention to character-driven stories that examine the depths and heights of emotion and motivation from a broad variety of cultural and social perspectives. We want to publish powerful stories with [...]
Established: 2004
Editors:
Editor in Chief: Stacey Jannsen, Reviews Editor: Jaq Greenspon, Features Editor: Bridget McKenna, News Editor: Scott James Magner, Editors-at-Large: Marti McKenna, Corie Ralston, Publisher: Blunt “Bluejack” Jackson
Overview:
The Internet Review of Science Fiction started in 2004 with the goal of creating a forum for the serious exploration of the literature of the fantastic. IROSF publishes [...]