Aug. 1st, 2007

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I've just realised I mentioned this on [livejournal.com profile] torque_control but not here: it's fund drive time at Strange Horizons.

What does this mean? See here.
Since its founding in September 2000, Strange Horizons has brought you some of the most exciting and vibrant voices in the genre of speculative fiction. We believe speculative fiction is an important literary genre, and we take pride in our work, and the fact that for many of our diverse and innovative contributors, Strange Horizons is their first sale. We are passionate about publishing cutting edge speculative fiction and art, and hope to be contributing to the genre for many years to come.

To that end, we depend on you, our readers, to keep our magazine going. All of our staff members contribute their time and energy for free, but our contributors do get paid. We are committed to paying professional rates for high-quality fiction, poetry, art, and nonfiction. All we have to do is raise $6000 in this period, which is about one-third of our annual budget. We are hoping that you, Dear Reader, will help us reach that goal.
Everyone who donates (before August 15th) gets entered in the prize draw, which this year includes such fun things as Elizabeth Hand's Generation Loss, Ian McDonald's Brasyl, Ken MacLeod's The Execution Channel, the US editions of M. John Harrison's Light and Nova Swing, subscriptions to Asimov's and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and much more. All the money goes towards paying the contributors: the staff are all volunteers.

[livejournal.com profile] auros points out that four of the last five winners of the Campbell Award for best new writer (not a Hugo) were published by Strange Horizons before winning the award, and this year the magazine had a story on the Nebula final ballot, and currently has another on the Hugo final ballot.

And of course, I run the reviews department ([livejournal.com profile] sh_reviews). Reviews in the last month include Adam Roberts on Patrick Rothfuss and JRR Tolkien; Matt Cheney on Generation Loss; reviews of the four books of John Crowley's Aegypt by Abigail Nussbaum, Graham Sleight, Paul Kincaid and John Clute; Colin Greenland on Forrest Aguirre's Swans Over the Moon; Dan Hartland on Scarlett Thomas' The End of Mr Y; plus reviews of books by Ysabeau S. Wilce, Lionel Shriver, Ted Chiang, Brian Aldiss, Jay Lake, Ellen Klages and others. (Coming soon: Adam Roberts' review of Doctor Who's third season, Tim Phipps on Transformers, Gwyneth Jones on Best American Fantasy, Graham Sleight on Spook Country, Martin Lewis on Red Seas Under Red Skies and, as they say, much more.)

So all donations appreciated. And if you like the magazine but can't donate, for whatever reason, there are other ways to support SH, as Jed points out. Thanks.

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