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About Strange Horizons:

Strange Horizons publishes short fiction, poetry, reviews and articles of interest to the speculative fiction community each week on Monday. Once each month we also publish an art gallery spotlighting a different speculative artist.

This week, for example, there's a charming story by Theodora Goss, 'Pip and the Fairies', Mike Allen's poem 'Strip Search', a critique of Star Wars by Athena Andreadis, reviews of Peeps by Scott Westerfeld and other things, and a column by Christina Socorro Yovovich. Strange Horizons publishes things worth reading every week, and has done for the past five years.

It doesn't take subscriptions; everything is online for you to read for free. Instead,

Financial support for the magazine comes through direct donations (through PayPal or by check), arts grants, corporate sponsorship, and affiliate programs through Amazon.com and Powell's Books.

So every so often, Strange Horizons has a fund drive where they ask their readers to chip in a little. And they happen to be having one all this month.

We're hoping to raise $3000 this month, which is about one-sixth of our annual budget, and we'd love for you, Dear Reader, to help us reach that goal.

Everyone who donates during the fund-drive month (October 1-31) will be entered in a drawing for one of our fabulous fund drive prizes. As always, we're happy to take donations of any amount, but if you donate $25 or more, you can become a Strange Horizons reader-member, which entitles you to a glossy illustrated collectible membership card and a discount on the Strange Horizons annual anthologies. (Different gift packages are available at different donation levels—see our membership page for full details about our membership levels.)

(By-the-by, some of those prizes are pretty darn shiny; Kate Wilhelm's Storyteller, for instance, or a complete, signed set of the Jenny Casey trilogy (Hammered, Scardown and Worldwired) by Elizabeth Bear, this year's winner of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer.)

Everyone involved with the magazine is an unpaid volunteer. As mentioned, Strange Horizons has been running like this for five years, and by any measure it's a success. This summer it was nominated for a Hugo, and earlier this year one of its stories was nominated for a Nebula. I'd like to see it continue onwards and upwards, obviously; if you would as well, you can go and give a little bit of money by clicking on the Paypal link above (if you're in the US, there's also a Network for Good donation link, but I don't seem to be able to duplicate that; you can go via the fund drive page instead). And if you do--thanks!

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As a reward for reading through all of that, here is a link from which you can get a free uncorrected proof copy of Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead--at least if you're in the UK. It's not clear to me whether this is an expansion of the story of the same name from last year, or a collection of short stories, but either way, it's something to look forward to. (via TAO)

Comments

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Or mundane science fiction?

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

Scientifiction should be fun! and exciting! and full of wonder! and possibly those eyebrow kicks you talk about.

We're not getting that from anything "mundane"