I suppose it was only a matter of time:
EDIT: Thanks to
lyth for pointing out that they've changed the rules.
Here at SFX magazine we know that everybody has a story inside them. So if you're a previously unpublished author, send your words to us for entry in our inaugural writing competition! Yep, we're planning a book that will be given away with a future issue of SFX, a book called Pulp Idol – see what we did there? It’s a collection we’re publishing in association with the good people at Gollancz.Hard to object, except to the fact that
All entries will become the property of Future Publishing Limited on its receipt of them and will not be returned. Upon submission of their stories to the address set out at rule 2, entrants irrevocably assign to Future Publishing Limited all intellectual property rights that they have in any part of the world in their stories and waive all their moral rights. Future Publishing Limited reserves the right to edit any story as it sees fit for the purpose of publishing the story in the SFX short story compilation.Isn't that a bit restrictive? I also can't see anything that prohibits already-published authors from entering (although equally I can't think of a reason why they'd want to enter).
EDIT: Thanks to