New magazine

[coalescent]

scalpel_mag, for all your sf reviewing and criticism needs.
First issue includes:

• A guest editorial by Pat Cadigan


• A column by Adam Roberts


• An interview with Charles Stross


• Reviews of Ink by Hal Duncan, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang, and Gradisil by Adam Roberts.

If you want to contribute, guidelines are here.

Comments

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

Chizine was a subscription-based magazine before it went online, so I'm guessing they had some cash set aside. The jury is still out on how long they'll last in this current incarnation.

Baen's Universe is funded by Baen Publishing.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I don't have my hands on the books at Chizine, but nothing I've heard makes me think things are at all rickety (rather the opposite).

Of course, now I've probably jinxed us.

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

Nor have I heard anything. It's only that Chizine only switched over... what? A couple months ago?

Scifiction ran a long time with a rather large patron, but even it ended up collapsing.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

>It's only that Chizine only switched over... what? A couple months ago?

...my first Chizine story (online publication) was published in 2002 or 2003.

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

Wait. I'm totally mistaken. Duh!

Now which magazine just switched over from print to free web-based?!?! Now I'm all confused....

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Subterranean is somewhere in the process of making that move, I think.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

So is patronage the model that's going to work? Now all we have to do is work out who would sponsor Scalpel ...

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

Well, it couldn't be a publisher.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

I think it tends to have the most legs if the publisher is commited to it.

I also think the Clarkesworld hybrid model is interesting.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Although as Gabe points out, you can't really have a publisher sponsoring a non-fiction zine. So where do you go?

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

You can't have a fiction publisher ...

Universities, people interested in SF like the SF museum, science museums. I think there's loads of places you could approach.

(Not that I think any of them will bite, but if you can get declared a non-profit with the IRS, you might get someone interested in SF with a small business to do it for the rightoff.)

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting approach. Most of the well-known genre universities already have their own projects going, but maybe somewhere out there is a university with a good, strong genre criticism stance...

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Interzone used to receive funding from Arts Council England, the Government arts funding body, so there is also the possibility of general arts grants.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

It could if you'd just accept bribes!

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

>I also think the Clarkesworld hybrid model is interesting.

And apparently successful, thus far.

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

Ah!

Subterraneam. D'oh!

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Also Hub magazine in the UK recently switched to an online-only model.

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I helped fund their venture by paying for a subscription to the print version.

[hollowpoint.livejournal.com]

You should've been refunded - get in touch with Lee Harris if not!

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

How come there are only four back-issues listed?

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

They get pulled down after a certain point. I don't actually have any idea why, but now I'm curious. Let me investigate.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

I think they only buy the right to archive for a year.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Brett says that it's partly server space and $$$ constraints and partly, yeah, so that they can be resold a little easier. (We'll take them down on request after three months, and everything comes down after a year.)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Baen's Universe is funded by Baen Publishing.

See also the Subterranean Press magazine, I guess. (Which I have the feeling I should be looking at more than I am.)

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

Chizine is funded by Leisure books and has been for quite a while.