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

[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.