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]

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.)