Futurismic Fiction will begin its fourth reading period one week from today on March 8, 2006. This will be another indefinite reading period; we’re basically going to leave the web-form open and accept submissions until we buy out this year’s fiction budget.
Speaking of our budget, it has increased! We have doubled our payment to a flat fee of $200.00 per story. So, with that extra added incentive, you should go read this and this and start getting those stories ready. We look forward to seeing your stuff!
I’m a few days late posting a link to this year’s final ballot for the Nebulas, but I’m really feeling the need to get behind Geoff Ryman’s Air, which honestly may be one of the best science fiction novels I’ve ever read. Not to be missed!
Brilliant, Nebula-nominated novel of a remote Asian village’s transformation in the wake of a new technology. Forward-looking SF as it should be done–excellent!
Another don’t-miss novel from 2005 is Laughin’ Boy by Bradley Denton, an edgy, angry, and hysterically funny send-up of American media culture. Surely John Clute does a better job of describing it than I can; suffice it to say, this one is well worth the effort to go out and find. (Alas, there are fewer than 800 copies in existence, so act fast!)
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