April’s acquisitions include:
Andy Cox, editor and publisher of Interzone, has announced that the May-June issue next year will be a special issue devoted to Mundane SF, guest-edited by Geoff Ryman. What’s Mundane SF? Ryman says:
What makes a story Mundane? A few simple rules:
– no FTL travel or communications
– no aliens
– no time travel
– no parallel universes
– no immortality or telepathyWe believe that these SF ‘inventions’ are powerful myths whose presence may be drowning out some very important ideas. They may be entertaining to write and read about, but could there be something else we are all missing? The time comes when someone has to throw these babies out of the bathwater and see if there is life besides.
No matter how strong your convictions are regarding the inevitability of one, or all, of the above so-far non-existent phenomena, you can still write Mundane SF if you set your story between now and when the first of these becomes possible within your own personal belief system.
Sounds like it’ll make for a cool issue. Stories should run between 2,500-5,000 words. Deadline is October 31, 2007. Submit here.
A couple weeks ago, I posted an audio recording of the “Ask the Editors” panel I was a part of at Lunacon. Well, for those of you not auditorily inclined, Wendy Delmater of Abyss & Apex has transcribed the recording and published it in the latest issue of A&A.
Some of you may have noticed that Galleycat recently ran a little piece about the sale of my post-apocalyptic reprint anthology, Wastelands. Also, a notice recently ran in, I believe, Publisher’s Lunch, which my agent, Jenny Rappaport, replicates here.
While I’m at it, I should also say that the new pub date is Feb. 2008, I’m told. Also, I secured a few more permissions: Stephen King’s “The End of the Whole Mess” and Octavia E. Butler’s “Speech Sounds.”
