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a European zine publishing fiction and non-fiction

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social got to the ageing stretch goal!!!

Now just a thousand or so to pay artists more

Three days or so to go

www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Please boost and share, everywhere

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This was my first published short story (back in 2020), and I'm still very proud of it!
I wrote it during the Bolsonaro years (before the pandemic) because I felt lost in despair, so I tried to capture that feeling on the page to try to get rid of it

www.bigecho.org/we-were-the-...

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A book-length look at Zola which referenced Foucault and Deleuze sounds great! Completely out of my wheelhouse, but sounds like a great idea for a book.

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I completely see that. Some reviews are shit. Being leery of those is wise I don’t think Maureen Speller and Jonathan McCalmont were reviewing just for laughs. I think there was a different vibe at that time (the last Barbed Wire Kisses was 1994). I don’t see many people reviewing in that way today

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Carlos Norcia's avatar Carlos Norcia @carlosnorcia.bsky.social
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When I read something Brandon Taylor wrote, I might not agree with some of his theoretical references/perspectives (Lionel Trilling is certainly not among the writers that I want to revisit, at all), but I can see how the connections are being made on the page and where the evaluation is coming from

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(Some people might think it’s time to let old mags die? Maybe. Obviously, I think mags young and old should survive and thrive. But without support, mags can’t, whether big or small, young or ancient)

I think IZ is great and you should give money so it keeps being great

👇

interzone.press/patreon

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(Some people might think it’s time to let old mags die? Maybe. Obviously, I think mags young and old should survive and thrive. But without support, mags can’t, whether big or small, young or ancient)

I think IZ is great and you should give money so it keeps being great

👇

interzone.press/patreon

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I fear this is too obvious, I know it needs to be said: being AGAINST AI-generated art is GOOD giving MONEY to HUMAN ARTISTS is BETTER I commissioned a lot of art, 2022–2023, around 70 illustrations. I paid what I could (I wanted to pay more) Do *you* want to pay artists and writers more?

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I fear this is too obvious, I know it needs to be said: being AGAINST AI-generated art is GOOD giving MONEY to HUMAN ARTISTS is BETTER I commissioned a lot of art, 2022–2023, around 70 illustrations. I paid what I could (I wanted to pay more) Do *you* want to pay artists and writers more?

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Pleased to tell you that my short story "The Ferry House" will appear in @3lobedmag.bsky.social at the end of this month.

And if you've never learned to read, you're still in luck because there will be a simultaneous audio release.

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*against*, goddammit!

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cease to exist = die = no longer publish anything free to read online ≠ free to read online ***forever*** 👏 support 👏 the zines 👏 you love 👏 big, and small (smol?) Without energetic support, they will die Burning out is a thing. Running out of money and getting depressed is also a thing.

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11 reposts & 14 likes for my post about being againt AI (of course!)

2 reposts & 5 likes for @jolantru.bsky.social’s post about funding SH

www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Please boost and share and, if you can, fund SH. A lot of mags (including IZ) will cease to exist without reader support

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Mainly I’m impressed by how candid the review is. I would love to see more reviews like this.

Maureen Speller’s short fiction review column in Vector was titled: BARBED WIRE KISSES

I would love more of those 💋

www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.c...

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I wouldn’t say this was a hack review, at all. I know from what this person has written elsewhere (since) that they put a lot of thought into what they write. But this particular review was especially scathing.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺's avatar Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social
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worldcons included.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺's avatar Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social
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My wish: SFF scene to stop treating less-known authors and writers like shit. That should be nice. That's also the barest minimum.

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Claudie's avatar Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social
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Finally remembered to put my pledge in ✌️ I don't have much to spare these days, but some things are just *worth it*, and I value SH very highly.

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Reading a circa 2009 review of the short stories in a (prestigious) horror mag and wow, short fic reviews today don’t cut so sharp or so deep. (I want to read the stories /more/ now because of the review, because they can’t possibly be as bad as the reviewer implies…)

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Being against AI-generated images is good, and having a No-AI policy is good. Better? Paying for more art by *artists*, and giving money – all the money that’s there; whatever money you can spare – to zines and publishers who want to support human artists. Boost and repost everywhere, thx ✨

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺's avatar Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social
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$16,500 if you want a special issue on Ageing and SFF.

$18,000 if you want to see artists paid more.

$ 20,000 if you want to read a novelette as part of our 2025 fiction calendar.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

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If you’re able, help @strangehorizons.bsky.social get to its base and rally to some of these amazing stretch goals:

✨ At $15,000, a special issue on Afro-Surrealist sf!

✨ At $16,500, a special issue on sff × Ageing

✨ At $18,000, SH will raise artist pay to $300 **more 👏 money 👏 for 👏 artists!!!**

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‘It’s why they embraced regional artists like Faulkner. And it’s why they were the first ones to recognize that guys like Jim Thompson and David Goodis weren’t just failed pulp writers, but rather authentic and unique literary talents.’

— Jake Hinkson (in a fantastic essay by @gabino.bsky.social)

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‘The French know the story about the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free; now they want to hear from American authors – whom they consider American intellectuals – about the realities of how that story went south.’ — Gabino Iglesias, ‘Does America Still Care About Authors?’

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This is truth. Every time a writer tells me I'm spending too much on something and gives me a non-artist alternative, my soul cries. #SupportBoldIndies

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Being against AI-generated images is good, and having a No-AI policy is good. Better? Paying for more art by *artists*, and giving money – all the money that’s there; whatever money you can spare – to zines and publishers who want to support human artists. Boost and repost everywhere, thx ✨

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The disparity of engagement is genuinely terrifying, every day; it is always terrifying to be reminded we don't live in a meritocracy; but all you can do is do all you can, and keep doing it, because you believe in it. People will see that, and support it. How many people is the scary part. ✨

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Zig Zag Claybourne's avatar Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social
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What a warm review of BREATH WARMTH AND DREAM. It makes me feel as if the time I ask from readers' lives isn't just a greedy hoarding of essence for my own sake, and I like that feeling. I will not take from you. Book love is good love.

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‘Gene Wars’, the @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social story Ganzeer mentioned loving, is collected in a bunch of places, and first appeared in INTERZONE #48 in 1991.

This was the IZ issue that was reprinted as ABORIGINAL SCIENCE FICTION #28 (a month before IZ 47 had reprinted the ABORIGINAL 27)

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Paul McAuley's avatar Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social
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Hey USians — the Gollancz Masterworks ebook edition of my Martian invasion novel The Secret of Life is currently just 99 cents.

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Lots of great mags struggling to hit stretch goals, struggling to keep going. If you’re able, help SH ✨ get another ~$1500 so they can publish an sff × Ageing issue ✨ ✨ hit $18,000 so they can 👏 give 👏 more 👏 money 👏 to 👏 artists!!! ✨ We don’t get to enjoy a thriving spec fic+ ecosystem for free

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Matt Bell's avatar Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social
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I've been reading this book off and on all year and it's been one of the great pleasures of my 2024. (Sometimes you read a book fast, sometimes you read it slow, the pace has no bearing on how much enjoyment you derive from it. I'm always thinking about this one.)

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Eliane Boey 🎲🤖 preorder CLUB CONTANGO's avatar Eliane Boey 🎲🤖 preorder CLUB CONTANGO @elianeboey.bsky.social
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Yes! Go support your friends at the Big Bookstore preorder sales! 👏BUT ALSO👏 preorder indie books! From the indie presses that publish them!

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🎉 The 1st patron at the Emma Howitt Mini Print tier! 🎉

This tier is limited to 30 (once it fills up, there’ll be a new tier with a new art print)

Become an IZ patron and help sustain the mag and get it closer to paying artists and authors like Emma and Joyce pro rates

👉🏼 interzone.press/patreon

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Fun fact: the composition of Emma Howitt’s ‘Nine Dioptres’ art is a nod to the film THE WIZARD OF OZ, where the main characters exit the poppy fields on the way to the Emerald City, because Emma finds amazing thematic links in the stories she illustrates, always helping me to see things more sharply

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ICYMI ‘She did not turn to look at the far bank of the river, but continued to face the Poppier-fields while her husband gazed red-eyed at the city rising from the south. The river’s bank was patrolled and fortified and radar-swept. No Bargee remembered a swimmer reaching the south bank.’

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There are days when it’s hard to know who is reading (on particularly bad days, if anyone is reading). This is not one of those days. 💖

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Wow!!! Thank you so much for reading it. I adore that story and go back to it a lot. Lyle Hopwood has another story coming in IZ soon. It means the world to me that ‘Nine Dioptres’ made an impact 💖

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