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Where can i attempt to get some sci fi stories published?

  • 23-05-2009 04:22PM
    #1
    Incarnadine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭


    I"m trying my best to find actual magazines or someway that i can try publish some of my stories, any tips or help would be really appreciated, i'm not lazy either i've done a fair bit of looking but no real luck!


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  • #2
    lebron james
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭lebron james


    gl to you .


  • #3
    Incarnadine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭Incarnadine


    Thanks for the help!


  • #4
    Antilles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Incarnadine wrote: »
    Thanks for the help!

    Well, he's right. All my favourite authors seemed to get their break publishing stories in magazines like "Amazing Tales" in the '70s, but those magazines are almost extinct these days so you would be lucky to find one. The short story is a dying art-form in general, and sci-fi stories are a subgenre within that so its even harder to get them published.

    The Stinging Fly accepts general short stories. I don't know if they take genre stuff but you might give it a try. If you find somewhere that takes sci-fi/fantasy as a speciality, post a link here because I haven't found any in years of searching.


  • #5
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    What about Interzone http://ttapress.com/interzone/ (UK) or Weird Tales http://www.weirdtales.net/
    (US)


  • #6
    Memnoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭Memnoch


    Just search for Sci-fi mags, there are two or three around, but it is very competitive and hard to break through.


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  • #7
    Incarnadine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭Incarnadine


    Thanks very much for all the help!


  • #8
    MikeC101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭MikeC101


    http://www.ralan.com/ has most markets for SF on it, sorted into paying, non paying, pro rates etc. Also tells you whether they accept online submissions and so on.


  • #9
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    I can't offer you practical help foe making sure you get published, waht I can do is help you write. I have creative dreams too, but perfectionism and anxiety of trying to hard is a hinderance. You need calm, detachment, and focus, to be inspired.

    I recommend Taoism, maybe Buddhism, they don't have strict or contrived codes you have to follow. just check em out, because they are helping me attain calm and focus right now. As is Epicuriansim. They are helping the words come and say what will be will be this is the best I'm going to produce and it'c more meaningful. Mindset is a key.


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