Magazines
We are making an effort to list only those magazines that pay their contributors, although the payment range varies wildly and few of them meet SFWA professional standards. Feel free to email the Linksmaster with updates or corrections. You might also find our Market Report Links to be of interest.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact provides stimulating fiction stories, provocative editorials, and fascinating science-fact articles, all solidly rooted in science fact.
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine--billed as Australia's Pulpiest Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine. 'ASIM' publishes authors from around the world with a definite editorial leaning for stories which are "fun" rather than grim-and-gritty. In only its first year of publication, ASIM has received six nominations in the Australian science fiction awards - the Ditmars.
Artemis Magazine -- on hiatus, seeking funding. (10/1/05)
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: "We're in our 20th Anniversary year and we're expanding into the online world. Check us out for story excerpts, book reviews, online interviews and chats with your favorite writers and more, as well as special features available only online at this website."
SFWA Bulletin is an invaluable resource for professional SF/F writers, and fascinating reading for SF/F fans who want to know more about how their favorite books or stories were written. You don't have to be a member of SFWA to subscribe to the Bulletin.
Challenging Destiny is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy short story magazine. We publish authors and illustrators from all over the world.
DNA Publications includes Absolute Magnitude, Dreams of Decadence, Fantastic Stories' Home Page, Mythic Delirium, and Science Fiction Chronicle.
The Edge publishes fiction, features, interviews, book, film, video, soundtrack and graphic novel reviews, and comment columns.
Elysian Fiction -- on hiatus since 8/31/04.
EOTU Ezine, a paying market for Fiction, Art, & Poetry of all genres including SF/F/H.
Farsector SFFH is a paying professional magazine of SF and dark imaginative fiction, aimed at people who love to read well-plotted, character-driven genre fiction. We are interested in fiction that transcends the limitations and ventures outside the stereotypes of genre fiction.
Future Shocks is a Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Ezine published on a monthly basis. Serialized Novels, short stories, and original articles concerning the future can find a home with Future Shocks. We pay .01 to .03 a word. We also have a history section filled with the greatest moments and the authors behind them. Come join us in our endeavor to conquer the known universe!
Infinity Plus Short stories, novel extracts, reviews, features... infinity plus showcases the work of some of the world's top science fiction and fantasy authors, including Stephen Baxter, James Patrick Kelly, Paul McAuley and David Langford.
Interzone has published short stories by many of the big names of the field, from Brian Aldiss and J. G. Ballard to Ian Watson and Gene Wolfe, but its particular strength has been in the nurturing of newer writers.
Leading Edge is a semi-professional magazine dedicated to the presentation of new and upcoming talent.
Maledicta "is an unmatchable source of dialogue for writers, and a serious work for Linguists, Diplomats, and Citizens of the World."
Web presence of Night Terrors Magazine, a print magazine for the occult, horror, or supernatural reader that pays from 1/8 to 3 cents per word with a minimum of $5 plus contributor's copy and a maximum of $100 plus contributor's copy. Guidelines available at their website.
Nuketown Webzine accepts Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror with a heroic slant. The site itself uses a very small font some might find difficult to read.
Peridot Books is a quarterly, on-line publication which highlights original and reprinted fiction by amateur and semi-professional authors. We are dedicated to finding and displaying new talent and to building an ever-growing readership to help spread our name and the names of the authors we present.
Pigasus Press publishes SF magazine The ZONE, small press newsletter dragon's breath, and a monthly online review of movies, VideoVista.
Planet Magazine is an award-winning free electronic quarterly of short science fiction, fantasy, horror, humor, and poetry by (mostly) new or little-known authors. HTML, Acrobat PDF, DOCMaker, text formats. Online and in color since January 1994.
Realms of Fantasy, a bimonthly magazine, "is a professional market for the best in fantastic short fiction." Stories can address any area in the realms of fantasy: heroic, contemporary, traditional, feminist, dark, light, and the ever-popular "unclassifiable." Note they do not publish "standard SF." This means no alien worlds, no hard-edged technology, no FTL drives, etc.
Science Fiction Weekly contains news, reviews, interviews, articles, and letters to the editor. Covers print and other media, including web sites.
SCI FICTION is the fiction area of SCIFI.com, edited by Ellen Datlow.
SFRevu brings Science Fiction reviews and interviews to the web each month.
StoryCrafting: The Fiction Writers Magazine. A magazine dedicated to all writers of fiction: screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, and short story writers.
Strange Horizons is a weekly professional online magazine devoted to encouraging and publishing quality speculative fiction, poetry, artwork, and related nonfiction. We are a free to the public, non-profit organization. Updated every Monday!
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Tangent SF&F Short Fiction Review Magazine has reviews, articles, and columns of interest to fans and pros alike.
Would That It Were(R) is a quarterly on-line magazine of Historical (Victorian) science fiction, paying competitive rates at the upper end of the eZine market ($0.03 - $0.10 / word depending on length; average is $0.05 / word) for excellent stories of approximately 3000 words, of which at least some part must be set in or refer to the period from 1830 - 1930. Interested authors should view our detailed guidelines at http://www.wouldthatitwere.com/guidelines.html. The magazine is free to readers and a printer-friendly PDF version is downloadable from the site.
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