SFWA Market Report for November
Welcome to SFWA’s latest pro-rate Market Report.
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2016 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
David G. Hartwell
Andrzej Sapkowski
Clarion Fundraising Anthology: The Yellow Volume
Available as an ebook on a PAY-WHAT-YOU-WANT basis at https://gumroad.com/l/yellowvol (pre-order now, release date October 31st), all proceeds from The Yellow Volume, after hosting fees, benefit The Clarion Foundation.
In Memoriam: Sheri S. Tepper
Sheri S. Tepper (b.1929), critically acclaimed author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery novels, died October 22, 2016, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she ran a guest ranch.
ASU Releases Free Climate Change Anthology
Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction is now available as a free download (PDF, EPUB, or MOBI).
“Everything Change” features twelve stories from Arizona State University’s 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest along with along with a foreword by science fiction legend and contest judge Kim Stanley Robinson and an interview with renowned climate fiction author Paolo Bacigalupi.
Horses Are Not Machines: On Writing the Steeds of Fantasy Fiction
by Rosalind Moran
A regrettable trend across much fantasy writing is that of a horse not really being a horse, but simply a plot device; a vehicle to help carry a story along. Horses, however, are not vehicles.
SFWA Market Report for October
Welcome to SFWA’s latest pro-rate Market Report. Please note: Inclusion of any market in the report below does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA.
Catalysts, Explorers, & Secret Keepers
The Museum of Science Fiction has announced a new science fiction anthology: Catalysts, Explorers, & Secret Keepers. It will be a “take-home exhibit” featuring short works by and about the women of science fiction.
Copper Cylinder Awards Announced
The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the winners of the fifth annual Copper Cylinder Award.
Teaching Stuff: Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic
by Richard Chwedyk
Here’s an assignment I give my students:
They receive a copy of the first chapter of H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.
It is roughly 2,250 words.
I tell the students that Mr. Wells has just received a note from his editor. “Great stuff, Herbie, but you go on too long here. Cut this first chapter in half.”
