Friday, March 1, 2013

New free online science fiction magazine has arrived

It's here! The first issue of Galaxy's Edge, a free online magazine from Phoenix Pick.

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Some mini-excerpts from various stories:

"You know how it can be done, right? Actually make a big bang. No, I’m not kidding. Look, it’s not really that hard. Theoretically. All you have to do is pack a few kilograms of ordinary matter into a sufficiently small space, really small, considerably smaller than an atomic nucleus. Then, when you release the pressure that constrains it, the thing explodes."

As he walked, he could hear the faintest snick of gears, the moto-robo-electronic zizzing of invisible mechanics in the room around him. Where was he? Who was he? Why was he? He had no idea.

Twelve hundred years had elapsed since the blood had been siphoned out of my body and oxygenated antifreeze had been pumped in to replace it. We’d spent the first of those years accelerating, and presumably the last one decelerating, and the rest—

Her father came from Thana, near Bombay, and her favorite flavor of chewyfrute was watermelon and she’d had five lovers and when she was eleven she had wanted to be a gymnast but instead she had become a biomaterials engineer who at age twenty-nine had volunteered to go to the stars to learn how to grow artificial eyes.


You can read Galaxy's Edge free online or download a digital version (PDF / Mobi / ePub) for $2.99. A print version will be available soon.


Friday, February 22, 2013

New science fiction magazine - in one week

On March 1, Phoenix Pick is launching a new science fiction magazine: Galaxy's Edge


A new issue of Galaxy's Edge will be published every two months, and will include new stories, great reprints, a serialization, commentary, and book reviews.

The first issue includes new stories by Lou J. Berger, Nick DiChario, Robert T. Jeschonek, Stephen Leigh, and Alex Shvartsman. The reprints, including a Hugo winner, are by Kij Johnson, James Patrick Kelly, Jack McDevitt, and Robert J. Sawyer. The first novel being serialized is Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye, a Hugo finalist that lost to Stranger in a Strange Land.

Mike Resnick is the magazine's editor, Horace Cocroft and Barry Malzberg each have a column, and Paul Cook is doing the reviews.

The website for the magazine is www.galaxysedge.com; links go live on March 1.


Friday, February 15, 2013

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

A free ebook from Phoenix Pick

Our February 2013 free ebook:



Have you signed up for our monthly newsletter, which has the code for each month's free ebook?
If not, click here to subscribe.

Thanks to SF Signal for helping us let people know about this offer!


Wednesday, January 23, 2013

A free ebook from Tor



Have you checked it out yet?


COSine


No, not that kind ...



There's still time to get there ... will you be attending?



Saturday, January 12, 2013